Summer Weekend To-Do List

This is about the height of my ambition and abilities for the next few days...

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N. Q. @ the Printers

Cheers!

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Almost Ready...

...just a few more things to check, recheck, sound check and triple check before we go to press...
Bert Riggs, our proofreader, being invaluable here. He knows the exact composition of the Newfoundland Regiment on July 1, 1916; the proper citations for all footnotes; when Napoleon was born. Doesn't have to look it up or anything. But he does. He checks.

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Production Deadline!

Got to get our copy to the printers on time!

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Back when my daughter was in elementary school, this time of year was known as "not sports day". As in the announcements on CBC Radio's Morning Show that sports day was cancelled, delayed, postponed due to day after consecutive day of drizzle and fog. From what I heard this morning, this grand tradition continues.
But that's not all that is happening. It is also time to embark on some gardening in Newfoundland. Now that the spring equinox has happened, or we've had forty-eight hours free of frost, or whatever the saying is, let us plant impatiens, asters and black-eyed susans, shining pink and yellow beacons in the fog.

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N. Q. @ CBC Radio

About a year ago, I was walking into work when who should I fall in step with but Ted Blades, host of CBC Radio's
On the Go. We chatted about this and chatted about that, and the upshot was Ted asked me to come on the air and talk about the new issue of the N. Q. Then then-mayor Andy Wells drove up and began to yell at Ted about something - but Ted did not forget this conversation and since then it has been a regular gig, and a regular thrill for me, to appear on the show. I'm getting ready to drop a photocopy of the proofs to him, so he can see what's up with the new magazine, and should be on the air in a week or ten days or so.

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And the Dance went on

Since yesterday's posting, I have not been able to get the tune Lord of the Dance out of my head. Not that that's such a bad thing, of course - this being in no way related to a Michael Flatley Production.
One year I attended an Armistice Day service at a local elementary school, and the children sang that song. They loved the song! The adults melted.

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