Meet my new friend. I was lucky enough to grow up with all my grandparents and to not only clearly remember 3 of my great-grandparents, but I also had a really good relationship with "Great-Granny" until I was 18. She had been born in 1898 – while Queen Victoria was still alive! I now sadly have just…
Author: Duncan Elsey
Day 262 – January 28th 2009
Frost Flowers! We had to look this up on the internet (thanks Wikipedia!). Duncan came back from walking the dog talking about this fungus that had sprung up all over our woods overnight! When he described it I said it sounded more like mould than fungus as we couldn't find anything in our book of…
Day 257 – January 23rd 2009
Scarfing it down… Well, mice have been anyway! Yes, this is (was) one of my favourite scarves (a gift from a friend). And so we get to another of the joys of country living. Mice. We have found out since moving in that we need to do some remedial work on our porch/entrance hall as…
Day 250 – January 16th 2009
Post-Christmas Garbage So, Salt Spring is not immune to litter either. And I found this is a way out of town so it can't be blamed on the 'tourists'. I was on the way back from a walk with Dexter (on my own) and decided as the snow and ice had finally gone to walk back…
Oh – and if you think you might want to set some goals for 2009…
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