One of those irritating rationales I hear all the time from people who commute to far suburbs or adjacent towns (or too often, towns really far away…) is that they can afford more house out there. I don’t believe it, not for one second. There’s the cost of commuting, the value of time to commute, the risk to your own health and life by all that additional road pollution and traffic danger… and then by time you get to Merrickville or wherever its time to go to bed so you can get up earlier to drive back in to beat the traffic, … Continue reading Cost of commuting

Let’s see, there’s a gaggle of geese, a school of fish, a pack of dogs, a cabal of politicians, a pack of thieves, a swarm of ants, a shoal of bass, a sloth of bears, hive of bees, flock of sparrows but a murder of crows, a wake of buzzards, army of caterpillars, a clowder of cats, brook of chickens, bed of clams, pack of dogs, gang of elk, charm of finches, bank of gorillas, mob of kangaroos, a barrel of monkeys, dray of squirrels, murmuration of starlings, and now … a waste of safari of plumbers. Continue reading Collective wisdom …