Happy New Year

Intermittent rain over the past few days, combined with temperatures hovering around the freezing mark, has meant that the margins of the snowbanks are receding and we can see, and gratefully walk on, the ground…

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thank you, Alison!

A few days before Christmas, as we were trying to make all the arrangements necessary to leave the house and head to Vancouver, Pater walked into my office where I was checking ferry schedules on…

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Christmas Past

We had a lovely, lovely Christmas. Despite all my anxieties, we got here safely, altho’ the chains did NOT fit the vehicle, as Paul found when trying to strap them on in order to make…

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Merry White Christmas

Well, here in our little city, we’ve currently got the most snow in BC with 86 centimetres since December 12 — it’s a record I’d gladly surrender, but instead it might even get worse. There’s…

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They do grow up: friends at Christmas

The first time it happens for most of us is somewhere around our early twenties — we bump into someone we used to babysit or a friend’s much younger sibling, a cousin we remember as…

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