St Giles in the Fields - Passion Sunday
The online service was at St Giles in the Fields, London and the celebrant used the Book of Common Prayer. It was a wonderful service and the priest gave a short history of the Church which began as a...
View ArticleCleaning Days
As usual the beginning of the week includes two cleaning days and I will be finished today. It is hard work for this 78 year old but I can still manage it quite well. It is also good exercise as the...
View ArticleWhat value has the NDP brought to Canada?
Listening to the proposed legislation that the NDP brought forward in the House has reaffirmed the opinion I have had of the NDP throughout my life. Although the introduction of Health Care was and...
View ArticleThe 18th Prime Minister of Canada - Brian Mulroney
Rest in Peace Brian Mulroney you did your task very well and created a new Canada that still flourishes due to your foresight with the 7% GST (although I consider mistakenly taken to 5% by Prime...
View ArticleSnow 5 cm is predicted
There is a 5 cm snowfall predicted for the end of the week. That would be a nice end to winter for sure. It has been a strange winter here. Climate Change is having an incredible effect on Canada with...
View ArticleMinus 12 degrees celsius
About right temperature wise but the snow cover is missing. Hopefully a nice snow fall tonight; usually by now one is waiting for the snow piles to melt. Global warming is definitely a problem but...
View ArticleAdded a new chapter to the Blake Book
I decided yesterday that I should actually write a chapter on the Blake Pedigree Chart and the Blake Family Chart. I had not seen either of them until after I took on the Blake one-name study at the...
View ArticleMemories
I did watch Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's State Funeral yesterday. It was perfect I think; so very meaningful and perhaps the most beautiful his granddaughter's song of love for her beloved...
View ArticlePalm Sunday
Yesterday we celebrated Palm Sunday at Church and it was online. It was nice to be back once again online although I have spent the time in between online services traveling online about England with...
View ArticleAnother heavy cleaning day accomplished
My heavy cleaning day all accomplished and at 78.5 years I am thinking that is not too bad actually. It is good to know that I can still complete that in a timely fashion and pretty much as I have...
View ArticlePrayers
For the people of Russia who have suffered such a dreadful happening in their Concert Hall, Prayers for the dead and Prayers for those fighting for their lives in the hospital as they recover from...
View ArticleCataract surgery
I actually have a date for cataract surgery and it is when I will have help so much relieved. It is just the idea of actually having to hire someone to look after me for fourty eight hours solid just...
View ArticleBlake family today and the Blake newsletter for the 1st of April
Today will be a Blake day and working on the Blake Newsletter. It will have an article on the Andover Blake family book that I am writing. I will look at the yDNA groups and see if anything new has...
View ArticleGood Friday
One of the saddest days of the Church Year, Good Friday is again one of the Church days that are part of my family memory. The Litany and three hours of prayer for a young child is my memory. I can...
View ArticleBlack Saturday/Holy Saturday
Cloudy today and waiting for Easter Sunday, when I was a child we called this Black Saturday but it has changed to Holy Saturday and perhaps it goes like that over time. The 1950s had a cloud over them...
View ArticleAllelieu Christ is risen; thanks be to God
Another Easter and we enter into the happy time of Easter. God is always with us but we must make our own path following the commandments which Jesus brought to us but also the Commandments that were...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter to be completed today and published on the website
Although the bulk email may not go out for the Blake Newsletter it will be completed today and published on the website. Contemplating the situation in the world at the moment I think I could perhaps...
View ArticleInto April and spring is definitely here but no mud season; not a good thing
An election in Canada would be interesting for sure. I like the Carbon Tax and the Conservative party is just sucking up to the populace with their stance, 3.3 cents per litre for cars is not a very...
View ArticleCloudy in God's world today
We are waiting to see if we get 30 cm of snow today and tomorrow. It will all melt on the weekend but I think we would greet it with glee actually. It has been a low snow winter for sure. There is...
View ArticleDecisions
March for my studies became a throw away month whilst I contemplated the path for each of the two books. Pencombe became the easiest to resolve as I realized that the data that existed did not lend to...
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