Xmas Eve 2006 Part 4 – This and that

Robin Kelsey — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:53:01 +0000

Bulrushes

On this Christmas Eve day, a man and a little girl were having a lot of fun stripping bulrushes.

Fart jokes

I can’t help it, I think they’re funny. These are signs on the canal path.

Pa rump-a-pum-pum

God bless us every one!
(Disclaimer: I didn’t take this picture. I’m also not in it.)

Elgin St.

This is next to the police station. I like the flat late-afternoon light.

Across the street Frosty had arrived.

Here’s a creepy little laneway on Elgin.

Blog changes

I’m planning to make a couple of changes to this blog over the holidays. Here they are:

1. I’m going to change the name. I picked this name for good reasons, but on second thought I don’t think it’s a good name for this blog.

For one thing there is a magazine called Ottawa Life, which I don’t have anything to do with. And I don’t think my life is very typical of life in Ottawa.

I think people who see a blog called “Ottawa life blog” naturally expect it to be about parliament, the press corp, diplomats, the senate, or at least the public service, and it isn’t about any of those things. Mostly it’s about me walking around taking pictures.

I’m not sure what the new name will be. I kind of like “Ottawatawa,” but maybe just “robink.ca.” It sort of rhymes, depending on how you say it. What do you think?

2. If I can figure it out, I’m going to make another blog for movie reviews. Then I’ll put a link to it at the top of these pages where it says Home / About.

I’ve tried to separate the movie reviews from the other posts before, but I didn’t succeed. I think it’s a good idea because they are so different, and the same people don’t necessarily like to read them both. It was Zoom! from knitnut.net who suggested making the movies a whole new blog. At the time I couldn’t see it, but now I think I might be able to make it work.