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Everyone is, once again, talking photos and, of course, where to post them. And I’m no exception. I see this person, and then that person, saying they’re on Pixelfed and others are now joining Flickr. While others have been there, well, like forever. So again, I’m wondering, …

Last night, it dropped to a frigid MINUS 30 and wasn’t much better when we got up this smorning. And while the sun was out in an amazing blue sky, with a sort of surreal faery mist, it was still MINUS 25. I tried to persuade the OH not to walk into work this morning, but they were insistent …

Weekly Recap #3: Today is Monday, another start to a new week and so much more, as today marks the inauguration of the Orange Puff to the White House. A travesty. But hey. That’s an entry for next week’s Weekly Recap. Today, rather than focus on the upcoming week, I’m here to talk about That Was …

Today’s the day this Teddy Bear goes to the hockey. YAY! I can’t wait to get going. We’ve booked our taxi early, as we want to get into the arena and scope out the merch before the game starts at 1pm. I’ve been after buying myself a hockey jersey since I came to Quebec years …

📺 Trigger Warning (2024) - ★★☆☆☆ Seriously, the five foot something Jessica Alba takes on the whole state of New Mexico and wins? In what’s usually an A-list male role, Alba throws her weight around and bests what seems like an army of bad guys, almost singlehandedly, and drives off into the …

We got this far assembling my crafting desk, last night … it took us 2 hours to get this far what with the instructions being 30 pages long. Oh, okay, so they’re in 3 languages. None of which made any sense. By the time we’d laid everything out on the floor and post-it note …

I’m contemplating doing something rash … I’m contemplating doing something very rash … It may involve online kindling, virtual matches, and a can of imaginary gasoline.

Blog Question Challenge 2025: I’ve been tagged by the legendary B from over on BinaryDigit to take part in this challenge. Thanks for the invite, B. Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? Initially, it was to join in on this online social community craze (remember LiveJournal and MySpace?) and share in this wild …

I wanted to watch the Australian Open this year as I was feeling bereft of sport coverage by our domestic TV channels. Given how they all have premium channels now which means, pay per view. Gone are the days when you got free TV subsidised by ads. Now, you pay and still get ads. All that to say …

Weekly Recap #02: Jan 06 to Jan 12, 2025 Mondays are one of those weird days that everyone loves to hate as it usually means they’re at work and, as everyone knows, the first day of work is like a really bad hangover, you just have to force yourself to get through it, drink lots of coffee, and hang in there …

Exterminate, Exterminate: The Ant Exterminator has just been (and left) after squiring all primary corners and skirting boards of our apartment with some toxic chemical and the advice, “…don’t breathe this in, it’s harmful to humans and pets.” What? wtf When the OH said they had informed the …

Another night on the couch and another movie, Lift. This time we watched Kevin Hart in a Kevin Hart action-packed adventure that requires you to suspend your disbelief at the press of play, and just sit back and watch as the assembled cast of named actors do their thing with tongue in cheek. Over …

I have a $25 gift card for Amazon that my SiL gave me as part of my Christmas gift. And, I’m stuck with what to buy. I mean, I don’t normally shop at Amazon to begin with. The place just overwhelms me with, well, stuff. So, Gentle Reader, if it was your gift card, what would you buy? …

Book Review: The 14th Colony by Steve Berry Fast, furious fun, I couldn’t put this one down. Why? Because it has all my favourite elements; not only is it a well-written thriller, with believable flawed characters, but Berry manages to make the historical background and info dumps enlightening, …

Another night on the couch last night tuning into Netflix, this time we watched The Union starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. Which was a classic Wahlberg movie, action-packed lightweight hair-raising fun, with some really nifty stunts. All the right ingredients we’ve come to expect in a …

We watched To Catch A Killer on Netflix last night so you don’t have to. This ultra violent movie had little or no story other than a damaged man wanting to kill as many people as possible. Not that the police and FBI were any less violent, killing their way through this 2 hour …

“And I have walked 500 miles … and I will walk 500 hundred more …" Well, actually, I haven’t walked 500 miles yet. But I’m sure I did last year, and then some. I just totalled up how far I actually walked in this first week of the year and, it came to: 35.5 km …

We binge watched the twisted thriller, Missing You, on Netflix yesterday and, I have to say, while I loved the tension throughout, was left a little letdown by the ending. Those last few scenes in the last episode were, well, questionable. Still, despite that, a solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Weekly Recap #01: Dec 30th to Jan 5th, 2025 One week in using my mini BuJo pocket journal and, I couldn’t be happier. It’s the perfect size for me and the kind of notes I’m taking and yet, still big enough to scribble quotes in, doddle silly pics, and use enough Washi tape to keep Japan’s …

Like everyone else these last couple of days, we couldn’t resist, and watched: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Only a crazy person, or some demented idiot would go out in MINUS 25 horizontal snow blowing weather. Guess which idiot went out to go buy groceries? Eh, yes, you’re right, that would be me. I wish I had put the right underwear on …

I’m rethinking my blogs and websites … Yes, I know, it’s dangerous to go down this road. But I’ve decided not to pander to what everyone else wants, but what I want. And what I want is … everything in one place. We will see how this works out … welcome to 2025! …

Between the torrential rain and the blowing snow that came afterwards, plus the howling winds, I haven’t left our apartment complex since Sat Dec 28th. Lucky for me we have a small corner shop in building one we can get to, underground, via tunnels. You know you live in the frozen north when …

I started using my bright shiny new yellow Leuchttrum1917 Bullet Journal Pocket notebooks yesterday. Well, not all three at once, you understand. Just one to start with. They’re a set of three and only come in threes, to use monthly (I think). Well, that’s what I plan on doing, one a …

Following in Dave Danielson’s footsteps with his post, Intentions for 2025, I would like to add 5 more intentions I’d like to achieve this year: Read more Travel more Photograph more See more Enjoy more And you?

It has been steadily raining since 3pm Saturday afternoon, and hasn’t stopped since. Not only is a wet and dreary outside, but all the lovely white fluffy stuff has long since melted. Throw in the fact it’s PLUSE 7 degrees, a whopping jump from minus 21 last week, and I’m wondering …

We will be off out to see the first of my Christmas presents tomorrow, the Cirque de Soleil’s CRYSTAL. It looks stunning and yes, before you ask, I will take as many photos as I can without spoiling the performance.

It is a BONE CHILLING MINUS 21 outside today. Go on, ask me how I know? I had to walk across the little park to the corner store for bread. And then, guess what? They had no bread. Bah Humbug!

Two of my happiest Christmas present this year were from my Sister in Law who got me 1989 by Taylor Swift and the music from Bridgerton Season 2. She also gave me a $25 Amazon gift card, the DVD of Dispicable Me 4, and a 10 pack of Zebra Mildliner Neutral palette creative markers that I’ve …

Default Apps 2024 Edition: Following in Jedda’s footsteps who was sharing her first ever Default Apps 2024 and even though I did this earlier this year, I thought to update my list and share it again. 📧 Mail: Apple Mail 📝 Notes: Apple Notes 📷 Photo: iPhone 14 pro 📸 Photo editing: Pixelmator, Preview 🟦 Photo management: …

I can’t decide if I want to watch all the Harry Potter movies back to back, or just surf random movies on Netflix today. We saw some fun ones yesterday. We squoze in three through out the day while wrapping presents: Our Little Secret — a so-so romcom with Lindsay Lohan. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Boy Called …

Well, we got some of the shopping done that was on the list and even bought a couple of things that weren’t on the list. And the bonus for all our hard work? A delicious hot chocolate from my fav coffee place in the Halle.

I forgot to mention, for those of you who are looking for something sweet and funny to watch over the Christmas holidays, to go and check out THAT CHRISTMAS on Netflix. It features the voices of Brian Cox, Jodie Whittaker, and Fiona Shaw. It’s everything you could want in a well-written movie; …

Why I Write: I’ve been writing for as long as I’ve been reading. All thanks to both parents who were both avid readers, though very different kind of books. My mother mostly read romances and historical family sagas — think, Thorn Birds. My father, on the other hand, who use to take us weekly to the library, …

And ... I Want!: The idea for this post is happily stolen from Keenan who lovingly stole it from Katherine who probably stole it from someone else. And so it goes … steal this idea if you want! I want to sing more I want to dance more I want to write more I want to play more I want to sleep more I want to …

The Library is open: The Library of Alexandra is now open for business. I’ll be posting every book review I’ve ever written over on the blog. Genres covered include: science fiction, fantasy, history, thrillers and crime fiction. So hopefully, there will be something for everyone to check out by way of …

My EDC : Following in Hyde’s footsteps and, I’m sure, everyone else on the planet, I thought to scribble an EDC (Every Day Carry) post. Don’t get your hopes up, you may fall asleep reading this. So, what do I carry most every day? I’m glad you ask, though you probably won’t be …

To Read or not to Read: I am slipping again with my reading. After a incredibly slow year I read three books almost back to back — Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series, by the wonderfully talented SJ Bennett — and then? Once again came to a grinding halt, having tried and failed to get interested in 3 different …

In Passing: We ended the year with a sad death in the family last year—my father in law died of cancer Dec 11th—so it’s hard to sit here and be witty or have anything pity to say about the start of a new year and what it might hold other than to say, I want to do more. I no longer feel like I have time to …

Weekly Recap #49: The weeks just seem to slip by so fast these days. Which is funny given that some afternoons I’m sat at my desk scribbling away on this or that project and feel like time is stretched in every direction. Which, of course, it isn’t because, well, that would be novel in and of itself. And …

Weekly Recap #48: Well, that was the week that was. Another weird week of being busy doing nothing and, at times, flying solo as the OH had a funeral to attend. With the weather thwarting any opportunity to get out to the local park and take some last minute photos before the snow came … a bit of a frustrating …

WeblogPoMo AMA #5: Following in Helen’s footsteps, I’m answering (to the best of my ability) Jedda’s AMA question: “What are you thankful for? Well, in truth, quite a lot really. But again, like Helen, I think I’ll stick to a handful of things that I’m thankful for. First of all, …

What is my NOW?: Following in Gabz footsteps and, like him, having never heard of, What’s In My NOW, I had to go check it out and, of course, write up my own, What’s In my NOW post. Each week one interesting person shares the tangible and invisible things that are influencing the NOW — 3 physical, 2 …

WeblogPoMo AMA #4: Today I thought to answer a few questions asked for the WeblogPoMo AMA challenge: “What’s your comfort movie/show/piece of media, and - if you feel like sharing - why?” This one is easy. My go to comfort movie is The Fifth Element. I have lost count the number of times I have …

Do You Tip at Coffee Shops?: Okay, here’s a really deep, deep question of the day: Do you tip at coffee shops? The reason I ask? Me and mine were at the mall yesterday and, for the first time in maybe over a year, the OH wanted a sugary Starbucks confection called: coffee. Me? Not so much. So we went. We ordered. They got …

Well, I knew it … my secret vegetable identity is … drumroll please! I’m a carrot!

WeblogPoMo AMA #3: Today I thought to answer another of the great #WeblogPoMo AMA questions floating around. This question was originally asked by Hiro and answered by Gabz and also, Helen. “What’s the best music-related experience of your life so far?" Narrowing my answer down to just one person or act is …

It's Pet Peeve Time: I’ve see a few people sharing their pet peeves recently, so that to add a few of my own: It drives me nuts when someone tells you not to break up a relationship over politics. Honey, let me tell you, if you're compromising your values to suck up to a jerk who votes right-wing conservative, …

The Plan: In answer to Jedda’s post, The Plan To Not Have A Plan, I wrote: I find plans never go to plan, it's best to have an outline written in pencil, maybe on a napkin that can be toss in the recycle if necessary when it all goes to hell in a hand basket ... Because invariably, I always end up …

America Has Fallen: Today, as the news finally sinks in courtesy of every news channel, online outlet, and newspaper on the entire planet, we are all fully aware of just Who has won the US Presidential election: He whose name shall never be uttered out loud! And those of us who are sane enough, rational enough, …

WeblogPoMo AMA #2: Another question I got asked for Annie’s #WeblogPoMo AMA (Ask Me Anything) challenge was from Annie Muller (yes, another Annie), she wanted to know: "What is a habit that's either very long-standing or has had a big impact in your life (or both)?” and “What's your favorite time of day, and …