london Archives - Alexis McBride

August 13, 2023

Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Edmonton Escape; Nothing Left to Chance Defined: No Stone Unturned; You Can’t Get Something For Nothing: Taking Clean Teeth to Saudi Arabia; London Drugs Will Enlarge Two Photos; To Art of Cake for Two Treats; White Dress and Role Model Found; More Word Definitions; Another ‘Coincidence”; The Photos and Alexis’Abaya

I do admit to an excruciating ecstasy I find in naming – people, places, and things. Naming people takes the form of nicknames, The naming of things is more complex – Saudi Sojourn: my recent…

January 21, 2021

Here is the Inauguration and I am Watching; Extremely Positive Reaction to President Biden’s Speech; Three Confessions; Spot On, Its Origins; Amanda Gorman, the Highlight; Assuming the Rule of Women’s Clothes, Shoe and Hair Do Police; Me in Face Mask

First, two confessions. This is the first inauguration I have ever watched, at all. Never been invited to one, I once knew someone who was invited and went but to an inauguration..whose? Donald Trump’s –…

August 12, 2020

Emerging From My Cocoon; Not Pleased With Biden’s Choice of a Running Mate but Feeling Sanguine About It All; Amazing Statistics Strike Again Complete With World Map; Sanguine and Cocoon Defined

For some strange reason I have the feeling that I am emerging from a cocoon, I guess to be a butterfly, as that is what usually happens So far I have not sprouted wings –…

February 15, 2019

Achieving Brilliance; A Strange But Fulfilling Valentine’s Day, An Old Poem; A Visit to the Trump; An Email to Triple C; A Chance to Sponsor Clare; Socks

A wonderful email greeted me this morning. It was from Laura at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She: Brilliant! Thank you so much for sending these through to me! I’m pleased to confirm that I am…

February 9, 2018

Winning An Old Battle; Jealousy; Scenes from the Doctor Appointment; A Joke; a New Nickname for a Special Guy and a Comedy Poster

I did have a life before London so technically the blog should read London and Beyond and Before, but it doesn’t. I battled for the retention of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans – the kind that…

March 15, 2017

Notes from 1-A, the VAT Refund, London, Ontario and Having Fun in First Class

Well, here I am sitting on a United Flight in First Class, seat 1-A but we aren’t going anywhere. They are apparently fixing the plane, rather a good Idea it seems to me. They were…

February 20, 2017

Confessing To Anxiety And Then Quoting From Emails About Summer Clothes And Kilts. A Joke About Sheep Concluding With A Rex Whistler Restaurant Review

I awoke this morning in an extremely anxious state and I am not sure why. I have developed the habit of waking up and immediately writing to post on this blog. I feel a huge…

February 19, 2017

I Believe A Sense Of Humor Is Inherited And That It Is A Dryburgh Trait. Proof Is Offered Through The Post Of February 8, 2017 And My Cousins’ Response

A snippet of background material is about to be provided for those who do not know me or my ‘new’ family the Dryburghs. Dryburgh is my birth name, hence it is hardly a new family…