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Snow free in December.
Bought s boneless leg of lamb and a turkey
breast to carry me over Christmas and the New Year. Otherwise it
will be soup, fish and pasta for my other meals.
I still like a cooked breakfast like
toasted bacon or sausage sandwich. On Sunday still enjoy bacon, sausage,
eggs, tomato and either haggis or black pudding and hash browns.
Sometimes have a sliced square sausage roll and/or scrambled egg roll
depending on how I feel.
I still enjoy a curry and rice but
usually just once a month. I will have a vegetarian pizza
once a month.
In Scotland I would have a small pork
pie for lunch every other week but the pork pies are hard to find in
Canada and are usually terrible so not something I have now.
Again in Scotland I would have a
butchers steak pie but no butcher in Canada makes them. Obviously
very lazy in Canada. I do get the odd Scotch pie with beans and
fries and will also have haggis, neeps and tatties once a month. Also
mince and tatties every other month.
Of course I will have
steak, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and make my own vegetable soup in
the winter.
So that's my eating habits these days,
I still only take one cup of coffee and a diet coke most days along with
that pint of water I now take. I almost never eat out apart from picking
up fish and chips from the local chippie (Fricks). I don't
visit any of the fast food outlets for coffee or anything to eat.
I might just add that
almost all grocery stores in Chatham you can now order from online and
get home delivery. Sobeys is the only exception and that used to be my favourite store but it's now been two years since I've shopped with
them. The Dutch Market closed but their Sarnia store is still open but
you can now order a home delivery by phoning in your order so still able
to order my smoked back bacon from them.
Got a new free fridge due to the scheme
running in Ontario to save on fossil fuel. My one was 20 years old and
worked just fine but figured the new one might be a safer bet although
they only offer a 1 year warranty. It's the same brand as my old
fridge so hopefully it will see me out. (Fridigaire)
I really need a new notebook computer
but the thought of having to install all my software and knowing some of
it won't work keeps delaying a decision.
I had an issue with Cogecco, my local
Internet provider. I have a business account so meant to get next
day call out but this time the phone tech said it would take 5 days and
then it was delayed another day due to holidays. As usual the
problem was down to issues with Cogecco and they say due to holidays it
will take 6 days to resolve. Mind you I still have access but just
very slow.
Wars continue for Ukraine and Israel
and now Sudan is having a civil war with more deaths there than in Gaza.
The world is in a real mess these days
with no compromise being shown by anyone.
I feel Parents are to blame for most of
it as they don't discipline their children which is seeing teachers
under attack in schools and general bad behavior all over the place.
I noted with great interest the number of gay people supporting Hamas
who don't seem to realise that if they were in Gaza they'd be put to
death for being Gay.
A number of very wealthy universities
have allowed anti-Semitic demonstrations and personal intimidation to be
carried out on campus. I'm pleased to see some major businesses saying
not to apply to them for a job as they won't hire anyone from their
university. Harvard was forced to accept the resignation of their
President which was good news and some other Presidents are being called
to account for their attitudes.
Today you can earn more from taking out
an apprenticeship than most university degrees will pay.
I note volcanic action is taking place
in Iceland. In January we got
snow at last. Several inches fell over a 2 week period.
I visited J & E Meats in Couton which
is about a 30 minutes drive from Chatham. They do deliver so might
well take that option in future. Essentially they raise their own beef
and lamb and it was the lamb I was particularly interested in as it's
hard to find it in this area. I got a variety of their products
like liver which was good, beef bacon which was also good, beef sausage
which was too spicy which I didn't enjoy. Also purchased a chicken
pie and a Mississippi pie which is a meat pie. They were frozen. So to
date I've tried the chicken pie which was rather bland so won't be
buying that one again. I also got a leg of lamb steak which was
very good. Got some steaks and chicken thighs which I have still
to try.
The Ukraine/Russia war continues albeit
not getting so much coverage due to the Israel/Gaza war where Hamas has
shown they spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a huge tunnel
infrastructure. You can't help but think that it they'd spent that money
to improve the country and the life of its citizens things would be much
better. Essentially Hamas are
evil people being funded by the Iranian clergy. The Abrahamic accords
have concerned Iran as it looked like Saudi Arabia was going to sign up
which would have been a devastating hit on Iran. Right now Israel
is aiming to totally destroy Hamas and so there are clearly a lot of
civilian casualties. However as Hamas has used their people as
human shields it is obviously very difficult to identify innocent
civilians from Hamas terrorists.
In my view Hamas are evil and need to
be exterminated as do other terrorist organisations in the Middle East.
There is no point in having a cease fire as that will simply allow Hamas
to rearm. I fully support Israel in this war. The
Palestinian children have been indoctrinated so are growing up as
terrorists. I also believe that Israel should take over Gaza after this
war as it will be safer for them. You can't live with people around you
wanting to exterminate you. Let us remember that not one Jew lives
in Gaza yet 20% of the Israeli population is from Palestine.
Overall the world is in a fragile state
right now with really stupid people running our countries around the
world. I can't help but believe that we need to find a better way
to run our countries. The United Nations (UN) is a biased organisation
and is totally useless.
China is ranking up rhetoric on Taiwan
and they have taken over Tibet. Africa is at war within their
various countries. Corruption is very high all over the world. I
think the human race is on the road to extinction the way things are
going.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is
starting to make progress and given the state of the world you can't
help but wonder how this will play out.
I'm not particularly religious but I
feel the Bible is the best guide to how we should live our lives and the
Ten Commandments are as good a guide to that as you're going to get.
I also wonder if our entertainment
industry isn't the cause of a lot of our issues as we seem to celebrate
fighting in all its guises and so are brought up to think this is
normal.
Canada has seen a lot of intolerance
between ethnic groups in recent times which is not something we should
tolerate.
The police services are looking more
like bullies and cowards these days. The standards they have for
gaining entry to their ranks is too low in my opinion and the RCMP still
have too many internal issues on sexual discrimination for my liking.
I am also not happy with all the
reconciliation talk going around with the native peoples. I feel
they are greedy and just looking for more money. Let us remember
that millions of Canadians weren't in Canada when the residential
schools were around and yet they have to pay out to compensate them.
The best way to get reconciliation is
to accept that bad things happened and to ensure all Canadians are
treated equally from now on. Too much money is being handed out to
the First Nations that are not available to other Canadians. That
has to stop. Our Governor General is from the Inuit community and
is obsessed with reconciliation to the detriment of all Canadians in my
opinion.
It's like the clan system in Scotland
where many Clan Chiefs removed their members from clan lands to replace
them with sheep and deer as it made them more money. They could
have instead helped their people to farm better which would have brought
them even more money but they were too stupid to understand that.
And that is just like the Native peoples
in Canada. Like to try to find out more about the First Nations I
found not one tribe would provide information to me freely. I had
to pay to get anything from them. So most of the information I
have on the site comes from public resources. And if you read
these information resources you'll soon find that a high number of these
peoples have a poor upbringing which has led them to drink more, take
drugs and live in very poor living conditions.
In my view Parents have abdicated
responsibility for bringing up their children. The educations
system is not doing a good job of bringing up our children either.
And as to LGBT etc. It's a joke.
Now our children can claim they are rabbits and that's acceptable?
It's a terrible indictment on Parents of today. We should send them all
to Gaza and wait to hear them wail as they are put to death for being
so. Yet these really stupid people support Hamas... total idiots.
Greed is at the root of so much that is
wrong with the world. Easy credit has made us all think we can have
anything we want when we want. Our great grandparents lived
frugally and saved up for things they needed. Today we just buy it
on credit which means we have a terrible debt crisis.
I was just thinking that I have had my
favourite cardigan for some 30 years now and it still works just great.
I did purchase another one and after just a few uses the zipper broke.
Quality is simply not there any more. Like my air conditioning
unit is some 24 years old and still working. Buy one new today and
you'd be lucky if it lasted 10 years.
Diabetic Canada phone me most months
asking if I have any old clothes or household items I want to donate.
To be frank I never have anything to give them as everything I have I
use and rarely buy anything as a result. My notebook computer is 8
years old and still does all I want it to do.
I find I rarely watch television these
days as I mainly watch YouTube channels or read newspapers online.
I rarely watch films but do enjoy documentaries and other real life
channels on YouTube. I have listed my favourite channels on
YouTube at:
https://www.electricscotland.com/lifestyle/youtube.htm
Some of the channels
air once a week or even monthly but others can also be several times a
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