'Serenity'
[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
Kings and Hants are the counties that the riding covers.
Hants is the shortform for Hampshire in England. It would be kind of humourous if the NS county adopted it whole-cloth, so to speak.
Scugog is one of the best names ever. It totally reminds me of an old Kazar comic, or Savage Sword of Conan or something. People driving through Scugog with me tend to get subjected to a complete riff of me enjoying the sound of Scugog. That whole stretch of Highway 7 has some good slightly odd names.
Hants is the shortform for Hampshire in England.
I never knew this.
It would be kind of humourous if the NS county adopted it whole-cloth, so to speak.
I'm sure they did. Yep:
Ultimately getting its name from the County of South Hampton in England, popularly called Hampshire, and abbrieviated to Hants, Hants County was established in 1781 out of part of what had been Kings County.
I posted this bit of news in Natter already, but it deserves to be double (har) posted.
"Double double" has finally made the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
I never knew this.
My uncle Jack and his family live in Southampton (in the New Forest, even), thus the fact trapped in my useless brain forever.
Ultimately getting its name from the County of South Hampton in England, popularly called Hampshire, and abbrieviated to Hants, Hants County was established in 1781 out of part of what had been Kings County.
That's fantastic, really. I'm wondering if we can look forward to new counties one day being named "Nfld" or "Alta" someplace.
Happy Canada Day, all!
t poking head
Happy Canada day!
[Edit: and x-posted with brenda, no less]
Happy Canada Day!
Thanks! And Happy Canada Day to all!
Drat! I'm too late. t jumps in time machine, travels back twelve hours Happy Canada Day!
True story: I was watching an american channel the other day, and they said something about "the upcoming holiday weekend." I thought "Oh, it's a holiday weekend there too? I wonder what the holiday is," and then forgot about it. Today there was a mention in a newspaper. Oh right. Independence Day. It's only the national holiday, coming, as always, three days after ours. No reason I should remember that.
I think maybe I left my brain somewhere else.
Back at work. On the bus I felt queasy and wanted to get off and run away and hide from the evil that is work. It's hard to come back to the office after 3 weeks away. Not that I did much other than read, garden, and sleep.