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Boring observations on a boring day
1. Quiet day. Had acupuncture, visited aged aunt, had wine next door. Thus my exciting life. Well, also cruised Whole Paycheque close to aunt's retirement home and left without buying anything, after an attack of Wretched Excess.
2. Worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. The city's leaf sweepers have been through and ground everything to dust; what leaves remain on the trees are a bleached-out barest yellow in the pewter November light.
3. Next door is jubilant at our mayor's de facto loss of power and confident he'll soon either resign or be kicked out by the premier (that's the governor to you Murcans.) If it is so it is good, as the Japanese say; but Rob Ford is not only teflon, he has the devil's luck. I do not hold my breath.
4. Environment Canada's historical stats contain many surprises, such as the fact that 2002 holds the record for most snow on the ground on Nov 16. I was incredulous: 2002 was a scorcher, surely not given to early snowstorms? Luckily I have a copy of my pitas blog for that year, and yes, it did snow mid-November, even though up to then the autumn was much warmer than average.
5. Reading The Science of Discworld, outdated as it is (I believe they've found the Higgs Boson particle now?) makes the world seem stranger even than Tibetan Buddhism does.
2. Worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. The city's leaf sweepers have been through and ground everything to dust; what leaves remain on the trees are a bleached-out barest yellow in the pewter November light.
3. Next door is jubilant at our mayor's de facto loss of power and confident he'll soon either resign or be kicked out by the premier (that's the governor to you Murcans.) If it is so it is good, as the Japanese say; but Rob Ford is not only teflon, he has the devil's luck. I do not hold my breath.
4. Environment Canada's historical stats contain many surprises, such as the fact that 2002 holds the record for most snow on the ground on Nov 16. I was incredulous: 2002 was a scorcher, surely not given to early snowstorms? Luckily I have a copy of my pitas blog for that year, and yes, it did snow mid-November, even though up to then the autumn was much warmer than average.
5. Reading The Science of Discworld, outdated as it is (I believe they've found the Higgs Boson particle now?) makes the world seem stranger even than Tibetan Buddhism does.
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Is there anything at all I can send you from these shores (that isn't available in NH)?
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They will be shaped like a maple leaf, whichever, because (sigh) we're like that.
(How about maple sugar tea?)
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Anything from England that you'd like for Christmas?
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That Hopkins is splendid. I can't get into the rest of his stuff, but that one (and the Shakespeare I referenced an entry or so ago) get autumn exactly.