No person is landing

Wow!

Am I glad I added a ClustrMap to my blog so I can see where my readership is located geographically.

All I've discovered so far is that no one visits.

Granted, the map has only been up for a day and I have a new URL, but still . . .

By the way, that meal up there . . . that's some of what I was served at the new home of my Portuguese-Canadian friends, Aida and Nuno.

There are three kinds of cheese in the picture--goat, sheep and cow milk.

The little dishes below are filled with rice pudding, decorated with powdered cinnamon.

End of an era

A big day.

Fidel Castro retired and the Thomson takeover of Reuters was approved in the U.S. and the EU.

Glenn's favourite dessert

A long time ago, my mother made a delicious apricot flan one night when my father's colleague Glenn came for dinner.

We wanted her to make it again. The only way we could imagine convincing her to do so was by telling her that it was Glenn's favourite dessert before he came over the next time.


Glenn worked with my father in the two-man Canadian Press bureau in Washington in the 1980s. The two had also worked together in Ottawa during the 1970s.

They spent a great deal of time together socially and Glenn often came for dinner.

We managed to convince my mother that apricot flan was his favourite dessert, which meant we had it almost every time he came over.

When I last saw him a few years ago in Ottawa, I told him the story about convincing my mother that apricot flan was his favourite dessert to sate our collective appetite for the treat and he said cosmically:

"But it is my favourite dessert"

Lulu's new blanket

I knitted a blanket for my friend's dog Lulu with some cotton yarn I received as a gift.
The yarn is from Americo on Queen Street. I've never knitted anything on such big needles before.

Lulu seemed quite pleased . . .

A look back at the press barons

Please click on each of the six images to enlarge and read this 1981 Maclean's story.