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Archive for July 2014
Building Rome – Week 31 – Setbacks are not Roadblocks
Building Rome is a weekly mini-challenge hosted by Bradley Corbett over at Green Embers. The goal is to come up with some small, achievable goals for the week and work toward them. Each week has a theme: this week it’s Marching past setbacks. How to participate: Make a post with your goals for the week and how well you did with the previous week’s goals! Link back to the challenge page. Visit other people who […]
One Word Photo Challenge: Bronze
This is a pyrite concretion that somewhat fits the colour bronze (bronze-ish?). It formed in shale from Tea Cove, Newfoundland, Canada. The ram shape may have formed around a trilobite fossil. 7.5cm x 5.5cm x 2.0cm More from Wikipedia A concretion is a hard, compact mass of sedimentary rock formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between the sediment grains. Concretions are often ovoid or spherical in […]
How to Change the Loo Roll
Originally posted on Maggie Wilson Author:
AGAIN with the empty toilet paper roll! OFF WITH HIS HEAD! I know that my husband means no ill will toward me. AND I know that it’s not laziness: he is one of the most industrious people I know. So why is it, that when I reach to the toilet paper dispenser and find it empty my default impulse is “OFF WITH HIS HEAD”?…
“Preventing” Poverty NOT a Valid Goal.
So says our federal government to OXFAM. They quibble. You can only limit poverty, you can’t prevent it. Charitable status denied. Next! [Well, charitable status threatened. I wrote “denied” for effect] 52 groups currently undergoing audits The contretemps is yet more evidence of frosty relations between the Harper government and some charities, several dozen of which have been targeted since 2012 for audits of their “political activities. The Canada Revenue […]
