To all our members and visitors, we wish you a healthy, happy, peaceful 2026.
(If you are wondering where the posts for 2025 are, these have been archived in our library. As explained on the library website, we have moved them to our Google-hosted pages.)
To begin the new year, here is a little item suggested by my visit to the 33rd Annual Gingerbread Lane at the Hyatt Regency hotel on Burrard St. in Vancouver.
Over 40,000 people visit the display of gingerbread “houses” located in the hotel lobby. They are encouraged to make a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It is a nonprofit organization that grants life-changing wishes to children with critical illnesses.
Bakers compete for the “best in show” in three categories: Professional, Amateur, and Secondary School.
And why are we telling you this? Because one entry caught my eye.
Unfotunately the bus, baked by Jacelyn & Derek did not win – though they got my vote! – we don’t know much about them other than they probably live on the #44 bus line. The creation was subtitled “the most festive form of public transport.”