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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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Mostyn biographical sketches

By L.G. William Chapman B.A. LL.B. The first Regular Communication of Mississippi Lodge, A.F. & A.M., G.R.C. (In Ontario) was held at Almonte, Ontario on...

Retirement

 By L.G. William Chapman B.A., LL.B. Apart from the recent floods and the economy, for people of my advanced age the most provocative subject...

Stories and folklore – Part 2

by L.G. WIlliam Chapman B.A. LL.B. Introduction I think you'll agree that Almonte is rather like one big family. As with any family, no history is...

Stories and folklore

By L.G. William Chapman, B.A. LL.B.   Introduction I think you'll agree that Almonte is rather like one big family. As with any family, no history...

The last will and testament

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.    Mr. Stanley McCubbin, aged 65 years and having a thick shock of grey hair and a ruddy...

Waiting for the school bus

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Young Jeremy Roswell awoke without opening his eyes and turned grudgingly in his bed. The half-defeated ringing of the...

Trust your instincts

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. On a certain level adherence to one’s instincts is almost pathological, smacking as it does of compulsive behaviour...

Upper sixth form at St. Andrew’s College (1966 – 1967)

by L.G. William Chapman B.A., LLB. While my diary makes no mention of it, an event occurred in the summer prior to my return to...

What motivates you?

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It’s an innocent enough question: “What motivates you?” Yet it is almost too innocuous to excite any depth...

Around the block

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.Whether it is a product of wholesome habit or merely an upshot of the recent bent for economy,...

Lining them up

While I would prefer to think otherwise, it is likely the sign of a small mind to obsess over the picayune details of everyday...

Staking the Joint

by L.G. William Chapman B.A. LL.B. The pluperfect subjunctive doesn’t begin to capture the state of unreality in which I found myself absorbed for...

My Father

by L.G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.   With my father’s 93rd birthday looming on the horizon the important event begs more than a little...

The trades & property management

 by L.G. William Chapman, B.A. LL.B.  Recently I have been almost overwhelmed by an unending parade of tradesmen who are attending to one thing or...
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