Category: Thoughts for the week

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…

My parents had their immigration medical this week which is the final time they’ll have to physically go somewhere as part of moving to Canada. Hopefully the results come back in an acceptable way to…

The laundry area is now complete, and I’m really proud of the work we did. It now has code compliant plumbing and electrics, drywall where you would expect drywall to be, patched holes, a fresh…

I missed a week writing a post. I was on vacation. My good friends at Happy Prime are looking for another excellent web developer to add to their wonderful company. I am biased, I know…

My body is starting to really feel doing practically zero exercise for the last 18 months (for the few months prior to the pandemic I had taken some time off as my back and knee…

My folks have an appointment to get their biometrics done – they unfortunately have to head to London to do it as it’s the only Visa Application Centre open in the UK at the moment….

I have literally zero notes this week and considering it’s now the morning of the Monday after the Friday when I would normally publish this and I’ve been thinking about what to write all weekend,…

WE GOT OUR FIRST VACCINE SHOT THIS WEEK! 💉 Bit of tiredness and soreness for about 24 hours after it started kicking in (which took about eight hours). Still worked the day after so it…

It’s been glorious in Vancouver this week. Warm, sunny, a little breezy, 22°C at the weekend. 👨🏻‍🍳😘 We’ve really started to ramp up vaccine rollouts here. Getting through about 1% of the eligible population per…

I’ve written a lot about animals over the past month. I previously talked about attempting – and subsequently failing – to make impenetrable forts in the process of trying to capture Monty the field mouse….