Another busy week in Montreal working long hours, which I tend to do when working out of a hotel room. Nothing much to do on your own no matter how nice the city is.

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I have been watching the Olympics on Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC) channels (while working ) and I find it strange that the Canadians are worse than GB for olympic achievements. In the UK we tend to complain bitterly about our Olympic medal tally, moaning about our lack of sporting achievements. Well today (or perhaps yesterday) the Canadians won their first medal a silver in rowing followed swiftly by a Gold and Bronze in woman's wrestling  ... what happened to the feminine sports. (although I am sure women wrestlers are fine athletes).

Team GB  are doing a fantastic job!!!!  Two amazing swims from the Mansfield girl Rebecca Adlington..... knocking over 2 seconds off the longest standing swimming record for 800m freestyle! She now has two gold medals! Makes me proud to be a Brit . One benefit of living in another country is you get to cheer on two sets of Athletes and have extra chances of winning. (well sometimes)

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I have been working in Montreal for a few weeks now and once again missed a chunk of the summer. For those readers who remember last summer I was off work after a bout of Bells Palsy and the first summer I was working in Toronto. Well the Bell's Palsy is just about all gone. I still have a lop-sided smile and when I purse my lips my right eye closes (the nerves are trying to figure out what signals control which bit of my face).

Anyway it feels good to be home again, even though this weekend will be spent cutting down trees, mowing the grass and on Sunday sneaking in a BBQ with Ceri, Jason and the Davies brood(Owen, Ethan and Ellie).

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The weather is pretty good 25-26c sunny and forecasted to be just a bit lower all the coming week. However last night as we sat outside on the deck at 9pm I detected a chill in the air which we havent felt before...... Summer is ending OMG  - time to start thinking about snow shovels and winterising the lawn mower