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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 18, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  The two Diomede Islands...

Outdoor chairs for sale

Two Faulkner 'zero gravity' chairs in navy,...

Caroline Yuill — obituary

Yuill (nee Drynan), Caroline Ann Peacefully at home...

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Letter from Paris: Hot Times for Seniors in Paris

by Keith Spicer Planning to let loose on that long-dreamt getaway to the City of Light? You can probably handle sightseeing yourself with a good guidebook or, better, a professional guide, but...

Who’s left on the right?

“Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle And the...

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...

Bleak winter day

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Even unpremeditated consideration of life in mid-January in Canada must inevitably include an allusion to the...

Peter Nelson’s travels – South Australian scenes

by Peter Nelson  Photo b424 –

Admitting you’re wrong

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There is little that contends with the chore of admitting you’re wrong.  Such an oily exercise to...

Peter Nelson’s travels: Victoria and South Australia

by Peter Nelson  Once back on the mainland, we zigzagged aimlessly across Victoria, wandered back up into New South Wales again, but saw the remote...

Anticipation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. It is difficult to escape the constant urging to “live in the moment”.  The popular adage -...

Peter Nelson’s travels – More Tasmanian photos

by Peter Nelson 

The shopping spree

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are some for whom the daily habit of counting and weighing one’s wealth is highly...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Tasmanian photos

by Peter Nelson    Looking down on Hobart from the top of Mt. Wellington  

Father Christmas

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. For someone like my father (a man who traditionally has the appearance of being socially distressed...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Goodbye to Tasmania

 by Peter Nelson After working in Hobart for 9 months, we heard that ole siren song of the open road again.  But we’d fallen in...

Home for Christmas

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. One must adjudge that for Canadians in general Christmas is the Big Scene on the year’s...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Tasmania, Australia

by Peter Nelson     Tasmania’s an island state off the south coast of Australia.  We went down there because we wanted a place with...

Nobody’s listening and nobody cares

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As predisposed as each of us may unsurprisingly be to view our own personal dilemmas in...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Australian farmhouse

by Peter Nelson  Nowra, New South Wales.  Well, it could be worse. Living in a rambling, very dilapidated old farmhouse in the middle of almost nowhere. ...

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