Had a nice gettogether with Jack the Sailor, CarolC, her son Ian, and Hesperis at the Black Bull on Queen Street in Toronto. The Black Bull is a very old hotel/pub sort of brick building with a large outdoor patio facing on a very lively part of Queen Street...lots of neat stores around there. It was a Saturday night, though, so most of them were closed. For some reason most Canadian stores close at 6 pm on Saturday (only). It's a tradition, I guess. So, everybody was in fine fettle, the weather was hot but beautiful, and the conversation went all over the map from prosaic subjects like personal history and the usual political imbroglios (been dying to use that word..) to really fascinating and riveting subjects like the impact of William Shatner on the World of Fine Art! Like, wow, eh?

"It was decent, eh?" as Blind Drunk in Blind River might say...

Looking forward to Jack & Carol's next visit!

- LH