My World

Subscription-based, offering different levels of music streaming quality, Tidal is one of the competitors of Spotify. Myself, I have the HiFi service, which offers lossless High Fidelity sound quality (1411 Kbps), Master Quality audio (up to 9216 Kbps), and immersive audio with features such as 360 Reality Audio and Dolby Atmos Music. It sounds amazing. Tidal also has an extremely stable music app for Smartphones so you can download to the device and take the music with you.

The Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service is included in Amazon’s Prime package. I really don’t use this music service much as I tend to stick with SomaFM and Tidal, but there is a lot of variety with Amazon Music. They have a Smartphone and tablet app but the interface is absolutely horrendous and nearly impossible to deal with – that’s one of the main reasons I don’t listen much to Amazon’s music service.

Lush is a music channel from the brilliant people at SomaFM, who offer commercial-free, specialty music streaming channels. At our house, Lush is on for at least 12 hours per day, and it has greatly influenced my music buying and listening for the last couple of years now. SomaFM describe Lush content as sensuous and mellow female vocals, many with an electronic influence. Mellow electronica-tinged music but definitely not techno/EDM.

Adam Reader, aka The Professor Of Rock, has an amazing channel. This man is ultra passionate about rock music!! His channel celebrates the power of music, featuring stories of the greatest songs and artists of the Rock Era, as told by the artists themselves. There are some great artist interviews found here.

A Canadian Channel (yeeeahhhh!), Channel 33 RPM is hosted by Frank Landry out of Winnipeg. This is a great channel for rock history, album and gear reviews, and much more. Frank is heavily into vinyl, so a good chunk of the content can sometimes be geared toward that medium. Frank grew up at about the same time I did, both on the prairies, so a lot of what he discusses from the 70s and 80s, I relate to. A very interesting guy and, like the Professor of Rock, highly passionate about music.

Royal Frenchies is the wonderful kennel where we found our beloved Tulip. They have a very comprehensive site which will give you good insight and information about French Bulldogs and introduce you to the Royal Frenchies kennel.

In my opinion, this is one of the most important sites on the web. Over the years we’ve adopted several animals from the Toronto Humane Society. The THS do so many wonderful things for animals in their care. If you’re an animal lover, please consider making a regular donation to this most worthy and important organization.

Trust fall… Potato… Drumstick…Doggo… These words will all make sense when you subscribe and follow this awesome YouTube channel. Griffin and Haru are two French Bulldogs living an incrediblly rich and event-filled life with their pet parents in South Korea. Their videos always make me smile… check it out.

Where would I be without my Kobo? The eReader is one of the best pieces of kit to come along in a long time (at least I think so anyway). I moved from paper books to Kobo ebooks in 2011 and have never looked back. It’s great to carry my library of hundreds of book in one little device. Moving to Kobo definitely encouraged the amount of reading I now do; a great habit to pick up!

I’m not a member with Goodreads, but I do enjoy reading their reviews and literary opinions. It’s book reviews from “real people”.

Elementary is a seriously underrated, brilliant show – plotsy, fast-moving and intelligent. This modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic character has Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) fleeing London for present-day Manhattan after a stint in rehab. He arrives to find that his father has assigned a sober companion to live with him – Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) – a former surgeon who gave up medicine three years earlier after losing a patient. Holmes throws himself into his work as a police consultant in New York City. The two find they make a good team and are soon cracking some of the NYPD’s most-difficult cases.

We’ve been watching Yvette Fielding scream her way through many, many seasons of this ongoing British “paranormal” series. I use paranormal in parenthesis because you can’t really take this show too seriously on a paranormal level – so much of it is staged (lots of discussion on the web about this if you care to search). Most Haunted is about 9 parts entertianment to 1 part genuine, but we absolutely love this show!!

Meet Martin Ellingham, the grumpiest doctor in Cornwall, or eslewhere for that matter. Doc Martin is a wonderful British show that is totally engrossing – it’s an interesting mix of situation comedy, drama, soap opera and dark comedy. Some episodes are laughter between tears as the village doctor relocated from London – who has a phobia of blood – deals with the cast of oddballs and misfits in the fictitious Cornwall village of Port Wenn. Love it.