"Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company."
~ Anonymous

"If you are cold, tea will warm you.
If you are too heated, tea will cool you.
If you are depressed, it will cheer you.
If you are excited, it will calm you."
~ Wm. Gladstone

"Never trust a man who, when
left alone in a room with a tea
cosy, doesn't try it on."
~ Billy Connolly

~ Kitchen Wit, Quips and Quotes for Cooks and Food Lovers
Jane Brook, 2009 Summerdale Publishers Ltd.

Roads less Travelled ~ along the Heritage Grand River

Photos April 3, 2012 - lbwalker

Community Info Sessions

Everyone is welcome to attend

Cayuga ~ The Neat L'l Bookshop Thur., April 5th.

Note:  Drop in anytime 12 noon - 1:30 p.m.

Caledonia ~ Thai House Cuisine 5 Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Drop in anytime between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m.

York ~ Golden Horseshoe Antique Society Hall ~ Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Drop in anytime between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m.

Any resident, community group or business who is interested in promoting Haldimand County.

Experience the Wonders of The Heritage Grand-River Country.

For more info please visit:  http://www.1000canoes.com/

Smile For Today ~

"One should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
~ Somerset Maugham, giving advice on dinner parties.


"If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."
~ Theodor 'Dr Seuss' Geisel


"My doctor told me to stop having dinner parties for four, unless there are three other people."

~ Orson Welles

I wandered lonely as a cloud ~

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them dance; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed ~ and gazed ~ but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Wm. Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850)  English Poet.

 Gone are the trains and the tracks ~ Only the bridge remains



Train Bridge over The Grand

  Gone are the rails and the ties. . .

SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE THIRD GREAT SUGAR DRAW

In 1990, FRONT PAGE REFLECTIONS was published by The Dunnville Chronicle ~ Compiled by Lorne E. Sorge

Front Page July 15, 1938 ~

A Bigger Attendance Than Ever Last Saturday.  People were present from outlying villages as far as eighteen miles away at last Saturday's Sugar Draw -- proving beyond all doubt its growing popularity.
Will you be there this Saturday night?  Just a few minutes of your time at 11 p.m. daylight saving time may mean a bag of sugar for you - surely it's worth it.  You get your coupon with every 25 cent purchase.  Sign your name to these, deposit them in a convenient box, and then come to the sugar draw and see how lucky you are.  Shop early and don't wait a week to know how lucky you are.
THIRTY-TWO PEOPLE GET SUGAR EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT -- Yes, sir!  32 lucky people carry home sugar, which is drawn for as follows:  10 bags of 10 lbs. each; two bags of 20 lbs.; 10 bags of 10 lbs.,three bags of 20 lbs., five bags of 20 lbs., one bag of 50 lbs. and for the 32nd draw, the big prize of 100 lbs. of granulated sugar.

REMEMBER the stores listed here are sugar stores -- Ask for your coupon with every 25 cent purchase and bear in mind always, the more coupons you have in the draw the better your chance of winning.

[Some 35 retail stores participated in the Great Sugar Draw.]