Lucky buggers, they have BIG snow back in Blighty. Well, seemingly except for the bit of Blighty I actually used to live in. To the south of us in the Seattle area the forecast is for snow tonight. Envy.Yesterday I saw two school buses from Blaine, Washington State going towards Vancouver. There is a sign on Highway 99 just a few hundred yards from Westminster Highway that tells you it is 215 km to Seattle it must be nearer from the border, to come into Vancouver to take field trips than to drive down to Seattle.
On the News a couple of nights ago, we were told that the government was deciding whether to advise Canadians not to travel to Mexico as a result of a number of recent murders of Canadian citizens there. Last night, our local freesheet had a competition, the prize for which was a trip to, yup, Mexico. Oops.
You know those things where you wonder how they discovered it? Well it seems that the only thing that can get rid of the smell of skunk spray is tomato juice and lots of it.
Apparently we are eagerly awaiting delivery of a stuffed skunk at the Nature House, and more bizarrely still, a rattus norvegicus, we're not exactly short of them around the Park.
Anyway, as it happens, our taxidermist did many of the animals in the film 'A Night at the Museum', our interest was piqued at how you get hold of a lion to stuff, but it turns out that in Texas, they breed them for Texans to hunt. Hmmm.
Yesterday I forgot to wish Adam a Happy Birthday, I'd say, 'hope it was a good one,' but for the fact that I happen to know he spent it in the labour ward. Adam's wife Lisa is in hospital and their baby is being induced, slowly it seems. So they have another birthday to look forward to, one that I hope comes soon.
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I was talking in my Discussion Skills class this afternoon with the students about why they picked Vancouver as their English-learning destination.
No word of a lie, my Mexican student said that her parents were very nervous about her coming here because they had heard (or read) that it wasn't very safe.
Karen
Was she talking specifically about your class perhaps Karen?
Not a poxy flake of snow fell on us. I'm so pissed off.
The trouble with Canadians is that they sound to much like Septics. They need to display a Maple Leaf somewhere prominent to avoid confusion and instant hatred!
I'm a proud papa!
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