Happy 5th birthday to my sweet boy, Riley. Hard to believe it's been five whole years since you came home to us, my darling rescue chiweenie. We love you so much. #birthday #chiweenie #rescue #riley #fifthbirthday #celebration #doglove #dogsarefamily

Just a woman and her fatbike. 😁 #cycling #fatbike #newbike

So Google bought FitBit, and now my wrist is talking to me like I'm 100 years old and feeble: "You've just had a big thirty-minute walk! Wow! On your own two legs! You should roll yourself in a duvet and have a nice hot drink." "Only 3.5 hours of sleep last night? Naughty, naughty girl!" #fitbit

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Look at this beautiful art. Now look at their beautiful faces. Let's help out. Thank you so much.

Wrestling with Chapter 40, where Inspector Blaise Pascal (yes, really) begins putting the pieces together. He knows who wants him dead. He'll even meet them there. #writing #writerlife #crimefiction #thriller #mystery #newfoundlandnoir #montrealnoir #policeprocedural

Guess what we're getting for weather tomorrow?

LOOK at this beautiful creature. 😍

Listening to Gowan's "Awake the Giant" and it brought back a lot of 80s memories of when Himself and I were randy newlyweds... wasn't a *giant* as such, tho. More of a rather tall man. And thick. Through the middle, like. #80smusic #gowan #awakethegiant

Every single person who owns an iPhone has the ringtone set to default when they are on an airplane. So the rest of us will hear it and go, "Oh. An iPhone. Clearly this person is higher up the evolutionary ladder than I am." Every. Single. Person. Every. Single. Time. #apple #iphone #ringtone

I love some of the commentary on baseball: "Well, clearly, Dan, he's thinking about something important rn" Meanwhile, what he's thinking about is, "If I fart now will it be clear and silent or loud and wet?" #baseball #commentary #sports

Just opened the most recent issue of a respected literary journal to find... ...a woman's name repeated over and over in tiny letters... ...in the shape of a vulva. That's it. Just her name. Shaped into a c&nt. Which makes me awfully glad I got out of academia when I did. 🙄 #wtf #academia #crap

On a completely unrelated note, the provincial government is worried about moose-vehicle accidents, so they are bringing in moose fencing and I think that's a good idea because who doesn't want to watch large deer swordfighting in public? #newfoundland #moose #moosefencing

I am proud to introduce: The Tree. Whenever we walk downtown, Riley always drags me over to The Tree, in front of the Anglican Cathedral. I don't know why. It must be extraordinarily smelly. He loves it! #walkies #dogsofbluesky #rescue #chiweenie #cute #stjohnsnl

Fearing for people in Europe and other places. It is so HOT and it's only May!!! Here on the Isle of the Blessed, it is 4C (feels like 1C) and some nice soft fog has floated in from the N. Atlantic. Come for a visit. We have tea. And icebergs! (photo: Andrew McFayden, Facebook) #climate #nlwx

When the justice system works: www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

Because our provincial premier is actually three codfish in a trenchcoat. That's why. 🙄

It's 1:07 in the morning right now in downtown Montreal and I have just finished writing a pivotal chapter in my new novel, The Body at Least. Five hours. Five HOURS I wrestled with this beast but I think (I hope) it's solid. #writinglife #author #crimefiction #thriller #policeprocedural

Buddy and Da Missus watching Coronation Street. (Yes, I saw some Roman stuff at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. 😏) #museum #montreal #roman #statuary

Now this gorgeous floof is Arturo. I met him on rue Saint-Vincent last evening. His daddy tells me he is five years old and a very good boi. #goodboi #fluffy #doggo #pupper #cutedog #dogsofmontreal

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All victims deserve justice, no matter how rich the traffickers and rapists are! #darkthriller #darkpsychological All proceeds will go toward my recently departed wife's funeral expenses. www.amazon.com/stores/autho... books2read.com/the-innocent

If you've read my Kildevil Cove mystery DARK VOWS, you know that Pascal was shot and nearly killed, coming up out of a speakeasy in Old Montreal. Well, that speakeasy is The Coldroom and I spent a delightful hour there this evening. #writing #mystery #coldroom #oldmontreal #inspectorpascal

Life of a Flâneuse: returning to the hotel with Bags and Important Clothes and Other Things I Had to Buy. 😁 #flaneuse #shopping #walking #looking #montreal #hotel #vacation #writerlife

Beautiful mural in Le Quartier des Spectacles. The imagery really appealed to this educator. 😊 #mural #montreal #urbanart #streetlevel

Baby red panda Mini is teething and tried to eat an apple in her little crib❣️

This man is a magician of dessert!

Auggie is still waiting...

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At the panda elementary school~snacks are delivered by way of a fishing pole 🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼

Evening walk in Montreal, when the city rolls over and shows you the seamy underbelly. Bikers, strippers, pimps, all jostling together in a sense of uneasy darkness. Watch yourself out there. 😏 #montreal #nightlife #afterdark #sleaze #grimy #underbelly

Please, please, please, if you can help this sweet, precious little girl. She doesn't deserve to die. ❤️

Stopped in at Jardin Nelson on Place Jacques-Cartier for a delicious lunch! Could only manage half of that massive burger... 😋 Good thing I'm doing all this walking! #lunch #travel #eating #jardinnelson #burgerandfries #oldmontreal #food #gourmand #walking

Evening walk down rue Sainte-Catherine and back again. The atmosphere is electric! Every pub and restaurant is crammed to capacity; every TV set is showing the hockey game. Allez les Habs! #walking #montreal #night #hockey #canadiens #habs #stanleycup

Just got that "Hi Mom, I dropped my phone in the sink" scam text from an unknown number. The kicker? I DON'T HAVE ANY CHILDREN. 🤣🤣🤣 Stun-arse.

Day Two in beautiful Montreal. Slept 10 hours in the most comfortable hotel bed in creation, then a two-hour long ramble around the Golden Square Mile and rue Sainte-Catherine. Ahhh, Montreal. Je t'adore! #montreal #writing #writerlife #walking #architecture #quebec #labelleprovince #canada

Working in front of the window with possibly poisonous microwave lunch thing in the foreground. Inspector Pascal is a harsh taskmaster. 😂 #writing #amwriting #crimefiction #thriller #detective #policeprocedural #fiction #writerlife #booksandwriting

Waking early in Pascal's Montreal: rain beginning, and a cool breeze off the St. Lawrence river. #writing #working #writerlife #montreal #blaisepascal #notthephilosopherprobably #detectivefiction #thriller

View from my hotel room on Blvd Rene-Levesque. 😊 #travel #writerlife #montreal #quebec

On the plane and on my way to Montreal. Can't wait! #vacation #Montreal #Quebec

Junie likes to scratch up the couch before settling in for a nap, LOL #dogsofbluesky #borderterrier #juniper #cute

So I am going to Montreal on Tuesday and, in order that Hubby not subsist on apple pie and ice cream like he did last time, I have made: 2 dozen healthy muffins A week's worth of spaghetti sauce A week's worth of rice pilaf ...and provisioned lean chicken and fish. He starves, it's his own fault. 😁

Saw a thing that said "Hissing and lunging at people isn't unusual at this age" and I felt good then I realized they were talking about cats. 😁

If Gareth Pierce doesn't get a BAFTA for his performance in today's episode, there is something seriously wrong. #corrie #acting #garethpierce #domesticabuse #television #ITV

Beautiful walk downtown today with the pups in the misting drizzle that so typifies spring in this gorgeous city of mine. Took a photo in a laneway between Gower and Bond and ran it through a 'watercolour' filter. #photography #stjohnsnl #gowerstreet #bondstreet #spring #nlwx #walking

It is 20C outside today with the sun shining and a fine, brisk Newfoundland wind drying my washing on the line. These little flowers, 'volunteers' from elsewhere, appear in the back garden every spring without delay. Like scraps of fallen sky. All is well. #peace #spring #nlwx #flowers #sunshine

My father has been in hospital for the past 4 months, after breaking his hip. He is in end-stage Parkinson's. Tomorrow he goes to long-term care. He's 78 at month's end. I visited today to say goodbye. Fuck, that was hard. 😢 Here he is as a young boy. #parkinsons #age #father #goodbye #sad