BAREly there, to BEAR arms, have BARE arms, BEAR a grudge, BARE its teeth, grin and BEAR it, BEAR down, room is BARE, BEAR with it, its BEARable.

Thank you to those who tried to help with this one (even those of you who will be surprised that the above usages are correct, particularly Ms. Bear Is For The Animal Only). In the end it was the good ole Concise Oxford English Dictionary that I finally realized sits right beside me on the desk. (I’m actually on a chair beside the desk which the book is on, not on the desk beside the book, just to clarify). As most have you have probably noticed, me grammar ain’t de best, wha. Although in Grade 11 English I did use a perfect absolute in one of my papers. I really hope someday Blair Arsenault will tell me what a perfect absolute is.

Hope all are enjoying their St. Pat’s Celebrations as you should be in the midst of them now. A friend of Pam & Beck’s is in town after spending the last 2 months backpacking NZ (and the last 2 nights giving us the lowdown) so we headed out for a celebratory pint. The Irish pubs were too full of followers of the Irish faith who had started their prayer and absolution much earlier than us, so we went to Shakespeare’s, a microbrewery, for a taste of Albert Street’s finest. We were welcomed by some Kiwi’s made curious by the arrival of Canadian’s at an English pub to celebrate Ireland… it was an international affair! A walk around to see the green everywhere, even in some faces… a beverage in the park and we respectable young ladies were home by curfew.