David Scrimshaw's Blog

The lovely Manon has been very indulgent with my affection for waterfalls and has been willing to accompany me to Hog's Back Falls, the ...

Until very recently, I had a box with twelve 3/4" U-matic videotapes that dated from the 1980s and 1990s from my university days in the...

Do you remember March 3, 2023? We got 15 cm of snow. It was the fourth big dump of snow this calendar year. After tuckering myself out shove...

Two nights ago, over on the other side of Bronson, we saw a hydrant wearing sunglasses. So last night on our walk, we paid attention to th...

The residents of our block of Lebreton Street had a bagpipe concert last night from the talented Rose Roberts (contactable through Facebook)...

I wonder what will happen to these diggers at Preston and Carling when the 45-storey condo is built. Will they just be buried underneath ...

We had a successful time at the Great Glebe Garage Sale yesterday and I learned an important lesson. At the very last sale we stopped at, ...

It turns out that my blog postings on the Great Glebe Garage Sale have put me so high in the Google rankings that a reporter actually phoned...

There are worse things than being stuck in Ottawa when it's Chinese New Year's. If you're at the Ben Ben for it, you'll pro...

I'm happy to report that we managed to get up on time to see the end of the Sir John Carling Building. So did many other people. A...

If I hadn't received so many nice hats for Christmas, I'd be tempted to take this toque that someone found by my house and put on...

Saturday is the Great Glebe Garage Sale . You should stay home. The weather forecast is  A mix of sun and cloud. Wind north 30 km/h bec...

If you're looking for a fun outing, bowling two or three strings at the West Park Bowling Centre on Wellington Street West might be j...

I spotted a new sculpture at Algonquin College yesterday on my way to the bus stop after work. The sculpture was erected between the new...

This squirrel was eating mountain ash berries last Saturday. I think this means the squirrel was very, very hungry. Because mountain as...

A business that I shall not name in this posting has two of these lanterns on the sidewalk by their entrance. Nice big lanterns with tiny ...

Manon tells me that when a certain young man was much younger, she had a rule: He was not allowed to talk about Hallowe'en until afte...

Those of us who happened to be on the right email list got a real treat a week and a half ago when we saw Bec and Rusty at Irene's. Alth...

Some graffiti artist put a big tag on the wall behind Harvey's on Bronson. Another graffiti artist, with perhaps less artistic sty...

I know that the construction on Bronson between Somerset and Catherine is hard on the businesses there. It still doesn't seem right that...