Archive for the 'Acts of Kindness' Category
An Albanian Saved My Hide Today
5 Comments Published by Gail August 11th, 2008 in Acts of Kindness, House of FieldingRemember this fiasco back in January when I accidentally locked myself out of the house? My former property manager (Serbian, I think?) saved my hide, along with my neighbour who drove me to fetch the key from the office in the middle of winter and lent me a coat so I wouldn’t freeze that night.
Fast [...]
This week I’ve been finishing off the candies that the Japanese tourists gave to me for tourguiding them around Toronto before we all flew to Vancouver on July 5. I’ve never had candies quite like this before, but only the first package has English on it so the second package remains a mystery. One thing [...]
Play Me a Song, Mister Guitar Man
0 Comments Published by Gail February 2nd, 2008 in Acts of Kindness, LossI went to a BFO reunion today. It was, in a word, hard — for all sorts of reasons. I brought my camera and had planned to take more photos, but I only took this one. Aside from a bit of motion blur (James was playing, after all), it didn’t turn out too badly.
It’s been [...]
BEST PRESENT EVER!
1 Comment Published by Gail January 31st, 2008 in Acts of Kindness, Art, Aviation, gailatlarge(I ruined my own surprise today, by accident. More on this in a bit.)
Thank you, Siobhan! I’m sorry Canada Post took so long to deliver it, but it is no less appreciated and it’s still a happy surprise!
Illustration by Relentlesstoil.
I just got these tonight and look how many I scoffed already! Someone who’s staying with me flew in from Germany tonight, and my request was for marzipan. You’d think it’s been ages since I’ve had any, but it’s been only a couple of months since Iris sent me a batch of marzipan through the [...]
Fresh Off The FedEx
2 Comments Published by Gail December 29th, 2007 in Acts of Kindness, Unabashed GeekinessI picked up my Christmas present from my brother today… and excellent timing, too, as I’m getting around to editing the Stanley Park Christmas train videos with the kids in Vancouver. There’s also a big digital pile of videos that haven’t been edited at all. And, of course, there are lots of Toronto Short Film [...]
View larger.
On Wednesday, I returned to the corner where I took this picture the day before. I printed it off at home and brought it with me to work to give to the man on the street corner at lunchtime. I had no idea if he was going to be there again, but there he [...]
It wasn’t for me. It was, presumably, for a homeless person who frequents this bench.
One reason why I always carry a camera with me is because it makes me look at things I otherwise wouldn’t give a second glance. Suddenly the world becomes full of these untold stories. I moved the bag a little to [...]
Happy Easter, from Kermit
1 Comment Published by Gail April 6th, 2007 in Acts of Kindness, Working LifeMy boss strikes again! She gave me a big snowman full of chocolate at Christmas, and then left chocolate eggs for Easter. Mmmm… chocolate=productivity!
I brought Kermit to work on Thursday along with my bags so I could go directly to the airport after work.
Technorati tags: Kermit, Easter
Thanks for the scarf, Holly Yvonne, it’s very versatile!
I wanted to take a break from editing the Cuba photos to send knitting kudos to Holly, who crafted this scarf of scarves for me!
Actually, it’s not cold enough in Toronto right now to use it (I was happy to have it in New York the week [...]
Search
About
You are currently browsing the gailatlarge.com weblog archives for the 'Acts of Kindness' category.
Contact
Recent Posts
- Rivoli
- As Day Slips Into Night
- House Of Fielding Reunited
- Waiting Out A Storm
- I-81 North
- The Electric City
- Pennsylvania Turnpike
- Obama For Yo Mama
- one of the oddest washrooms I have used
- @ Helma’s
- Hey PA
- Niagara Falls, ON
- The Next Three Trips
- Royal Wood: Even Better Live!
- The Split Personality Sunset
- Today’s Coaster
- Royal Wood
- Rusty Russkie
- Nowhere Doesn’t Exist
- Cheltenham Badlands, Part 1
Calendar
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Jul | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | ||||||
Archives
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- January 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
Categories
- Acts of Kindness (27)
- Ancient History (43)
- Art (12)
- Aviation (34)
- Blah Blah Blah (34)
- Books (10)
- Chez Gail (Vancouver) (29)
- Consumer (28)
- Critters + Creatures (176)
- Culture + Society (40)
- David's Writing (61)
- David at 17 (7)
- Expat Life (65)
- Local Colour (23)
- Family (308)
- fave (17)
- Flying (89)
- Food + Drink (119)
- Friends (205)
- gailatlarge (60)
- gailatlarge.com (37)
- House of Fielding (317)
- Engagement/Wedding (37)
- Hugh (73)
- Xena & Beano (52)
- Humour (27)
- Letters to David (21)
- Life Lessons (10)
- Linkage (94)
- Living with Cancer (81)
- Haunted by Cancer (22)
- Loss (70)
- Memes, Polls, Quizzes (9)
- Moblogging (19)
- Music (56)
- Out + About (176)
- Photography (559)
- cameraphone (142)
- film photography (53)
- Flickr (31)
- Flickr Toronto (4)
- Other Photogs (89)
- Vandigicam (20)
- Politics + Economy (21)
- Pop Culture (24)
- AI - Season 4 (12)
- PWP (75)
- Raconteurism (39)
- Randomage (20)
- Rants (38)
- Redux (7)
- Reel + Screen (55)
- Filmmaking (4)
- Religion (6)
- Singleton Life (9)
- Student Life (66)
- Tales of the Absurd (30)
- The Adventures of Kermit (16)
- The Great Outdoors (43)
- Travel (420)
- Unabashed Geekiness (64)
- Urban Life (156)
- Videoclips (179)
- Volunteering/Charity (24)
- Wacky WWW (26)
- Widowhood (19)
- Working Life (72)
- [unfiled] (175)

Recent Comments
Tracy, Gail, Caitlin Miller [...]
addie
Peter, addie
Peter, Lana
Ron Card, Frank, Karl
Monica
Gail, Elizajane
Breigh, Fancy
Marcy the Queen Bee, Gail, Claude
Lana
Lana
Lana, Monica
Monica
Lori, Gail, Lori
Gail, Nina, Anf [...]
Gail, Lana