Squeezing in under the line here in my resolution to post at least once a month. Happy Easter to those who celebrate, and for those who don’t, enjoy your time off!

I write from Oliver IV, my new iPad. Mum’s old iPad finally reached the point where her games weren’t running on it anymore and she reluctantly decided to get a new one. Hers was ten ( Read more... )

Gracious me! I keep meaning to post and keep putting it off. But I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to the Yanks, so I figured I'd take the time to do a proper post while I'm here. Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks ( Read more... )

Eeek! I get worse and worse in updating my journal. Here I am, though, alive ( Read more... )

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Hello, all! I hope your holiday season is progressing acceptably, regardless of your preferred holiday or lack there of. Ours has been mixed.

Good news: we solved the bathtub situation by running a hose up the the laundry chute and it works well.
Bad News: it's a bit annoying to have to yell down the stairs to turn the water on and off and you have ( Read more... )

Continuing in a our 'oh dear' saga of late, we have a problem with our bathroom. I was having a shower the other day and there was water dripping through the basement ceiling, which is obvs not good. The plumber came today to take a look and couldn't see what was going on without cutting a giant hole in the wall, so doesn't really know how bad the ( Read more... )

Ahoy-hoy! How are you all doing today? Are you watching the Olympics? Because we are. All the time. The Bard Family household is 24/7 Olympics every two years, and I love it. I don't care if I don't know the sport. I learn how Judo works every four years, and Mom and I found out how to play rugby this year, and we talk about the diving like we are ( Read more... )

Hello all! I hope you are doing well. It's been kidney stone central here again, unfortunately. I passed a huge 5mm stone and then a bunch of littler stones have followed. Thankfully, the pain wasn't too awful, there was only one period of about three hours where I was in that 'I don't know what to do with myself' state. Otherwise it's been more ' ( Read more... )

Hello there! Happy Passover to those celebrating and happy almost Easter to those celebrating. I hope you will be doing so in a fashion most safe for your current state of vaccination and/or COVID caseload.

We're still really behind on vaccinations here. Despite the fact that my parents can now both be vaccinated, there is no vaccine to be given, ( Read more... )

Hello friends and lovelies! I hope you are doing well and looking forward to being vaccinated in the near future. Canada has vaguely fucked up the process, so we're a bit behind the 8-ball here, but we're still expecting everyone to be vaccinated by the end of September. My parents should be done by the end of May, hopefully. In the meantime, our ( Read more... )