Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“And still more, later flowers for the bees”. (Maplelawn Garden, Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.) 050
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026John Southworth, “Niagara.” Tin Angel Records, 2014. A favourite of mine. 120
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 26/09/20263:50 pm. Lord give me strength not to let the sister I haven't seen in eight years (but who comes to town regularly to see our elderly mother) destroy my entire day, a beautiful day I might add, that went sour from the moment I looked at my emails this morning. 040
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Canadian art history-related. The Ottawa house where artist Kenneth Lochhead (1926-2006) lived is for sale. A lot of his artwork can be seen in the photos so I'm guessing his wife lived on there. www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...realtor.caCheck out this listing35 WILTON CRESCENT, Ottawa, Ontario K1S2T4 110
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sunday, 6 p.m. Gazing over at Quebec through the willows. 070
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Happy Goat café at the National Gallery of Canada could be renamed the Crabby Goat. “We close at 5:00. After 4:30, no plates, and only takeout cups.” So you sit there eating your pricey sandwich on a piece of flimsy paper bag, feeling they can’t wait for you to go. 240
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ian bought this scarf for his daughter’s birthday and I think he looks good in it. 060
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A friend sent me this AI cartoon version of a selfie we took recently. I am sort of horridly fascinated by it. 030
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just noticed Matthew Rankin's film "Universal Language" is playing on CBC Gem. Yay. 120
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Years ago I was assistant to a young lawyer from Quebec City. Fed up with a group she was doing work for, she let loose with “gang de poireaux!” I asked her what it meant and she said “bunch of leeks.” Anyway this made me think of her. (R.I.P. Ève Poulin 🤍) 040
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Seen at hospital gift shop. Gotta love the two “should be”s. 130
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I noticed something was making a pretty shadow—prettier than the thing itself. 170
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 30/08/2026There's an ice cream truck roaming around our neighbourhood, loudly playing the opening of "Old Folks at Home/Swanee River" over and over. And I just read that it's Florida's official state song. 100
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 27/08/2026For no particular reason I am just sitting here looking at map of the Great Lakes, and noticed this. (Sh, nobody tell him.) 392
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"He spent many happy hours launching frozen chickens at jet engines in the wind tunnel at Uplands." - from an obituary in today's Globe for Ottawa engineer Phil Cockshutt. 030
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 19/08/2026August 18. Watercolour sketching with a friend down by Hartwells Locks on the Rideau Canal.🤍 050
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 15/08/2026What’s wrong, little buddy? Do you miss the others? 092
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Your book arrived today, @julianisland.bsky.social. (Ordered from UK, mailed from Malmo. 🤷) Looking forward to reading! 110
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 08/08/2026That's kind of alarming info about Adisoke, the huge new Ottawa Public Library that's being built. I was surprised that they had no copies of two Canadian authors I recently looked up: Morley Torgov and John Newlove. (You can only read Newlove if you go in person to The Ottawa Room.) 010
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Hellish: It’s 30C and I’m sitting in the car at the grocery store waiting for Ian. Guy in the car beside me is idling, windows shut, his car idling, presumably so he can run the AC, working on his laptop. Aargh. 220
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My visiting sister discovered a car “spa” at 1112 Gladstone Ave., Ottawa, where they’ll clean your car thoroughly, inside and out. Run by Francis, this friendly Nigerian guy. 030
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 25/07/2026There is a kid somewhere in the neighborhood who’s been letting out very high-pitched squeals for more than two hours and I am wondering how she can keep doing that for so long without hurting her throat. (And yes, it is beginning to wear on me.) 120
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Bhat Boy’s painting outside Starbucks in the Glebe has developed quite the texture. 000
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Outside the grocery store, a young Ukrainian mom with two little kids saw me looking with curiosity at her bicycle. She told me she was taking these apples to her mother for jelly-making. 281
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. It is unbearable to think of him in an Israeli prison cell, beaten and tortured. 021
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Last night’s viewing was “The World of Apu” (R). The little masked son reminded Ian and me of Lee Lai’s graphic novel Stone Fruit, which we just read. Both excellent, BTW. 020
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Oh, here comes the knife-ruiner! I suppose it could be a different guy, but they once wrecked a good French knife of mine. Don’t be fooled by bell-ringing quaintness! 220
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 03/07/2026They’re building a seven-foot fence next door. I suppose I’ll get used to it eventually. 😐 100
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Who knew? I didn’t until today. Currently 34C, humidex 40. 020
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy Canada Day! It began as a hot sunny day in the nation’s capital, then got very dark, with thunderstorms and rain. (I know this is dull but the heat really saps me.) 140
Reposted by Andrea MurphyShirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...share.googleI am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan aheadPatients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease 166325
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Ottawa, Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Sitting by the rushing water of Hartwells locks on the Rideau Canal, admiring the structure of a pine cone. 050
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Walked along the river on this perfect solstice evening. 040
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is pretty disturbing. One detail: the Minister of Health met at least three times with CropLife, the pesticide lobbyists. Shudder. 220
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The physiotherapist put an app on my phone that dings three times a day with the message “It’s time to do your exercises!” The effect it has on me is this. 020
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Out for a little walk, I said hello to the fellow who’s been doing renovations nearby. I was curious and asked if he was from Ukraine. Close, he said. From Romania/Moldova. I ventured (showing off a bit) that Moldova used to be called Bessarabia. “Yes! Not many people know that.” 070
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Good thing you didn’t hear me when my partner told me the neighbour we try to avoid came over to ask if we’d like to contribute $4000 to the backyard fence he’s having built. 🤯 060