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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