View from Our Window ~  If you've been to the bookshop this week you have seen the pet-shop sign.

Playing in the hobby of nostalgic paper as we do, old periodicals show up.  This one, "Sunshine Magazine" from 1970, caught my eye I suppose because of the word SUNSHINE on a particularly dreary day.

"A wise man goeth forth cheerily, through fair weather and through foul.  He knoweth his journey must be sped, so he carrieth his sunshine with him." is the magazine's tag line.

The real focus of my attention was this quaint ad for PenDelfins.  Are these not the cute little figures that bring astonishingly high prices today?

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."



~George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) Scottish author




The Neat Little Bookshop, May, 2012

 

Welcome to 29 Talbot St. N., August, 2011






Looking West Toward the Bridge on Hwy. 3.  May 2012

 

The "Design and Construction Report" for the replacement Cayuga bridge is available for public reviewing.  The report "provides a description of the recommended design, construction staging and access plans, potential environmental impacts and proposed mitigation measures." ~ McCormick Rankin




Looking East Away from the Bridge.  May 2012

 

In Cayuga, the report can be viewed at the Haldimand County Public Library, 28 Cayuga St., N. or at the Cayuga Administration Building, 45 Munsee St., N. 

Photos: Talbot Road (Hwy. 3) in front of the bookshop. The Neat Little Bookshop is located at the stoplight, corner of Hwy. 3 and Cayuga St.

(Leonard and Virginia Woolf invited Dame Ethel*, then quite elderly, to dinner at their house at Rodmell in Sussex.)
"Dame Ethel bicycled the twenty miles from the village where she lived to Rodmell, dressed in rough tweeds.  About two miles from her destination she decided that perhaps she was not suitably dressed for a dinner party.  She thought that possibly corsets were required to smarten up her figure.  Accordingly, she went into a village shop and asked for some corsets.  There were none.  Distressed, she looked round the shop and her eye lighted on a bird cage, which she purchased.  About twenty minutes later, Virginia went into her garden to discover Dame Ethel in a state of undress in the shrubbery struggling with the bird cage, which she was wrenching into the shape of corsets and forcing under her tweeds."

[Ladies, next time you agonize over the appropriateness of your dress, enter the room confidently and think of Dame Ethel.] lbw

*British composer & author, Dame Ethel (1858 - 1944), The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 1985.

"So many things we love are you, I can't seem to explain by little things, but flowers and beautiful handmade things ~ small stitches.  So much of our reading and thinking, so many sweet customs and so much of our . . . well religion.  It is all you.  I hadn't realized it before.  This is so vague but do you see a little, dear Grandma?
I want to thank you."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001),  Bring Me a Unicorn, Diaries and Letters of A.M.L., Mariner Books, 1971
Photo by Diane Young

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 13.