In the past week, I got a reasonable amount of walking in, despite the less-than-perfect weather. When I sat down Sunday morning, I started thinking […]
Allan’s Amblings
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Two years of no Relay for Life has become three. This year, though, it wasn’t COVID-19 that cancelled the event set for Saturday. It was […]
I have a special role to fulfill on Saturday. I will be the Master of Ceremonies for the Relay for Life at Lac des Bois. […]
So MTV started in 1981 and that’s when singers started doing music videos, right? Wrong. There is a clip on YouTube that I like to […]
Last week, I had another birthday. I had one last year too, but they seem to be coming faster for some reason. A couple of […]
So last Friday was Friday the 13th. I left my apartment to do a few errands late in the morning, and a couple of black […]
I have managed to get a few short walks in over the past few days. I keep them short because there are usually menacing clouds […]
I’m pretty sure I have written before about the problems drivers cause when they are (a) impatient and (b) don’t know (or care about) the […]
The Prince George Cougars came up just short in game two, falling 2-1 to the Portland Winterhawks at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The Winterhawks […]
Saturday, early afternoon, I leave my apartment and walk to the street next to it. I see my car across the street, and start to […]
Been listening to a fair bit of music the last couple of week because the weather is just not nice enough to go out walking, […]
Reading Ted Clarke’s story in the Citizen last week about the epic Brier showdown between Ron Northcott and Kevin Smale brought back memories. We lived […]
In my column last week, I talked about walking over to CN Centre on the Friday before the World Women’s Curling Championship to get my […]
I spent a good part of Friday afternoon trying to get my legs to talk to me again. I did a fair bit of walking […]
I was thinking about writing a very short column this week and explaining the time I usually wrote the column was the hour we lost […]
The time has come (I hope) to make a big change. I have spent a fair bit of the winter walking when I can on […]
It was a tale of one intersection and three pedestrians Tuesday morning. I was standing in the broadcast studio for CFIS-FM in the Q3 building […]
So it is less than a month until the World Women’s Curling Championship takes over the CN Centre with the Patch in Kin 1. There […]
Sometimes I will hear a story about a song and go: “That’s kind of neat.” Other times, I go: “Wow! That is something else”. This […]
It’s the most incredible coincidence. Every time we get a good dump of snow in Prince George, I find more examples of Blacktop Blockheads. Last […]
Today is a day Phil Connors can’t forget. Today is a day Phil Connors can’t forget. Phil Connors, for those who don’t remember, was the […]
So with only a couple of weeks until the 2022 Winter Olympics are supposed to start, Canada’s list of competitors is growing, but still nowhere […]
So how many different kinds of winter have we had already in Prince George, and it’s only the middle of January? Actually, how many kinds […]
It’s becoming a familiar refrain in every league in Canada. Let’s look at some of the headlines from the Western Hockey League website over the […]
Is it safe to come out from under the bed yet? Has someone checked to make sure 2021 has left? No, 2021 was not the […]
Many things have been written about this time of year across the ages. Every year, many of the same standards of the season are trotted […]
I spend a lot of time in this column talking about Blacktop Blockheads, so I thought it was only fair this week to talk about […]
I saw a mistake this week in a post on Facebook I hadn’t seen in some time, but which used to be sort of common. […]
It’s not often someone compares me to a crab for any reason. I guess it’s because most of the time when someone is described as […]
Sometimes things just work out in a way described by some as ‘synchronicity’. On Saturday, I was listening to REWIND Radio and the remote at […]
If a picture tells a thousand words, then I think I shot about a million words of photos one morning in Prince George when I […]
Well, a typical November week in Prince George. A week ago on Tuesday morning we had freezing rain that made the city streets . . […]
Welcome to the month of Novem-brrrr. I’ve had to scrape my car windows the last few mornings. It hasn’t been a real heavy frost yet […]
From Ghoulies and Ghosties, And long-leggity Beasties, And all Things that go bump in the Night, Good Lord deliver us. Anonymous Sunday is Halloween, […]
I was watching some YouTube videos on the weekend and saw one with an intriguing title, which I was pretty sure was a typo. The […]
For many years, I made my livelihood in newspapers. At almost every paper I worked at, I ended up doing a lot of the proofreading […]
Trust and suspicion. I ran into both of those within about 20 minutes last week – from crows. I was driving down 15th Avenue early […]
Let’s follow behind a vehicle I was behind one day last week, and count how many laws the driver broke. I was heading east on […]
It seems some cyclists still can’t grasp the fact that if they are going to be on the road, they have to obey the rules […]
There are times it doesn’t take much to amuse me. Take an incident on the road last week. I was waiting at a red light […]
It is now less than two weeks from the official date for the federal election. And even though the advance polls don’t start until Sept. […]
It occurred to me over the weekend there is a particular kind of Blacktop Blockhead I have encountered numerous times over the years, yet have […]
So we’re headed to the polls on September 20 for a federal election. Except we may not be headed to the polls. We may be […]
We are into those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer (which would be a great title for a song, come to think of it). That […]
It is late Sunday morning as I write my column, with a headache throbbing away. No, I wasn’t out partying Saturday night. People who know […]
”Everybody knows that the bird is the word.” It’s a phrase repeated almost ad nauseam by The Trashmen in their 1963 hit Surfin’ Bird. It […]
My sleep habits are becoming more and more of a mystery to me. It’s not like I’m up every second night and can’t get to […]
I am probably going to be losing some sleep over the next little while. I’ve decided I’m going to read a collection of Shirley Jackson […]
The problem with writing about Blacktop Blockheads as often as I do is I sometimes forget the majority of drivers know what they’re doing. Case […]
I think it’s safe to say the ‘hottest’ topic in Prince George this week is the weather. So, with that in mind (and because I […]
“A sunshiny shower won’t last half an hour.” It’s an old saying I was reminded of as I pulled into the parking lot at the […]
It’s the Stanley Cup playoffs, and they’re down to the final four. For many fans and journalists, they feel these final few games are a […]
If you’re an NHL fan, I’m sure you recognize the names Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Gabriel Landeskog and Mark Scheifele. If you’re an NFL fan, how about […]
Last week, the province laid out a very clear roadmap for how we can get out of most of the COVID-19 restrictions. Now it’s just […]
As I’ve mentioned a few times recently, I’ve been doing more walking, mainly because the weather has been decent, and also because I’ve always enjoyed […]
I don’t think I have ever watched a full episode of The Voice, one of the many singing talent shows out there now. But, thanks […]
It’s funny how sometimes the smallest things can trigger memories. I got my COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, and while I was sitting out the suggested […]
So we’re into flood watch season in Prince George. It doesn’t happen every spring, but it happens often enough that most people in Prince George […]
For whatever reason, last week I didn’t get out walking as often as I wanted. So on Saturday, I decided to make up for it […]
I think it’s safe to say spring has arrived in Prince George, and I’ve got spring fever, so this week it’s going to be some […]