If you’ve never heard of Toronto author Tilda Shalof, a.k.a. Nurse Tilda, you don’t know what you’re missing. Go out there right now and get her books A Nurse’s Story and The Making of a Nurse (these are the two I’ve read so far) — they are absolutely riveting reads. Her books are fascinating, insider…
Category: Odds & Sods
Whale watching
So we finally got off The Rock at 4 p.m. on Monday. We made great time, and it looked like we were going to land in North Sydney at about 8:30, we were just off shore, when they announced it would be midnight before we docked, because of another ship in harbour we had to…
On hurricanes, ferries and moose
We’re just over mid-way through our holiday and we’ve hit a bit of a snag. We were supposed to be taking the ferry back to Cape Breton today from Newfoundland but there’s this little hurricane getting in the way – Hurricane Bill. We first heard about it when we arrived a week ago in Fundy…
A quickie, from the east
Just about to check out of the Fairmont Algonquin, a beautiful historic hotel in St. Andrews by-the-sea, New Brunswick. In all the crazy to prepare to leave for two weeks holidays, I didn’t get a chance to update my blog with anything exciting. This might be the last reliable Internet connection we have for a…
7 days far from city life
Things have been quiet on the blog-front, and I do apologize. I’ve been living in a hay field, in a hammock, with no running water, no plumbing and a couple of horses and dogs for company. Okay well more like 70 horses and at least a dozen dogs. Oh, and some people. I spent my…
Serenity now, serentity now, serenity now…
Gotta love when the shit hits the fan at work, in the middle of summer, when things are supposed to be chill. Oh well. Looking at this photo will help: The farm is my happy place. There is a certain change of pace that happens the moment I arrive there. And then there are the…
Crafty business
I finally made some headway in addressing a backlog of Ravelry stash updates, and downloaded about 4Gs of photos into Aperture over the last couple evenings. The photos are from all sorts of events and happenings, but I’ve been extraordinarily negligent lately of managing my Ravelry stuff, which is very unlike me. Have I mentioned…
We have new wheels!
Last night Chris and I finally got to go pick up our new car, a Volkswagen Jetta TDI Wagon, in silver. We’ve only been waiting 2 months for it to come from the factory. We’ve been planning to get rid of our very unnecessary two cars for quite some time, and probably would have done…
Nickodemus’s Sun People
I’ve been a bit absent lately. The big news is last week I graduated. Okay, actually I guess technically I convocated. Because I actually graduated last fall. But it was a non-event. I did nothing to mark it and OCAD, my alma mater and my employer, doesn’t have a fall convocation event. I wasn’t going…