Posted by Dave Bull on April 22, 2016
Here's a real blast from the past, dug up by Simon. It's one page of the passenger list for the July 26, 1957 sailing of the Empress of Scotland, from Liverpool to Montreal.
This is pretty small, so you'll need to click it to bring up the large image (which may take a minute or so to download ...).
I see that according to this list, at the age of (still) 5, I found an occupation!
And while we're at it, let's put that address - 64 Richmond Road - into Google and see what it looks like these days:
... and digging a bit further, here's a screenshot from a realtor's page showing the recent prices for properties in that row:
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Posted by Dave Bull on March 19, 2016
I just received a newspaper clipping from the weekly Japanese-language newspaper in Vancouver ... a write-up on the demonstration at SFU the other day (click for enlargement):
Posted by Dave Bull on January 2, 2016
I got a wonderful New Year present in the email this morning ... An 'old friend' (she's not so old, compared to me ... :-) sent a couple of newspaper clippings from 1975.
They are from a newspaper in Salmon Arm, where we did a concert. There is a pre-concert publicity photo, and a post-concert review.
Good grief! Even back in 1975 somebody could write something like "... his usual excellent and amusing job ...". That just seems unbelievable to me; perhaps I wasn't such the dork that I remember ...
(If you want better closeups, you can get the original .pdf files: [photo] [review])
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Posted by Dave Bull on October 9, 2015
This photo just arrived from Germany … Is a certain un-named family member running a little side business over there?
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Posted by Dave Bull on April 29, 2014
Don't know how many of you remember the background here, but perhaps a look at this post from a few years back will remind you ...
Here's a snapshot of the balcony back then, after the 'haircut' operation to cut back the wisteria:
That's where it sat for a couple of years - with no gutter along that eave the rain has been free to pour straight down over the edge of the balcony, and I've recently been getting leaks in the kitchen, directly below. So with the rainy season now fast approaching, yesterday I finally decided to get this problem taken care of. I headed over to a builder's supply place across the river, and brought back (on my shoulder!) some new guttering and an assortment of parts and connectors.
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
I also picked up something else at the supply shop - a strong safety belt with a giant metal clip, the stuff that linemen wear when they are up the poles. I strapped myself into this, and kept it clipped to the strongest part of the balcony structure while I worked up there.
But even with that safety line hooked up securely, it was still pretty scary standing on the edge of that balcony fitting the gutter into place, with around a 10+ metre drop to the river below me. Even though your 'head' might know you are safe, your 'body' doesn't believe it ...
I have no photos of me up there doing this (unfortunately?), as because we're now in the Golden Week holiday season, there was nobody else here all day.
But anyway, it's finally done ... bring on the rain!
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Posted by Dave Bull on April 26, 2014
Posted by Dave Bull on February 15, 2014
Here's an early morning shot from the upstairs window:
... and then from the other side - down at the river:
I've never - never - seen it like this here, and all the locals are saying the same thing. This much snow, and twice in seven days, this is a first for everybody ...
We all got straight to work (again, luckily this is happening on a weekend ...). See that little thing sticking up in the snow to the right of the cleared path?
It's a 600mm scale ... showing about 560 in depth.
That's 22 inches ... And I didn't particularly try and find the deepest spot, so I think we can safely call this a 2-foot storm.
And here we are, a couple of hours later. Looking from my driveway to the right:
... and to the left:
Here's Hamanaka-san, the lady that runs the noodle shop:
She says "I did this part all by myself!" (And if you believe that ... she has a bowl of noodles she would like to sell you ...)
And this is early Sunday AM, before we got started on the next round of clearing and widening ...
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Posted by Dave Bull on February 14, 2014
You saw this photo here a few days ago:
That was the evening of the 8th ... By next afternoon (a Sunday, so everybody was around), we had it like this:
Today - nearly a week later - the ladies were here this morning for work as usual, but they all left early. Why?
They knew what was coming!
That was evening. Come around six in the morning, and it was difficult to open the front door:
Can you find my bike?
And it's still coming down ...
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