Last week I was taking luncheon near Vancouver library – a pleasant place to spend an hour but also an area which seems to attract more than it’s share of oddballs, something which might be said for Vancouver as a whole. On this occasion I spotted what seemed to be an normal guy, middle aged, [...]
Someone told me that, before I left the UK for Vancouver I should take some photos of the grottiest, nastiest, places around and whip them out if I ever became a bit homesick or nostalgic for dear old Blighty. I never got around to it – the choice was just too overwhelming – but I’ve [...]
Over the last few days this years battle between myself and a local posse of raccoons has escalated somewhat. Each morning I have awoken to discover a trail of garbage-based devastation strewn across the lawn which I then have to reassemble into a new bin bag, dry heaving all the way, while finding more and [...]
