Category Archives: furry friends

Meep Meep!

I’ve discovered another reason to keep cycling on rainy days: That’s the second one this month! The first was a scruffy little fella who suddenly appeared from a patch of mist in the cemetery when I was out for a … Continue reading

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Hankie enlightenment

I found an absolute gem in my automated search results this morning: a bio of a man I know fairly well, having worked for two of the organisations named in the piece. However, it turns out that I didn’t know … Continue reading

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Cath has misheard that the bird is the word

A wonderful bird is the pelican,His mouth can hold more than his belly can,He can hold in his beak,Enough food for a week.I’m damned if I know how the hell he can! (by Dixon Lanier Merritt, apparently. Not Ogden Nash. … Continue reading

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Is it any wonder I’m addicted to Facebook?

My friends crack me up. (Each person has their own colour). Exhibit A: Exhibit B: (background: these are comments on my status update about not being able to get my hands on an iPhone 4 yet. Between my original update … Continue reading

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Little things that make me happy

The sun is finally shining in Vancouver! I’m not a sun worshipper by any stretch of the imagination; I burn really quickly, and find temperatures over 30C quite unpleasant (in the city, at least). But June-uary was too much even … Continue reading

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"I don’t want to talk about it"

“now leave me alone” Football sucks. When does the hockey season start? (I joke, I joke. I’m still watching. I’m supporting Ghana, Holland, and Germany, in that order).

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Safety first!

Our various sets of friends who had babies last year have done very well for themselves – all babies are healthy and cute, and thanks to gifts from friends and family with older kids, they’ve barely had to buy anything … Continue reading

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What will happen if you take your parents to a gig

In chronological order: Your parents will finally announce the start and end dates of their much-discussed five week trip to Vancouver You will dutifully add the dates to your calendar A few weeks later, you will find out that Delhi … Continue reading

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Scottish tree hybridisers

My parents are here! They arrived on Saturday, on the same flight as my boss’s inlaws1 and the woman who Gordon Brown called a bigot2. And now I have five weeks of chatting to my Dad about football  before work! … Continue reading

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The joy of socks…

…that match your other accessories

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