I have been thinking quite a lot about the jaunt that the bats living in the Botanic Gardens make every night at dusk, heading out to find whatever batty food it is that they like. I was walking down Art Gallery Road a couple of weeks ago, heading to the Domain with thousands of [...]

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Today we went on a birthday jaunt for Richard, and ended up at an Exercises in Happiness. It was an exhibition of sorts, part of the Singapore Fringe Festival, but actually put together by two Australian artists.
Starting late, the two artists, dressed smartly in black, met their audience at the doors to the gallery and [...]

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Jeff and I walked to Kitsilano the other day in an attempt to prove my theory (spurred on by Karen’s comment about Vancouver being like a small town) that Vancouver is a collection of villages strung together.
12:20pm Walking along 16th Avenue from Main Street (Village #1)…

Man they love their hockey here.  Haven’t been to a [...]

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I am currently awaiting some hot buttered toast, which will be pretty much the only thing I’ve eaten today. Last night, Richard and I had a degustation menu at a beautiful restaurant in the National Museum, before seeing an excellent play. I returned home to puke all night. This is my third bout of food [...]

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I had Sonia, Mel, Nathan and Anthony over for breakfast last weekend, and while making toast in the griller, I managed to set my oven mitt on fire:

Toasted.
It seems to have been made of the most highly flammable materials imaginable. It really went up in flames, and required dramatic beating against the footpath to be [...]

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When I was in the United States in 2004 I was disgusted with the state of their bread. It was white and thick and sugary as hell. They sweeten their bread here in Canada too, so when we got here I was determined to not fall into the trap of thinking sweetened bread [...]

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If brains had recorders, my blogging task would have been a cinch this week. Just yesterday one of these beautiful Sunbirds (not my photo), full from feasting on Bauhinia nectar outside my window, flew in and perched on my curtain. With his black-blue neck feathers gleaming, he hopped up and down the gauze, chirped twice, [...]

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Until December 2007, bird flu was found in Poland amongst migrating birds, dropping dead here and there once in a while by a river, usually close to the Russian border. The news reported it, Poles talked about it but everyone still cooked the traditional chicken soup with egg noodles for Sunday dinner. I for one [...]

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When we first got to Vancouver we stayed in a pretty seedy part of Downtown. There were a lot of people homeless on the streets, drug use evident everywhere, a city-wide garbage strike and people having severe mental issues on buses. Tired from our travels and anxious to love our new city let’s [...]

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