The Blork Blog

I’ve only been back in Montreal for three days and already I find myself invited to a mid-week party, in honour of Tim, a fellow Peter Pan who at 44 is even more of a refugee from geezerdom than I am. Regardless, the theme for this pot-luck was “Italian”, so I opted for a recipe […]

As everyone knows, yesterday the Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team beat the American team and grabbed the gold medal for the first time in 50 years. This followed on the heels of the Canadian women’s team grabbing gold, which impressed me more, primarily because of a documentary I saw about the Canadian women’s team a […]

Ugh. ‘Nuff said.

Unless something utterly smashing and marvelous happens tonight (something which is not beyond my discretion to reveal), then this will be my last post from Mexico… at least for this year.
The rain cleared suddenly and marvelously last night at what I guess to be about 9pm, just after I had finished dinner at Copal (fish […]

The rain! It was fine up until about 1pm, and then the rain came, harder than I’ve seen it in my two somewhat rainy weeks here. At times slowing to a sprinkle and then building to a pounding downpour. The locals are bewildered–they’ve never seen rain like this in February.
Unfortunately I left my cotton […]

What a blazingly hot and bright day! Barely a cloud in the sky, and although it has been generally quite warm here, today is the first day I sweated from merely walking around.
I moved into my upscale cabana around noon, after having walked the beach for an hour and gone for a dip or two. […]

My God, the wind. For the past three days there has been a near gale blowing off the sea, chopping up the surf and roaring through the palm trees. The sky was clear yesterday and the day before, so the presence of all that wind just made things interesting. At night, the wind blew into […]