It's quite hot this afternoon, I blame the naffing yanks, anyway I"m sat in Earls taking full advantage of happy hour while waiting for HID and an order of yam fries with garlic aioli (it is Vancouver after all) so I thought after yesterday a flippant thread about your weekend plans was in order.
It's actually quite an interesting place (Earl's) to be. Although I"m not qualitative researcher and attempting to write up an ethnographic study on a phone with poxy predictive text is not easy, there's a lot material. Although I've had to move to the bar as the service is slow. The critical word here is, 'Hour'. Now there's a fat man sitting next to me who's British, Scottish or drunk and he seems to know everyone.

Before I prattle on any further, what fun stuff are you all up to this weekend?

Waiting for it to be over. One of the biggest warnings given to potential expats should be that visitors feel it is 'too far' to just come for the standard tolerable two days...

Given that most of the people are in tee shirts, shorts and flip flops this doesn't seem to be the typical after work crowd. As James has observed, the bar babes (I'm old enough to be their older brother) are a lot more pleasing on the eye than old Frank down The Red Lion. HID better show up soon so we can go and have dinner.

Tomorrow I will be at the hair salon...then have a few last minute purchases to get. Then home to pack for our hols...leaving Tuesday. Sunday out with daughter and family for brunch...which will probably take all afternoon.

Working sat chilling Sunday

You should put up a sign that says "when we get pissed on Friday night and ask you to stay till Monday, we don't mean it."

I like the American 2 day rule...even fish start to go off after 2 days.

This fish is on the final stretch of a fortnight (over)stay

Well it seems as if HID has stood me up, so it's down to the boat to carry on this party.

I will be recovering... Two nights ago, I woke up as dawn was breaking so weird shapes appeared in the bed (no, not Snoop)
Having woken up from some weird dream, I must have seen one of those shapes as a large snake
I backed away to avoid said snake and promptly fell to the floor from a fairly reasonable height with a crash- I laughed, Snoop laughed even more than I - fine yesterday but today ... Holy crap my arm/ shoulder hurts... How embarrassing . Snoop thought that she had dreamt it until I started whining about my hurtie shoulder

What were you guys smoking/drinking the night before?

BTW...maybe you should see a doctor about the shoulder.

And that's the story you're sticking to is it?

Sadly nothing ... and I did and she was actually very sympathetic once she stopped laughing ....Bad Snoop
It is so dumb, I couldn't make it up!

First Barbeque! It's finally warm enough! It will rain but the barbeque is on the verandah...may this be the first of many before the end of September It's the last weekend of Air Cadets....so I get my kid back after that!

This is the summer of beans...I've never grown much before, but they grow quickly and are tough...I started seedlings on a windowsill a few weeks back and have been waiting for the frost to stop so I can transplant them...if I don't get them out soon, I shall need a machete to get up the stairs.

A very happy weekend to all!

My stepdaughter grew quite a lot last year and they were good. The year before there were tons of cucumbers and they were fantastic.

It seems each year she grows something that really stands out from the other stuff but it's never the same thing.