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Mary Cook will grace The Miller's Tale Saturday December 8th, from 2 pm to 4 pm.
she will be signing copies of Mary Cook's This Then Was Home.
This is really a wonderful book. A collection of stories and recipes, and including a perennial calendar. To boot, the cover illustration, a beaut, is by local artiste Rosemary Leach.
SPECIAL TIME: due to Mr. Phillips tight schedule, (we have to get him to the airport by 9:00pm) tonight's BONUS Books n Beer will start at 7pm. As always, in the back room of the Ironworks Pub.
The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar celebrates its twentieth year in Canadian homes, schools, and offices.
Being Canada's favourite calendar for twenty years is no mean feat, as Phillips says, It's the most popular calendar in Canada. And there's no cleavage or cats - it's all about the weather. At the same time, he acknowledges, that we're known as the weather people of the world, and we have a lot of tough weather in this country.
Having collected at least 25,000 weather stories during his career, Phillips should know! The calendar showcases Canada's craziest weather conditions, giving all of its readers a piece of the Phillips weather archive and leaving them wanting more.
At its inception, The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar began a wave, with similar weather trivia calendars springing up in countries as far away as Singapore and Australia. But Canadians know that few countries experience the wacky, weird, and woeful weather that we submit ourselves to in Canada. As Phillips says, We scoff at blizzards and sneeze at frostbite. Not to mention that we are tickled by tornados, delighted by downdrafts, charmed by Chinooks. . . We complain about our weather, but we love it - and not secretly.
Always a bestseller, written with the bold humour and sound science that Canadians have come to expect from David Phillips, The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar continues to be a year-long weather adventure for all ages.
Author Bio
David Phillips,acknowledged as Canada's foremost weather expert, a genuine Canadian legend, and our unofficial weather guru,would rather think of himself as a weather ambassador for Canada.As a senior climatologist at Environment Canada, Phillips's work involves activities related to the study and understanding of the Canadian climate and the promotion of weather awareness.