Blog Articles About Downtown Living

A Walk on the Ptui, Part One

This weekend, The Boy and I went to the Leslie Street Spit. Or, as it had been known for a while, The Ptui. Well, what would you call it? This is version have been planned for a while. Ever since we meandered around on the Islands and heard the quackophony, we wanted to find out…

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Spring, Sprang, Sprung

Last Thursday, I looked out my window and saw this in the courtyard below A tree! With leaves!! I realized I hadn’t seen such a thing for six months. SIX… MONTHS…! So naturally, I rushed out to take a photo of it. Y’know, to prove it happened. And then I sneezed. Damn nature with all…

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Santa and His Peeps

Last Sunday was the annual invasion of Santa hats, red noses, reindeers and marching bands. In other words: The Santa Claus Parade! And, as usual, I was in attendance. This year, I dragged my sister along. Before we get to the festivities, I wanted to follow up on an issue mentioned in last year’s post….

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Liquid Zoo

Two weeks ago, we went to the new Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto. We’d been waiting on tenterhooks for months, if not longer in this wasn’t helped it owl by their really excellent buzz building marketing before opening. I’m pretty sure thousands of people in Toronto were bursting from anticipation. It’s taken a while working through…

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Low Clouds

Wandered out a few weeks ago to do an errand and grabbed my camera on the way out. And was very glad I did. Because this is what I saw on the way The clouds were hanging so low you’d think Toronto was on the top of a mountain! I moved down to the corner,…

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Blessing of the Animals

For years, I’ve read articles in our local paper about the annual Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis Day. Which means that for years, I’ve missed it and every time, I kick myself. This year, I didn’t and spent some time at St. James Cathedral on Saturday at the service for animals. I was…

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Faces of Canada Day

Last Monday, I went to the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association’s Canada Day party. The cloudy weather actually made it more enjoyable because it wasn’t too hot. A great time was had by all. , including me, and not have a lot to do with The festivities started off with a rousing rendition of Oh, Canada…

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Dreaming of the High Seas

Sometimes, dreams come true in the strangest ways.

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Festival of Tongues

Last weekend, we went to the annual “immerse yourself in canines” festival a.k.a.Woofstock. It delivered just as much fun as usual, except with the odd exclusion of funnelcake. I’ve been talking about dogs and funnelcakes for months and was very disappointed to only find one of the two anticipated delights. However, when it comes to…

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A Study in Santa

I almost didn’t yesterday. There were things I had to do, documents to review, Lists to vanquish. And then, at the last minute, I found myself running out the door without quite realizing I’d made the decision to scuttlw work. Because it’s where I’ve been for 15 of the last 16 years on a special…

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La Lune et Les Moutons

Nuit Blanche, the annual night-time art extravaganza, was last Saturday. I haven’t gone before because it’s the last weekend in September and and that usually means it’s cold, but there was this sheep thing down the street…. So we wandered out under the full Harvest Moon, headed to see Transhumance by Corpus. Originally based on…

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Delivery

Sugar Beach got its name not because the sand is as fine as sugar (although it might be), but because it’s right next to the Redpath Sugar Refinery. Living this close to a sugar refinery means that if the wind is right, my neighbourhood smells like molasses. It means often seeing really big ships docked…

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