Yesterday, Heather and I had lunch at the pub in Middleton with old friends, who live in Annapolis County.
A couple of topics arose:
1). Did I realize that if I wanted to visit England, I would have to renew my British passport to enter the country of my birth?
2) Given my interest in ‘Geography and Place’, had I read William Bird’s book ‘Off trail in Nova Scotia’? Published in 1956.
No, but I stopped at the Middleton Library and made an inter-library loan request. There is a copy in Cape Breton (now a collectible book).
Today, we needed to go for a walk. We selected the French Basin Trail in Annapolis Royal. There was a cool breeze off the Basin (see also Annapolis Royal Visit).
Afterwards, we stopped at the Historic Gardens café. Today (Saturday) was the cafe opening for the season.
Yesterday, we needed to purchase Valley Kitchen pancake mix.
I had noted in The Reader, Howard Selig’s one page advertisement, that retail sales will be discontinued at 188 Marshall St. Effective June 5th; still available at the Independent grocery store.
By way of contrast, today’s Chronicle Herald ( Saturday, May 30th. A1) contains several articles on the theme of Energy Transition.
‘Over the coming decades Nova Scotia is going to onshore much of its power via a hard turn to wind, potentially locally fracked natural gas, biomass, solar and imports from neighbouring provinces.
The environmental and human impacts of energy products that we’d tacitly exported over recent decades will also be coming home, but everything will come at a cost – to communities, to the natural world and to our pocket books’.
Sounds like there will be a need for Geographers at the local level — the Centre of Geographic Sciences, for example!
Ernest Blair Experiment 