At Marten Arts Gallery I fell in love with a bowl.  A stunningly beautiful sculptural bowl called "Metropolis" by Dan and Nisha Ferguson.  It’s not a utility bowl, I don’t think you could serve salad in a bowl with a name.  It’s a bowl to spark conversations, a bowl to dream about, a bowl to aspire to.  You can probably guess that a bowl with a name is not cheap, it’s $548.00.  A tad pricey for a bowl but not for a piece of art.  Unfortunately I don’t have $548.00 to spend on art right now.  I’m thinking of making a begging bowl for the blog.  What do you think?

We had coffee at the Little Inn a few weeks ago.   Actually, it wasn’t cheap either but it was lovely sitting in front of the fire in the parlour, reading the paper and sipping coffee and hot chocolate. The best hot chocolate I’ve had outside of France.  Someday we’ll go for lunch – reading the menu makes me hungry.  Doesn’t this sound tempting – "House Smoked Salmon Sandwich Seven grain bread, beet root splash and caper berries, Winter greens salad, citrus dressing"? Is there a required course at chef school – Menu Writing 101?

This time we had lunch at The King’s Bakery Tea Room and Cafe (it’s for sale) next door to the Little Inn.  It was raining so we couldn’t sit outside but we had a table next to the window in the back room cum gift shop.

I had a sausage roll and salad – the theory being that the salad calorically cancels the sausage roll. It was a perfect sausage roll.  Flaky pastry with a subtly seasoned sausage filling.  I love sausage rolls.

I think next time I’ll go by myself so I can do more ’shopping’ and visit ‘my’ bowl.  Until the May 24th weekend the best time to go is probably on the weekend or on a Friday.  A  lot of businesses aren’t open the rest of the week.  Things seem to open at about 11 am. 

I rely on the internet to earn a living.  In Priceville there is no high speed internet access available.  In fact, I think that the dial-up access is possibly the slowest in the world.  19.2.  Did you know that the internet could be that slow?  Do you know how slow that is?  Unbelievable.

And it costs $30.00 a month!  Add to that the fact that when it rains the new phone line that was installed just for the internet doesn’t work and you’ll understand why Bell Canada isn’t my favourite company.

The good news is that parts of Grey County will be getting high speed internet access by the summer of 2008 thanks to an OMAFRA grant.  The really good news is that Priceville in in the proposed service area.

To get a sense of the immense frustration rural residents feel it’s worth reading the open letter to Geoff Hogan posted by Darrell Markowitz on Hammered Out Bits.