The Forth and Clyde Canal runs very close to our house and we love it for a Sunday afternoon stroll. We have three choices – east, west or the spur that runs into the city centre. I’ve already written about the spur (here) so this post will cover the east and west walks we took …
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The Teak Tree is a furniture store located on the corner of Selby and Fitzwilliam Street in Nanaimo. It is part of a city block with a mixture of genuine heritage buildings and skilfully designed infill units that maintain the character of the Old City Quarter ambience and enhance the street scape. As the name […] …
In her most famous movie, John Huston’s 1952 Moulin Rouge, Zsa Zsa Gabor plays Jean Avril, a chanteuse who enjoys the favors of many men and the habit of lying about her age. “I have been 25 for four years,” she smilingly confides to her friend Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), “and I shall stay there… via …
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The importance of goal-setting and striving to be better - two 'best practices' for the coming new year! Bravo to The Steeper Climb for encouraging us all to ask those 'big' questions this time of year. Working near the table to set new goals for the Steeper Climb for 2017: Starting with more questions than …
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It makes me proud to be a Californian. [Link] The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a resolution, introduced by Board President London Breed, in response to the election of Donald Trump. The resolution reads as follows: WHEREAS, On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the […] via …
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If I could go back home, if I could go back home If I’d never left, I’d never have known We all dream of leaving, but wind up in the end Spending all our time trying to get back home again from the song, Home Again by Bernie Taupin and Elton John from the album […] …
With their distinctive snouts and vertical posture, seahorses are some of the most unique creatures in the ocean. And with new genetic research, scientists are getting important insight into what made them that way. In a new report published in Nature, researchers have pinpointed a gene activated in one of seahorses’ most intriguing adaptations: the… via …
One giant teddy bear won’t be heading home for the holidays, thanks to the Transportation Security Administration and an airline that flies out of Los Angeles. The TSA posted a photo of a forlorn stuffed bear dwarfing the trash can it leans against in an LAX terminal. Security decided that the bear was too large… via …
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Polar bears have long been the poster animals for climate protection. But this week, scientists who have been studying data from NASA and other satellite operators on changing environments had more bad news for the Arctic bears, and for reindeer, mountain lions, and other creatures suffering the effects of drought and warming seas. Detailed satellite… via …
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