The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident. -Hugh Walpole, writer (13 Mar 1884-1941)
Wow! Sofie's diagnosis! [Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quarantined Thursday after his wife, Sophie Trudeau, tested positive for the coronavirus.] I'm was listening to Justin being interviewed on The Current and now have CBC TV coverage on, as I scribe. These rapidly unfolding developments are hitting quite close to home. That being said, life continues to unfold rather normally, [other than No Kissing and shoulder bumping! Lady Dar is a in this regard!], with our social calendar.
Must away as I have an appointment for a massage, [They have really helped since having shoulder surgery and my therapist is a wonderful young man, from Winnipeg, so we ave plenty of things in common. Chloë sees him as well, so he knows all about Rowan James!], and then I'm taking Chloë/RJ shopping while Lady Dar has luncheon at The Wine Cellar on Main Street! Life of the hoi aristoi as compared to the indentured servants! Buona Fortuna with travel plans.
Wow! Sofie's diagnosis! [Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quarantined Thursday after his wife, Sophie Trudeau, tested positive for the coronavirus.] I'm was listening to Justin being interviewed on The Current and now have CBC TV coverage on, as I scribe. These rapidly unfolding developments are hitting quite close to home. That being said, life continues to unfold rather normally, [other than No Kissing and shoulder bumping! Lady Dar is a in this regard!], with our social calendar.
Must away as I have an appointment for a massage, [They have really helped since having shoulder surgery and my therapist is a wonderful young man, from Winnipeg, so we ave plenty of things in common. Chloë sees him as well, so he knows all about Rowan James!], and then I'm taking Chloë/RJ shopping while Lady Dar has luncheon at The Wine Cellar on Main Street! Life of the hoi aristoi as compared to the indentured servants! Buona Fortuna with travel plans.
Lens on Lent and Corona: Hello LoL People! This is not something I looked forward to doing, but here we are…Numbers of cancellations and postponements seem to be increasing almost hourly. These now include activities within our own Oasis. So, it seems that we have little choice but to follow. Lens on Lent 2020 is now on hold. Weeks 3 through 6 will not happen, at least for now. We will decide later if and how we will continue. For now, my thanks to all who signed up and supported us. And my sincere thanks to those who have assisted in so many ways. Hopefully we will be able to continue soon. If you need to contact me for clarification, please email. Sincerely, Jim French Thanks for the update! xon Nancy Hi James! Sorry to hear about postponement but certainly understand. Just wondering if you still have Harriet as we are both keen to see it. Not a big deal but thought I'd ask. When either of you have a moment please let me know and we'll plan accordingly. Thanks and Cheers, Patrizzio!
Hi Hyper-Critic! Thanks for good wishes for Rowan James/Chloë and Los Horridos in Tinsel Town. While I find it rather ironic, not to say laughable, that you accuse me of being Rip Van Winkle, it seems to me that you are the one "sleeping" your life away, not able to even lift a finger to reply to an Open House invitation, sent in 2019, until a week ago!
That being said, I was most impressed with the speed of your reply to my reply. Guilt! Shame! Guilt! Nevertheless, you seem to have the Covid-19 nail on the head with your remarks about Costoc and VPL, etc. You are also right about The Green Book but that was an embedded error to see if you actually pay attention to my missives, whether malt-drenched or not!
Am pleased to learn that you and Jessica Jones are still laughing/arguing your lives away. Welcome to relationship bliss. Wouldn't have it any other way, say I, Zorg, from the mouth of my Neanderthal cave! With respect to latest travel restrictions just heard from Jo-Anne Naslund, former colleague at UBC who was in Toronto for a week or so. Many of the events she and her husband were planning to attend were cancelled. They saw the opera on Thursday and rest of performances have now been cancelled! Her youngest son, John, and partner, Yulin, are in Paris, for a series of meetings/conferences, and all were cancelled. As of her writing it was unclear if the international flights from Europe, given recent travel bans Trump just imposed for US, would allow them to return to Boston. They both work at Harvard and it is, more or less, closed! Given this, they were trying to see if they could fly to Vancouver. However, with recent travel restrictions just announced by Trudeau, [Let alone Sofie's diagnosis! (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quarantined Thursday after his wife, Sophie Trudeau, tested positive for the coronavirus.) I was listening to Justin being interviewed on The Current and then to CBC TV coverage as I scribed earlier this morning.], I am now wondering if they will even be allowed to land there? If so, will there be mandatory quarantine restrictions? So many, many unanswered questions!
These rapidly unfolding developments, [various newscasters can barely keep up with breaking releases!], are hitting quite close to home, inasmuch as we have a very good friend, currently on tour with Bach Choir, now in Philadelphia, who is supposed to visit us at the end of next week. Just had a message from him and he is not sure, as of this writing, what the future holds. He may well have to return directly to London. This reminds me of the SARS outbreak, in 2003, when I was on sabbatical in Australia. Lady Dar had been with me for six weeks but I remained for another month or so, [part of sabbatical], to work on my research project. Our flights went through Singapore and I had planned to spend a week there, on return leg, to explore the city and surrounding countryside. I wasn't worried about myself, per se, but was worried about Mom, perhaps infecting her, akin to Jo-Anne's own recent concerns regarding visiting her 94 year old father, in Edmonton, on way back from Toronto!
In the end I was able to book a return flight through Seoul. Had to pay around $100, or more, can't really remember, to extend my Australian visa, for two or three weeks, as most of the flights were already fully booked for same reasons! One of the benefits was that I spent the day in Seoul with the son of a close friend who was teaching there for a year. He gave me a wonderful overview of the city. Would love to go back to see more of it and the country, of course. [Even more of a pull as we just finished watching final episodes of Saimdang: Memoir of Colors, on Netflix, last night, after coming home from seeing the movie/having dinner last night.
Furthermore, this calls into question our planned driving trip to LA in early May, to attend Pierre's graduation, from Engineering. At the moment all campus classes have been cancelled and are only offered on-line. Whether this will affect actual graduation, in terms of completed course work, exams passed, etc., and/or the physical graduation ceremony itself, remains to be seen. As you know, travel south has been restricted. Looking even further ahead, we are currently in the planning stage for a trip to Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, with close friends, this coming September. We haven't yet booked any flights, tours or hotels so that is not a worry. However, given what is happening, [and can only become worse in the foreseeable future], to the world economy, it simply may not be prudent to incur the considerable expense of such travel, especially when we are facing bearing most of the costs for the basement suite we are helping Chloë put in her townhouse, in great good part to help her "survive" as a single parent, and on maternity leave, let alone in the face of a recession.
At any rate, I/We feel we will be able to weather this current crisis, better than so many others, of course, given our financial/housing situation, so are grateful for that, it goes without saying. Still, certainly not something that we could ever have imagined when we all wished in 2020!
That being said, life continues to unfold rather normally, [other than No Kissing, replaced by shoulder bumping! Lady Dar is a Nazi in this regard!], with various events on our social calendar. This morning I had an appointment for a massage, [They have really helped since having shoulder surgery and my therapist is a wonderful young man, from Winnipeg, so we ave plenty of things in common. Chloë sees him as well, so he knows all about Rowan James!], and then I took Chloë/RJ shopping while Lady Dar had luncheon at The Wine Cellar on Main Street! Life of the hoi aristoi as compared to the indentured servants! No toilet paper, either at SuperStore or Wholesale Club. Lucky we receive plenty of advertising fliers as no Eaton's catalogues for the outhouse anymore! [I can remember one hanging in the outhouse at the bottom of my grandparent's lot when we visited them in the early 1950's, near Brandon, Manitoba. They never had indoor plumbing until 1959! According to Wikipedia: This "Canadian symbol" was used for such diverse purposes as shin pads, home insulation, and outhouse toilet paper.
That being said, I was most impressed with the speed of your reply to my reply. Guilt! Shame! Guilt! Nevertheless, you seem to have the Covid-19 nail on the head with your remarks about Costoc and VPL, etc. You are also right about The Green Book but that was an embedded error to see if you actually pay attention to my missives, whether malt-drenched or not!
Am pleased to learn that you and Jessica Jones are still laughing/arguing your lives away. Welcome to relationship bliss. Wouldn't have it any other way, say I, Zorg, from the mouth of my Neanderthal cave! With respect to latest travel restrictions just heard from Jo-Anne Naslund, former colleague at UBC who was in Toronto for a week or so. Many of the events she and her husband were planning to attend were cancelled. They saw the opera on Thursday and rest of performances have now been cancelled! Her youngest son, John, and partner, Yulin, are in Paris, for a series of meetings/conferences, and all were cancelled. As of her writing it was unclear if the international flights from Europe, given recent travel bans Trump just imposed for US, would allow them to return to Boston. They both work at Harvard and it is, more or less, closed! Given this, they were trying to see if they could fly to Vancouver. However, with recent travel restrictions just announced by Trudeau, [Let alone Sofie's diagnosis! (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quarantined Thursday after his wife, Sophie Trudeau, tested positive for the coronavirus.) I was listening to Justin being interviewed on The Current and then to CBC TV coverage as I scribed earlier this morning.], I am now wondering if they will even be allowed to land there? If so, will there be mandatory quarantine restrictions? So many, many unanswered questions!
These rapidly unfolding developments, [various newscasters can barely keep up with breaking releases!], are hitting quite close to home, inasmuch as we have a very good friend, currently on tour with Bach Choir, now in Philadelphia, who is supposed to visit us at the end of next week. Just had a message from him and he is not sure, as of this writing, what the future holds. He may well have to return directly to London. This reminds me of the SARS outbreak, in 2003, when I was on sabbatical in Australia. Lady Dar had been with me for six weeks but I remained for another month or so, [part of sabbatical], to work on my research project. Our flights went through Singapore and I had planned to spend a week there, on return leg, to explore the city and surrounding countryside. I wasn't worried about myself, per se, but was worried about Mom, perhaps infecting her, akin to Jo-Anne's own recent concerns regarding visiting her 94 year old father, in Edmonton, on way back from Toronto!
In the end I was able to book a return flight through Seoul. Had to pay around $100, or more, can't really remember, to extend my Australian visa, for two or three weeks, as most of the flights were already fully booked for same reasons! One of the benefits was that I spent the day in Seoul with the son of a close friend who was teaching there for a year. He gave me a wonderful overview of the city. Would love to go back to see more of it and the country, of course. [Even more of a pull as we just finished watching final episodes of Saimdang: Memoir of Colors, on Netflix, last night, after coming home from seeing the movie/having dinner last night.
Furthermore, this calls into question our planned driving trip to LA in early May, to attend Pierre's graduation, from Engineering. At the moment all campus classes have been cancelled and are only offered on-line. Whether this will affect actual graduation, in terms of completed course work, exams passed, etc., and/or the physical graduation ceremony itself, remains to be seen. As you know, travel south has been restricted. Looking even further ahead, we are currently in the planning stage for a trip to Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, with close friends, this coming September. We haven't yet booked any flights, tours or hotels so that is not a worry. However, given what is happening, [and can only become worse in the foreseeable future], to the world economy, it simply may not be prudent to incur the considerable expense of such travel, especially when we are facing bearing most of the costs for the basement suite we are helping Chloë put in her townhouse, in great good part to help her "survive" as a single parent, and on maternity leave, let alone in the face of a recession.
At any rate, I/We feel we will be able to weather this current crisis, better than so many others, of course, given our financial/housing situation, so are grateful for that, it goes without saying. Still, certainly not something that we could ever have imagined when we all wished in 2020!
That being said, life continues to unfold rather normally, [other than No Kissing, replaced by shoulder bumping! Lady Dar is a Nazi in this regard!], with various events on our social calendar. This morning I had an appointment for a massage, [They have really helped since having shoulder surgery and my therapist is a wonderful young man, from Winnipeg, so we ave plenty of things in common. Chloë sees him as well, so he knows all about Rowan James!], and then I took Chloë/RJ shopping while Lady Dar had luncheon at The Wine Cellar on Main Street! Life of the hoi aristoi as compared to the indentured servants! No toilet paper, either at SuperStore or Wholesale Club. Lucky we receive plenty of advertising fliers as no Eaton's catalogues for the outhouse anymore! [I can remember one hanging in the outhouse at the bottom of my grandparent's lot when we visited them in the early 1950's, near Brandon, Manitoba. They never had indoor plumbing until 1959! According to Wikipedia: This "Canadian symbol" was used for such diverse purposes as shin pads, home insulation, and outhouse toilet paper.
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