Mmm, you know what's good for a Wednesday afternoon? Coffee and Fry's Turkish Delight! There's a little newsagency under the ManuLife Centre that sells them - sadly not Australian Cadbury's, but British. Still, can't complain!!

Well, I can complain about the coffee - I broke my coffee plunger so I've been drinking instant for the last couple of ( Read more... )

My sis has gone, they left for New York on Wednesday and I went back to work. Speaking of, they asked to extend my contract by a week (to the 19th) and I said yes. I didn't know how to say no, and we could do with a bit more money since I took so many days off, but the work is so brain-dead I'm regretting it already. I'm so looking forward to ( Read more... )

(I'm having problems with our internet connection - the DSL light on the modem keeps disappearing GRRR - yep, there it goes again! I don't even know what DSL is!)


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Today we went to Centre Island. Actually, I lie, we went to Wards Island, but Centre Island is what you say because everyone knows where that is. Which is, in Lake Ontario, a very short $6.50 ferry ride from Toronto. It has great views of the city, making it look quite harmless and majestic. It was overcast (and started raining as we got back to ( Read more... )

Just a quick post before I take my weary self off to bed. Had a nice weekend in Muskoka, though the weather was almost as cold - definitely as wet and miserable - as the last time we went a fortnight ago. Still, it's was wonderful to get out of the city, just the two of us, and getting away from the cats too ( Read more... )

On Christmas Eve Adam and I drove out to Milton, to Rattlesnake Point on the Niagara Escarpment. It was freezing thanks to the wind, and eery 'cause we were pretty much the only people at the Park. The footprints in the tracks from all the people and dogs before us had been preserved by ice, then covered by more snow, but there was sheet ice ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went to Niagara Falls. One and a half hour's drive was more like two because of traffic, and our morning was wasted getting the car in the first place. But it was worth it! Not half as tacky as we were expecting, the Canadian side at least is really quite beautiful, with a lush park and vine-covered stone buildings, behind which rise ( Read more... )