ruralcolonialns.bsky.social
historian of rural colonial Nova Scotia, father, partner, lives in Niagara, works on Nova Scotia, breaths in PEI
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I did not know that. I don't know the guy really well, but that surprises me. But then I look around the world and ...
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February is gone, and I am quite glad of it indeed, although my days are getting fewer and fewer. All the rest well, as far as I know. This was a devil of a winter altogether, but I hope that the worst is over and gone.
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Few can, not even Presbyterians.
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So you means it's, umm, whataya call it, spring? 😎
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That's his nephew, Alfred Barry, son of William. Here in the 1871 census, he's 12 (so 15-16 in these entries). The census also gives a sense of the family business, and of their religious iconoclasm.
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Don’t worry - lots more opportunities on the horizon!
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Here too!
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I had to get up and get a cloth dipped in cold water and apply it across my stomach for an hour, or so before I could get so much ease as to fall asleep, which I did about the middle of the night. To-day, I have no pain in my stomach and very little wind. I hope I am past the worst for this time. /2
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I sent him an email this morning.
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And really that is what's most important - saving all the poor sick and starving dollars.
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And I only had room for half the list.
See, this is why the Orange-faced one is right to gut all these fancy-schmancy research centres - why waste all that money on "science" and "evidence", when one green bottle does all this amazing stuff? 😎
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...
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And it's not like there's no competition these days.
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What utterly bizarre language. Newfoundland was, for a very long time, a British colony, one of the "white-settler colonies" - ok, not exactly India, but "a Canadian island"?!?!? Would they call Jamaica a mid-Atlantic island? Or Kenya, some place well south of here?
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Alas, we’ll never know - food is not commonly discussed in the diary and spices rarely (pepper a few times, because it irritated him). He was a man with both an aesthetic sensibility and strong views, but not on food.
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And for dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils and ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, dizziness, croup, palpitations of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, dysentary, piles, etc. 😎
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Hmmm, maybe onto something here ... 🤔