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    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015 /
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.

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    Window on our world

    Toronto Harbour Cruise

    August 14, 2013
    Openable Indian gold kara's

    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’

    October 10, 2013
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: Family life – everyday, like no other

    September 22, 2014 /
    Union Pacific freight car on an over-road bridge

    "Good weekend?" ...and you stand there vacant as a sixties flowerchild - mind scrabbling for a trace, a scrap, a glistening nugget of memory that will bring the two-day void back into focus. 'What DID we do?'

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    Point & Shoot: Christmas comes early

    December 9, 2013

    Easy Rider – our latest expat experience

    May 14, 2013
    Window on our world

    View from the gazebo

    April 11, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: The scramble to school

    September 2, 2014 /

    The weather has steadily grown more humid in the past week, as if to taunt us. The first day of school dawned a sticky 30 degrees on the humidex...

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    Conquering My Driving Demons

    January 5, 2012

    The Lake At The Centre Of My World

    August 21, 2013
    Canadian Tire money

    You know you’re settled in Canada when…

    January 24, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: This American Life

    August 11, 2014 /

    It’s funny, when I was fifteen I was convinced I was born in the wrong time. I should have existed in 1950’s New York ... as James Dean

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    Bagpiper, World War I

    Passing The Torch – Remembrance Day

    November 11, 2013
    routerboard

    Welcome to Canada – the home of over-priced telecommunications!

    December 5, 2012
    GoldmanSachsStory

    Swimming against the tide – can “good character” make a comeback?

    March 14, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Weekend ribs, rides & revelry

    July 14, 2014 /

    Visitors to Toronto are often surprised to discover the Toronto Islands, a pint-sized archipelago just offshore of the bustling lakeside metropolis.

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    Banking in Canada? Don’t bank on it…

    November 4, 2011
    expat family

    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
    The A-Team

    The A-Team

    February 21, 2013
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014 /

    We had the luxury of a three-day weekend thanks to last Friday's PA day, and right from the start it was an outpouring of creative energy...

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    Drawer handle

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
    Woman in novelty sunglasses stares into the camera

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014 /
    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Weekends in our house are all about the food (this is, after all, home of the #epicbreakfast) so be prepared for shameless foodporn photography. You have been warned…

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    E.E.Cummings quote

    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity

    March 29, 2013
    hunter and trophy

    Do hunters have a place in today’s world?

    December 7, 2011
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: A Weekend Of Sugar & Ice & All Things Nice

    February 3, 2014 /

    Friday was a PA day so the weekend started early for us...

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    Family at the beach, Ajax, Ontario

    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    The Power of Nature

    April 8, 2012

    Point & Shoot: Weekend Snapshot

    November 25, 2013
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014 /
    Navigating Snowdrifts

    Our weekends generally follow a familiar pattern: breakfast like kings, lounge around in PJ's until the afternoon, then get out and do something with the remainder of the day...

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    Point & Shoot: The scramble to school

    September 2, 2014
    expat family

    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
    kids-moving-house

    Smooth Moves for Expat Kids – tips to ease the transition

    February 8, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014 /
    flash freeze in Ontario, Canada

    I'm starting to think I should get my own map and ten minute slot as everything I post recently revolves around the weather, but it's unavoidably the big story here in Canada right now. After a couple of years of unseasonably warm winters, this 'mutha' has left us reeling...

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    Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting – an expat wife’s memoir of lost identity’

    May 22, 2013
    The Qur'an

    Once Upon a Time in the Hijaz

    August 7, 2012
    Rutabaga/Swede

    The Supermarket Experience

    November 7, 2011
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