Reflections from Crumbly Acres: Queens University

Blind Date is set in Kingston, familiar territory. This is the Hunter and Tate Mystery Series. It includes characters studying at Queens University. It's a lovely, old school in an old city on Lake Ontario.

These are Jordan's photos.

I've been reading the series of books by Brenda Chapman. She is an Ottawa writer. I've been going through the other series as they come available in the library, 'Stonechild and Rouleau.' They take place in Ottawa. It is also familiar territory.

If you permit me a rant. Some idiot has been suing a pencil while they read. Firstly, they are nit picking. Secondly they are not always correct. You can't correct dialogue. Thirdly it slows me down. Who sits with a pencil and does this? It is not fair to other readers. As a retired teacher I spent a lot of time teaching kids standard written English. This is not the place for it.

Back to Queens. Joe Brian went to Queens back in the day. We've visited Kingston many times.

Jordan posted photos. He is at Queens University. The students are getting info on courses for next year! He is studying Astrophysics. Things are going well for him, so I've heard!

🌍 There is chaos around the world. I don't have to tell you. Queens University students have been in Sri Lanka studying biology. These are amazing field trips where they learn about biodiversity, conservation and the relationship between humans and nature! They have a great blog which show their work and has lots of photos. CBC wrote a piece on their situation.

Unfortunately they were headed home, having just left Doha, Qatar, and the plane was turned around. The felon running the US began a war. Air traffic was shut down.