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Stuff that was going to go into this post for this week can wait. There’s only really one thing of note this week. I love the guy’s little hat. Welcome to the world little Felt….

Missed another week, Rich? Not quite. I did write a post last week but it was a lot of ‘for my eyes only’ stuff, so it didn’t get published in this feed. It’s been quite…

It was a buddy’s stag do this weekend; my first real “day out” with friends for 18 months. We first went to my favourite local pizza place – AJs – whilst some of us were…

I last posted on the 25th July – 22 days ago. Easily my longest stretch of not posting. This is mostly because I took a slightly strange mid-week to mid-week two-week vacation which meant that…

Last weekend we decided to get out of Vancouver for a little while. One of our favourite semi-local places that we’ve found is Cultus Lake. It’s a great camping location, but the whole area has…

Not much to report this week. Mum had her sputum cultures, results in 6 weeks. This residential school survivor’s account written by the truly excellent Andrea Woo in the Globe and Mail is, in my…

Mum has had a pretty bad couple of weeks. The news about her immigration medical was first, then came her needing to pay two thousand pounds to get additional tests, then she got a text…

Lots has happened in the past 7 days. My parents got their results for the medicals they had to do as part of their immigration to Canada. Dad got a clean bill of health. Mum,…

26! So I guess that means I’m almost half-way through the year. I’ve never written anything even remotely as consistently as this. I took a week off publishing when I was on vacation, and I’ve…

Wednesday 7th July – that’s a little under three weeks from now – is when we are booked in for our second dose. Meaning in approximately 5 weeks we’ll be fully vaccinated. It cannot come…