It’s that time of the year again! Visit Vancouver | Dine Out
Last year was the inaugural year of Dine Out Vancouver, Tourism Vancouver’s foray into city-wide promotion of local restaurants during the seasonal downtime. From what I read last year, this event is popular in American cities such as New York and San Francisco, under [...]

… is now booked on Ryanair, the base ticket price was 20 euros. That means all my flights are now reserved:
Apr 17 - Vancouver-LondonApr 20 - Birmingham-BarcelonaApr 27 - Malaga-East MidlandsMay 2 - Liverpool-ParisMay 7 - Dinard-LondonMay 8 - London-Vancouver
I was waiting for my friend Nolwenn to reply, as she doesn’t have a computer and [...]

So that brings me to two of the books I dug into over the holidays, about the fictional 30-something Londoner, Bridget Jones. I read them in order, Bridget Jones’ Diary first and then Edge of Reason. I’d heard a great deal about these books when they were first published. But I was in no [...]

Haven’t posted for nearly a week. A garden variety of reasons behind that, starting with countless instances of “do I really want to reveal that thought because I might change my mind about it later?” to “do I really want to reveal that thought because the embarrassment would either kill me or haunt me forever” [...]

Came across an online article in the Vancouver Sun for singer-songwriter Emm Gryner. I wasn’t familiar with her name, but the moment I saw her picture, I was 99% sure she was at least half Filipino. (Love this outfit, too — it’s pretty obvious my favourite colour by far is blue.) I did some more [...]

Eliza with her babies.
I couldn’t really post about my activities last night because they were related to making some things for Eliza’s birthday, notably a CD I titled A CD for Cat Lovers and this photo collage for the cover. I took these photos nearly two years ago when Ebi was a kitten and a [...]

FINALLY heard from Matt! Thought he’d dropped off a cliff skiing in Whistler in all his excitement to experience a “real” Canadian winter (as close as we’ll ever get, anyway). As soon as Matt mentioned to Serg and me at Jupiter’s how much effort he puts into making laksa from scratch, I told Eliza and [...]

Decided not to fart about any longer with the flight from Spain back to Wolverhampton. Gotta get back for the second fitting � yuk � on Wednesday, and was considering flying back from Faro (Portugal). Rang Erich to ask his opinion, and he said go for Portugal, but I think seeing as returning to England [...]

I ended up getting a lot of things done eventually, but had to jump through mega-hoops today…
* postponed calling the accountant, who rang on Saturday looking to get some stuff done early; haven’t even done any tax stuff yet, and normally I do it as soon as my last December salary form is ready!
* discovered [...]

Michael in the wind column.
Melissa is going to be so jealous… I keep taking her brother and sister to Science World while she’s in Maine, and this time I printed off some of the photos and Cheryl will send them to Melissa in the post. Cheryl says Melissa’s homesick, but they’re due to fly back [...]