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Such a grand title for such a little thing. But also a big thing. Our appointment at the piercing studio was for the middle of the afternoon on the 21st, so we had plenty of time in the morning to have a little adventure walk. Gone was the sunny skies of our arrival, replaced by…
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After getting out for a little walk and our lunch, we returned to our hotel room for a little break and to decide where we would go for dinner. Since it was close enough to St-Denis, we had quite a lot of choice before us. The meal was fine, but we were really just happy…
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Kathleen and I don’t spend enough time in Montréal. Yes, Toronto will always have my heart, but Montréal is arguably Canada’s only actual city. At least, it’s the only one that carries itself as if it’s comfortable with the designation and it very much shows. The second-last time Kathleen and I visited was for three…
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I recently purchased a shiny and new Pentax ES [Electro-Spotmatic] II camera. The latest-and-greatest from Pentax in 1973, I had been looking for something that would allow me to use the beautiful screw-mount lenses in the collection, but with onboard metering. None of the Spotmatics on the shelf have operating meters. It’s always a risk,…
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Outside of the punitive heat being held in by Cabbagetown’s legacy of cultivated greenery, we took away one lesson from our little visit to Riverdale Farm: pigs get the zoomies! Pigs! Zoomies! We were working our way back toward the entrance from The Residence at the back. As is usual when I’m around farm animals,…