Last Christmas, I bought a Cricut. For those who don’t know what that is, picture all those rustic farmhouse signs that are so trendy, the mugs with clever sayings popping up in the lunchroom at your office, and the colourful bows and headbands your granddaughter is now sporting. Chances are a Cricut made these, and […]
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As the youngest child in our family of four, pictures of myself with the family were very scarce. Travelling back to the Maritimes just last month with my two teenage children, I was able to search through a number of albums that my sister Deborah kept and find many keepsake photos. They brought back so
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by Jo Barnes – We last boarded the phrase train into the world of travel, but today let’s find some tasty terms as we head into the kitchen. I’ve got a hankering for something sweet. We could reheat a TV dinner, but how about we start from scratch? I’m not talking about the scribbles in
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by Lara Gladych – Seaside Magazine wants to live up to our slogan of being “the voice of the Saanich Peninsula,” so in every issue we’ll be asking people to answer one simple question. We’re looking for responses from all ages and across the diverse neighbourhoods that form our community. When I contemplate my most
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by Chris Cowland – My mother was not the best cook in the world. Her repertoire consisted of egg and chips, beans and chips, and for the weekend, egg, bacon, beans and chips. In post-war Britain, 99% of the populace would deep fry with lard, but I remember that in the early 1960s cooking oil
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