Friday, September 10, 2021

New World Order

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  The New World Order is upon us. It is surprising hat Australia has been the first to fall. They say Canada will be next. Only the election...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

I see Canadian Club is taking on beer as the drink of choice for meals and sports games.

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

What amazes me is filled fridge shelves that never collapse.

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Richard Bolitho — Midshipman (Richard Bolitho, #1) by Alexander Kent

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This is the first of the Bolitho series. It is more of a short story than a novel. Being short, it doesn't waste a lot of time on dressi...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Corsican Gold by Dave Bartell

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  This is a youthful attempt to write an adventure story. Darwin, a graduating college student, returns to his roots in Corsica and reminisc...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

Pompeii by Robert Harris

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I wanted to read this book because I've been to Pompeii. I am familiar with a lot of the buildings and walked on their mosaic floors. Fo...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

My son mowed the lawn. It looks like it has been cut by Picasso.

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It's amazing how many people think that if they get the vaccine they won't get COVID.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Death in the Andamans by M.M. Kaye

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This is a murder mystery with the background of the Andamans Islands, another British enclave in the Indian Ocean. Three couples, Christmas ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Can you imagine? Biden falling asleep while talking to a visiting diplomat.

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Friday, August 27, 2021

SeaFire (John Gardner's Bond, #14)

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The author writes a good James Bond story and this is one of the best. Ian Fleming must be smiling down on him. We know Bond's lifestyle...

For those who don't know it, Don Juan is a work of fiction.

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2) by Ragnar Jonasson

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  It was a bit difficult at first, getting used to the names and places but one gets used to it. When the story started out with a new detec...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Dead Man's Footsteps (Roy Grace, #4) by Peter James

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This is a story of multiple threads and as you read the chapters, you wonder what they could possibly have to do with each other. Each incid...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Population Control

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It is possible that the virus is being used as a means of population control. Not the quantity of population but rather its acceptance of id...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

John Wayne used to Fetch Wyatt Earp’s Coffee

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  “Earp was the man who had actually done the things in his life that I was trying to do in a movie. I imitated his walk; I imitated his tal...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

"On Wings of Eagles" by Ken Follett

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  Of course I remember this incident from the NEWS of the time but reading an account of it gives it a different perspective. If you are exp...

Election Results.

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Well, we had our provincial election yesterday with the Conservatives beating the Liberals. The new Premier is an accountant so I guess that...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

I read this.

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"In a retirement town, the average is dead or nearly dead".

“The Future of Life” – Jacques Attali,

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  “In the future it will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We will start with the old, because as soon as he is over 60-65 ye...