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Friday Fun Link – How Rural Cuba Celebrates New Year’s Eve

This is very different experience to what we had a week ago in an all-inclusive resort targeted at tourists. (Warning: Some may find the photos in the link disturbing. Others may find them delicious!) Actually, maybe not that different…

¶ Posted 08 January 2016 § Family § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, food, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – View From An #iberostarvaradero Beach Chair (Jan 2016)

You can even see the two scrapes on my shins detailed in yesterday’s post!

¶ Posted 07 January 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

10 “Injuries” During Our Cuba Trip

Shea jammed her finger winding up a Christmas spinning toy before we even left but luckily it only hurt for a day. Coming from a long line of Scots, I refuse to pay for something I can get for free. So while Shea goes to a tanning salon before any trip to get a nice glow […]

¶ Posted 06 January 2016 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: allinclusive, health, travel

Saskatchewan Arbitrator Rules Healthcare Workers Don’t Need To Wear Full Name on ID Tags

A recent Saskatchewan arbitration decision which found that it’s a violation of workers’ rights to be safe and free of harassment to be required to wear name tags with their full name is timely given a couple recent events… First, in my end of year mega-post, I mentioned in Question #31 about “My Personal Fashion Sense” that RPL […]

¶ Posted 05 January 2016 § Family § Internet § Jobs § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Shea § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: education, health, language, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “From Alto Cedro, I go towards Marcané/I get to Cueto, head for Mayarí”

Back from a week in Cuba and I have this song stuck in my head. (Funny tangent about how things come around – a good friend of mine was a big fan of the Buena Vista Social Club when they exploded in the mid-to-late 1990’s. But at the time, I was too much into pretty standard […]