This week, we are living between two houses. Next week, we should be able to move the heavy furniture and sleep in Middleton. Today’s achievement was to arrange with Bell Aliant for the transfer of phone, TV and Internet service to the new house..
Between the moves, I have been reading three books. The first, I picked up at the Clarence Sunday market, is Inside, an anthology of writing collected during the COVID-19 pandemic on the theme of isolation from writers on the South Shore of Nova Scotia and beyond.
The second, recommended by Edward Wedler, Ronald Rubin Against the Tides. Reshaping landscape and community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands. It arrived this week through Interlibrary loan.
The third, recommended by Peter, my brother. Edgelands: a Journey into England’s True Wilderness by Paul Farley and Michael Simmonds Roberts.
This morning, we celebrated Heather’s birthday: an early breakfast at the Green Elephant Cafe in Kingston. blueberry Waffle and an English breakfast. This was followed by more U-Haul boxes of collectables to the new house.
Postscript
Finished the Cryptoquote in today’s The Bridgetown Reader (July 12) ‘Life Goal’.
‘I had this problem work or starve so I thought I’d combine the two and decided to become a Writer,’ Robert Bloch.
References
Inside. Thoughts from a Pandemic. 2022. Nevermore Press with South Shore Public Libraries
Ronald Rubin. 2021. Against the Tides. Reshaping Landscape and Community in Canada’s Maritime Marshlands. UBC Press.
Paul Farley and Michael Simmons Roberts. 2012. Edgelands: Journey into England’s True Wilderness. Vintage Books.
Ernest Blair Experiment 