I enjoy using the semicolon; it makes me feel superior to my fellow scribes. Of course, there are detractors who would have the semicolon expunged; I cannot abide them.
Bowen Island is off the west coast of BC. It has a sizable population of about 3,500, and is a 20 minute ferry ride from the mainland. Areas of it have an unearthly remoteness to it. My son and I enjoyed a strenuous hike there and encountered hardly a human being all day. Which is how we like it!
I don’t remember having a ‘stuffy’, as we call it here. I do remember my younger sister’s stuffies, including a Paddington and, I believe, one of the Wombles (Orinoco, if I’m not mistaken, and even if I were, who would have the temerity to dispute me 😆)