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  • Blog,  Living in Canada

    A Knight To Remember – Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament

    June 7, 2016 /
    Close-up of the left shoulder of a medieval breastplate

    When it comes to carefree escapism Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament holds the crown.

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    History – a moveable feast, or so it would seem…

    August 16, 2012
    understanding self-harm

    How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life

    March 1, 2012
    Letter To The Tooth Fairy

    Dear Tooth Fairy… Baby Teeth – Do You Keep Them?

    October 21, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    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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    Dear Tooth Fairy… Baby Teeth – Do You Keep Them?

    October 21, 2013
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    The (Supermarket) Help

    August 27, 2013
    The Truth About Islam

    The truth about Islam

    September 25, 2012
  • Living in Canada

    Butterflies in the Canadian Classroom

    October 9, 2014 /
    Boy with Monarch Butterfly

    The Monarch butterfly's migration is one of the most amazing in the insect world - which makes for a fascinating school science project.

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    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 2011
    flash freeze in Ontario, Canada

    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014
    Tipping wait-staff

    To tip or not to tip… that is the question.

    October 27, 2011
  • 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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    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013
    Bagpiper, World War I

    Passing The Torch – Remembrance Day

    November 11, 2013

    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011
  • 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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    understanding self-harm

    How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life

    March 1, 2012
    Altruistic expat, AECOM's Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Benefits

    February 1, 2013

    Square peg in a round hole? Get used to it… you’re an expat.

    September 16, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013 /

    I skipped breakfast, grabbed my camera and jumped in the jeep. The Polar Plunge started at 11am and I knew from past experience a couple of minutes delay would mean missing the whole thing...

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    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
    routerboard

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

    December 5, 2012
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    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: The Icestorm Cometh

    December 23, 2013 /

    I fell asleep to the sound of ice pellets tapping the window while blue-white flashes from exploding transformers and arcing power lines lit up the sky. In the early hours of the morning the power finally failed...

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    Wanting To Go Back

    March 17, 2017
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    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 2012
    Canadian paparazzi

    Canadian Paparazzi have a lot to learn

    May 3, 2012
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Christmas, You’ve Changed!

    December 20, 2013 /

    Christmas in another country brings a curious reminder of the diversity to be found in the universal...

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    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015
    flash freeze in Ontario, Canada

    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014
    Elton John & David Furnish

    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011
  • Expat Life,  Living in Canada

    Childhood Is A Foreign Country

    September 12, 2013 /

    At five I played ‘Ring-O-Ring-O-Roses’ and ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf’. I went to birthday parties, passed the parcel, ate cubes of pineapple and cheese off cocktail sticks without ever wondering why, and danced unabashedly to ‘The Birdie Song'...

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    25 Reasons Why Canada Rocks (PHOTOS)

    June 14, 2012
    New Canadian twenty dollar bill

    Expatriating Your Pension

    March 18, 2013
    earth-day-2012-logo

    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past

    September 2, 2013 /
    snowbirds-over-falls

    For the students of Captain Michael VandenBos Public School here in Whitby, the first day back after summer break holds an extra frisson of excitement...

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    Living with less…

    November 13, 2011
    Letter To The Tooth Fairy

    Dear Tooth Fairy… Baby Teeth – Do You Keep Them?

    October 21, 2013
    Buzzard soaring

    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
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