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One Day, October 2010
One day my house will be clean. I will not need to move the stroller, straddle the errant construction vehicle and dispose of a large stick to unlock the front door. The rug will not be gritty with playground sand and the front hall will be entirely absent of shoes, wet socks, school backpacks, rumpled coats, damp mittens and forgotten juice boxes. [More after the break...]
Our Toddler, February 2010
Perhaps Alex doesn't always understand why we do what we do; but he sure is getting good at copying us.
Alex loves to draw - on paper, the walls and occasionally on Anna, as she sits doing her homework. In the kitchen, he empties the dishwasher (onto the floor), empties the cupboards (again the floor) and re-organises the drawers (toys in the saucepans). When I make dinner, Alex sits, stirring his own plastic bowl filled with dried pasta or crumbs from the floor - whatever he can find. In my arms, he tries his hardest to add something (an orange, his biscuit, a sock) into the saucepan I'm stirring at the stove. [More after the break...]
Winter Baby, April 2009
How am I going to keep Alex warm? The winter of 2008/09 was a cold one. We had many days when the temperature reached a high of just -15C or -10C, before wind chill. Snow covered the ground from late November and remained until March. [More after the break...]
Ottawa FAQ, February 2008
We've fielded many questions from friends and family in the UK and Australia about life in Canada. Below your common concerns are addressed: What's the weather like? [More after the break...]
Life In Ottawa, December 2007
For the first week, I was raw with the grief of leaving friends and our life in London and numbed by the shock of so much that was new. I was surprised at how different, and in so how difficult, it was to achieve the essential components of a day at home: grocery shopping, laundry, and going to the playground. Out of rows and rows of products at the grocery store; I only recognised two brands - tea and shampoo - that I knew. Here cheese is orange; most yoghurts are shiny and solid and we've yet to find fresh penne pasta or Bourneville dark chocolate. Anna was frightened by how loudly the toilets flushed and Nate, when he woke in the night, was confused by the hotel bed and would take a long, long, time to settle back down and sleep again. [More after the break...]
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Last updated 30 October 2010.