winter wonderland
November 27, 2006
The view from our front porch this morning…
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sunday evening
November 26, 2006
I just spent an hour reading Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, all curled up under a quilt on the couch. I took it out from the library as a half-joke; now that I am fully employed in the care and maintenance of a home I suppose I am in a position to [...]
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November 25, 2006
“It’s really mild in Vancouver,” I told everyone. “It’s just like Ireland.” Not quite. Weather warning – 20-30cm of snow expected by Sunday evening. There’s about an inch or two at the moment and it’s still coming down in huge clumps. I’d forgotten about snow, the way it goes “skrunk” when you walk on it [...]
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Flicked
November 21, 2006
Somewhere in the past week the switch has been flicked. That switch labelled WINTER, which means that the beginning of the Long, Hard Slog Through the Darkness has begun. Maybe it was the first big winter storm that did it. It didn’t seem like it was a terribly severe storm from our snug upstairs bedroom [...]
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sign me up
November 14, 2006
So, still no broadband. I’m sure when it does finally arrive I will glut out on surfing and uploading photos and have the equivalent of a sugar-binge headache from all the data-transfer going on. We spent most of last weekend either at Ikea, driving to or from Ikea or assembling Ikea flat-pack furniture. Our house [...]
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Settling in
November 7, 2006
Broadband arrives tomorrow, but since it has been so long since the last photo of Bea I thought I’d upload one to tide us over. We’re slowly, slowly getting unpacked and exploring our new neighbourhood. I think we’re living in the right place for us – there is an interesting mix of young hipster types, [...]
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Home sweet (messy chaotic) home
November 3, 2006
We have arrived in our new house, and all our stuff arrived the day after we did! Yesterday was exhausting but at least we don’t have to wait a few more days eating off paper plates while standing at the kitchen counter. It is 100% moving chaos mode around here at the moment. We are [...]
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moving day
November 1, 2006
we’re moving into our new house this morning! it may be a few days before we have an internet connection there though, so it may be a while before the next update….. we are so close to having our own place again – I can’t wait.
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