As a teenager I was a ‘bull in china shop’ – literally! While my friends were serving french fries and chocolate shakes I toiled deep within the caverns of Humboldt Street as the stock manager / stock boy for one of the oldest china merchants in BC. It was a great job, with lousy pay, ...
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There's a loud man in my neighbourhood. Well, actually, he isn't loud, he's VERY LOUD! He's that rattle the windows, turn heads at the River Village Coop Grocery, render sterile every rabbit within 2 miles kinda loud! Compared to him a bellow is a whisper. Normally he isn't loud at all, rather a decent sort ...
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This is from my years in New England, but a chance encounter with Miss Paula in the grocery store today made me think back… Enjoy! Thierry * * * * * There is a great amount of truth to the fact that 'things happen in threes'… A couple of nights ago I ran out of ...
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From Teeswater.ca – November 4th, 2010 Normally my reading is limited to online newspapers and sports websites – I know I am rather boring that way, but from time to time I can't help but pick up one of those 'rag mags' and peruse it while waiting in line at Valu-Mart. You know the ones, ...
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From Teeswater.ca – November 2nd, 2010 It was 1976 and somewhere in Ontario a brand-spanking new Firebird Esprit rolled off the assembly line. That coppertone 'machine' with the Recaro seats and the 'ladies only' vinyl top went through many transformations in its life. Somewhere it was re-engined to a long-block Cleveland with a heavy-duty Muncie ...
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From Teeswater.Ca – October 24th, 2010 I've only been cooking for myself for about 40 years but everyday I learn something new, often after I hop around the kitchen for a few minutes shouting out anatomical impossibilities… Here's some of the things I have learned recently: Braun hand blenders – you know the long white ...
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This article originally appeared in my regular column on Teeswater.Ca but I thought it bore repeating… * * * * * Well, actually it was his wife… So how unbiased are reviews on the web, and how much credence can you give to product reviews done by ‘actual’ customers posted on the company site? For ...
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June is Brain Injury Awareness Month, also known around our house as the month my wife proves to the world that yes, in fact I was dropped on my head as a baby. Two Junes ago she convinced me that I should help coach LilBear's softball team, or at least give him a few pointers. ...
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It sounded like such a simple idea… A couple of weeks back I was gifted a substantial number of elder PC’s and Mac’s to rebuild and redistribute (I do that sort of thing) and in amongst the gems I found a couple of components that would allow me to upgrade my own computer (a quite ...
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We fought like warriors - no prisoners… or shared our deepest secrets until life turned you one way and me the other putting distance between our lives but not our memories. For many years I have referred to Dode as my ‘little sister’ even though she is 13 months older than I. Perhaps it is a way to avoid ...
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