Autumn (circa 1980) Sense and Nonsense During the past few months there have been some dramatic goings-on down at the lake. Large numbers of migratory birds interrupted their southbound journeys to browse and dine in the exposed weed beds in the water. It quickly became obvious to the observing human eye that these birds practice…

Circa 1975  Sense and Nonsense I have discovered a new way of cooking – pressure cookery! I realise pressure cookers have been around for years but I have had very little to do with them. In fact I used to admire the courage of the people who admitted to using them regularly. I recall years…

Winter 1977/78  Sense and Nonsense Monday: Phoned the dentist’s office. As the operator dialed the number I realised I could not remember the word that described the procedure I wanted. The word “impressions” escaped my mind completely! I panicked as the number rang a second time. What could I say? I wanted an appointment to…

1980 02 07 Sense and Nonsense Many parents of small children find themselves subjected nightly to the ritual of reading the “Bedtime Story.” Our five-year-old has a drawerful of Little Golden books, the content of which is not exactly stimulating to the adult mind. Recently I have taught myself a little trick. I have learned…

  1978 03 02  Sense and Nonsense We seem to be going through a social era of reminiscence. It is almost as if everything happened yesterday, or possibly the day the before. To-day, we are merely “chewing the cud”, so to speak. The fabulous fifties and the psychedelic sixties seem to have faded into the…

circa 1975 Sense and Nonsense “I really should lose some weight,” I make that statement regularly, hoping desperately that some kind soul will contradict me… If I am lucky a friend will gush, “ Oh, no, you’re just right!” I take that to mean I am only a few pounds past the critical stage. Or…

  Sense and Nonsense 1981 I usually remember Christmases past by the small disasters that invariably occur at that time of year, Many of these min-disasters involve food. For instance, Christmas 1975 is emblazoned in my memory as the year my Christmas baking ended up at the garbage dump. (Just because it was encased in…

1974-12-19 Sense and Nonsense Last Sunday morning a friend confided to us that he is secretly an extra-terrestrial being. This was rather startling news to us and we were inclined to be sceptical of his statement. He did look a little pale and shaky, but otherwise resembled a reasonably normal, badly in need of some…

1975 07 03   Sense and Nonsense Today is the last day of school before the summer holidays. The little kids will soon come home loaded down with bags of workbooks, drawing paper, leaky pens, chewed pencils and crayons and tiny pieces of erasers. In amongst this stuff, encased in a beautiful folder, rests the Report…

Oct.2, 1980  Sense and Nonsense Barbara Eden was a recent guest on Alan Hamel’s afternoon television show. I remember her as the little blonde who used to appear magically from out of an ancient bottle on the “I Dream Of Jeanie” T.V. series. Barbara was describing a nerve-wrecking real-life situation she had experienced. A burglar…