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Keith Munro — Celebration of life, August 1

Come and celebrate the life of Keith "Greaser"...

Community breakfast at St. George’s Anglican Church, May 9

Free community breakfast on Saturday, June 13...

Come out for Almonte Celtfest’s 30th anniversary edition July 3-5!

Almonte Celtfest is celebrating their 30th anniversary...

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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...
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The art of trite conversation

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Whether it is the Canadian vernacular or merely the absence of intelligence, casual conversation among locals...

Peter Nelson’s travels – New Zealand – The road to Glenorchy, South Island

by Peter Nelson  Basically there’s no traffic at all going to Glenorchy.  (A tiny village at the other end of Lake Wakatipu where I apparently...

Dinner and a movie

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. What I ask you is a more wholesome, frugal and consoling project than dinner and a...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand

by Peter Nelson  Queenstown. Sucks. You cannot imagine. I got here on Queen’s Birthday weekend and it was so crowded there was not even elbow room in the...

Travel by train

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As outlandish as it may reverberate, our project to rejoice in the triumph of my partner...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Still in Dunedin

by Peter Nelson  Jocelyn needless to say is a very welcome rosy-cheeked sight.  The same old scenario playing out once more to a slightly different...

Social animals

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I have come away from last evening’s small private dinner party with the blunt reminder that whether or...

Peter Nelson’s Travels – Dunedin South Island

by Peter Nelson Ah well, the healing music of the open road works its swiftly numbing magic, the endless song of them ole trees flashin’...

The Con

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B.  Lately con artists have woefully figured rather vividly in the morning news, stories about real estate...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Christchurch, New Zealand

by Peter Nelson  Christchurch, South Island, and holy judas is it cold.  I know this is winter, but we’re not that far from the tropics,...

The colour blue

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When it comes to those pesky “security questions” on the internet, if I am prompted to...

The Church Wedding

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. When I casually mentioned to an elderly relative of mine that we were going to a...

Peter Nelson’s travels – Group grope on North Island

A word of advice: Never land in New Zealand on a holiday weekend!  We just happened to hit the tarmac of Auckland Airport on...

My Dream

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Everyone has, I suspect, a dream, an ideal vision.  Mine is one I’ve had for many...
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