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tvordljWe took an early bus over to Halifax to see the Tattoo parade (mostly participants in the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo held here every year the first week of July). Because it was a holiday the busses were on a reduced schedule and I thought catching the 10 o'clock bus might have us missing the first part of the parade so we had to leave on the 9 o'clock one and kill some time. I didn't realize the parade was only going to last about 25 minutes! It was nice but I don't think I'd bother again. One group in the parade was carrying a rainbow sign and flag, Tattoo for Orlando and that was touching to see. It is nice to see the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their dress red uniform and I do like to hear the massed Pipe and Drum bands. Unfortunately, though i did take of movie of the pipe band, I deleted it accidentally when i reformatted my memory card after copying the files in the photo folder to my hard drive. In my last camera, all the files including video were always in the one folder. This one has video separately! Doh!
We walked around on the waterfront for a bit, checking out the Ribfest but didn't eat there. It was a bit too early for lunch at that point. We sat on a bench in the shade for a bit and people watched which was fun. Lots of people were wearing red for Canada Day in addition to other silly things like hats and other ornaments and a few people wore the flag as a cape. Lots of flags and canada related tshirts and things. I did wear red though didn't bring my little flag.
We had lunch at a restaurant on the waterfront that had people queuing up for tables on the patio but the inside was almost empty. We sat inside. Air conditioning has a lot to offer! Back across to Dartmouth on the ferry which was free yesterday. Naturally it was so packed we didn't make it on the first boat. I was all for turning around and going for the bus but one of my friends from work saw us and we ended up sticking with them while waiting and on the boat. The ferry was running every 15 minutes at least, which was unexpected as normally a Sunday/holiday schedule is half hour-ly but for the waterfront events I suppose it was increased. We didn't go back down for the fireworks in the end later on though. All that messing about for 10 minutes of fireworks.
Going to do a bit of shopping today with Mom. My sister's birthday is next week and we need a few groceries. We ran out of a few things all at the same time! Feeding two seems to mean a lot more trips to the grocery store than when I was feeding just me, but on the other hand, we're eating proper meals most of the time which I wasn't really doing as much on my own. We also want to go to a movie this weekend so that will be tomorrow. I took part in a deal through Cineplex where you could buy a movie pass for a certain number of movies over the summer. Saved about 3 or 4 dollars per movie that way which is a decent saving. I bought the 4 pack and it works out to about 9 dollars a movie with all the taxes included. A regular movie is about 11 plus 15% tax per person. We are planning to see the new Independence Day this weekend. We have until the end of September to use the passes.
More books:
Deafening by Frances Itani
Story about a deaf woman in the early part of the 20th century. A sort of "sister" book to one about the deaf girl's sister and though I liked this one, I liked the other one more.
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
A hunchback Lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, in the 1540s undertakes a case to find a deadly weapon called Dark Fire/Greek Fire for Cromwell who is desperate to keep on King Henry's good side after his latest marriage to Anne of Cleves has been a disaster. Shardlake is also tasked to try to get a young woman off a murder charge but she won't speak in her defence. It's one of a series of books with the lawyer and I like that time period. I liked it and will probably look for more.
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
A single woman who owns a bookshop in 1962 falls asleep and lives the life of another woman, similar to her, but with a different life. She's married and has several children. The other life seems much more appealing and she continues to dream about it but the other life also has it's challenges and you start to realize that one of the timelines might not be real but which one? Sort of a twist in a way on the movie Sliding Doors where one thing that might have turned out different 10 years before would have changed her life.
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Didn't really like this one too much. Young woman runs away from an abusive father to a small town, marries a man with a daughter and has one of her own. The step daughter is taken to live with a relative and when her own daughter is born, it's discovered that her husband's family has African blood. This is in the late 50s early 60s so there's more impact when it's discovered. We hear from the woman's point of view, then her daughter's and back to the woman's. and then there's another twist near the end that seemed very out of place and needless. There's a bit of fairy tale atmosphere to it and I don't really get a lot of that kind of thing.
Just about finished these two so will add them as well
Away by Jane Urquhart
An Irish woman gets spellbound by a drowned sailor and seems to be "enchanted" or as the locals believe, she's "away" from herself. Eventually marries, they move to Ontario and start a new life during the IRish Famine in the 1840s. The story continues with her son and daughter. I would have liked it more but the language, while she's very lyrical and poetic, just seems to go on and on for the sake of all the "beautiful" writing at the expense of the storyline.
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
Jazz era Paris and Harris Stuyvesant, investigator, is being paid to find a young American girl who's gone missing. He ends up snarled in a crime where a lot of missing people may all have been related to the same perpetrator. Enjoying it.
We walked around on the waterfront for a bit, checking out the Ribfest but didn't eat there. It was a bit too early for lunch at that point. We sat on a bench in the shade for a bit and people watched which was fun. Lots of people were wearing red for Canada Day in addition to other silly things like hats and other ornaments and a few people wore the flag as a cape. Lots of flags and canada related tshirts and things. I did wear red though didn't bring my little flag.
We had lunch at a restaurant on the waterfront that had people queuing up for tables on the patio but the inside was almost empty. We sat inside. Air conditioning has a lot to offer! Back across to Dartmouth on the ferry which was free yesterday. Naturally it was so packed we didn't make it on the first boat. I was all for turning around and going for the bus but one of my friends from work saw us and we ended up sticking with them while waiting and on the boat. The ferry was running every 15 minutes at least, which was unexpected as normally a Sunday/holiday schedule is half hour-ly but for the waterfront events I suppose it was increased. We didn't go back down for the fireworks in the end later on though. All that messing about for 10 minutes of fireworks.
Going to do a bit of shopping today with Mom. My sister's birthday is next week and we need a few groceries. We ran out of a few things all at the same time! Feeding two seems to mean a lot more trips to the grocery store than when I was feeding just me, but on the other hand, we're eating proper meals most of the time which I wasn't really doing as much on my own. We also want to go to a movie this weekend so that will be tomorrow. I took part in a deal through Cineplex where you could buy a movie pass for a certain number of movies over the summer. Saved about 3 or 4 dollars per movie that way which is a decent saving. I bought the 4 pack and it works out to about 9 dollars a movie with all the taxes included. A regular movie is about 11 plus 15% tax per person. We are planning to see the new Independence Day this weekend. We have until the end of September to use the passes.
More books:
Deafening by Frances Itani
Story about a deaf woman in the early part of the 20th century. A sort of "sister" book to one about the deaf girl's sister and though I liked this one, I liked the other one more.
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
A hunchback Lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, in the 1540s undertakes a case to find a deadly weapon called Dark Fire/Greek Fire for Cromwell who is desperate to keep on King Henry's good side after his latest marriage to Anne of Cleves has been a disaster. Shardlake is also tasked to try to get a young woman off a murder charge but she won't speak in her defence. It's one of a series of books with the lawyer and I like that time period. I liked it and will probably look for more.
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
A single woman who owns a bookshop in 1962 falls asleep and lives the life of another woman, similar to her, but with a different life. She's married and has several children. The other life seems much more appealing and she continues to dream about it but the other life also has it's challenges and you start to realize that one of the timelines might not be real but which one? Sort of a twist in a way on the movie Sliding Doors where one thing that might have turned out different 10 years before would have changed her life.
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Didn't really like this one too much. Young woman runs away from an abusive father to a small town, marries a man with a daughter and has one of her own. The step daughter is taken to live with a relative and when her own daughter is born, it's discovered that her husband's family has African blood. This is in the late 50s early 60s so there's more impact when it's discovered. We hear from the woman's point of view, then her daughter's and back to the woman's. and then there's another twist near the end that seemed very out of place and needless. There's a bit of fairy tale atmosphere to it and I don't really get a lot of that kind of thing.
Just about finished these two so will add them as well
Away by Jane Urquhart
An Irish woman gets spellbound by a drowned sailor and seems to be "enchanted" or as the locals believe, she's "away" from herself. Eventually marries, they move to Ontario and start a new life during the IRish Famine in the 1840s. The story continues with her son and daughter. I would have liked it more but the language, while she's very lyrical and poetic, just seems to go on and on for the sake of all the "beautiful" writing at the expense of the storyline.
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
Jazz era Paris and Harris Stuyvesant, investigator, is being paid to find a young American girl who's gone missing. He ends up snarled in a crime where a lot of missing people may all have been related to the same perpetrator. Enjoying it.
