Gifted Typist

It’s never easy, but sometimes you just have to do it because it’s the right thing. I didn’t want to hurt him. We’d been so happy together – for four years. We never fought and there was never a bad cut or an off colour. So why did I leave him? Well, I guess things [...]

Is visiting this week. It’s true. She’s a lovely girl from Wales now living in a mill conversion in the south of France. I attended her wedding in Shropshire a few years ago. It was held on a medieval estate with bride, groom and guests dressed in full Victorian period costume. A stunning sight to [...]

Because today’s job is preparing my quarterly HST return for the Canadian Revenue Agency, I am battling a strong urge to slit my wrists. So, for the sake of the little typists, I will take a little break and share with you ten things I learned on my recent visit to Toronto. 1. The meaning [...]

You want to lower your blood pressure? Slit your wrists, love Becky Fairhurst, from the British TV program, Wife Swap

Because Tanya Espanya brought up the subject of panties and her graduation into smaller sizes post-baby, I thought it was time to drag out of the archives one of GT’s early banned words: Panties. By “Panties,” I mean those undergarments worn on the bottom by members of female sex. I’m not calling for a universal [...]

I bring you glad tidings, Slobs. We are beginning to make ground on the decluttering Nazis. It turns out that tidiness may not be so holy after all. A new book called A Perfect Mess: the hidden benefits of disorder is warning that obsessive neatness and too much attention to organization actually stifles creativity and [...]

The much-hyped Queen musical We Will Rock You will not rock you. It will anger, disappoint and annoy, but it will not rock you because it is so bad. I had the displeasure of seeing it in Toronto this week. The play is meant to be a satire of our brave new Idol world of [...]

Maybe I’m just an old-fashioned typist, but I always thought it little creepy to meet online friends in the flesh. It’s one thing to chat behind the safety and anonymity of an on-line identity, but to break through that safety filter and present yourself face-to-face to your bloggie friends? Is that … right? The plan [...]

Having travelled a fair bit with Air Canada the past few years, I was beginning to normalize to the Air Canada standards of customer and inflight service. So imagine my surprise when I was greeted by genuine smiles and pleasant people when boarding the Porter Air plane to Toronto. Imagine my further surprise when I sat down [...]