Alas, I will be spending most of my Canada Day alone. I am living in Kingston, Ontario during the week on what the Army calls a "separated posting", meaning that I live in bachelor squalor in an apartment during the week in Kingston, and drive back to Ottawa on Fridays after work.

I began Canada Day with a run along the Kingston waterfront, and I expect I will end it watching the fireworks over Lake Ontario from the officers mess of Fort Frontenac, where the very first units of the Canadian regular Army were formed.

In the meantime, the sun is shining (for a while, anyway) so I will wander around Kingston, enjoy the weather, and possibly drop in on my favourite coffee shop, the Sleepless Goat. This place bills itself as a worker's cooperative, and is run by a bunch of young persons in black who tend to wear a lot of facial jewellery. Perhaps there will be some music playing somewhere in town.

Edmund