The weekend involved several brushes with the arts (of sorts). Saturday saw me join Mikey and co to see the robot movie Transformers. Friends reviews have been quite varied. My personal take on the film is if you turn your brain off for the plot and want to see giant robots fighting in glorious CGI [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
Pictures
I’ve finally pulled my finger out and uploaded the pictures from this years trip to Canada. I didn’t take my compact camera in the end so I took them all with my mobile phone. I’m quite pleased with how some of them came out. Any loss of quality due to it being a phone cam [...]
Thought Crime?
The sentencing of 4 young men today for downloading and discussing Jihadist material makes me a little uneasy. As far as I can tell none of them had planned any attacks although they did head out for training. The youngest student Raja got two years youth detention although he spent 3 days in Afghanistan before [...]
Flashing Blue Lights
Yesterday’s Wednesday Meal provided excitement as TJ “The Black Widow of Knutsford” fed us a Pea and Asparagus soup for a starter. The bread and cake had already been checked and alerted as not Ste safe although who’d of thought that ASDA’s Extra Special soup would contain traces of nuts? His response was pretty quick [...]
Fast Forward
Some sales people deserve shooting. There is no justification for selling gold plated 1.5m HDMI cables for ?60-100 and if an “inferior” cable was giving me “lower than VHS quality” I’d take it back because obviously some of the bits are jumping across air to get to my TV. So in quick recap. Montreal was [...]
Road to Montreal
We decided to drive to Montreal in one big lump. Driving as a couple is the ultimate test of patience and the strength of your relationship. I’ve been trying my best to avoid commenting after rebukes for my right hand seat driving earlier on. I was however woken up by an extended trip over the [...]
Relative Values
We stayed two nights with my Aunt and Uncle in Tilsonburg spending the day in-between on the shores of Lake Erie chilling out. I got a chance to catch up with my cousins when we went out for a family meal. Fliss made friends with Stephanie’s daughter Elizebeth although their younger son Ben spent a [...]
Niagra Falls
There is not much I can say about the Falls. They are as impressive as you would think but the area around is basically tourist trap hell. The parking was $18 (?9) and a good walk away from the Maid of the Mist. However we did persuade the nice parking attendant to give us a [...]
Toronto
Yesterday we “did” Toronto. Given the size of the place it’s pretty impossible to get a proper idea of what it’s like so we stuck to tourist traps and Jazz. After a few rounds on the hotels water slide to unwind from the drive down we headed out to the CN Tower. Given the fact [...]
Canada is made of Lakes
We set out from the wedding venue after yet another large breakfast for our cross country trek over the top of Ontario and through the Algonquin Provincial Park. Our departure from Quebec was slightly delayed by a us trying to find a garage that sold any maps of the province. Once suitably equipped we were [...]
