I watched “The Hours” last night, one of the many films on a mental list to watch sometime over the holidays. I’ll write a review later, but for now I had to pass on a link to Mr. Cranky’s review, which seldom fails to crack me up. Since I practically abandoned my Geocities site that [...]

Eliza called with good news for Ebi, who was examined and found to have no fluid build-up in a week! Needless to say, Eliza was elated!

I tried to take the kids there on Wed/24th, but they closed early, so I thought today we’d try again.

Maddy

Michael in the mirror room.

We love Science World. Not just the kids, me too! There are so many activities going on that we can be there for more than four hours and they still want to [...]

Lunch was at Auntie Crispina’s house, and as always there was enough food to sink a ship!

Boxing Day at the playground.

King Dad

Maddy feet

opening the presents

sledding on Mt. Seymour

playplace

in Candycane Land with Auntie Susan

More photos here…

candycane land

gingerbread house

White Rock

Miss Maddy

The photo on the left is White Rock. Allan took Michael (3) to Hope to visit some friends of theirs who have little boys and like playing with Michael. So I took Maddy (2) and Cheryl, who hadn’t left the house in 10 days and was going stir-crazy, out on a Sunday drive. [...]

Ebi in recovery
Ebi is one very ill cat. I noticed on Thursday night that he was breathing very, very heavily. Eliza said she’d been observing Ebi, and he’d been doing this for probably a couple of days. So she immediately looked up vet clinics, and took Ebi on Friday morning. That quickly set in motion [...]

massive dining table

King Ross
(top) Our massive medieval-length table in the UBC Room at the Vancouver Club
(bottom) Ross, after a few drinks, dons the patriarchal crown that comes inside one of those Christmas crackers

Kevin and Lee
Our last company Christmas Party hosted by Ross and Lee was held at the Vancouver Club, one of those posh old-boys-network [...]