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For sale: Brompton e-bike in mint condition

I have a Brompton e-bike in mint...

For sale: Bedroom set

BEDROOM SET $250.  Double bed, dresser, mirror and...

Carleton Place Porchfest–putting young musicians and entrepreneurs centre stage

Carleton Place Porchfest returns August 22 –...

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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Buyer Beware!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Over the space of the last 67 years (my entire life) I have owned 25-acres of vacant rural...

Mechanical Saturday

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Much of what we traditionally do on Saturdays is performed as though by rote and as a result...

Retail Therapy

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Refinement - apart from its industrial connotation (the removal of impurities) - is most often associated with people or things...

Quelling the Madness

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The punishment of the US post-election frenzy has already been mostly blunted. How soon we synthesize catastrophe!  Besides I've...

Blustery autumn day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Last night we agreed we'd go grocery shopping today.  And visit my elderly mother.  Early this morning before...

Battalion! Right turn!

 by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It was shortly after four o'clock this morning when I turned off the TV and went to bed,...

Election Day – November 8, 2016 – The Trump Evolution

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. We have the distinction of being on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on USA Election Day, November 8,...

BFF (“Best friends forever”)

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Jill and I go back a ways. We hit it off the instant we met - which I...

Off we go!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Every second Thursday afternoon our housekeeper performs a cathartic purge of our residence. We make a point to get out...

Let’s talk cars!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.     Not everyone gets excited about cars.  Though I most certainly do. If for example I'm in a physician's...

The places I’ve lived

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Before I went to boarding school at the age of fourteen years I lived with my parents and...

The Toothbrush

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. No doubt you take pride as I do in the possession of certain quality things such as crystal decanters,...

Art

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is both natural and inevitable that as one ages and disengages from the traffic of everyday life, one...

A Do-Nothing Day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Not often have I the pleasure of a do-nothing day, a day when my calendar is completely empty and there is...
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