If someone asked me to describe my appearance I would probably reply ‘kind of funny looking’. I feel like I have an unusual combination of features, assembled about as well as a fridge magnet sentence, which are slowly slipping down the door. Kind of a unique look but not in a good way.
Yet there is [...]
I have been rejected. I am unclean, impure, unworthy. I have the mark of the plague on my door. Why – because apparently my blue British blood is not good enough for Canadians. As a regular donor back in the UK I decided it was time to restart my little token of benevolence this side [...]
I have something in my eye. It’s been there for several days now, somewhere in the heart of darkness behind my eyelid. So whenever I blink there’s this little stab of irritation, which on it’s own is not so bad but the cumulative effect of all this little blinks over the day is building up [...]
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 [...]
