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    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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    Window on our world

    Toronto Harbour Cruise

    August 14, 2013
    Afternoon in Ajax II

    Silent Sunday – An Afternoon in Ajax

    November 20, 2011

    Winter Is Coming

    November 27, 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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    Wherever The Fancy Takes You

    September 4, 2013
    The first ever Whitby Ribfest

    The Ribfest Comes to Whitby

    July 16, 2012
    Home Sweet Home sign hanging on door

    “I have a house…”

    May 9, 2012
  • 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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    dead-butterflies

    Where do butterflies go to die?

    November 9, 2011
    snowbirds-over-falls

    Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past

    September 2, 2013
    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014
  • 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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    policelinedonotcross

    Corruption in Canada

    December 4, 2011
    Maple Leaf on wooden boards

    15 Clues you’re in Canada

    May 2, 2012
    old-suitcases-on-the-wardrobe-vintage-style

    Canada’s influence on your wardrobe…

    November 16, 2011
  • 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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    Navigating Snowdrifts

    Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm

    January 27, 2014
    Shovelling snow in Whitby, Ontario

    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011

    Water Wonder – our trip to Niagara

    September 7, 2011
  • 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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    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014

    “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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    broken_society_tag, graffiti

    Black Friday’s alternate meaning

    November 25, 2011
    crime in canada

    Crime in Canada

    November 28, 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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    View from a (car) window…

    December 9, 2011
    Donuts at Tim Hortons

    Point & Shoot: foodporn

    March 17, 2014
    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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    routerboard

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

    December 5, 2012

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011
    Bowl of oatmeal with caramelised fruit

    Start The Day With A Good Breakfast

    January 13, 2014
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Photography

    Point & Shoot – Blizzards, books & bumps in the night

    December 16, 2013 /

    What is it about getting spooked that makes you giggle?

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    Calm, Lake Ontario

    Freedom & Fear – two sides of the same coin

    August 30, 2013
    anorexia sufferers

    Vanishing Point – Losing my mind to anorexia

    December 12, 2012
    Closeup of a pile of vintage family photos

    Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

    December 17, 2015
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