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Things mom didn't tell you
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, we ruminate. Past, present, future. The things that went right. The things that went wrong. What we’ll do in 2009. And what we won’t.
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Start thinking outside the box this Boxing Day
TODAY BEING Boxing Day, I bet you’re up to your eyebrows in, well, boxes. But it’s not just boxes these days, is it?
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Our winning bakers
IF THERE’S A SHORTAGE of molasses, ginger, icing sugar and Christmas-coloured candies in Nova Scotia grocery stores right now, you can probably lay part of the blame on us. We had more than 100 entries from children all over the province (and a few beyond) in The Chronicle Herald’s Holiday Gingerbread House Photo Contest.
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Armdale Pizza a good find with a varied menu
WE’RE SETTLED into our new Halifax office digs at the Armdale Rotary, or roundabout, or traffic circle, or whatever we’re supposed to call it now, but the search for a perfect lunch spot continues. Not one bit do I miss going downtown every day, except at lunchtime.
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The road to Damascus leads to a great donair
THOUGH HE IS a basketball coach, and a very good one, Fabian MacKenzie does not partake of strong drink, nor does he indulge in profanity in mixed company. He is, however, not as decorous in his victualling, so when I learned that on his frequent trips between Sydney and Halifax, Fabian, the women’s coach at Cape Breton University, makes a habit of stopping in Bible Hill for a donair, I took notice.
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Christmas will be jolly in my house
DEC. 1 was the day my moratorium on any mention of Christmas expired. It was also the day the push-up rule was relaxed.
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Slobodan was right about Szechuan
MY SPORTS DEPARTMENT colleague Willy Palov had been encouraging me for some time to visit Bedford’s unimaginatively titled Szechuan Restaurant, so we stopped in there this week after a basketball game. Szechuan is in a small plaza at the bottom of Hammonds Plains Road, and I remember the space as a former bicycle store, though Kath thinks it was a coffee shop. Whatever it used to be, it is now a virtually decor-free space with 36 comfortable seats.
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Soup for the soul
TEN YEARS of asking if you’d like fries with that didn’t sour Julia Bernard on restaurants. But some of the people she had to deal with left a bad taste in her mouth.
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Mama yoga trumps karate
HERE’S A LITTLE joke for you: What did the karate dropout say to the karate brown belt? "I’m warning you: I know yoga."
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Bill finds a treasure in Truro
IT WAS AT a barbecue in Windsor this summer that a woman told me about a restaurant in Truro I must visit. Since her husband was manning the grill, thereby controlling when I got my hamburgers, and is also among the biggest individuals in Nova Scotia, I paid close attention to what she had to say.
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