woolgathering

Last weekend we went to the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown, not far from our neighbourhood. I forgot to post about it, but ...

The TED conference brings together fascinating people at the tops of their fields, and asks them to give the best talk of their lives, in 18...

It's snowing outside, and Douglas has gone diving this afternoon. It's his second time - he's finished his volunteer training at...

http://youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel

Whew! The letter from the immigration office wasn't a work permit, after all. Just a notice that Douglas can now pay a lot of money and ...

It has been a crazy pair of days. First. Yesterday there was a lockdown in my building because someone e-mailed in a threat to do harm to so...

Life has been busy!!! Mark and Erika visited us for a fabulous week. We ran around Vancouver, showing them the sights, rode our bikes, and a...

I've been a bad, bad blogger - I haven't blogged in aaaages. And the longer I leave it, the more stuff there is to mention, so I lea...

Imagine having your very own wind turbine in your backyard! Apparently they are becoming more and more affordable, and homeowners are puttin...

I got an official job offer from UBC yesterday, and starting January 2 will be doing something much more up my alley - I'm positively os...

With Christmas just around the corner, Douglas and I have been knitting and projecting like maniacal little elves to get all of our Christma...

I've been wanting to post about the goodness of Celine and Dylan's wedding for a while, but every time I sit down to do it, I think ...

We just had an s&b meeting at my house. Susannah brought a project she was working on the last time I had s&b in Vancouver, 5 and a ...

I time travelled on my way to work yesterday. How do I know? I ended up in the 19th century. Let me explain. The receptionist quit last week...

We saw an urban coyote on our dog walk the other night! Douglas wrote about it on his blog, so I won't duplicate it here. A coyote! Wow!

I haven't talked much about my job since I got it. That's because it's perfectly odious, and I can't talk about it without c...

We spent a glorious few days in Tucson at Seline and Dylan's wedding. It was perfectly sublime, with fairy lights, mouth-crunch cake, ol...

It has rained steadily for the past week or so. Douglas made Saira a super-cute gore-tex raincoat so she stays dry: This morning the clouds ...

Our housewarming party was last night, and it was fabulous. We don't know that many folks in town yet, so it was small. Not all of our f...

Poor Saira got skunked this week. I let her out on the back porch Wednesday night, and she came back minutes later, stinking and shaking. I...