Unfortunately I have no new photos to show here. I’ve been out several times and wanted to take photos, but I haven’t been carrying around my camera phone – since it doesn’t work on the networks here. (It works fine on Orange – but on Rogers it refuses to send text messages, because of the ...

I’ve been in Canada for nearly two weeks now, so I think it’s about time I put another posting on my blog. I would have blogged a while ago, but I wanted to wait until I had a photograph to post as well. I got plenty of sleep on the flight over here, so it ...

The chinook is well gone now, and the temperature hasn’t been above minus three for a week. In fact, it’s generally been about minus fifteen during the day, with cold peaks of minus twenty-three. There’s snow everywhere, and I’m starting to get used to driving on it with winter tyres. (And before anyone complains that ...

One of the nice advantages of Calgary over most of Canada is the Chinooks. Every so often a chinook wind comes in and heats the whole place up for a while. So although a week ago there was a day when the temperature didn’t get above minus two, this week has been quite mild, and ...

Hey everyone – I’m engaged! I have been for just over a week, but I’ve been waiting until I’d managed to phone a load of people before posting it on here. Sorry if I haven’t phoned you, but it’s a bit awkward with the time difference and all that. Anyway, Naomi and I got engaged ...

This evening I went to my first NHL game. The Calgary Flames were playing the Vancouver Canucks – the bottom team against the top team. They played each other on Saturday and Flames won 1-0. I was hoping there would be a few more goals scored tonight. There are a few things different at a ...

Yesterday we bought our new Golf. It’s not actually a GTI, it’s a GL. But apart from having drum brakes at the rear instead of discs, it’s probably better, because it has 17″ wheels, lowered suspension, MOMO steering wheel and pedals and Recaro seats. And a pretty snazzy stereo which’ll play MP3 CDs. It’s also ...