Four years ago today, I snagged my father's luggage allowance (due to my huge luggage pile, OMG) and the two of us valiantly carried four huge suitcases, a heavy case carrying my archery gear plus a ton of hand-luggage through Gatwick, onto a plane and thence to Canada ( Read more... )

Knit night is just the best night of the week. I love my knitting group ( Read more... )

Oracle Reports is a thing of pure, unadulterated evil *sigh ( Read more... )

As of today, it is now six months since I moved to Canada. I can't believe how fast the time has flown! There have been ups and downs and the winter has not been easy, but overall it's been wonderful and I'm absolutely certain that I made the right choice to do this. It's been a huge learning experience in more ways than I could ever have imagined ( Read more... )

I went to a baby shower on Sunday. It was my first one. Surprised myself by having a good time, despite having to give the expectant mother an IOU note because I'd only been given a week's notice and that isn't time to knit something. Thankfully most of the other knitters at the party were in the same position :-) I have the pattern, I shall be ( Read more... )

After being frozen and depressed about seemingly another day of pointless nothingness, I'm feeling a bit better this evening ( Read more... )

Mum has been gone for a bit over a week and I'm now starting to notice the odd things that I miss about England. It's weird because a lot of them aren't things that I thought I'd miss ( Read more... )

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My shippers just left after delivering and unpacking my stuff. Hooray ( Read more... )

This week seems to have been busier than ever, although I'm not sure how much actual useful stuff I have achieved ( Read more... )