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At the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking – Baroness Trumpington, British politician

Where I live, July used to be the Queen of summer, giving lots of sunshine, heat and not too much rain. Not so these days. July’s turned into an old misery guts, ruining parades, picnics and weddings and with torrential rainfalls, fog and dampness. Thanks July. You’re a real sport. So I say we dump [...]

When I put money in a bank, the bank gives me interest. The bank also sends me monthly statements with my balance and interest payments. When I make an overpayment on my Sears account to the tune of $63.28, they don’t send me monthly statements with the balance. But at the anniversary of the overpayment, [...]

What a difference a year makes and a gender makes in the Canadian sport of hockey. In Torino 2006, Canadians were tut-tutting the Canadian women’s hockey team, telling them to tone it down and stop scoring so many goals. It didn’t look good. It lacked class. It wasn’t Canadian to dominate like that. Then this [...]

A child was born at 2 am on 5 September 1996 in Britain. But at the moment of birth, the time was actually 10 pm on 4 September 1996 in Atlantic Canada which is four time zones behind. The child now lives in Atlantic Canada. So, is the child’s real (ie not official) birthday 4 [...]

This was me eleven years ago today, not quite nine-months pregnant, waters broken and needing a little push to get me going. After the necessary incendiary devices were inserted, I sat for the next 24 hours like a hand grenade with its pin pulled out. But when that thing went off - oh boy! – the devastation [...]