I feel like I have been keeping a deep dark secret for many years. It’s time that I get this off my chest.
I’m a proud Newfoundlander, on this earth for 40+ years, and I’ve never made tea buns.
Until yesterday!
Thanks to my grandmother’s recipe that Mom shared with me a couple of weeks ago I made my first batch of good ol’ Newfoundland raisin tea buns. The were deeeeelishus!
Thanks Mom!
Check this out (from CBC.ca).
“A Labrador City teenager who taught herself how to play the ukulele has won an international prize with a song about her hometown she recorded in her bedroom closet.
Kelsey Butt, 18, picked up the ukulele for the first time last December.
She did that after she saw a website announcing a Washington State ukulele maker was holding a songwriting competition called the Mya-Moe Ukulele contest. The top prize was a top-end ukulele worth $1,500.”
Several months ago, Wayne over at Table Mountains posted this video created by a gentleman named Viktor Gažo who visited our fine province in the summer of 2007. The video is 38 minutes long, but certainly well worth the time. He did a wonderful job documenting many of the beautiful and historic sites that our island has to offer visitors and residents alike. In fact, I learned a lot about my home province by watching.
It’s March 31st today. On this date in 1949 Newfoundland and Labrador became the 10th province of Canada. To honour the 61st anniversary of this event, get yourself a glass of coke, pour an ounce of rum in it, kick back and enjoy the show. You won’t regret it.
You can find a higher definition version of the video here.
Newfoundland through eyes of a foreigner from Bright ideas designers on Vimeo.
On Friday February 26 at 8 pm, Donna O’Reilly, 54, disappeared as she was leaving her job in Highfield Square in Moncton. She was seen leaving the building but never made it to her car just a few metres from the door.
Donna, a native of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, is five-foot-three, 130 pounds, and has green eyes and shoulder length hair. According to CBC.ca, her family believes the only possible explanation for her disappearance is abduction.
The family is trying to get the word out as far and wide as possible in an effort to be reunited with their wife, mother, and grandmother. If she was indeed abducted, she could be anywhere right now. Please help spread the word… and if you become aware of any information, regardless of how small, please call the RCMP on the number provided on the flyer above.
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine from work, also a Newfoundlander, came across a collection of old Newfoundland Herald magazines in one of his storage boxes. He brought me in a copy of the 1982 Christmas edition of the famous Newfoundland entertainment and television magazine. Browsing through the pages was quite an entertaining experience. Checking out the shows of the day, Quincy, One Day At A Time, That’s Incredible, Little House On The Prairie was almost like entering a time machine. (I could provide links for you guys, but, hey, you have Google… use it!)
I scanned a few pages… it was hard not to scan the whole magazine, but these few jumped out at me for some reason.
In the Letters section, there was a letter from a reader updating the world on some of the latest regarding Shannon Tweed’s Newfoundland roots. Then there’s a Christmas message from the Premier, Brian Peckford, the light-hearted comedy of Clyde, Christmas wishes from Captain Newfoundland (no, not Danny Williams), an update on the world of local darts (Go, Baxter Brown!), and a sample of the TV listings. Click on the pages below and give the articles a read through… go on, b’y! You’ll enjoy it!
It was a cool experience browsing through this little paper time capsule. I hope ye all enjoys da stroll down mem’ry lane too b’y.
T’anks a lot dere Allan buddy. Yer a wunnerful grand young feller.
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