1. re Yolomatron. The demands of right and left justification In newspapers and magazines leads to infelicities in spacing or hyphenation. I’m a ragged right fan as a result, but so far New Yorker and Globe and Mail don’t agree. Neatness is all.
2. Reading this entry took me back to Sunday afternoon in my grandparents’ living room where my sister and I sat on the floor playing snakes and ladders while the great aunts and uncles chatted about the secrets of our small southwestern Ontario town and who accused whom of what and how it was all swept under the carpet. We were waiting for the chicken to roast and my mother and grandmother to mash the potatoes, make the gravy and get dinner on the table. We hoped there would be pie.
Then the women did the dishes while the men smoked cigars and played cribbage.
And now on a Sunday afternoon fascinated by your sleuthing, and probably the age of those elderly raconteurs back in Petrolia, I’m wondering why I didn’t listen more carefully.
So. A few points:
1. re Yolomatron. The demands of right and left justification In newspapers and magazines leads to infelicities in spacing or hyphenation. I’m a ragged right fan as a result, but so far New Yorker and Globe and Mail don’t agree. Neatness is all.
2. Reading this entry took me back to Sunday afternoon in my grandparents’ living room where my sister and I sat on the floor playing snakes and ladders while the great aunts and uncles chatted about the secrets of our small southwestern Ontario town and who accused whom of what and how it was all swept under the carpet. We were waiting for the chicken to roast and my mother and grandmother to mash the potatoes, make the gravy and get dinner on the table. We hoped there would be pie.
Then the women did the dishes while the men smoked cigars and played cribbage.
And now on a Sunday afternoon fascinated by your sleuthing, and probably the age of those elderly raconteurs back in Petrolia, I’m wondering why I didn’t listen more carefully.
Thank doG you are back!
Jeepers.
Here we go! Addicted once again, I am.
To your story-telling and voice, your humour, stellar research skills, to your boundless & tenacious curiosity.