I’d been going to the Hastings Community Centre for over a year before I truly noticed this wonderful mural. It was just a bunch of colour out of the corner of my eye, then one day for no particular reason I saw it.
I’d love to know more about the Indigenous figures, but all I could find is this from …
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Some photos from my ride around the Stanley Park seawall this morning. The weather was amazing, though cold. That’s what extra layers are for. I only had to share the path with a handful of cyclists, so no getting stuck behind someone or being the person holding someone up. Perfect! The only other folks out that early were mostly runners.…
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I got my e-bike in February 2023 (OMG, I’ve been riding for 3 years!). A tad over a year later on March 21st I logged my first 1000 kilometers. I was very excited. My rides were relatively short and I kept watching the odometer as the kilometers accumulated bit by bit. I was so aware of my mileage I extended …
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My first trip to Ireland was in the 90s and I was a big Guinness fan. Guinness lore said nothing compared to a Guinness poured in Ireland and I enjoyed confirming this for myself. In the name of accuracy I gathered as large a sample size as I could from across the country.
I also toured the Guinness Storehouse in …
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Queen Demon is the second book in Martha Well’s The Rising World series. I really enjoyed the first book, Witch King, which I read in July 2024. Queen Demon starts where Witch King left off and I struggled to remember all the backstory and characters. It made the first third of the book …
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A few weeks ago I was walking back to my car when I heard a chicken softly clucking. Not a common sound in Vancouver, but keeping chickens is allowed, so not impossible. Looking around I didn’t see any chickens but spotted a sign:
KEEP GATE CLOSED
No Matter What The Chickens Say
I laughed, but where were these fast talking …
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When I was growing up, one of my favourite shows was The Banana Splits. If you haven’t heard of The Banana Splits, you can get all the gory details in this Banana Splits Wikipedia article. Fleegle was my favourite. One of the interstitials featured the Banana Splits goofing around in their banana buggies, which were ATVs with …
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I’ve very much enjoyed the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey. So far I’ve read them as I’ve found them and thought it was time to fill in the blanks of books I’ve missed. The Gates of Sleep only got a 3.75 because the setup took too long. Once it got going it …
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Last year I did a New Year’s Eve ride around the Stanley Park loop (SPLoop) and False Creek Seawall and really enjoyed it. I wasn’t sure the weather would allow one this year, but lo and behold no rain! I may have just started an annual tradition.
It didn’t feel like there were as many people out and about this …
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On Christmas day I unexpectedly woke up to sunshine. With nothing to do until the afternoon a Christmas morning ride seemed like just the thing! It got overcast pretty quickly but I finished the ride well before the rain started up again. Merry Christmas me! It was only 3 degrees (Celcius), so I basically dressed in every layer I could. …
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