Today is the 51st birthday of the Canadian Flag. The familiar red and white flag with the stylized maple leaf replaced its predecessor on the 15th February, 1965. What was its predecessor? Officially, it was the British Union Flag (or Union Jack as it’s better known), but there was a variation on the Canadian Merchant Maine’s Red Ensign that was… Read more »
With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d learn a little about that sing-song staple of the season, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and share it here. It’s a song that most of us learn as kids. It’s a song we teach our kids. It’s a song that gets trundled out at many Carol concerts. And it’s a song… Read more »
This weekend marks the beginning of the Christmas Fayre/Market season in our area. Mrs. H. will be singing carols to market-goers, and one of our friends will be at two or three markets a week until the week before Christmas. “Bah, humbug” is my normal and expected comment on all this. I struggle to get into the festive spirit much… Read more »