Allan’s Amblings

The first real snow came to Prince George last week, and it wasn’t hard to tell. The drivers who had forgotten since last winter how […]

Those of you who read my column on a regular basis (I know there’s a least a couple of you) may remember that last week […]

I blame the BC Northern Exhibition for my being confused the past couple of weeks. Not, please note, that I’m excusing them from playing in […]

“Sign, signs, everywhere signs”. The opening line from ‘Signs’, a song originally done by the Canadian group Five Man Electrical Band in 1971, which made […]

I’m going to go with some Random Ramblings this week, and I blame my sister. She’s in from Alberta for a few days, and while […]

This is a time of year I find somewhat inconvenient. It’s got as much to do with the weather as anything else, and I don’t […]

I think I saved a life on the weekend. It wasn’t a person’s life. It was a bird. A crow to be more specific. I […]

If you think you’re having a bad day (or a bad week, or a bad month), just be glad you aren’t the Chicago White Sox […]

I am writing this column on Sunday. That means it’s a week until Labour Day, just over two months to Halloween – and exactly four […]

I think it was water that told me things were different. About two weeks ago, I found my left ear seemed quite badly plugged. I’ve […]

I took a bit of a chance Sunday morning, and went out for a walk. The forecast was possible showers and the skies did look […]

I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but we had a bit of a weather event on Friday evening in Prince George. I didn’t see […]

Time, in some respects, was not on my side last weekend. I woke up Saturday morning at about 4:30 after a fairly good night’s sleep. […]

I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed, but it is HOT in Prince George these days. I’m using various ways to try and stay […]

So a few weeks ago, I wrote a column about discovering a hard-rock band of three sisters from Mexico called The Warning. Well, I have […]

I had a couple of ideas for this week’s columns, but most of them can be saved for later. The one that came to me […]

What a drag it is getting old. That sounds like a good line for a song. I’m going to write it down. My latest experience […]

All I can say about this column is I am giving you a ‘Warning.’ Two weeks ago, I had never heard of The Warning. Then […]

I did something last week I hadn’t done in about five years. Some friends and I headed down to Seattle to take in a couple […]

Baseball, to my way of thinking, used to have the best nicknames in all of sports. Some of them are fairly well-known, like George Herman […]

There are more pedestrians on the sidewalks of Prince George these days, and that means there are certain problem pedestrians who seem to crop up […]

Sometimes in music, a song inspires a sequel. There have been occasions where it was less a sequel than an answer song, like when Jody […]

I did my income taxes last week. At first, I was going to use the simplified form. That’s the one that says, “How much money […]

It was not a fun weekend for me, and I think it was my fault. Late Friday afternoon, I decided to drop by Mom’s place […]

It’s already March, believe it or not, and that was with February being a day longer. March, to me, has always had one very important […]

I was very glad this week that Sunday was my non-early getup day. Six days of the week, Monday through Saturday, I get up early […]

Monday was a day off for a lot of people, but depending on where you were, it went by different names. In B.C., we celebrated […]

Today is Valentine’s Day. Here are some thoughts other people have had on the subject of love and, occasionally, Valentine’s Day, looking at it from […]

For the first column of February, I think I’m just going to have some Random Ramblings. I was watching a streamer on Twitch on the […]

It is January 27, and the biggest question I have before I leave my apartment is not how many layers of clothing I need to […]

In the Old Testament of the Bible, there was a flood that lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. When it ended, God promised there […]

Did anyone else in Prince George notice it’s been a bit cold lately? Just me? I didn’t really think so. It was quite cold for […]

The Western Hockey League trade deadline was yesterday (as you’re reading this) but still a couple of days away (as I’m writing this). That means […]

It’s already January 3, and I haven’t seen anything different about 2024. I know there will be a difference at the end of February when […]

When I was in the community newspaper business, this was, at the same time, the best and worst week of the year. It’s the last […]

There is a question I ask myself every year at about this time, the same question every year. “What the heck happened to (insert number […]

I may have mentioned this before, but I always thought the most important people at a high school basketball game were the people at the […]

I have not had a car for a couple of weeks, waiting for my appointment to get a couple of new tires put on. One […]

Who do I talk to about getting one of the voice directions on the local buses changed? You know the ones I mean – the […]

My legs have applied to move to another province. My car has a flat tire, and while I wait for the new tire to get […]

We set our clocks back Sunday morning. At least, we did if we didn’t want to get into a whole bunch of confusion the rest […]

The Kamloops This Week newspaper folded a couple of weeks ago. That was the paper I worked at for a number of years before I […]

There are times where I really wonder what the point of a driving manoeuvre is. Last week I was coming up Fifth Avenue in the […]

Most people enjoy long weekends. I am not like most people (something most people are very happy about). I don’t like long weekends because they […]

It can’t be October already. I mean, we just celebrated Canada Day last week, didn’t we? OK, the way the temperature has been recently, it’s […]

They started life in London as The Originals. They were threatened with a lawsuit by the East End Originals over the name, so they changed […]

I spent the better part of an hour Sunday morning just looking at the Major League Baseball stats for this season, both pitching and batting, […]

I am writing this column on Labour Day, and since thinking about a subject for a full column is too much like work, I’m going […]

Believe it or not, I am not a calm, cool, even-keeled person all the time. I think I’m better than a lot of people at […]

I spent a lot of time in Kin 1 on the weekend. It was the BC Northern Exhibition and CFIS was broadcasting live from Kin […]

If you’re reading this on Wednesday, then I will be preparing for what might be a rather sleepless night. You see, we at CFIS are […]

I have discovered I have a problem when I go out for a walk on my own. I start thinking. That revelation in itself probably […]

I want to keep my eyes open for one report to Prince George city council in a few months. That will be the annual report […]

In newspapers, it used to be the challenge to write the best headline you could in the fewest words possible, because space was usually at […]

So Major League Baseball is into its All-Star Game break right now, so I thought I would chat about a YouTube video from a couple […]

So we are now halfway through 2023, believe it or not. At the end of March, I took a column to go through some words […]