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A coworker has described her hobby as being, itself, 'hobbies' - that her hobby is trying out new things, giving different crafts a shot, seeing if she's any good at this or that activity. Honestly, props to her, that seems like a great outlook on things. This summer, then, I tried to follow that approach - and it just so turns out that, a few streets from the Corso Italia LRT station, is the Ottawa Glassblowing Co-op!
My father and I ended up being the only ones there (possibly because, with summers already getting hotter, a 1200-degree glass oven pushes past the reasonable), so we had a super cool experience getting to pepper our 'guide' with questions! (Our actual involvement in the glass 'blowing' (now done through a foot pedal) was pretty minimal, given we had zero safety training, but still, it was fascinating to see.)
The Centre is *for*, is in favour of, Canadian crosswords. It is a creative space where the default assumption is Canadian, from the references to the spelling.
