Weekly Round-up: Open Book: Ontario

The Abkhazy Garden, my first stop in the day of endless readings, is beautiful, a natural alternative to the vulgar plantings in our most famous public garden. Its partner in tea, The Silk Road Tea company near The Gate of Harmonious Interest, (locals say "compound interest") is a spice box of history and pleasant flavours. Danielle, their tea expert, spoke at the Tea reading, and she was great. So far, so good.

Danielle knows how to hold her audience and when to stop; and that is a rare talent.

When it was my turn to do tea lit, I put my hat on and took my shoes off. The hat fit but the shoes had grown since I last wore them (to Pelleas et Melisande the night my dress got rucked up in my undies and I walked with 'ho skirt right across the lobby of the new Opera House in Toronto).