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Lawn bowls for sale SOLD

Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Bon Appetit...

By The Way with Bill Chapman

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Bill Chapman weekly column By the Way to end

After 7 years of loyally contributing to the Millstone, Bill Chapman has decided to end his weekly columns. Bill was one of our first contributors, sending us weekly Friday...

Trust Your Instincts

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are many things in life which confound me.  Being caught off balance should not however be the springboard from which to leap...

Maritime Sally

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It requires little in the way of ambition to lapse into utter lassitude in Key West. Certainly first acquainting oneself broadly with the...
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Americans

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. My overt affection for Americans - specifically, the citizens of the United States of America just to be...

You are what you think

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. What I ask could be more frightening than the transparency of the adage that you are what you...

Wherein lies the rub?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Discovering meaning and purpose in life has ever been dispiriting and never been effortless. Try getting out of...

Smoking cigarettes

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Recently a girl-friend of mine let it slip during casual conversation that she had started smoking cigarettes, an...

Dastardly Living!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is easy to imagine that equable, balmy weather is a blessing. And yet (and I say this...

One’s Portion in Life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. One doesn't have to look very far to encounter people whose fortunes in life are far less favourable...

A Tiny Christmas

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Doc Kelly was well-known for his magnanimity. It was not uncommon, for example, for him to accept potatoes...

Take a Look Around

By L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I am beginning to think my office is a museum. After thirty-five years in practice in Almonte, and...

The Red Panda

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Toby, who had a protuberant little belly (over which hung a tag strung from his neck announcing his...

Sent from my Blackberry Wireless

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  Once you are bitten by the technology bug there are seemingly endless possibilities to feed the disease which...

Things I never want to do again

by L.G. William Chapman B.A., LL.B. We all know those rose-cheeked folk whom one suspects as having been born with a riding crop in hand...

Under the Circumstances

 by L.G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  The rain, driven by a hard wind, splattered in large drops against the windshield of the decrepit Vauxhall as...

The penalty of saving money

by L.G. William Chapman B.A. LL.B.  It is a tough sell to get people to adopt an attitude for saving. There are so many convenient excuses...

Aging parents

by L.G. William Chapman B.A., LL.B. There are some whose parents are sadly no longer whinnying among us, and for those unfortunate individuals the concern...
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