The Single Handed Admiral

I was off in Toronto (aka, TO, Tdot, the centre of the universe etc) for a conference this week.  I had an afternoon free and had planned t...

An interesting quiz on the War of 1812 at  http://www.cbc.ca/news/quiz/1812.html Warning, even for a Canadian this is a tough one (I ...

So yes it was 200 years ago today that James Madison declared war on Great Britain to kick off the War of 1812.  Therefore, the Ministry o...

Accessible to the sausages fingered among us http://joyandforgetfulness.blogspot.ca/2012/06/this-is-appeal.html

The Arts& Life section of you morning paper has a lead article on a historical documentary, and your first reaction is "they didn...

Last night I played 4 games of  Strange Aeons  with Curt of  Analogue Hobbies .  It turns out that Curt (who's blog I've been follo...

Ok, I checked my calendar for the coming few days. From Thursday to Monday my daughter has 3 rehearsals, 3 concerts and a recital. There ar...