Author: Ian
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100 Years Ago Passchendaele
This isn’t my Grandfather Frank Clifford Butterworth but he was wounded exactly 100 years ago in the Battle of Passchendaele. The commitment to service is strikingly shown in the form below: “Terms of Service: Duration of war” He was wounded in his face, shoulder and leg. His shoulder wound severed a major artery. The records…
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Farm Animals
My favourite cat! The boss (rooster), making noise And a colourful chicken.
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Canmore Folk Festival Bruce Cockburn
40th Anniversary of the Canmore Folk Music Festival. It rained but ended well before the Blackie and the Rodeo King’s rocking set followed up by Bruce Cockburn’s performance which ended too soon. He did some of it with Colin Linden of Black and the Rodeo Kings. They have fun performing together! Colin was producer of…
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Thumb recovery
This blog needs a post now and again. So here’s one. I’m one week into wearing the brace. One more week to go and then a couple of weeks part time. It can’t go any faster. This is my x-ray analysis. This is my x-ray. And this is the x-ray example on the Wikipedia page…
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Excel Power Utility Pak
I first found out about John Walkenback from his books. He, without question, has the best books on Excel. Back when books only were made from dead trees I judged books by how much real information versus fluff. He wins outright. His books now are available in paper format or electronically. He also has a…
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Finally a Ride to Work
It was a comfortable ride. The secret was to dress for winter riding and be warm rather than dress for summer riding and be cold! [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/commute-20170412.gpx”]