We are in Ottawa for the March for Life on Thursday.
The tulips are in bloom:
So are the groundhogs:
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The Frozen North
A Day at the Aquarium
Geese galore
A few years back I was visiting my old home town of Cardiff. During a stroll to Roath Park Lake, I was rewarded by the sight of a couple of Canada geese bobbing cheerfully in the water. They were imported from Canada, a local informed me. Obviously no one had bothered to tell the keepers of the lake that Canada geese reproduce – quickly.
Here they are in Oakville:
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Along the Pacific coast
Waikato
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort.
And here is a piece of prime hobbit real estate: Bag-End.
The tree on top of Bag-End is fake and was assembled by hand at the cost of around $800,000 – so we were informed:
Samwise Gamgee’s house, 1 Bagshot Row:
The Green Dragon where I had some stout:
If anyone is wondering what keeps the sheep out (there are a lot of sheep here), it is the electric fence:
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Byron Bay
Byron Bay is a sanctuary for hippies – many of them ageing. I feel quite at home.
Whales that were a long way out:
The most Easterly point of Australia:
A bluebottle jellyfish. They sting; they also pop when you step on them:
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The only thing that could persuade me to spend 23 hours in an aluminium tube 7 miles up in the air
Spring
Has arrived in Oakville.
The Goldfinches are yellow:
And, although the tulips had not bloomed in Ottawa due, we were told, to the extremely cold winter (the insidious result of global warming, of course), they are now blooming here:
