I hold a secret spot in my heart for the people that appear on the various programs dealing with the bric-a-brac from their homes. Particularly, Antiques Roadshow, carried by both the CBC and PBS, in various national editions. If ever the common man had a niche, it is here.
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Inevitable? Perhaps. Hard to leave the history of a king with nothing more than a chorus from the Herman And The Hermits. And so, tonight, I started with the series that has kept royal watchers busy for years. The Tudors.
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Here’s a question for you. What do children with rich relatives and our local politicians have in common?
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How do you get from singing Irish ballads to making public commentary on the economic situation in the land of the Celtic Tiger? In Canada, it’s an easy road.
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My daily bus run takes me through some older neighbourhoods. Houses built some three centuries ago, still in use; the difference is that repairs cost so much more when you aren’t allowed to use normal materials.
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My daily bus run takes me through some older neighbourhoods. Houses built some three centuries ago, still in use; the difference is that repairs cost so much more when you aren’t allowed to use normal materials.
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Think of the plot as “two turntables and a mixing board meet the Titanic”. Imagine that the Moody Blues are providing the background music for a whole lot of unwanted water. Yes folks, I’ve finally watched Pirate Radio, and I had fun.
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If it hadn’t been for that rusty washbasin, we could have been learning about any tiny point in the middle of the ocean.
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They came, they waited, they watched and cheered. Today, the Saint Patrick’s parade returned to the streets of Quebec City, for the first time since 1926. Or, in clearer terms, for the first time in their lives, for the great majority of those standing on the sidewalk.
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I wish I had lived in an old house when I was little. A house with a lot of history. I wish I could have lived in the same house long enough to “make” it mine. Instead, I moved often; never far, one house to the next, but each one meant that the previous was just the place where we used to live.
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