Not been on here for a while! Anyway, I guess the weather has been too good, we’ve had some stunning hot weather, we’ve been out and about as much as we can, we made it down to Killarney on Tuesday afternoon, for a little boat trip on Lake George and then fish and chips, and all back in time for Tibor’s 33rd birthday Go-kart racing evening. I have been going to the gym with Drew quite a bit recently, we did squats on Wednesday night, since then I have been very stiff indeed. But that has not deterred me, again I went on Friday night, where we concentrated on shoulders and upper body, that wasn’t so bad, then again yesterday (Sunday) where we did dead-lifts, romanian dead-lifts, good mornings and then some other random stuff. Today I feel very stiff. I think I am going to take it steady this […]
Last week we mainly chilled, though we did go to Toonie Tuesday at the rainbow cinema and saw Dark Shadows, which was good. Canada day was on July 1st, as it is every year. Same day as Alan’s birthday! Hannah and I took the boat out on Saturday to Fairbanks park, which has a very large lake, is somewhere that we went last year a few times, but we never actually found the park itself. We rowed around a bit staying close, with in swimming range of the shore! We had also picked up two more oars, so that we could both row. We found that it worked best if I row and Hannah steers. We also went swimming and spent a few hours in the sun, it was about 30°C. On Sunday Hannah had to work, but because it was Canada day she was allowed to go on casual […]
Hannah’s mum and dad arrived in Toronto last week so they spent a couple of days there, then went into Niagara where Hannah and I met them. On the way down we got a big chip in the windscreen.. We spent two nights there and then the four of us traveled back to Sudbury. We decided that we would all go to Ottawa the next weekend as Hannah had Thursday and Friday off, so we left on the Thursday and got in at about 4pm. We again spent two nights there, we saw the houses of parliament, the Rideau Canal, the national art gallary, the Canadian Mint and a few other things. Martin and I borrowed a couple of bikes from the hotel and rode all the way to Quebec and back! We also went for a fathers day/Hannah’s birthday meal in the Hard Roc Cafe, where we told them […]
So in case you were wonder if I survived the black fly bite. I did. It was gone within about 36 hours. We didn’t get up too much last week. On Saturday there was a Celtic festival at Bell park, Celtic High Land games (which consisted of caber toss and weight over the bar), Celtic singing even Celtic weather! It rained all day.. We went, mainly to witness the full contact jousting, apparently it is the same people who did the jousting on Discovery Channel recently, also there were stalls and other entertainment going on. We also came across a British foods shall, where Hannah was able to buy Hula Hoops, Fruit Pastels and some mints. She is pretty excited!! Here are all the pictures of the Jousting
This weekend was a quiet one, we went to the big yard sale in Sudbury downtown. Hannah got a beautiful watch clock. Also we went and saw The Avengers which is a great film, proper good old fashioned Marvel comics style adventure.. I think when we left the cinema and were chatting outside with Troy, I was bitten, probably by a black fly… see my head now; Funny eh? I was thinking of drawing a little face on it, maybe a little hair on top.. te he. Either way Hannah suggested we went to a pharmacy for some advice, they were very helpful and suggested Benadryl. Its just as antihistamine. Should be all gone in a week. just to put your minds at rest; it doesn’t hurt, not very itchy at all and i barely notice it. It’s kept me well amused all day!
Remember when I said last weekend we’d tried to drive to Timmins? Well there is now 41 thousand hectares of burned/burning land up there. 41210 to be precise. Which is: 412 square kilometers; 151 square miles; Now to put this into perspective and in English/British terms: The Isle of Silly 16.03 km2 (6.189 sq mi), so they’d be gone; Guernsey (30 sq mi; 78 sq km).. gone; The isle of Jersey (45 sq mi; 116 sq km).. gone; The Isle of Wight would also be gone.. The Isle of Wight measures 147 square miles.. Anyway, you now have an idea of the scale of this fire.. Youtube results for Timmins Fire In particular a video from the MNR (Ministry of Natural Resources) You might also like to read this completely unrelated article. We didn’t get up to very much today, it’s been cooler today, it was 28deg earlier this week […]
Well, we’ve not been up to very much this weekend, Hannah had to work Sunday as normal, but at least we get the Monday off as well. On Saturday we chilled and didn’t do too much, I went to the gym and did some shopping in preparation for the big celebrations of June. Sunday Hannah worked and I went to the gym and then to Wild at Heart where Bryan and I re-fitted the air ducting. Monday; Hannah and I tried to drive to Timmins, we drove as far as Crab Lake where we ate lunch and took three pictures, the ones of the lake, Hannah the car. We then drove on north towards Timmins, we got to Baywolf Camp where the road was blocked going north, so I went into the camp and asked why. I was told that there was a forest fire which is why the road […]
Fuel inefficiencies of different modes of transport. Lets assume that a person is makes work or business based travel from home to a place of work or travels for business reasons. On average this person travels alone to work as most people own more than one car, or they can rent a car for long distance travel. I have picked at random small fairly average car: Volkswagen Touran S 1.6 TDI BlueMotion Technology, 1598cc, 121 g/km CO2 (61mph or 3.86 L/100km) http://www.carpages.co.uk/co2/co2-121-to-150-1.asp Now this person only travels a relativity short distance to and from the place of work, some where between 5 and 100 miles. Over this distance it is the most efficient method based on time, effort and cost. If this person should have to travel a long distance, say a few thousand miles, the same time, effort and cost will apply, as such the likely hood is that […]
Well I am no longer in Youtube’s good books, I have a big red X by my name and if I get one more they will ban me from using Youtube for life! This is because I uploaded that video of Bryan Adams.. apparently I need his permission to post that online, which I guess is fair enough. More importantly Drew and I had our popsicle head frame tested again on Friday (May 11th) morning. We achieved 826lbs this time, before the bottom of the legs gave way to the pressure. I think that the box section collapsed allowing the frame to buckle at which point it was over. Next time we will make the ends of the legs solid, and possibly fix them together better at the base. We learned a lot having seen both what other people did and also the test rig. If we compete next year […]
Monday night Hannah and I went and saw Bryan Adams at the Sudbury Arena. We were pretty excited, the arena was fairly packed, though there were still a few seats empty towards the back of the level seating, i.e. not the tiered seats or ‘bleachers’ as they might be refereed to here. He didn’t have a support act or anything so he was on stage from a little after 8 until almost 11. The music was louder, the lights where brighter, it was pretty cool, I really enjoyed. Hannah thought it was a little too loud and bright for her delicate ears and eyes respectively. But still we both enjoyed it, it was worth it just to have seen him perform Summer of 69 live. The video was deleted by Youtube because it infringes on Bryan Adam’s copyright. Oops. The pictures are here, I expect that they also infringe.. but […]
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