Today is my last official day with my current employer. I say last official day because I’ve had a week of holiday at the end, so instead of spending time in the office deleting emails[…]
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Month: June 2016
Those Across The River
Today I devoured Those Across The River, a horror story set in Depression-era America, somewhere in the South (my geography isn’t so great). I’d misinterpreted a review of this book as it being about vampires,[…]
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Ice Cream Football
The other day at MEC we purchased an ice cream ball. This was sold to us as a fun alternative to an ice cream machine; you fill up a football sized container with ice and[…]
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Spinning in Nova Scotia
After several years of visiting Nova Scotia and not getting round to it, tonight I went to a spinning class in Dartmouth. I’ve been going to 7Cycle in Singapore for over a year, but I’d[…]
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An easy Monday in Nova Scotia
Today we took the ferry across to Halifax again, this time so that I could exchange some shoes at MEC that were the wrong size, and so we could wander a bit on the other[…]
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One way to start the morning
This morning I had a 5k race on the salt marshes outside Halifax. I was looking forward to this because salt marshes are pancake flat, and the combination of that with the sensible weather of[…]
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Happy birthday La Serpiente
To celebrate La Serpiente’s third birthday, we took the ferry from Dartmouth to Halifax and spent a fortune on outdoor gear at MEC. What says “happy birthday” better than seeing your father try on five[…]
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Off the plane
After twenty-five hours of airplanes and airports, we finally arrived in Nova Scotia. To finish things off, the pilot landed seemingly as fast as he possibly could, one of those oh-god-are-we-coming-in-sideways landings where you think[…]
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We’re not happy until you’re not happy
The flight to London was fairly uneventful; I managed to get La Serpiente to spill a tray of chicken slurry all over her seat (I was trying to ensure my sleeping wife got something to[…]
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Cutting down
I think we’ve gone beyond Peak Baby Paraphernalia and now we’re gradually reducing the amount of stuff we have to carry with us while travelling. Destroyer refuses to sleep in the travel cot we bought[…]
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