Posts by Jane Brook

Keyboard Warriors give it a rest…!

Posted by on Sep 2, 2018 in Current Posts, Featured Slider Posts, General | 1 comment

Keyboard Warriors give it a rest…!

I don’t think anyone would disagreethat the advent of computers, the Internet, and our mammoth progression since then, has been nothing short of miraculous.  For most of us, our Grandparents, and beyond, and even to some extent our Parents, would never have believed or even conceived of what we can do, so easily, at the click of a button, today. We can communicate, often at no charge, with Family and friends around the World, or down the street, via Facebook, Twitter and the multitude of applications now available to us…and even see them real-time! I heard a broadcaster today refer to...

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To Touch, Or Not To Touch

Posted by on Mar 18, 2018 in Current Posts, Featured Slider Posts, General, Health & Wellness | 3 comments

To Touch, Or Not To Touch

Touching – Essential to the human condition. Today, I was listening to Senior Rabbi,Baroness Julia Neuberger on the radio.  She spoke for a few minutes as part of the regular program that accompanies me through my days at home.  I find her jolly sensible, down-to-earth and invariably a message in her words that ring true. Her subject today was touch…simply that, the touch of a hand.  Its power to be used for the good, or in these days of mis-conduct and inappropriate-ness, if that’s a word, for worse.  She spoke about how so many of us today, live with loneliness, and that’s...

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February is W.I. Month

Posted by on Jan 18, 2018 in Current Posts, Featured Slider Posts, Food, General, Lifestyles | 1 comment

February is W.I. Month

You may have heard of us…we’re famous you know!  We make jams and jellies, pickles and preserves (and LOTS of it!) we bake, and bake…and bake! You love our pies and cakes and loaves! We craft, we sew, we knit…we do SO much more than this…but do you know what we REALLY do? Read on…or check out our Provincial website at www.bcwi.ca The Women’s Institute was originally founded by Adelaide Hoodless, with it’s first meeting being held in Stoney Creek, Ontario in 1897.  The WI in British Columbia, was started by Miss Laura Rose, in 1909, at the request of the Department for...

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