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Category Archives: UK

V-Day!

After a very strange, long, historic year, it feels pretty monumental that the UK is the first country rolling out their Covid vaccine starting today (okay, Russia actually started a few days ago but I think the UK is getting all the attention since that’s the Pfizer one most of the world will be using) […]

¶ Posted 08 December 2020 § Canada § News § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health, history, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – Beer Coaster Collage (1995 to now)

I went through a phase in college where I collected beer coasters. I never did anything with them but after rediscovering them in a container when we moved to our new house, I decided to at least mount them on an unused corkboard. (Of course, since we’re in a new house and our tastes are […]

¶ Posted 22 October 2020 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: travel

Music Monday – “I’m sure you’ve heard it all before/But you never really had a doubt/I don’t believe that anybody/Feels the way I do about you now”

Hard to believe Oasis’ “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” album is 25 years old being released in the fall of 1995. Oasis was basically a one-hit wonder in North America for most people but I was fortunate to be in England in fall 1995 on a University exchange which was during the height of the […]

¶ Posted 05 October 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, holiday, music, travel

How Countries Around The World Have Responded to Covid-19

¶ Posted 12 July 2020 § Canada § News § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, health, history, travel, unitedstates

The Economic Impacts of Covid-19

This is a British article but many of the findings are going to apply for countries around the world – from increased unemployment to reduced airline traffic to positive environmental impacts and more.

¶ Posted 14 June 2020 § Infographic § Jobs § News § Politics § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, history

Saturday Snap – Covid Helping Us To Connect With Long Lost Friends

Shea and I have tried to do regular video chats with various friends and family throughout this pandemic but last night, we decided to do something a bit different – instead of a sustained conversation with one person or group, we decided to try “chat roulette” where we’d message random people on our Facebook friend […]