“All morning I went from one door to another. Some rudely shuttered. Some receiving their full charge of daylight. All empty and unhomely. It was a rich house. On which Time had breathed his tarnish and dust had scattered disillusion. The spider swung there; the bloated tarantula scampered on the cornices; ants had their crowdedContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Decaying Palazzo (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
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RKS 2026 Ontario Wine: Cave Spring 2024 Estate Grown Cabernet Franc from Niagara
Aroma: Blackberry, black cherry, raspberry with a pinch of strawberry jam. Very tight and high perimeter security encompass the fruit. A young wine with potential. Very clean and pristine. Palate: Broad and assertive tannins. Tight and secretive as the wine has not even reached puberty. Raw power. Cellarbility: I would boldly go where many aContinue reading “RKS 2026 Ontario Wine: Cave Spring 2024 Estate Grown Cabernet Franc from Niagara”
RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The family blood had been impoverished, perhaps by long interbreeding, which I knew to be a common error among the proud and exclusive. No decline, indeed, was to be traced in the body, which had been handed down unimpaired in shapeliness and strength; and the faces of today were struck as sharply from the mint,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Aristocratic Body but Degenerate Intelligence (Robert Louis Stevenson)”
RKS Literature: Is Captain Ahab Nothing but a Poor Old Whale-Hunter? (Herman Melville)
“ But Ahab, my captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and therefor all majestical trappings and housings are denied me, Oh, Ahab what shallContinue reading “RKS Literature: Is Captain Ahab Nothing but a Poor Old Whale-Hunter? (Herman Melville)”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHAT A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER HAS LEARNT FROM DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT
WHAT A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER HAS LEARNT FROM DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT I could describe in a book what I have learnt from President Donald J. Trump. It would not be classified as intellectual. Behavioural might be a more appropriate word. It would serve no purpose toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHAT A SEVEN-MONTH-OLD WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER HAS LEARNT FROM DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WE PUPPIES MUST BE BILINGUAL! WHAT IS CAINENGLISH?
WE PUPPIES MUST BE BILINGUAL! WHAT IS CAINENGLISH? I understand English rather well. Some canine experts oh and ah about the 500 words dogs can master. Balderdash! I have picked up the language rapidly through overhearing humans talking on television and in conversations. Despite English language proficiency humans underestimate puppy comprehension. Frequently they revert toContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WE PUPPIES MUST BE BILINGUAL! WHAT IS CAINENGLISH?”
Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: MORE TALKING THAN WALKING TODAY!
MORE TALKING THAN WALKING TODAY! I enjoy a good long walk but I like it more when Bob meets another dog owner and talks. This gives me the opportunity to play with the talker’s dog. What could be better! Today there were seven talks on three walks and that must be a record. I playedContinue reading “Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom: MORE TALKING THAN WALKING TODAY!”
RKS Literature: The Train Ride from London to Clapham Common: Through the Suburban Stench (Henry Mayhew)
“ Now we get a whiff of the gutta-percha works; then comes a faint gust from some floor-cloth shed; next we dash through an odoriferous belt of bone-boiling atmosphere; and after that through a film of fetor rank with the fumes from the glazing of potteries; whereupon this is followed by bands of nauseous vapoursContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Train Ride from London to Clapham Common: Through the Suburban Stench (Henry Mayhew)”
RKS Literature: A Fearless Man May be the Most Dangerous Man (Herman Melville)
‘I will have no man in my boat’ said Starbuck, ‘who is not afraid of a whale.’ By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerousContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Fearless Man May be the Most Dangerous Man (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: A Disgusting and Immoral Performance at a London Penny Gaff (Henry Mayhew)
“There was one scene yet to come that was perfect in its wickedness. A ballet began with a man dressed up as a woman, and a country clown. The most disgusting attitudes were struck, the most immoral acts represented, without one dissenting voice. If there had been any feat of agility, any grimacing, or, inContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Disgusting and Immoral Performance at a London Penny Gaff (Henry Mayhew)”
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