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Juxtapositions: September 2014
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Sunday, September 28, 2014. Angela Hewitt, OC, OBE, Ambassador for the OrKidstra. Here's some good news. The world famous musician Angela Hewitt. Has joined the growing number of supporter's of Ottawa's Leading Note Foundation. I went to hear the children play and sing at Ottawa University. It's not all...
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Juxtapositions: December 2014
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. It's New Year's Eve and we're going to have our friends round this evening again. It's time to look forward, not back. Ralitsa has just posted a Happy New Year message on Facebook in Latin–– amor vincit omnia! 8211;–and I have left the comment sic speremus. It's a struggle ...
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Juxtapositions: July 2014
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Day 9: in Rat Portage Bay. Kenora, with waterfront pavilion. The Wednesday market inside the pavilion. Later, taking an afternoon cruise on the MS Kenora. The giant fish sculpture in the lakeside car park, and the hospital on Coney Island to which everyone had to be rowed, orig...
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Juxtapositions: In mint condition
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Lifting a heavy gold bar. Invites foreign diplomats or their spouses, some of them men, these days, to visit Canadian institutions in Ottawa or participate in Canadian-themed activities. Yesterday morning we took people for a tour of the Royal Canadian Mint. Workers wear goggle...
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Juxtapositions: May 2014
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Her son handed me a hamburger to eat from his barbecue. My feet now look cleaner and smarter than they have done for years. Here's the description of its benefits in German:. Es handelt sich um eine sensomotorische Wahrnehmung, bei der das Gleichgewichtsvermögen trainiert wird...
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Juxtapositions: In the Vancouver Art Gallery
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. In the Vancouver Art Gallery. My photo of a redwood tree. Red Cedar' by Emily Carr. S paintings are well represented, of course (we'd seen the statue of her. Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art. Picasso and Matisse immensely admired Cézanne and both apparently ...
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Juxtapositions: "Like a torrent round a rock."
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Monday, April 20, 2015. Like a torrent round a rock.". It doesn't seem very long since my oldest grandson Alexander became four years old, in 2011. It's his brother's fourth birthday now. Happy Birthday, Thomas! Thomas aged 2 days. Thomas aged 4, this morning. So sadly put it, I can see.
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Juxtapositions: Audience for a young flautist
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Audience for a young flautist. Flautist" is the British-English spelling. Here in North America, they'd call her a "flutist." Lindsay Bryden. Ladies and guests at the now annual Musical Lunch that's held at Le Café. Solo flute music from Lindsay's repertoire. Used by contempor...
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Juxtapositions: Into Vancouver, again
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Monday, March 30, 2015. Into Vancouver, again. The passengers who got onto the Skytrain at Marine Drive station at the end of this bridge were mostly speaking Mandarin, reminding us of the passers-by in Sydney, NSW. I'd have no trouble learning to understand and speak this language. At Tsawwassen we cau...
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Juxtapositions: Conversations in German and other distractions
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Blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit. By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Conversations in German and other distractions. It isn't that I've been doing nothing, while not blogging. On Maundy Thursday. Or, in German, Gründonnerstag. Abla, Gloria, me, Sue, Ursula: Gründonnerstag 2015. German speaking friends bei Gloria. On Easter Sunday Chris and I flew...
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