with

18 — Sunday, February =, 1997 - North Shore News

A happy return to the
the healthy

land of

-conclusion that the happiest

_ flu. At least T hope the
past tense is the right
one.

-+ It struck in the dying days

of the old month and held
tight right through the fol-
lowing week, but I am hop-
‘ing Ihave now scen the last
of it. I had done nothing to
encourage the visit so I guess
it was just my turn.

_It was not what you'd cali.

“‘a pleasant interlude of being
‘waited on, I have to tell you.
“It,Wwas total disharmony

etween body and inclina-
‘tion.’ Avoid ‘its tenancy at all
costs.‘ Drink lots of fluids and
think positively, and keep

ur. f dry, os:
*- Now that I’ve surfaced, I.
tealize what I’ve missed —

- unable to read a newspaper
.for the. entire time; too inert
6 think beautifal thoughts,

out company other than
‘that of my long-suffering
+ husband, who is'quite fed up

with the whole thing. -

*/: But Tam.an inveterate
clipper and could turn to my
Jittle cache. of clippings of
things that themselves aren’t

*.. Svorth’a column but they will

i. provide my_lesson for today.
...One of them, for instance,
~ has to do with someone’s

people in Canada are widows,
who have kicked over the
traces at last — no more
cooking, no more indulging
the old codger. They are now
reported as “very satisfied”
with their new quality of life.

Like teenagers escaped to
college or wherever, who
only do the dishes when
there is nothing left to eat
off. Good grief.

Then there is a message
from the British, who had the
Royal Institute of
International Affairs look into
the future for them, getting
back the report ther the

“ T had done
nothing to
encourage the
visit (from the
flu bug) so I
guess it was just
“my turn. ”

 fature will become a rat race

where only some rats will sur-

- vive. Was that not becoming °

obvious even to the layman?
_ Then the lovely story .

about the Chinese and their

new Visa cards, a story that

- would break any merchandis-

er’s flinty heart. Twelve mil-
tion people in China now

_ carry them, but most have no

access to merchants who
accept them. A real modern

" horror story.

Kids who play minor
hockey are now, rather late in

the day, being assured, or
perhaps it is their parents
who are being mollified, thar
all coaches of young players
will be vetted. Hrammm.
That’s a real can of worms.
As the article says, there
are all sorts of occasions for
transgressions against young
kids, not just at hockey rinks
but in choirs and Boy Scout
associations and in the gym-
nasiums. Children need to
talk, but adults are mostly no
good with that particular
topic. We're a funny bunch.
Last in my little pile of
clippings is a report of a
Burnaby chap whom some-
one tipped off as housing ille-
gal weapons. It made me
ugh, rather — the list
included 15’handguns, 12
rifles, one of them an AK-47
assault rifle; and a rocket
launcher, to say nothing of
thousands of rounds o
ammunition. : girthood
I thought of my gi
and the ooh cache, ~
and of the time he shot his
bed. Well, sure, he didn’t
know it was loaded, but for
this to happen under that
man’s control was phenome-
nal. He was not one to make
errors.

. He hadn’t got the arsenal
of this local fellow, maybe
three or four rifles, several
hand-guns, and this time of
year he needed them in order
to keep our larder in good
order with grouse and deer
meat.

The Burnaby chap is
probably simply a romantic, -
longing for the wild and
woolly which has gone the
way of a lot of what we used
to call freedom.

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