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[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/10000-twitter.jpg) ** ** Earlier today the @ottawastart Twitter account surpassed 10,000 followers. Thank you to all of our readers for connecting with us! To put that number in perspective: * 10,000 people would fill the Ottawa Civic Centre and half of Canadian Tire Centre. ...

 Photo by [ Mothership Photography ](http://danigirl.ca/blog/2013/11/04/ho-ho-ho-ray-for-holiday-parades-the-2013-edition/) Earlier this week Ottawa blogger Danigirl published her 8th annual list of Ottawa-area holiday parades and Christmas evens. ** Highlights: ** ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/PB041305.jpg) When I was a little kid, my mom and uncles decided to make home made beer in the basement of our farmhouse. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/trudeau-and-me.jpg) I heard recently that my old friend Jean-Marc Carisse and his wife Pat had opened a new photo studio, photo gallery and café on Elgin Street . ...

[  ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6ZhBM0vTiI/UliXRMpCk6I/AAAAAAAASLE/M3nAnnNXkIM/s1600/13i-347___003.jpg) Photo supplied by the City of Ottawa. Remember the not-boring-but-actually-a-roadheader-LRT-tunnel-machine that [ we blogged about a couple weeks ago? ](http://ottawastart.com/ottawa-is-boring-the-ultimate-lrt-tunnel-construction-t-shirt/) ** ** Well now, if you’re a Grade 4 student, you can give it a name. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ My son Stef called to say he’d had a successful trip to Vegas. He won a $2,000 slot jackpot on the first night which basically paid for all his entertainment for the rest of the week. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs almost daily over at Rose’s Cantina . _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/rose-garage.jpg) This garage on Othello St. was firebombed last month, causing $25,000 in damage and severely damaging a 1977 Triumph inside. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/finn-and-me.jpg) _ _ _ Rose Simpson's column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs almost daily over at Rose’s Cantina . _ _ _ I was shocked to hear that there is something called The Black Dog Syndrome at rescue shelters. ...

** Editor’s note: ** I’m pleased to introduce you this morning to one of my favourite Ottawa writers, Rose Simpson. She’s written for the _ Ottawa Journal _ and been a columnist at the _ Ottawa Citizen _ and _ Regina Leader-Post _ , she’s a film producer, and she blogs almost daily over at Rose’s Cantina . ...

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