Category Archives: .HODGE PODGE

This section is a collection of various bits and pieces that do not fit into the other categories readily but they may be of interest.

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  • Hodge Podge: Making my site easier to navigate
  • COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE REMEMBRANCE
  • FALL FOLIAGE: A short drive away if you live in the Greater Toronto Area
  • HODGE PODGE: The way neighbourhoods should be !
  • HODGE PODGE: Driving the Eastern Townships Quebec, a mini tour
  • SAVE $$$$ on your hotels and restaurant travel expenses
  • HEALTH (BRAIN): *** Adults using Internet regularly lower their risk of dementia ***
  • HODGE PODGE: Jimmie Buffett’s passing jogs thoughts about life
  • SENIORS: Include access to your DIGITAL ASSETS in your ESTATE PLANNING
  • HODGE PODGE: Granny’s 10 frugality tips
  • HODGE PODGE: A very useful tool displaying ‘crime hotspots’ in the Durham Region
  • PICKERING: I keep telling them….”SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY”
  • HODGE PODGE: “1%ers” – are you one of the lucky 1%?
  • HODGE PODGE: Bill Haley and the Comets UPDATED
  • HODGE PODGE: Planning a ROAD TRIP Holiday this year?
  • The Geste of Lord Dougie and vassals John & Pete
  • Hodge Podge: Respect and appreciation of Canadian citizenship diminishing
  • EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS – Durham- PRIMARY LIST
  • HODGE PODGE: new additions to your vocabulary!
  • Celebrating WOMEN
  • Caught with your tires down?
  • Introduction Fulford
  • Maclean’s editor, Sarah Fulford, introduces the CRISIS story
  • Pickering Remembrance Day event
  • EDITORIAL: REMEMBRANCE DAY
  • Possibly oversimplifying Arnold’s message
  • Beware the sleeping dragon !!
  • Learn gender-specific terminology
  • Click –> ‘FILL ER UP, ITALIAN STYLE’
  • 5 Best SEARCHES on BOOKz COOKz NOOKz
  • Fermo poses
  • DONATION INFORMATION
  • latest update on the CANCER Road…
  • Courtney Park Writers Group
  • Canada invited to becoming the next USA state
  • READERS DIGEST: xenophobic bias against CANADA
  • Shaded lawn problems…
  • previous SMILEY BITS
  • OLD
  • On AGEING
  • pervert !!!>?#$!!
  • Passover
  • Easter
  • CAMPAIGN PLATFORMS
  • Andrew Tumilty, political pundit
  • ELECTIONS CENTRAL, 2022
  • MUMBLER at the LCBO
  • SUPPORTERS
  • Protected: WRITERS TOOL KIT
  • NOTEZILLA
  • OLD TEACHERS
  • AGEISM: Ignoring the old
  • Moira Welsh, “Wife of long-term-care home resident banned from visiting.”
  • Great Irish sayings for St. Paddy’s day….
  • A shortcut to important phone numbers
  • Cheryl Bristow
  • FUNERAL PRE-PLANNING
  • You’re #1 in Big Boy Ford’s heart !
  • Ginger Kuenzel
  • Get off the road!! Is it time someone in your family should no longer be driving?
  • Eva Henn
  • LESLYN LEWIS
  • Are “Robotphones” driving you crazy?
  • Maria Telkes
  • Celebrate WOMEN
  • EMMA GIRARDI
  • Mary Simon
  • STATE OF TERROR, a collaboration that works outstandingly, Hillary Clinton & Louise Penny
  • Text Blaze: insert text at a click of keyboard
  • VIRTUAL MEETINGS – like cutting softened butter with a hot knife
  • Councillor candidates to fill the WARD 2 vacancy
  • The two nuns sipped some grappa and….
  • Two senior nuns in Italy taught me the brutal truth about life….
  • Teachers: the Olympic champions of all professions
  • So I was responding to an email today….
  • Notes about the Markham Concert Band Seasonal Celebration performance.
  • handels messiah
  • Anti VAXXERS CHRISTMAS TREE
  • A Covid Christmas
  • MALLS, going once, going twice, gone !
  • A Christmas poem for the little ones by Kathleen Gauer
  • testing
  • RACISM: Alive and Well in Pickering, Durham and Ontario
  • Failed first attempt but spring 2022 will see Indigenous crosswalk success
  • Tributes to Councillor Ian Cumming
  • Halloween fun for the old and young kids !!!
  • A NEW WAY TO CARJACK
  • The older I get….
  • Truth and Reconciliation
  • Why I avoid using FACEBOOK
  • Are you a SNOWBIRD?
  • The wisdom of George Carlin
  • Pickering hits the big time: Guinness Book of Records
  • An excellent summary for comparing the major party platforms in the compaign
  • A bit of Black History…
  • WAYS TO VOTE
  • PRODUCTIVITY – I found the HOLY GRAIL
  • Thinking of voting Trudeau
  • Where is she now?
  • Thank you Olympic athletes of Canada and of the world
  • Born before June 30/47, Fed govt is giving you $500 during Aug 16-21
  • Here’s a politician with balls!
  • Trudeau
  • All European church bells rang at noon today thanks to Hungarian bravery and courage centuries ago
  • My name is ….
  • CANADA DAY commentary by Canadian writers
  • Councillor’s anti-racism motion passed by Pickering Council
  • JUNETEENTH: What is it? We all need to celebrate it.
  • Kathleen Gauer: Another childrens’ book author awarded
  • Press release from the Pickering ISLAMIC Centre
  • Tony Burman…bon voyage sir !
  • Get a free cookbook and support our immigrants
  • Aging well together: MAY 2021 newsletter
  • Some wise words from an old farmer
  • Some thoughts about corporate selfishness during the pandemic
  • 10 Ways You Should Be Using Vinegar in Your Garden
  • World House Prices: Canada will shock you
  • Premier FORD & CONSERVATIVES = Chaos, contradiction, confusion
  • FACEBOOK disclaimer
  • A very interesting read about Israel
  • Followup to Archbishop Collins’ request for review of COVID capacity restrictions on religious gatherings
  • How Americans view their own country?
  • How I work