I've been carrying around a little bottle of hand sanitiser since last October, roughly at the peak of H1N1 infections here in Canada. Normally I'm not that paranoid but I guess pregnancy changes your assessment of risk. I've found it dead useful, not just for cleaning hands on the go but also when I have to use the toilet at shopping centres and ( Read more... )

Andy and I left for Victoria on Saturday morning. The initial plan was to get there ourselves via buses and ferries but I was getting too stressed out about getting the right bus times and coordinating transfers so we decided to go there by coach (and ferry) and then come back on our own. The coach journey was easy and comfortable. It was about an ( Read more... )

Earlier in the week, I went to Trout Lake with Andy for his regular spinning/juggling sessions with his friends. Here in Vancouver, as back in Nottingham and Loughborough, he hangs out with a group of people who enjoy having fun juggling and spinning with staff, poi, hula hoops, balls, rings, clubs, diablo, and often with said articles on fire too ( Read more... )

A slightly late posting for last week's "Weekly Photo":


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