Visited two of my favourite Canadian cities (it’s a short list 2/4 in 24 hours) Ottawa and Kingston as they both shook off the winter blahs and celebrated the season. Winter no matter how long is always too long in the mind of most Canadians and despite modern homes, central heating and non frozen pipes …
Winter rolls on. A storm, the worst of the winter so far (according to the forecast), is set to roll through Eastern Ontario in the next 24 hours or so. The old saw, “Red in the morning, sailors take warning..”, despite the fact we’ll see no sailors in these parts for at least a couple …
Well in the past seven days, winter certainly arrived here in Eastern Ontario. That it took until third week in January becoming more and more the norm these days. Another thing that is increasingly common, based entirely on anecdotal evidence is the roller coaster temperatures we seem to be experiencing on a near weekly basis. …