And in his younger days he was the manager of the farm at one of the Royal estates, Windsor Park IIRC and drew a lot of satisfaction from the role. Apparently it was not uncommon to see him out driving the tractor in the fields.

Prince Charles and Diana were fully divorced by the time of her death. After the divorce, Diana lost her title of her royal highness.

Except any male line descendant of Philip and Elizabeth who is not part of the line of succession has the last name Mountbatten-Windsor, which was also part of the deal.

Queen Mother isn’t even a title set in stone. I don’t think there is such a title as “King Father”.

Thanks for the links. These look interesting.

Sure, diagnosis would be an issue, but given that genetics play a strong role in autism, you would think people would recognize behaviours in their children that they had seen in older relatives.

You need to keep in mind though, that in the case of this particular population, their country of origin has been in poliyltical upheavel since the 1970s, many of the adults in the community may have had disrupted education, and are dealing with the trauma caused by civil war, on top of struggling to make their way in…

Not just an immigrant population but in many cases a refugee population from a country that has seen one upheaval after another since the 1970s. People dealing with a lot of trauma to start with, who are suddenly seeing children with a condition they say they have no name for in their own language (I personally wonder…

There’s a great cookbook called”Everyday Flexitarian” that has recipes that can be made with our without meat or in some cases had a larger vegetarian dish with a smaller meat dish, so you can make the meat for those who want it, and eveyone can have the vegetarian.

Before last week’s climate march in Toronto, one of the organizers sent out a message asking “out of respect for our animal friends, please bring only bring drums with artificial skins” alienating and angering Indigenous people who wanted to take part in the March.

Sorry for your loss.

My theory on how they will get out of this:

That’s from the movie, not the books. Basically they cut out an entirely subplot by making the moving staircases.

I keep getting an error from the clip. Does the Starz player dislike iPads, or is it geolocked?

My nephew was born two months premature, in the US. My parents who are Canadian, went down to help out. While they were sitting in the NNICU, they were horrifying ed to overhear a parent saying that she was so grateful her son wasn’t a few ounces heavier when he was born, because if he had been, her insurance…

They weren’t buying used brushes, they were buying new brushes contaminated with anthrax from the source.

I’m confused. You say World War One, but then talk about the 20's?

I dunno, I think turning into the Eric Roberts Master messed things up for him first...

My FiL was once a hippy and he just loves Anne Coulter. People can and do turn like that.

Ever read Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy? Your story up there sort of feels like it.