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Madly Off in All Directions - the 2025 Canada thread

questioningquestioning Shipmate
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@Trudy informs us that the New Year has begun in that amazingly prompt Newfoundland manner.

So... It's time to start the 2025 thread.
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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Thanks @questioning - I'll close the old one.

    Piglet, AS host




  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Our New Years Day has started with three deer in our back forty.
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Ooo, were they flying, perchance?

    We have no deer on our island. Lots of dogs at the beach though. And a bit of sunshine on a warm calm day. I'm scared to even hope that 2025 could be a good year. It seems recent years have been far too difficult.
  • sharkshootersharkshooter Shipmate
    All indications are that the title of the thread should read "Happily off in the right direction..."
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Who picked the title?
  • Sober Preacher's KidSober Preacher's Kid Shipmate
    I confess I did not lik the "Madly off in all directions" and did not like the humour.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Caissa wrote: »
    Who picked the title?

    We discussed it a while back on the 2024 thread.

    Happy New Year everyone!

  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    I only know the phrase as the title of a CBC radio show. Is there more?

    Currently sitting in my kitchen with my new phone recharging and pondering why they put glass on the back and why cell phones need cases to protect them. Would think tougher phones would be the norm. My bicycle is sitting in the middle of the floor having just finally removed the Christmas lights and decorations from it. Only a month since riding it in the Santa Claus Parade. A persistent critter is meeting every deterrent and my car has been ravaged again. Is that reason enough to have chocolate for breakfast? I seem to have a lot of chocolate on hand. Last but not least, would anyone like to unload the dishwasher so I can reload it?

    There. That's as madly off as I can get. And if it means something else, well, I'm old enough now to blame it on confusion.
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    Having nothing else on the go, I have now looked to Wikipedia for more information.

    Lo, and behold, there is more!

    From Wikipedia

    The name of the show was derived from a line used by famous Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock in his story "Gertrude the Governess". ("Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.") This phrase was both literally and figuratively applicable, as the show travelled across Canada, and the host and his guests covered the full range of the comedy spectrum.

    If you already knew all this, just scroll on by. We can't all be clever like you. Lol. Just kidding. I blame the chocolate for breakfast.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    Geez, I hadn't intended to start a fight by starting the thread. If people want to have a discussion about renaming it, go ahead.

    I'll step aside until you've sorted it.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    I like the thread title, and anyway it's not something we normally make a big deal about. And it was suggested earlier and nobody complained back then.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    My question was not a complaint, simply a question. I missed the prior discussion.
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    I giggled when I compared it to the title to this year's British thread. Seems they will be lining up and we will do our own thing.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Indeed... :wink:
  • LeafLeaf Shipmate
    Happy belated New Year to my compatriots! It's cold here. The temperature overnight was -30 C degrees.

    The wind chill was -41 C, predicted to be -43 C tonight.
    Sober Preacher's Kid wrote: »
    I confess I did not lik the "Madly off in all directions" and did not like the humour.

    Do you have an alternative suggestion? I supported the current one, but I'm open to suggestion.

  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    On the cold side here as well. Went down to the Lake for a walk, remembering to put an SD card in my camera this time. Quite a wind going. Started out both cloudy and cold, which is the worst of all possible worlds, but eventually the wind pushed the clouds away and got some nice photos with that magic just-before-dusk light.
  • sharkshootersharkshooter Shipmate
    Quite nice out today. Sunny and warm. Went golfing this afternoon.

    Oh yeah, although Canadian, am currently not in Canada.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    There is a story about how Schoenberg, having found refuge from the Nazis in California, would nevertheless sit with his friends and long for the gloom of a northern European winter. I think he was Canadian at heart…
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    sharkshooter wrote: »
    Quite nice out today. Sunny and warm. Went golfing this afternoon.

    Oh yeah, although Canadian, am currently not in Canada.

    I did wonder ... :mrgreen:
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    No golf here today! Glad you are enjoying nice weather. A good sized storm is forming up. Great speculation as to its ability to cancel the first day of school tomorrow.
  • TrudyTrudy Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I suppose we'd have to see a several-year trend to know whether our winter in St. John's is the result of climate change or just a one-year aberration, but this is certainly the latest start to winter (if it ever gets here) that I recall experiencing, and I'm quite familiar with our green Christmases. Every day since Christmas, pretty much, we've had a similar pattern: temperatures dip just below freezing overnight, we awake to a light dusting of snow, temperature rises to just above freezing during the day, if any snow is still falling, it turns to rain and what's on the ground melts, and the cycle resets itself overnight.

    We haven't broken out the shovels once this year. I personally don't mind, as I hate winter and do not find snow charming at all, but the people who love winter sports are unhappy. We'd had a couple of good storms by this time last year, I seem to recall, and in February my husband and I took a two-day trip to Halifax that ended up lasting a week because snowstorms in both places (worse in St. John's though) kept flights from leaving.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That is a late start; when we lived there, we'd usually had Quite A Lot of snow by now and were ready for a January thaw!

  • LeafLeaf Shipmate
    Trudy wrote: »
    We haven't broken out the shovels once this year.

    Wow, that's not at all how I imagine St John's in the winter! I always think of you folks getting shittons of snow. Our winters here tend to be very cold but less snow than (what I thought) the Atlantic provinces get.

    We've had a reasonably mild winter by prairie standards. The true cold didn't hit until relatively later than expected. Having said that, I've never seen a green Christmas here. Early on in the smartphone days, I sent prairie relatives photos from Toronto Christmas... green, +10 C, a window open for a bit of fresh air. There might as well have been palm trees and pineapples in the picture, for the marvel it caused :smiley:

  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    We’re definitely short of pineapples in Toronto this year. Some genuinely cold winter since Christmas, with more snow on the ground and longer than in recent years.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Weather being its usual unpredictable self here. Was hovering between 2 degrees and minus 1 leaving lots of opportunities for wet spots to become ice.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Mind how you go if you're out - ice is only useful for enhancing one's GIN. :mrgreen:
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    I broke my ankle on black ice back in 2017 so extra-careful after that!
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Madly off this afternoon to play my first pickleball of 2025. Supposed to get a fair bit of snow overnight.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    Beautiful, sunny afternoon. I *should* go for a walk. However, preaching at two services has left me drained. I think I'll grab a nap and hope there's enough sunshine left for a walk when I wake up.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Serious cold here today… combined with a mild cold of the respiratory virus variety meant that I spend most of the day inside. But the one time I leave the house to drive somewhere I realize on arrival that I actually did not wear my winter coat but my late fall/early spring jacket.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    My Indspire calendar finally arrived. I love the artwork. I'm glad the postal strike is over.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    Nice light fluffy snow here… hiding perilous ice… just landed on my backside going for a walk. Everything seems to be in one piece but a little shaken up.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Ouch!

    IMHO snow is never nice, no matter how light and fluffy!
  • sharkshootersharkshooter Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Ouch!

    IMHO snow is never nice, no matter how light and fluffy!

    You've got that right!
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    *sending hugs to everybody here from the US*
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    *sending hugs to everybody here from the US*

    Thank you. We are certainly in... uncomfortable... times.
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    About 10 cm of snow when we got out to start shovelling this morning. Will watch the church service on line in a few minutes, for the first time in a couple of years.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    We had noticeably lower attendance this morning too. First task was shoveling quite a lot of snow off the walk.

    Went for my usual weekend walk yesterday and ended up cutting it short at a convenient bus stop on the way home. Still recovering from last weekend’s unfortunate ice event.
  • Sober Preacher's KidSober Preacher's Kid Shipmate
    Ottawa received a decent amount of snow, 25 cm with more on the way. As a native New Brunswicker it is starting to feel like my native habitat. :)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There's nothing decent about that much sn*w ... :mrgreen:
  • Sober Preacher's KidSober Preacher's Kid Shipmate
    Au contraire, it signals that all is right with the world.

    SPK writes at the same desk he had back in northern New Brunswick in the 1980's
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Which part of the north says the southern NBer?
  • Sober Preacher's KidSober Preacher's Kid Shipmate
    Campbellton to be precise.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    A hop skip and a jump from Quebec. I am in Saint John.

    Just watching the funeral of our MP's mother. He and I have known each other since our days in cubs. She was always good to me and our sons.
  • Sober Preacher's KidSober Preacher's Kid Shipmate
    Quebec was always outside the window on the other side of the river.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    We have so much snow in Toronto right now that I feel like I’m back in the Ottawa of my childhood….

    Though actually Ottawa had more, and it stayed forever…
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    I'm starting to get nervous about what will happen when the snow melts and the ice breaks up above the dam. There's going to be a lot of water breaking loose down the Grand River in a few weeks. Meanwhile, they are prophesying another 100-200 mm of snow today and more through the week. We'd better pray for a slow thaw when it comes!
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    edited February 16
    Indeed. It is STILL snowing here too.
  • sharkshootersharkshooter Shipmate
    $80 Billion for a high speed train from Toronto to Quebec City? Of that, almost $4 Billion is for "design and development plan". What a stupid idea that is!

    Supposedly will cut trip from Toronto to Montreal from 6 hours to 3.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    We are starting to get a bit of thaw here. Still massive mounds of snow though. They are starting to do actual snow removal (as opposed to just plowing) along major streets.
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