by thadmin | Jul 26, 2009 | La Di Da
Dateline: Oxford Road, Baie d’Ufé, Montreal Time: 6:30am, or thereabouts. Mood: Even, friendly and catty Jack is personable. Possibly thinks he’s human, but proud of being a cat. Yes, I know that’s paradoxical, but Jack is a cat. Get over it. I went...
by thadmin | Jul 10, 2009 | Heh
“SUVs make David Suzuki cry”
by thadmin | Jun 24, 2009 | Joy, love
Owen graduates to grade 3 in the fall. He received “E”, or Excellent scores across numerous categories such as conflict resolution, Problem solving, Initiative and others. At the end of his report card: “Owen consistently demonstrates self direction...
by thadmin | Mar 2, 2009 | Joy, Travel
…with apologies to T.R. Pearson. This final post from the New Zealand trip is being written two days after returning home. Lame, yes, I know. But in defense, it was rather difficult to find WiFi in New Zealand, and connections were slow when found....
by thadmin | Feb 23, 2009 | Travel
Greetings, We find ourselves in Taupo now, having driven a short ways from Rotorua this morning. This batch of images contains some colour (per request). The building with the red roof is an Edwardian bath house (now the museum of Rotorua). You can tour the grounds, a...
by thadmin | Feb 19, 2009 | La Di Da
We find ourselves back in Thames, New Zealand. We’ve spent the better part of a week in a bach (‘batch’, or cottage) at Hot Water beach. Can’t remember if I wrote of it before… However, there are some spots on the beach near some rocks...
by thadmin | Feb 13, 2009 | La Di Da
Ok. First thing: I had always wondered where ‘Old Zealand’ was before coming down here. Turns out it was named by Abel Tasman (of Tasmania fame), who was Dutch. ‘Zee Land’ means something close to ‘Sea Land’, and as t was new to him...
by thadmin | Feb 7, 2009 | La Di Da
Ultra quick post. We arrived yesterday at 0600 and went back to Jen’s place where we lounged, met Mag (who is wonderful), and then trundled off to Karekare beach. Those familiar with the film “The Piano” will know the place, as it was filmed there....
by thadmin | Feb 2, 2009 | La Di Da
How odd its been. Really very much like getting in an elevator in one city and then back out in another city. As Carrie put it over dinner, it felt like we were just ‘dining’ in Scarborough or something. By ‘dining’ I mean IHOP...
by thadmin | Jan 30, 2009 | Beauty
Just came across this small movie of Finn, taken last year in March: Finn in iChat
