The New Haldimand County Fire Dept. Station 4 in Cayuga

Clearly Visible Behind the Doors:  Fire Trucks





Sign on Door: "This Station is NOT Staffed"

The New EMS STATION 3

 

 

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours.  I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

~ Sir Winston Churchill (Nov. 30, 1874 - Jan. 24, 1965)  British Prime Minister.

Krista admiring photo entries in Haldimand's photo contest.  Her tree with mushrooms won Honorable Mention.  Beautiful, Krista!

The exhibit will be on display in Haldimand County Museum, Cayuga, for the holidays and on into January.  Congratulation to all the entrants.

Smile for Today ~

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
~ Thomas La Mance

"It takes a long time to become young."
~ Pablo Picasso


"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.  But we can understand the Universe.  That makes us something very special."
~ Stephen Hawking

Check us out.  Value Books like new ~ Categories:  Science, Discovery, Exploration, Military, History, Classics, Poetry, Philosophy, Cultural, Inspirational, Nature, Hobbies, Travel, Humour, Health & fitness, Canadiana, Children's & Youth.  Our back room is filled with fiction, shelved alphabetically by author.  Each book is checked and cleaned.  No musty, smoky or chewed books!  Yes, we do take books for a credit toward half of your purchase; however, they must be resalable and recent (within the last couple years.)  With a few exceptions, we do not give credit for hardcover fiction or most large coffee-table books.

The Neat Little Bookshop is proud to feature books by local authors.  These books are new ~ Canadian retail prices.

 

"Don't speak unless you can improve the silence."

~ Spanish Proberb.

(From our friend, Elizabeth Barker.  Elizabeth always tended to be quiet.)

"A Christmas Carol is the most televised, filmed, recorded, radio-broadcast, animated, digitised, burlesqued and set-to-music work in Dickens's entire output (and almost certainly anyone else's), It is additionally by far the most often alluded to."

"Dickens chose A Christmas Carol for the first of his public readings, those bravura performances which so dominated his later career, kicking off in Birmingham on the day after Boxing Day of 1852.

"As a story, not only has A Christmas Carol never died, but it transcends national frontiers and artistic genres."  Dickens's story has inspired readings, movies, music, opera, strip cartoons, novels, plays.  There are annual performances by local theatre groups, puppet versions, T.V. films.  Dickens's characters live on in versions that the author could never have imagined.

~ Charles Dickens ~ A Celebration of his life and work by Charles Mosley.

December 1843 A Christmas Carol
December 1844 The Chimes
December 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth
December 1846 The Battle of Life
December 1848 The Haunted Man

1852 -66 The Christmas Stories

The Cricket on the Hearth

Photo: Wikipedia

A Christmas Carol

"One of the greatest successes of Dickens's career, and the only non-novel of his still widely read, A Christmas Carol started as a frankly commercial project to counterbalance the disappointing early sales of Martin Chuzzlewit.  Dickens conceived it in October 1843 and had finished it by early December.  Part of the time he had spent visiting his now married sister Fanny in Manchester, his chief purpose there being to raise funds for an educational institution to benefit working people.  He gave a speech (alongside the MPs Richard Cobden and Benjamin Disraeli, a future Prime Minister) in which he pointed to ignorance as the parent of misery and crime.  Ignorance and Want are the two feral children the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol."

~ Charles Dickens, A celebration of his life and work.  Charles Mosley, Worth Press Ltd. 2011

Tomorrow:  Charles Dicken's Christmas Books