/upto
« Previous Entries Next Entries »Cooking, snowboarding and learning Japanese
Monday, January 21st, 2008This is another ‘quick update’ post… briefly, last weekend we spent two days shopping and cooking in order to fill our new freezer with convenient week-night meals. On Thursday we started our second term of Japanese lessons, and it was a bit of a shock - the standard is much higher and the pace much [...]
Quick update
Monday, January 7th, 2008Just a quick update as I’m quite behind on blogging.
We had a quiet ‘holiday season’; Dave even worked on Christmas Eve. We went out for a drink with Kate and Graham that evening, although almost all the bars were shut.
On Christmas Day we opened our stocking presents, then I cooked a huge breakfast (OK, Dave [...]
Baby congratulations all round
Friday, November 23rd, 2007It seems everyone’s at it - having babies that is. So I would like to offer my congratulations to:
Anna and Steve on the birth of Daniel
Alice and Doug on the birth of James
Heddus and John on the birth of Elian
And also congratulations and best of British to lots more people who are expecting a baby [...]
Gigs by Suzanne Vega and Ben Harper
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007We’ve been supporting live music recently, by attanding gigs by well established acts. OK, so it’s not as supportive as going to see up-and-coming acts, but we did listen to and applaud the support acts too…
On Friday evening we went to Richard’s on Richards to see Suzanne Vega. It’s a really nice, fairly intimate but [...]
Sociable weekend
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007We had a very sociable weekend. On Saturday morning (after a jog!!) we phoned our respective parents, then after lunch we called on Doug and Alice and their brand new baby James. James is the teeniest person I have ever seen - I was quite fascinated by his fingernails. He slept deeply with a brief [...]
We’ve been living opposite a meth lab
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Dave got home last night to find the street cordoned off by the police, and hazmat vans everywhere. Turns out they discovered a meth lab (for producing methamphetamine, for those like me who don’t know much about these things) in an apartment across the street from us.
Luckily our house was just outside the cordon, and [...]
Turkey Sale
Thursday, October 11th, 2007This weekend we went up to Whistler for the Turkey Sale.
The Turkey Sale is held every Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and is a huge sale of last season’s ski and snowboard gear plus sample items of this season’s stuff. We got a fantasic accommodation deal, staying in a studio at the Whistler Village Inn and Suites [...]
Japanese lessons
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Last week Dave and I started Japanese for Beginners lessons at UBC.
I felt like we got thrown into it quite quickly, with the teacher speaking a lot of Japanese to us and getting through quite a lot of curriculum in the first lesson. But she also spent time letting us get to know each other. [...]
Weekend of food and mooching
Monday, October 1st, 2007On Saturday night, our friends Doug, Alica, Jenn and Clark came round for dinner. Dave was head chef and I was kitchen slave as usual. Dave made garlic vichyssoise to start, then beef wellington with braised peas and shallots and a tian de legumes, and wild mushroom sauce; then vanilla cremes brulees. Everything was delicious [...]
From malls to bears
Monday, September 24th, 2007Apart from Sunday afternoon, our weekend was pretty humdrum. On Saturday we went clothes shopping for Dave’s new job. It felt criminal to be stuck in an underground mall on such a nice day. When we got home we tidied, then went for a drink with Anna.
On Sunday morning we did a Costco run, then [...]