Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Two Stories...

...that will warm your cockles:

Message in a bottle from Canada arrives in Ireland after 8 years at sea
"Oisin Millea can hardly believe his luck — and instant fame he’s gained — from sorting through “rubbish” along the shoreline near his home in Ireland.

The nine-year-old schoolboy, along with his photographer mother Aoife Millea, 31, was looking at the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shores of the tiny village of Passage East, County Waterford, last week by a particularly high tide when he discovered a two-litre green plastic pop bottle with something inside it.

It turned out to be a note, written in French, from two 12-year-old Montreal girls, Charlaine and Claudia, tossed into the Gulf of St, Lawrence in 2004 while they were vacationing in the Gaspe.

Eight years and 5,100 kilometres later, it arrived."

And...

Stephen Harper crashes Ottawa wedding
"The drama began Saturday after Potvin and Sullivan were married at 1 p.m. Kelly says the couple, together with seven bridesmaids and an equal number of groomsmen, had pulled into a parking lot off Rockcliffe Parkway, which runs along the Ottawa River.

Three dark coloured cars were already in the lot.

Kelly says she was taking photos when the cars started to move and Harper rolled down his window to say congratulations to the bride.

But just as the PM and his security detail were about to pull out of the parking lot back onto the parkway, they stopped and everyone got out.

Kelly says the couple was “really excited.” One photo shows an unbelieving Potvin pointing at Harper.

Afterwards, the PM and his security detail drove away"."
Unless, of course, you're a hate Harper-Hitler type, in which case you have no cockles to warm.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

Nice story about the Irish lad and the bottle & note.

And I must say, that was a very nice gesture on PM Harper's part, taking the time to mingle with the Bride & Groom and their wedding party. Somehow, I can't imagine Obama doing that.

October 25, 2012 10:17 pm  

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