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Revisiting Rick Mercer's rant on Weather

When I lived in Australia, their weather reports completely confounded me. I remember one week the weather was “Fine” every single day. What does “Fine” mean anyway? I didn’t understand (if it was going to rain it would say “Rain”). That’s when I first became conscious of how weather obsessed Canadians are (myself included). We … Continue reading →

Lots to do in the Soo!

I have to say, I’m really very happy with my move to the Soo (other than the lack of real Chinese food, but that can be fixed in a few years I’m sure!).  There is actually a LOT to do up here!  I’ve been slowly trying to chronicle it, and have been taking pictures here … Continue reading →

TVO hits SSM

On November 17th I had the opportunity to sit in the audience for a live filming of TVO’s The Agenda. It took place in the Bushplane Museum. It was very interesting. We were invited to the reception beforehand where we met Lisa de Wilde, Chief Executive Officer of TVO. There was some mingling etc. None … Continue reading →

Wendell the Wallaby

At the end of October I was listening to CBC radio (as per usual) at work when I heard Gary Saunders pleading with the public to look out for his lost wallaby, Wendell. Saunders owns and runs Saunders Country Critters and Garden Centre in Kemptville. There was a storm one night which knocked a branch … Continue reading →

Waking Up Hannah

Throughout the month of October I’ve been seeing ads on TV plugging Dove’s new Waking Up Hannah campaign. I’ve also seen a plug for it on Facebook. It was advertised as an interactive romantic comedy where you get to choose what happens next (kind of like a choose your own adventure with Dove products). Curiosity … Continue reading →

A-MAZE-ing!

I’ve been meaning to blog a little bit more about my life in SSM so that my friends can kind of see what we’ve been up to since the move. At the end of October we managed to visit Farmer Bob’s corn maze before it closed for the season. I was super excited and I … Continue reading →

A polaroid a day

I was (very unsurprisingly) listening to CBC Radio at work the other day when they re-ran an episode of Spark that featured the Polaroid a Day website. Apparantly many people have blogged about this, but it was the first I had heard of it (and the New York Times recently did a story on it … Continue reading →

Putting your best Blog face forward!

One of the reasons that I first stopped blogging was that I learned the hard way that what you write on the net can come back to haunt you. So many times people forget that once you put it up, even if it’s just for a moment, you lose control of where your writing or … Continue reading →

Chocolate & Watermelon

Dan and I are settling in nicely to SSM. In the 3 weeks that we’ve been here we have: found a place to live (effective Oct 1) signed up for ballroom dance lessons gone to our first hounds game watched our favourite touch football team win their first game It has been good so far … Continue reading →