Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Parliament Hill, Ottawa.  

As you can see it is under construction/renovation.  You can read more about the renovations here.  What I did think was neat was the huge covers all around the building that had the print of the building on it.  Hubby said old Donald has the same around the White House?  Maybe the US readers can confirm that?

This is the Centennial Flame.  Again you can read more about it here.

Even if I enlarged the next two photos, you will not be able to see the info.  Also for some reason I cannot delete photos from a blog post.  If anyone can give me pointers on doing that, I would be very grateful!

Loved the gargoyles (?) hanging off the clock tower.  Also the detail work in the clock tower is amazing.

Queen Victoria.

Lester B. Pearson.  There were many more statues of Prime Ministers around the property, but many you could not see because of the construction.

Another one of the buildings, again lovely details.

This one is my favourite photo, of all the metal work against the sky.

It was a perfect Fall day.

Niggles/twinges

 

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I haven't been feeling too great for the past couple of months.  However, it's nothing exciting, just little niggles and twinges, that when you add them all together makes you feel blah............

I am not complaining, just thought the word niggles is an odd word I use, so looked it up...........

Do you use the words niggles and twinges for those little aches and pains, that occur on a daily basis, but are not worth mentioning?  Or do you have your own special word for them?

It's Monday..........

 

Fingers, toes and everything crossed it will be an awesome week for all of us in blog land!

Halloween Cross Stitch - Part 3

I didn't get as well this week again, just busy with daily life, but progress was made, so that's good.  It's mainly just the border to finish off.

This coming week it's all about Bats and Cats..........

It's that time of year...........

 It's apple time of year.  Here is a list of the varieties of apples commonly found in Canada.

I am a Gala fan, followed by Honeycrisp and Ambrosia.

We had an apple crisp dessert that our daughter-in-laws, mother made and it was lovely.  I used to make those all the time, before I was diagnosed with diabetes.  Apple pies are also a favourite of mine, always used Granny Smith's for those but I don't see them listed here?  Guess they are a British variety.

What's your favourite variety of apple?

Backstreet Boys..............

Do you remember the Backstreet Boys?

Here's a song to jog your memory, this is one of my favourites of theirs:

Well this past week my life has been consumed by the Backstreet Boys.  They are coming to Toronto next year and our daughter is a HUGE fan of theirs.  Has seen them in concert twice already as a teen, now in her **th year she will be seeing them twice again.  However, why I am should be consumed by this who knows, but I got dragged into the mix because Rogers was giving out codes for the pre sales for all it's customers, and I am a customer.

Daughter is too, but she wanted two codes just in case she couldn't get through.  Of course the site crashed when the codes were issued, after a stressful (for me!) 24 hours, I finally got a code.  Daughter had to change a meeting at work; no one could disturb her at 10am last Monday, as that was when the tickets went on sale.  She was 400th in line but she managed to get tickets.  500 level, which is up in the rafters but she is all happy about the situation.  

Son had to sit by his computer to get daughter-in-law tickets and he picked 4 up as well.  

And then, extra dates were added and added and added?  At this point they will be carting the Backstreet Boys off the stage on stretchers straight into a nursing home....LOL

For some strange reason though, conversations with my daughter, mother, brother and even my daughter-in-law have focused on these bloody concerts all week.  We even spent a good half hour last Sunday, me, daughter-in-law, her sister and her mother talking about the Backstreet Boys, and various boy bands.............

So this is it, no more Backstreet Boy conversations.............😜

Oh and just in case that prior video didn't excite you, here is another one I like!!

You're welcome!

National Gallery of Canada - Part 2

There was a special exhibition on while we were there called Qillaniq, you can read more about it here.  Basically it's an exhibition of art work by Indigenous people.

Below are a few things I saw.  I had mixed feelings about this exhibition.  I will explain at the bottom of this post why.  Just enjoy the photos and the details of the art pieces first.

After we went through this exhibition, we went for a coffee in the cafe.  We ended up talking to the nicest employee who worked in the offices.  We must have talked to her for 20 minutes and she was so informative.  She explained things about some of the exhibits that we would never have discovered.  I would have loved to have had her as our personal guide throughout the National Gallery.

For example there was a papier mache exhibit of an indigenous person who had caught a fish; I didn't take a photo of it.  All made of papier mache.  However, if you had looked at it really close (we did not) it was made up totally of grocery store receipts.  The artist was trying to highlight how expensive things are in the stores further north.

The one with the orange tarp was to show what you can make with items you can find in the far north.  Me personally, I thought people were working in the area!!  I honestly didn't know it was a "work of art!" 

There was one room, where there was a wire attached at the bottom left hand corner and the other end attached at the top of the opposite corner of the room.......that was it!!!  As the employee explained to us, to get through the room you had to walk a certain way past the wire, and that what the artist  wanted to show, that he could determine what people will do..........ME 😕😒😐

I guess what one person likes and what another does makes our world a special place to live in............

Part 3 you will see is more of my speed as far as art is concerned!!