Monday night we ate out in The Laughing Buddha, which we were recommended. It was good, we ate outside on their deck. Very nice pizza. Tuesday night we went out and saw a film with Mike, in the Rainbow Center, it’s their $2 film night. We saw Limitless, which was good and a nice way to spend an evening. It was about 30deg C that day. Wednesday Mike insisted on doing a ‘Whopper night’, he went and got the stuff, burgers, salad and fruit for desert. It was really good!! We’ll probably do it again! Yves showed us pictures of Diavik mine site when he was working there, he had loads of pictures of moose and bears that he’d seen. Thursday night we went house hunting, looked at two places, both apartments, the first just off Regent street, off York street.. nice but nothing special, then the second place on […]
Well last weekend (28th 29th May) we made it to Windy Lake where I saw some poison Ivy! I think I walked in it, but I haven’t yet come up in the rash so we hope that I’ve not been got! On Monday we met up with one of Hannah’s relatives who lives in Sudbury. We saw Brides Maids the film on Wednesday. This weekend (4th 5th June) we spent Saturday shopping for small bits and pieces and Sunday we did went to the Farmers Market, where we had some pastries and a fruit smoothy. We viewed a basement apartment on Saturday which was very small but also very cheap, we’ve sort of decided no on that one, unless we get stuck..
Hello everybody :) Well this weekend was a bank holiday weekend for the Canadians. We decided to be cultural and visit the museums – Science North and Dynamic Earth. Saturday we went to Science North. It was awesome. We were going to pay for a three day passport which would allow us admission to both museums and to the IMAX and planetarium. But on arrival we found that it was cheaper to get a year admission – which means Jessica, you will be visiting both with us as we get a 50% discount on guests :) Science North was brilliant – it has three floors; the first floor there are lots of live insects and some dead ones too – and there is a butterfly area. The second floor there is a beaver, porcupine and skunk as well as snakes, turtles, flying squirrels and bats. On the third floor there […]
Fairly random selection of photos from Hannah’s phone And pictures taken on our trip to Manitoulin Island: Last night we stayed in and didn’t get up to anything much, short of watching tv. I think I forgot to mention in the last entry that we met a couple (Paul and Karen) up the road towards Winchester Avenue, they had a couple of alcoholic beverages, but where very friendly and proceeded to tell us all about the local area, they do a lot of publicity type stuff for Sudbury, so they know the history etc, fascinating! Apparently since they’ve lived there (about 25 years) they’ve had snowy rabbits, foxes, racoons, coyotes and even a bear in their garden, which is impressive I though! Their property backs onto the hill out to the north of us. They have a lovely view of Sudbury form their stoop. That’s where I took the sunset […]
Well, this week was interesting. We had two house guests this week – Mike and Neven (who we had met here on our first night in Sudbury) On Tuesday we had a couple of Mormon missionaries around; Michael had invited them. They were very friendly;one of the guys came from a farming background and his family grow sugar beat. Fascinating! Mike made taco’s for us all and a fruit salad thing. On Wednesday we decided we’d go and see a film. Neven gave me a lift home from work whilst Mike stayed at work late. We decided we’d go and get some food out, and as I understood it, Mike would be meeting us at the cinema after Neven, Hannah and I had eaten. We went and got a Wendy’s then Neven dropped us at Silver city (The big cinema). We bought tickets and Mike was no where to be […]
Hello everyone, Well another week has gone by. Hannah made lasagne for us on Tuesday – it was difficult sourcing the same ingredients as we use in England and so many include added salt. Some of the pictures should give you an example of what the difference is in food!! Maple syrup with beans!! Very strange and we’re not even tempted to try them! We have had Mike staying here again – Tuesday through to Friday which was nice; we spend quite a lot of time talking as he is a fountain of knowledge. Hannah was offered a job as an event specialist working in Walmart but for an outside company; she ended up turning it down as we decided it wasn’t worth her working weekends. However she is now volunteering at the library to teach IT to seniors one on one. We went to the IMAX on Thursday to […]
A few pictures from our weekend: Hannah and I got out and about a bit last weekend, they’ve had a very wet start to the year here, we’ve not noticed it really, but apparently water levels are high, in other parts of Canada there is flooding but nothing that serious here. We went to Manitoulin island on Sunday and saw the Bridal Vail falls: Wikipidia’s take on the falls Cornwall UK, has a land mass of 3,563 km2 (1,376 sq mi) and Manitoulin Island has a land mass of 2,766 km² (1,068 square miles), not that different! However the population of Cornwall is a fraction over half a million but Manitoulin island is about 12.5 thousand!
Hello Hope everyone is well. Hannah has now, as of yesterday, stopped taking all pain medication :) she is feeling quite sore but considerably better although we are not sure how long the nurses will still have to come for. Today we have opened our Canadian bank account. Brendan is settling in at work; they had brought him a brand new computer which he is enjoying (approx $5,000 worth!) Like all new things it is having teething issues with software but they are nearly all ironed out now. On Tuesday evening Brendan’s colleagues, Jim Anderson, Ibrahim, Sanjay plus other half, came back to the house for a drink and then took us out for dinner. We went to a Greek restaurant which was really nice then we took in a film (Lincoln Lawyer) It was a really nice evening. (Jim had taken us out in Cornwall to a Thai restaurant […]
I (Brendan) went for a walk to our local shop, which is on Douglas Street, about 700m away. I took a few pictures along the way, its a typical suburban type place here in Sudbury, not the nicest/poshest, but also far from the worst. Also Hannah with her Tim Hortons coffee and our Easter chocolate! We popped to Tim Hortons for a coffee, its a common thing to do in Canada, but most use the ‘drive thru’ and done go in.. We went to Walmart yesterday in search of Easter eggs, but they’d pretty much sold out. So we got these!! Just leaving the house, looking back down the road. Along the way.. Our local shop Hannah and I made a lovely roast today, we wolfed most of it down, but there was soo much we’re going to fry the rest for tomorrow’s dinner.
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