Slashing the Food Budget – Colcannon

It’s the end of week two – and Judy is on track to spend $150, or less, this month for food. I’m amazed. She’s bringing our budget back in line after a pothole forced the purchase of a new tire and alloy rim. Judy is robbing the food budget to pay for the emergency car [...]

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Dual Flush HET Toilet

On our visit to Europe some years ago my wife and I were impressed with the continental bathrooms. O.K., we liked the art and architecture, too, but the bathrooms were memorable.
The toilets invariably offered two flush modes: one for liquid waste and a second, larger flush, for solid material. The showers had low-flow heads and [...]

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Slashing Food Budget to $37.50 Update

Week One Ends in Success

Budget
Spent

$37.50
$35.49

Week one is over and my wife did it! I’m amazed. Her grocery bill for the week came in under budget by $2.01. Even better, I can report we ate well.
The lady knows how to shop. She knows prices and recognizes the sales worth chasing. Luckily, we live in a community [...]

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http://londondailyphoto1.blogspot.com

Are you from the London, Ont., area? Do you enjoy photography? Well, share your work on londondailyphoto1.
You say you don’t have a good camera. No problem. Honest. All the pictures above were taken with a five-year-old Canon SD10 point and shoot. It has a fixed, somewhat-wide angle lens, no telephoto on this little thing, and [...]

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Green and Black Teas Reduce Stroke Risk

This sounds too good to be true, and maybe it is. After all, the following UCLA study of tea was funded by The Unilever Lipton Institute of Tea. That said, the results were credible enough to rate publication in the online edition of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, mention in the University of [...]

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Buzzword of the Day: New Urbanism (2)

Please note there have been two good comments added to my previous post on new urbanism.
One comment contained a link to a New York Times article on shrinking cities. Planned shrinkage “is moving from an idea to a fact,” said Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective Program at the University [...]

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The Eyes Have It!

First off, this is NOT a “big brother is watching” fear story. The fact that corporations identify themselves when hitting a blog is good. They are not being secretive.
That said: Post a piece on Loblaws and within hours their name will appear as a party hitting your blog, hitting the very piece that mentions them.
I’ll [...]

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Get it right or we get it on YouTube!

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Cheers,
Rockinon

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Culture Minister Supports Demolition

Who would allow beautiful, historic Middletown House, overlooking the Thames River in west London, to sit empty, unmaintained, decaying? Answer: the Province of Ontario. But, they do have a plan, Queen’s Park applied for a demolition permit.

The City of London, concerned about the impending loss of yet another historic property, contacted Culture Minister Aileen Carroll. [...]

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The Hyland Needs You & You Need the Hyland

I’m worried. Last night my wife and I went to the Hyland Theatre to see One Week, an oh-so-Canadian film starring Vancouver-born Joshua Jackson, known to many for his recurring role in Dawson’s Creek. We enjoyed the movie, but then we like Canadian films – especially when they take you to a car-chase free zone. [...]

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