Dan Hayward

@danielhayward

Minister, hunchback, religious hillbilly, he/him. Disability, Christianity, politics, miscellany. Any political statements are made in my personal capacity.

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Dan Hayward@danielhayward· 29d

Tim Hortons Camp Day is a Canadian institution.

A red paper coffee cup with an orange circle, an illustration of an archer with a bow shooting an arrow into a target, and text in white and blue Tim Hortons Foundation Camps and Tim Hortons Camp Day July 15th.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Jul 7

Posted by the Belgian national team after scoring their fourth goal against the US.

Romelo Lukaku wearing his number 9 light blue and pink shirt for the Belgian national men's soccer team. A white box displays the text "Belgian Red Devils" and "Overturn this."

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Jul 4

Drinking from my RCMP mug today on the 153rd anniversary of the force. On July 4, 1873 the Dominion of Canada established the North-West Mounted Police.

A cobalt blue mug with a silver Royal Canadian Mounted Police badge of a bison head surrounded by maple leaves and a crown. The mug is on a wooden table with a Canadian flag in a clear vase behind it.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Mar 17

Made a green smoothie for St. Patrick's Day, with milk, plain Greek yogurt, spinach, avocado, kiwi fruit, banana, and green grapes.

A Vitamix blender container full of green liquid, on a kitchen counter with a glass kettle and the Vitamix blender base in white and black.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Dec 25

Quick photo as Christmas Eve worship was set to begin at Wall Street United Church in Brockville ON. Worshipers were still arriving as the band and singers took their places to proclaim that unto us in the city of David a Saviour is born, who is Christ, the Lord.

A church sanctuary with cream-coloured walls and wood panelling, congregants seated in pews, band and singers standing on the chancel platform in front of a grand piano and the pulpit.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Dec 1

The Franklin the Turtle children's books are Canadian, by Paulette Bourgeois (Winnipeg) and Brenda Clark (Toronto). Our Christmas wish list includes the American Defence Secretary, who posted this illustration, taking Franklin's name out of his mouth.

A copy of a Franklin the Turtle book cover, with the title Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists and an illustration of a green turtle wearing body armour and a helmet while standing on the skid of a military helicopter and firing a rocket launcher at small boats laden with cargo and crewed by two armed men each. One of the boats is exploding.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Nov 27

We have not been to Tim Hortons for a couple of weeks, apparently, as we have the Christmas Santa-Claus-playing-hockey cups for the first time.

A Tim Hortons disposable coffee cup with a white lid and a dark blue body depicting a hockey rink as children play against Santa Claus, who has a hockey stick.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Nov 11

My father, Ivan Hayward, at one of the anti-aircraft guns on board the destroyer HMCS Huron, in the Sea of Japan off Korea, 1953.

A young sailor, wearing a light-coloured shirt, dark jacket and ball cap, looks through the scope of an anti-aircraft gun on board a ship, with the sea visible behind him.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Nov 11

My great uncles Walter and Sandy Hayward joined the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1915 but were sent to infantry battalions. Sandy was wounded and gassed, and suffered from PTSD. Walter was killed at Cambrai in September 1918 and is buried at Aubigny, France.

Black and white photo of two young men in Canadian Army uniforms of the First World War, sitting underneath a pennant for the 104th Artillery Battery.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Sep 11

New book arrived from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social!

A paperback book, with a cover illustration of a white man with receding black hair, dressed in a brown suit jacket, white shirt and navy blue tie with white stripes, and the title "Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe," and the author's name, Martyn Boyd.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Aug 15

On VJ-Day, one of the chapel murals made with scrounged materials by Stanley Warren, one of the Commonwealth PoWs held by the Japanese at Changi Prison in Singapore.

Jesus appears wearing only a white cloth around his waist, appears to his friends, displaying the wounds of his crucifixion in his hands. A scroll reads "Go and teach the nations I am with you."

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· May 10

Mallard duck hen has made a nest and laid her eggs in the neighbour's garden. She is walking around, uncomfortable with these people being nearby, so I took a photo and went inside.

A garden bed of dark brown dirt, with a shallow depression lined with twigs and white duck down and filled with nine cream-coloured eggs.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Apr 1

Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, which flew frequently over our house in Dartmouth NS when I was a boy.

Canadair CT-133 Silver Star fixed-wing jet aircraft, stationary on tarmac with the cockpit canopy raised, painted in grey and green camouflage with Canadian flag on the tail and Royal Canadian Air Force roundel on the fuselage.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Mar 25

My favourite Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day graphic is from Wales.

A dark green background with a lighter green ribbon, and the text in English and Welsh, Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, 25th March 2025.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Mar 3

Lots of Americans responding to news that Prime Minister Trudeau will meet the King with statements like "America doesn't have a king" and "we don't listen to kings." Let me remind you of this post from the official White House X account:

A fake cover of Time magazine, with the headline Trump: Long Live the King, and a painting of Donald Trump against the New York City skyline, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red tie, and wearing a gold crown.

Dan Hayward@danielhayward· Feb 25

The Netherlands is also not Canada, yet First Canadian Army liberated the country from the Nazis, whose salutes the Trump fans are bringing back into fashion.