Robson Arms: The Complete First Season

Robson Arms is a half-hour dramedy series that follows the lives of the tenants in a once-grand low-rise in Vancouvers eclectic West End. Robson Arms is about community and all the word implies: people sharing a space and place; sometimes connected, some

Robson Arms is a Canadian Seinfeld-meets-Neighbors, with a little Three's Company thrown in for good wink-wink, nudge-nudge measure. The series follows the lives of the inhabitants of one particularly diverse residential building in Vancouver, British Columbia. The apartments themselves range from the Architectural Digest-ready bachelor pad of the snooty attorney to the barely livable hovel just inhabited by the single-mom nurse and her precocious son. (The nurse uses a far saltier term for the ratty apartment than "hovel," part of the charm of the series.) Each series focuses on a different inhabitant and his or her soapy love life, hidden agenda, and foibles, with just enough interaction to hold the viewer from week to week. A standout is young Justine Wong, who plays tween house "detective," Ruby. And the dialogue is entertainingly ribald; one young boy tosses off a line about his dad as "in Burnaby shacked up with jailbait." The extra bite makes Robson Arms wickedly addictive. --A.T. Hurley

Eventually the war was over, but not the story, they were all kept in a prisoner of war camp for a further 12 months Oma along with her children. There was no correspondence from her husband and it was not clear whether he was still alive.

Like all good fairy tales they were all reunited again and started a life on a beautiful property in the hills outside Surabaya, only to be displaced again when the uprising happened and the Dutch were thrown out of Indonesia. By Grandparents and their children mover to Borneo and settled there for some time before moving to New Guinea. They planned a final move move to Australia with their sons Michael and Fritz. Sadly my grandmother came to Australia on her own, as my grandfather died just before there were to move.
Through all these things I believe she had the right to be an angry person, yet her words to me were always,” for everything bad that happens to you my darling, something good will happen to even it out.
When my daughter Candice was diagnosed with Leukaemia she said those very words again. Sadly Candice and Oma are no longer with me, but my life is wonderful and blessed for having known them and their love.
Oma died at the ripe old age of 95 still telling me to have faith in the world and love everyone, not just those we have something in common with. She is an inspiration to me today and all my days.

She taught me the importance of folklore

My Oma gave me a greater understanding of folklore and the reason behind so many of the fairy tales that we tell our children now. Oma told us stories before we went to sleep every night that we stayed with her. I can remember her saying “Which Story would you like today?” to the noisy bickering of my brother and I who could never decide on the same story at the same time. Favourites were Hansel and Gretel, a story told to children so that they did not venture into the forest and speak to strangers when people still really believed in Witches and mystical influences. The 7 little goats a story told to children when there were no baby sitters available and parents sometimes had to leave home to get food and supplies.
Cinderella, a story of fairness and hope against adversity.
When we read these stories to our children in the modern world, there are still real messages that are important for their safety.
My Oma would often get out a book with graphic pictures of what the lung of a smoker looked like. Not one of the four children in our family smoke, could this be the reason.
Perhaps today when we try to soften stories for our children so not to scare them, we are doing them an injustice. I believe a good bit of fear can also be a constructive thing.
An example of this was a well that was in our neighbour’s yard. It was very deep and a considerable danger to us as children.
My Oma told me that the devil lived in the well and that they had covered it with a tin sheet so that nobody would fall in and be captive by the devil. This really did keep us away, the closest we ever got to the well was holding the ankles of the next door neighbours kids as they laid flat on the ground looking in the dark hole.

My Oma taught me many things that are still very important today.

· A great love for family and home

· Right from wrong

· How to cook without bottles or packets

· To believe that even in the most terrible of times there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

· To love everyone, even if they are different

· And a very special way to get rid of hiccups

· So many more things that I am still unfolding now at 47

I hope that I can impart some of the wonderful gifts that my Oma has taught me to my daughter. The world has become faster and more modern, but the important morals and core values that a grandparent can provide to their children is still the building blocks for a strong and resourceful life…..

Lucille Brace

So, yeah, I finally broke down and got new sneaks. I love them. I was going to get grey one's again, the same as my last pair, but they didn't have my size!! UGH! So I saw these awesome plaid ones and got these instead. But... as I knew it would be, I didn't have the heart to throw out my old pair, I love them so much, they are like perfect, they're all like broken in [which, well, was the problem, they were far too broken in but I didn't want to get rid of them. I love them. (I know I'm weird)], so I'm keeping them for like don't know... yard work? (You must know, I have never done yard work. A little gardening for my mother, picking apples and berries and such, but not much else.) So, yeah you thought you had finally escaped from having to see pictures of my crappy shoes on Flickr; yeah, that's not likely.

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Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry is adored by kids. They just can't get enough of the great beats, wonderful imagery, and good ol' belly laughs his poetry contains! With over a hundred poems included, most of them new but some old favorites too, My Hippo Has the Hiccups is a laugh-out-loud good time. The audio CD features lots of the great poem readings and zany humor that make Kenn one of the most widely sought school speakers in the country.
From angry vegetables to misbehaving robots to the boy who is only half a werewolf, these are all officially poems Kenn totally made up:
my robot does my homework! | i bought a pet banana! | when vegetables are angry...
Be sure to visit Kenn online at the world's most popular poetry site for kids: poetry4kids.com

Kenn Nesbitt's hilarious poetry is adored by kids. They just can't get enough of the great beats, wonderful imagery, and good ol' belly laughs his poetry contains! With over a hundred poems included, most of them new but some old favorites too, My Hippo Has the Hiccups is a laugh-out-loud good time. The audio CD features lots of the great poem readings and zany humor that make Kenn one of the most widely sought school speakers in the country.
From angry vegetables to misbehaving robots to the boy who is only half a werewolf, these are all officially poems Kenn totally made up:
my robot does my homework! | i bought a pet banana! | when vegetables are angry...
Be sure to visit Kenn online at the world's most popular poetry site for kids: poetry4kids.com