Snippets ?
We finally have an eviction date for getting our non paying tenant out of the bungalow, but are now concerned what state it will be left in for the next tenant.
Lin has just come back from a silent retreat with some Franciscan monks at a monastry near Cochrane. She enjoyed it apart from the silent bit.
Dave is just about to go off on his last camp of the year back to Alexo for his fifth visit. He is enjoying it and each trip builds his self confidence.
We seem to have come full circle with the academic year and are now buying supplies for his new school. This has been less traumatic than last year as this school just asks for 10 packs of pencils whereas last years school was very brand specific. The only stumbling block this year was 2 packs of duo tangs, the ones we found were sold in singles so how many should we get ?
A few other word plays we have noticed.
From the bilingual labelling on products the French for paper clip appears to be trombone. So what is French for trombone ? Paperclip ?
We were looking to underseal Lin’s car but could not find any underseal paint…because here it is called undercoat. So what do they call what we used to call undercoat ? Answer primer.
We have been making extensive use of the local library’s DVD collection. Lin to revisit Michael Palin David Attenborough and others. Pete to catch up on missing CSI and Stargate Atlantis episode. They also have a Dr Who episode from the Tom Baker era 1979. The release date must have been much more recent as all the bonus features on the disc were emphasising the Douglas Adams connection and reflecting on whether he would have rejoined the writing team on the new series.