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BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: You may be happy-go-lucky by nature but there is a serious side to your nature as well and that side needs to be encouraged over the coming 12 months.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: An extremely active 12-month period awaits you, so pace yourself sensibly and don't try to do everything at once. Aim high, by all means, but there is no need to jump at the first opportunity which comes along.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 5, 1941. Like all prairie-bred people, I have a deep reverence for a field of wheat. There is something elemental, symbolic, and prophetic in it.

BIRTHDAY SUNDAY: A Sun-Neptune link on your birthday will do wonders for your imaginative powers but it will also play havoc with your ability to see things as they are, rather than as you wish they might be.

BIRTHDAY SATURDAY: A Sun-Jupiter link on your birthday is a wonderful omen of success and all you have to do to enjoy a really good year is to be flexible and fearless and let fate guide both your head and your heart.

The island of Hydra — less than two hours south of Athens by ferry — offers the ideal Greek island experience, and doesn’t even require a long journey across the Aegean. It has one real town, no real roads, no cars, and not even any bikes.

Dear Reena: Can the dents in my stainless-steel fridge be repaired? Vi There is a theory that if you heat the dents with a hair dryer or press dry ice onto the area and then blast it with cold air, the dents should release and vanish.

Dear Debbie: There’s so much garden furniture that is big and heavy. We have a patio and a small lawn where we love to sit and entertain.

The Victoria Day long weekend ushered in the warmth and sunshine we’d all been longing for. Happy faces thronged that weekend’s Saturday morning farmers’ market. Home gardeners shared thoughts on the late season and their attempts to catch up.