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Ukuleles and cheese shops

13 July 2009
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Spent a few days in Toronto last week; a mini-vacation, our first time off together since spring, 2008. Susan had the time off work, so we booked a hotel and...

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Ukulele update: June 09

14 June 2009
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Two new ukes have been added to the collection recently: a soprano zebrawood Ohana, and a tenor banjo uke from Waverly Street ukes. Both are reviewed on my...

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Ukulele update: May 09

30 May 2009
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Tom Guy's cigar box ukulele has certainly taken over as my most-played instrument. I take it to work to practice on during slow times - usually the last hour of the day or the last couple of hours on a Saturday. I...

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Cigar box ukuleles

20 April 2009
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Cigar box instruments have been around ever since there were cigars, it seems. They go back to before the US Civil War. It didn't take long for some entrepreneurial spirits to figure out how to use a wooden cigar...

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More on the family tree

10 April 2009
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In August, 2008, I posted a blog piece on a bit of amateur genealogical sleuthing I was doing, trying to connect with my family tree on both sides...

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Sweet Sue - Just You

14 January 2009
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Thanks to a bit of serendipity, I've added another great song to my ukulele...

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The tale of a Blackberry

13 December 2008
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[indent]I must be the only technophile on the planet without a Blackberry. Or its equivalent. Everyone around me has one. I have a mere cell phone....

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Cats...ah, the joys of cats.

02 November 2008
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I found this video on YouTube and thought I'd share it with readers. If you have a cat, you'll know what it's all about...

Susan and I laughed until we cried because we have a cat who does almost exactly this every morning....

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What's In A (family) Name?

31 August 2008
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I was amusing myself this weekend with some ad hoc genealogy, looking up my family name online, hunting around for my roots, a vanity search as its called. Of course, we all have two roots to dig into - our mother's and father's families. Each of those bifurcates into two more and so on. That makes it both...

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Ukulele update and reviews

05 July 2008
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[indent]I finally got my page of ukulele reviews updated with my latest acquisition (a Pono solid mango tenor uke, arrived earlier this week). While nowhere near as comprehensive as my review of harmonicas, I...

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