Gifted Typist

. A cloudy day burst into flame at the very end as the sun dropped below of line of cloud, casting orange, red and pink hues across the underside of the cloud. These shots were taken in Warwickshire in the Cotswolds, a range of hills in Central England. This is where I spent Christmas. The [...]

After the whirl on the London Eye, my little family of typists took a walk along the Thames River on the shortest day of the year. By mid afternoon the air was darkening and the sky began to ripen into a rich crimson that cast a reddish glow over everything and turned objects into silhouettes. [...]

*Note: Had some trouble with old Flickr plug-in. Sorry for problems if you stumbled upon GT on Monday afternoon. Found a new plug-in Pictobrowser from Kumara Sastry to link Flickr pictures. You control the pace by clicking the thumbnails below. Keep going as there is a second page of thumbnail pictures. Let me know if [...]

My typing has been a little patchy these past few weeks due to my travels in space and time back to my second home of Britain. The first few days without a typewriter and regular posting felt rather like amputation, but there were distractions and I soon settled into my temporary typing hiatus (with a [...]

The cat you see in left margin is called Cheddar. Cheddar is named after the Village of Cheddar. The cheese is also named after the village of Cheddar. I love all of these Cheddars and right now I am lucky enough to be in the village of Cheddar for the next few days. Cheddar is [...]

So a typist arrives in London on Friday morning for an excellent UK Christmas. And what does she find? This breaking news: Airport staff and security at all major airports including Heathrow<a href=”http://www.eigeneer.com/beste-speilautomat-tipps.html”>speilautomat</a> sehr schnelle Auszahlungen und sehr hohen Spass, wenn Sie hier spielen wollen. vote to strike. Major disruptions expected on rail lines. Motorways [...]

… until GT hightails ‘er up to Toronto to see The Police live in concert on Thursday. Reviews have been great and a weekend in Toronto is always divine. And almost as exciting as The Police concert is the “Early Typewriters” exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). For any typist, this would be a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Scots friend who has clocked many miles on many different airlines has an interesting theory on Air Canada, which he rates the bottom for service and attitude. He points out that Air Canada uses a political symbol – Canadian maple leaf flag – in its brand identity. As a result, Air Canada becomes a [...]

Click on any one of the photos on the left sidebar and see some shots of last week’s Costa Rican adventure. Or view as slideshow here. No time for Photoshop corrections on this run.Will tweak later.

Ahhhhh, you know you’re back in Canadian territory when 1. you board Air Canada and dare to ask the air hostess for a newspaper and she sneers back at you and says “See all the happy-faced people up there (in first class)? They got the papers. I have no more left.” 2. When you ask [...]

Woke this morning to the unmistakable laughter of the howler monkey, mono conga in espanol. Ooh! Ooh! OOOOOOHHHHH!!! Their howls can be heard up to a thousand metres away in the jungle. Saw and heard many of these large prehensile-tailed creatures in the jungle two days ago, but their laughing cries pierced the highly humanized environs of our [...]

BTW, it’s rainy season in Costa Rica. That means a warm shower each afternoon to break up to blistering sunshine. This explains why at this moment I am sitting in a quiet air conditioned Internet cafe posting and not swimming with the menagerie of tropical fish in the warm Pacific Ocean. (I did that this morning) [...]