Out for a haircut, prudently taking an umbrella, which turns out not to be needed. The book to read while waiting isn't needed either, as it's a slow day at the hairdresser's and the maestro is taking an unaccustomed break when I arrive, so straight to the chair.
Adrienne and Gabriel over for a drink and a chat after supper. They live, for two weeks at least, at the far end of the corridor. The rest of their life, though, is divided between Mississauga, Canada, their primary home, and Hungary, their country of origin. He's eighty now and looks back on a very interesting life. A freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution and a civil engineer by training, he fled Hungary and ended up designing highways in Saskatchewan in the late 50's. This was followed by jobs in various third world countries, from Bangladesh to Malawi, and finally, via Hungary (where he married Adrienne) back to Canada where he ended up teaching at Seneca College. And has he slowed down in retirement, J asks. Not a bit of it He's written fifteen novels, several of them published as ebooks. He offers to give us some reading for the Kobo. What aout a novel and a science fiction?
And late in the evening comes the news that a riot has broken out following a football game in Port Said, leaving, at first reports, over fifty dead and many more injured. The best case scenario, of course, is that this is only a sporting conflict and there will be no political repercussions, but it doesn't seem likely.
Adrienne and Gabriel over for a drink and a chat after supper. They live, for two weeks at least, at the far end of the corridor. The rest of their life, though, is divided between Mississauga, Canada, their primary home, and Hungary, their country of origin. He's eighty now and looks back on a very interesting life. A freedom fighter in the Hungarian Revolution and a civil engineer by training, he fled Hungary and ended up designing highways in Saskatchewan in the late 50's. This was followed by jobs in various third world countries, from Bangladesh to Malawi, and finally, via Hungary (where he married Adrienne) back to Canada where he ended up teaching at Seneca College. And has he slowed down in retirement, J asks. Not a bit of it He's written fifteen novels, several of them published as ebooks. He offers to give us some reading for the Kobo. What aout a novel and a science fiction?
And late in the evening comes the news that a riot has broken out following a football game in Port Said, leaving, at first reports, over fifty dead and many more injured. The best case scenario, of course, is that this is only a sporting conflict and there will be no political repercussions, but it doesn't seem likely.
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