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Pat Blythe – The weather report….day tripping and music…..

Posted in life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, day trips, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-The-Lake, Ontario, Ontario travel, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Port Hope, Prince Edward County, summer, summer2020, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Victoria Day on July 15, 2020 by segarini

Hot, hazy and humid…..well maybe not hazy…..maybe more like stifling and soggy? How about moist and muggy, or maybe sultry and sweaty? Scorching, sizzling, oppressive, sweltering…..an endless number of adjectives to describe the current heatwave. July 3-15 would have been a perfect Mariposa weekend running around covering 10 stages and sweating off these extra “COVID pounds”. Somehow I don’t associate “sultry” with weather that has the infinite ability to make one a squelchy, sodden, cranky mess. One short stroll out and I’m firmly planted in front of the air conditioner drying out.

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JAIMIE VERNON – VICTORIA’S SECRET

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1819, 1867, 1901, Bob Segarini, British Empire, Canada, Canadian Music Leonard Cohen, Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Commonwealth, Confederation, Crown Victoria, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Edward VIII, Fête de la Reine, Germanic, Germany, Jaimie Vernon, May 24th, May Two-Four, Nazi sympathizers, Prince Albert, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Street, Queen Victoria, Rebellion of 1837, Regina, Saxe-Coburg, Teutonic, twenty-fourth of May, Victoria, Victoria Day, William Lyon MacKenzie, Windsor on May 21, 2016 by segarini

If you’re reading this it probably means you’re broke and can’t afford a weekend off or you have no idea that this is Victoria Day weekend. It’s a celebration of our formerly longest reigning Monarch of the British Vampire, er, Empire (June 20, 1837 until her death January 22, 1901). Queen Elizabeth recently usurped that record by tiptoeing past Victoria which opens the door for us to one day celebrate Lizzy’s Day instead. Currently the weekend celebrates Vicky’s birth on May 24, 1819.