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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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    The magnetic pull of Lake Ontario

    June 13, 2012
    BBC-announcer, April 1st, TV prank

    Don’t be fooled this April 1st!

    April 1, 2013
    camh logo

    Research into the prevention of depression relapse

    May 17, 2012
  • 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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    Paris, Ontario

    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013
    hockey night

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 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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    E.E.Cummings quote

    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity

    March 29, 2013
    the ford brothers

    Fed up of the Fords

    December 1, 2011
    Paris, Ontario

    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013
  • 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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    Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge

    December 30, 2013
    Yummy Mummy - CLIC Sargent

    Yummy Mummy

    February 28, 2012
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 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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    E.E.Cummings quote

    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity

    March 29, 2013

    Easy Rider – our latest expat experience

    May 14, 2013
    Paris, Ontario

    Playing In Paris

    October 2, 2013
  • 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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    Looking out across Lake Ontario

    Expat Limbo

    April 15, 2013
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013
    Maple Leaf on wooden boards

    15 Clues you’re in Canada

    May 2, 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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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015
    Eggs in an eggbox with faces drawn on them, the majority looking at one different coloured egg among them.

    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017
  • 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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    hockey night

    Pucks and Punch-Ups

    January 22, 2013
    bunch of coloured balloons

    All The Things He Said

    August 6, 2014
    kids-moving-house

    Smooth Moves for Expat Kids – tips to ease the transition

    February 8, 2012
  • 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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    Union Pacific freight car on an over-road bridge

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

    September 22, 2014
    A quiet moment, child reading

    A quiet moment

    January 17, 2012
    Kids enjoying the snow

    Love in a cold climate…

    February 8, 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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    Skunk

    School Lockdown – blame it on the skunk

    September 29, 2011
    Dairymilk chocolate bar partially unwrapped

    Dear Dairymilk

    November 18, 2011
    Tickets to the LeafsvsSabres

    The Good ‘Ole Hockey Game

    January 21, 2013
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