so, i just turned the heat up, and grateful i can do it on this windy cold night, even though in labrador it will be minus 45 or thereabouts. still, the minus 13 here feels like ice trying to creep inside my bones. at the end of this long work day in the comedy mines i finally have time to reflect on how today began. i was in a local tim's, you know the drill, in the line up for the morning fix. a lovely elderly lady came in and stood behind me, pulling one of those grocery trolleys that … [Read more...]

So for Christmas I got the flu. But I was nursed oh so interestingly by one Dr Who, courtesy of the Space Channel marathon and every time he turned up he was someone different! What a thing! But Dr Who aside, the flu did make for a somewhat solitary and melancholy Christmas. I always find Christmas a little melancholy, the contemplation and reflection packed in amongst increasing bustle and fray which I resist with varying results. Now emerging from the cocoon to spend my birth day and new year … [Read more...]