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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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    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 2012
    Whitby Ribfest 2013

    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013
    Bagpiper, World War I

    Passing The Torch – Remembrance Day

    November 11, 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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    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013

    Wherever The Fancy Takes You

    September 4, 2013
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013
  • 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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    Pulled apart by horses

    Torn

    May 6, 2012

    Banking in Canada? Don’t bank on it…

    November 4, 2011

    In the event of an emergency…

    November 8, 2011
  • Photography

    Point & Shoot: The Final Countdown

    August 26, 2014 /

    Next week I'll walk my children to school and, instead of having S's incomparable company for the return journey, I'll be walking back alone...

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    Stewart Building, Toronto

    Toronto: Discovering the Discovery District

    March 19, 2012

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
    Looking out across the water, Lake Ontario

    The Power of Nature

    April 8, 2012
  • 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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    Arrested Development

    August 1, 2011
    the ford brothers

    Fed up of the Fords

    December 1, 2011
    Maple Leaf on wooden boards

    15 Clues you’re in Canada

    May 2, 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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    Toronto Time-Lapse

    Toronto Time-Lapse

    October 10, 2012
    Stewart Building, Toronto

    Toronto: Discovering the Discovery District

    March 19, 2012
    Oshawa Generals logo

    A visit from the Oshawa Generals

    January 19, 2012
  • 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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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 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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    Should we get a cat?

    September 12, 2011
    the-spirit-of-giving

    The Spirit of Giving

    December 22, 2011
    policelinedonotcross

    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011
  • 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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    Yummy Mummy - CLIC Sargent

    Yummy Mummy

    February 28, 2012
    hockey night

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013
    Waves on a shore: Be Water text

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 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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    expat-focus-website

    Conquering My Driving Demons

    January 5, 2012
    Tickets to the LeafsvsSabres

    The Good ‘Ole Hockey Game

    January 21, 2013

    Canada’s Weather – What it’s REALLY like…

    October 19, 2011
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