10 posts tagged “qotd”
What were your top 5 TV shows of 2006?
- Intelligence is conspiratorial, clandestine, dangerous, seductive and volatile, full of betrayals and reprisals on both sides. In addition, watching Ian Tracey is a treat…(how I miss watching Nicholas Campbell on Da Vinci's Inquest & Da Vinci’s City Hall)
- The Rick Mercer Report No one does a rant like Rick... Rick's vists with the PMs are priceless...
Rick & Paul Martin do Canadian Tire and Sleepover at 24 Sussex Drive with Stephen Harper. Only is Canada Eh!
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At The Hotel Murder, mayhem, true love and 24-hour room service. A mix of drama, comedy, mystery and satire, as well as music and dance numbers…. Anything written/directed by Ken Finkleman is a must see. See the The Chateau Rousseau website for more information.
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Corner Gas Forty kilometres from nowhere and way beyond normal is Corner Gas, an ensemble comedy series about a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan.
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Robson Arms One thing is certain; you will never see your neighbours in the same way again …
TV watching on the East Coast.
How do you take your tea or coffee?
Submitted by Vasquez.
I love tea. I prefer my tea hot, very strong, and with a splash of skim milk. I generally drink Red Rose tea, however also like trying other varieties. At Pete's Frootique I can find imported tea in the Best of Britain section. Being a Maritimer I could not resist the two jars of tea above, which I found at The Tea Brewery market stall in the HSC.
Havin' a cuppa on the East Coast.
What are your top 5 books of 2006?
What an unfair question asking me to pick only 5 books from all of the books I have read this year.
The Birth House
Author: Ami Mckay
IBSN: 0676977723
Publisher: Knopf Canada
By Bread Alone
Author: Sarah-Kate Lynch
ISBN: 0446696277
Published by: Warner Books
Down to the Dirt
Author: Joel Hynes
ISBN: 0786715375
Published by: Carroll & Graf
An Audience of Chairs
Author: Joan Clark
ISBN: 0676976565
Published by: Vintage Canada
Mr Golightly's Holiday
Author: Salley Vickers
ISBN: 0007156480
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Reading on the East Coast.
What books did you love as a child?
Submitted by hearts.
I learnt to read at a very early age. I was lucky to grow up in a house full of books.
Some of my favourites were:
Lucy Maud Montgomery all her series: Anne, Emily, Rilla, Pat, and The Story Girl. I read them all.
Louise May Alcott: Little Woman, Little Men and my most favourite Under the Lilacs.
I’ve always love Fairy Tales & Fantasy
Hans Christen Anderson: I recall weeping over the stories of The Red Shoes, & The Little Match Seller.
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. I remember The Blue Fairy Book as a favourite.
I still own many of the books some were my Mother’s others belonged to my Grandmother.
When I read all the books in the house my parents took me to the library. I remember being very upset that the librarian would only allow me to take home five books a week. Then she wanted me to return the books before I could take out more. To this day, I still prefer bookstores to libraries.
I am reading on the East Coast.
If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
Submitted by chris.Quiet, shy and reserved however, once you get to know me I may not shut-up.
Not always silent on the East Coast.
What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.
Oh dear! You want a sad song...
CD: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Rock
Artist: Sinéad O'Connor
Track: Nothing Compares 2 U
CD: In My Hands
Artist: Natalie MacMaster the amazing fiddle playing powerhouse of musical talent and for any CFAs (come from away) reading she is from here on the East Coast.
Sung by: Alison Krauss, on a ballad written by Gordie Sampson,
Track: Get Me Through December... the only video I could find is with Gordeeva & Grinkov skating to the music.
I couldn't find a video of these next three songs however I love Lucinda's bluesy/indie sound.
CD: Lucinda Williams Live @ the Fillmore
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Track: Still I Long for Your Kiss
CD: Lucinda Williams Essence
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Track: Blue
Track: I Envy the Wind
Please pass the Kleenex on the East Coast.
What's your favorite radio station, past or present?
I have varied musical tastes classical, jazz, blues alternative etc CBC has it all. My radios are always tuned to either CBC Radio 1, CBC Radio 2, or CBC Radio 3. I listen to CBC on line too.
On Saturday if I'm home I listen to GO! and DNTO. I listen to a lot of Jazz & Blues so I'll tune into After Hours, Jazz Beat, Saturday Night Blues.
I never ever listen to commercial radio.
I've been addicted to CBC all my life. Listening on the East Coast.
Which of your five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, or smell) do you value the most?
Submitted by Elisheva.
- Hearing: Music and voices are important however, I'd miss the sound of the sound of the ocean and the wind the most.
- Touch: I'd miss hugs.
- Taste: If you enjoy eating and cooking as much as I do, this would be hard to lose. I'd miss the taste of cinnamon.
- Smell: Least important... though I'd miss the smell of Mayflowers.
I am thankful for all 5 senses this Thanksgiving Day on East Coast.
What are your weekend plans?
This is Thanksgiving long week in Canada. Unlike the Thanksgiving tradition in the States of remembering the Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October, the harvest season is earlier in Canada as we are further north. The annual observance of Thanksgiving in Canada was first celebrated here on the East Coast read more here.
Thankful on the East Coast.
What's the most memorable building you've lived in?
Submitted by Shelly.
I've lived in more than 15 houses. My Mother liked to buy, redesign, decorate, sell and move to the next challenge. A number of the moves were a result of transfers Dad took for his job. At least 10 of these moves happened before I left home at 17 years old. I've lived in my current house longer than any other home.
After I left home when asked if I was going home for the holidays I got confused looks if I said I am going to my parent’s house. I had to explain my home was where I lived and is not the house where my parents live.
Every place I've lived in some way was memorable.
There was the house where we would throw stale bread out the pantry window for the birds. One day my Mother caught the neighbour’s kids eating the fruitcake crumbs we had put out for the birds. I was 3 years old.
We lived in a new house my parents designed and built, my bedroom had a climbing rose vine my Mother painted up one wall and over the ceiling, I had a big fourposter bed, I was 6 years old.
There was the mansion where a murder had taken place 80 or 90 years prior to us moving there. There were locked rooms in the basement and a secret passage behind the study, there were 3 three floors not including the attic and basement. I was 9 years old. When I was older, I asked my Dad about the locked rooms he told me they contained coal for the old furnace and were locked so we children did not get hurt.
There was the house with the beautiful murals we discovered under 10 layers of wallpaper. We also found 3 stained glass windows that had been boarded over. One day I came home from school and there was a for sale sign on the lawn, I was 13 years old.
I think my favourite home was my fifth and last apartment; it was in a large Victorian house in the south end of the city.
The house had been the family home of a well know construction family in the city, there was a lot of custom mouldings and cabinetry in the house. The house had been divided into two flats, I had the main floor and my neighbours had the top two floors, we both had access to the basement. There were 4-metre high ceilings, hardwood floors throughout a fireplace in the living room; a fireplace in my bedroom, the kitchen was the original kitchen, with cupboards to the ceilings, marble counters, and a huge porcelain sink, all the windows were over 2 metres tall. We had a large veranda across the front of the house, a beautiful garden in front. We had access to the basement from the kitchen. The basement had rooms where we could store extra boxes, bikes etc, a large laundry room, and my upstairs neighbour’s workshop, where he created stained glass windows. Ask me anything about the making of a stained glass window even though I have never made one I can tell you how it is done, from the initial sketches and the cartoon, to the final buffing of the flux. I would be living there still if I could have bought the place. I was 25 years old.
Memorable on the East Coast.
