My five-year-old has just informed me about his love for cupcakes, despite the fact that “cupcakes ah also fahts, daddy.” Heh, I’d forgotten that. I’ma get ‘im with that one later… Father-in-law, Poppy, is a smallish, wiry, thin, deceptively strong old man, but he occasionally requires a bit more muscle when working any number of […]

The days and weeks preceding the holidays were a time filled with stress for he and his lovely wife, not to mention the two little walking barometers in the house. The excitement and anticipation of their trip back to America notwithstanding, leaving his kids for two weeks wasn’t something he was looking forward to. The […]

The keys have been returned, the lease is done, our responsibilities… over. Bah, only part of the above is true. The Final Inspection (sounds serious as a testical malfunction doesn’t it?) is tomorrow, and if anything is wrong, say the house is still the dump that it was when moved into for instance, then we […]

When CrazyCatLady casually mentioned that she grooms the dog of one of my fellow Americans, I was more entertained by the notion of an enormous, bald, black dude with a little, white, YappingRat, than I was of hearing the accent of one of my countrymen. I happened to be over at Mum-in-law’s one afternoon when […]

Last Saturday night, OtherSister invited Wife and I downtown to meet up with her visiting BritCousin, LocalCousin, and brother. Still lacking suitable transportation of our own, we happily utilized the brand-spankety-new Thornlie Train Station and headed into the city. After speed-walking the length of the enormous platforms and climbing up the stairs to view from […]