This one’s for Alma Boykin

  Alma’s a writer and blogger, and also a singer and a perpetrator of puns.  I think she’ll get several belly-laughs out of this list of musical terms, which appeared on MeWe yesterday. I can see her choir director doing a facepalm as Alma trots these out at the next rehearsal . . . Peter

A high-spirited end to the “Whisky War”

  It seems Canada and Denmark have ceased their good-natured “hostilities”. The prank war began after the countries convened to settle boundary disputes in the Nares Strait, a channel 35km (22 miles) wide of cold water separating Canada and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. In 1973 they struck a deal to create a border… Continue reading A high-spirited end to the “Whisky War”

Saturday Snippet: Canada through comedic eyes

  Geoff Hill, travel writer and humorist, visited Canada for three months, and wrote daily articles and commentaries for his editor back in Britain.  He later assembled them into a book titled “I could have been a stoker for a vertical wimple crimper“. They’re very funny, and I enjoyed reading them.  To whet your appetite,… Continue reading Saturday Snippet: Canada through comedic eyes