Word of Mouth blog

Peter Cloud Panjoyah, drums and vocals along with Nanaimo’s Seamas Manly, guitar and vocals, form the duo PanMan, debuting Thursday night at Vorizo Cafe in the Ringside market. Two-thirds of the Hornby Island folk-rock group TreeRoots Revolution, Panjoyah and Manly bring an inspiring mix of originals and classics, weaving harmonies, melody and stimulating lyrical content. [...]

by Judy Cross
I bought into the Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change (AGW/CC) thing after seeing a BBC program which showed the graph that was known as the “Hockey Stick”. I remember experiencing the grip of fear seeing it. It has since turned out the data was “massaged” a bit to get the effect that [...]

Hoping someone can help me find someone! My daughter and I were shopping at the Hornby Island Farmer’s Market this last Wednesday and gave our money to a nice young girl for a blue beaded necklace which she was going to make for us (my daughter asked for a different colour than what was [...]

I posted this in a comment on the ‘Costello’ thread, but really it needs to be a post by itself:
For those who don’t know, here are the election results:
Tony Law received 338 votes
George Buvyer received 194 votes
Tony Law is our new Trustee… congratulations, Tony!

Hello Everyone:
Devanshu and I are sitting here in the “yard” of our new home in Fort Portal, Uganda. The house is a concrete structure with 3 very small rooms, all leading out into the cement courtyard which contains our squat toilet and cold shower room, as well as our dish washing area (which also serves [...]

Wow!! Talk about being stuck in a situation and having to deal with it!
- Phil
Mississippi pilot thought he was solo until constrictor turned up in cockpit
from CBC.ca
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) – It was no movie moment when a physician, flying himself across Mississippi in a one-seat plane, discovered a stowaway – a grey rat snake.
Dr. Ed [...]

Posts to this blog tend to focus on the dark side of what is wrong with our world, but it’s important to remember that we each have so much to be grateful for as well. The breath of life in our bodies, the sunshine on our skin, friends, love, community, sand between our toes, warm [...]

Agents provocateurs are a time-honoured technique that the police and CIA and other such organizations use to both discredit protest movements by making them look violent and unreasonable and to frighten away potential peaceful protestors by inciting riots and thereby inviting police brutality. It’s disgusting, the more so because it is common practice.
- phee
VIDEO: Police [...]

I am extremely upset with this letter that Joan Costello has sent out to our mailboxes, just before the election as usual.
The “Flanders House arrived here with no siting permit and about 3 feet overheight. Joan and John agreed to make it meet the height requirements and unfortunately Tony let them land it on [...]

I’m still paying attention to the situation with the bees. I hope you are too. This article is vey interesting!
- Phil
Published on Sunday, August 19, 2007 by the Sydney Morning Herald/Australia
Eerie Saga of the Vanishing Bees
by Paul Sheehan
Almost everyone loves bees. And everyone needs bees. They are not merely picturesque. When bees began to disappear [...]