Opinion

Now the weather is warmer, up to single digit minuses and it is starting to snow. How long before that miserable 30 below comes back? I don't want it, I want spring! I have marked July 9 and 10 as a hoar frost rain. We will see.

Ed, my neighbour next door, ended 2012 with a big surprise for everyone who knows him. It was, as the old saying goes, a big enough surprise to knock your socks off.

I'm too busy to drive fast. I've learned over the years when I've tried to rush things they always seem to take longer. On those days when I have a reason to get something printed off and sent out my printer seems to fail.

Do you ever wonder if genetics play a role in your body's shape? Well ... they do. This can be a very good thing, or a very tough thing, depending on which type you are.

Doing too many things at one time usually results in things being done poorly. Just look at anyone who tries to have a conversation while texting.

Dear Editor Have you ever seen so much jumping onto the band-wagon as with the Idle No More movement? Out from the shadows are jumping political parasites and "wannabes" trying to co-opt and horn in on the Idle No More movement in order to serve them

A few years ago I wrote about how the Hubble Space Telescope had discovered so many galaxies, there was surely enough to name just one after little old me. So far, no one has emailed me the co-ordinates to the Zinchuk galaxy. I'm still waiting.

Well, the hype of the season is past and the reality of another year faces us. After typing and deleting a dozen or so sentences exhorting myself and you, my readers, to look back over 2012, I eliminated them all.

Dear Editor Shocking is the fact that Brian Zinchuk, in his position with a newspaper, would publish his daughter's grammatical errors for the public to read.

The dawn of a new year is the usual time for newspapers to run year-end reviews and the usual lists by editors of the top stories of the year gone by. I've written up more than my fair share of such stories lately.