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October | 2007 | Juxtapositions
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October 3, 2007. I have decided to move my blog to a new site. To read all future entries you will now have to click HERE. October 2, 2007. Here’s a lovely spot on the Ottawa River just east of Orleans. My mother and I spent an afternoon there last month, trying to sketch this view in watercolours:. Another part of the island has a pond, full of frogs, muskrats and herons, that reflects the passing clouds:. Carol tells me there’s a plan to put a road bridge. Older persons and books. October 1, 2007.
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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: 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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Juxtapositions: Last day in Victoria
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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, March 28, 2015. Last day in Victoria. On the way back to the house we followed a rather muddy path through a valley with a stream at its base, and tall mossy trees and ferns on its steep slopes, known as the Mystic Vale. Posted by Alison Hobbs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Popocatepetl rap | Juxtapositions
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September 27, 2007. While Chris was reading a back copy of the London Review of Books. In the bath last night, he came across a reference to Ernst Toch. An Austrian-Jewish composer who in 1930 wrote a fugue for voices, known in English as. The extraordinary thing about it is, this is a composition for. You live and learn! Looking this up on the Internet at my husband’s request, I made another gratifying discovery, an amusing article about the composer. A kind of “Weimar rap”! Fuge aus der Geographie.
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Infinite Pleasantness | Juxtapositions
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September 29, 2007. On Labour Day, September 3rd, Carol, Francine, my mother and I paid a visit to the Montreal Botanical Gardens, Le Jardin Botanique de Montréal. After wandering through the rose garden, the native garden, the shade garden (remarkable for its range of begonias) and past the ponds, we came upon the Japanese and Chinese Gardens in the centre, which are gifts to the city from these countries. In the Chinese Garden. A girl in the Friendship Hall was playing the erhu. Which has no connection...
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Older persons and books | Juxtapositions
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Older persons and books. October 1, 2007. La Journée Internationale des Personnes Agées. So I discovered when I visited an old lady at the Manoir Héritage retirement residence in Vanier this morning and a notice to that effect was slipped under her door. We talked to one another in French while the sun shone on the golden trees we could see through the window and while Claude poured tea into a pair of pretty teacups that were among her few remaining possessions. The various books as I move them around...
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Petrie Island | Juxtapositions
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October 2, 2007. Here’s a lovely spot on the Ottawa River just east of Orleans. My mother and I spent an afternoon there last month, trying to sketch this view in watercolours:. Another part of the island has a pond, full of frogs, muskrats and herons, that reflects the passing clouds:. Carol tells me there’s a plan to put a road bridge. Across the river here that would take much of the heavy traffic away from the city’s core; from the point of view of convenience, Petrie Island. Enter your comment here.
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To the scientists | Juxtapositions | Page 263
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September 26, 2007. Over the main entrance of Ottawa’s National Research Laboratories at 100 Sussex Drive. Is carved an inscription chosen by the wartime Prime Minister, William Lyon MacKenzie King. Which I noted down the other day because I think it is so apposite to science. It is a quotation from the 2nd Book of Esdras. Here’s a picture I took of the Rideau Falls adjacent to 100 Sussex Drive:. 4 Responses to “To the scientists”. What is garcinia cambogia. July 20, 2013 at 11:30 pm. Of the product is.
