Monday 19 November 2007

I never thought this would happen

Last Tuesday night Jacqui and I joined an honest to goodness gymnasium. I know it sounds crazy but it happened, witnesses are being sought.

And if that were not enough I've even frequented the establishment three times now at seven of the clock in the morning. Jacqui's been dropping me off at seven and I've been catching the bus back home and it's all working pretty well. Now I just need to keep it up for several months.

Tuesday 6 November 2007

Yippee, I'm nearly a proper engineer

I passed my APEGGA exam - obviously guessed those 40 questions right. I now just have to do another 7 months work experience and I can become a PEng (that's P for Professional, not P for Proper) and sign drawings and things. Hurrah.

Sunday 4 November 2007

Big news this weekend

1. We've had our first snow



2. Nature has finally discovered our bird table which we installed last weekend


Ahhhh.

Saturday 3 November 2007

I also hurt

ISL started up its five-a-side football kick-around yesterday evening. Richard was keen to go so I thought I might as well play as I would have to wait for him anyway and it would be a bit of exercise. We played on astroturf, 15 minutes either way and I was shattered by 5 minutes into the game. If the running around wasn't bad enough, the ball hit my hand and jarred my wrist, I managed to trip over and graze my arm (embarassingly, I couldn't even blame it on someone tacking me - there was no-one else around) and later on the ball smacked me in the face. What a great evening. I can now hardly move, but have a greater respect for Beckham et al. Not sure if I want to try that again, but I'll probably have recovered sufficiently in a fortnight's time and have forgotten the pain.

On the plus side, we went to 'Brits Fish and Chips' afterwards and had our first proper fish and chips for 6 months. Yum.

Halloween, Canadian Style

Halloween is a big thing out here - most of the houses are decorated with pumpkins, ghosts, cobwebs and witches. Rather than our usual practice of switching all the lights off and pretending we weren't in, we decided to embrace the whole thing, pumpkin and all.

We bough a load of sweets and spent the evening distributing them to the 30 or so well-costumed children who came round trick-or-treating. It was really good fun.