New Roots

Loosening Ties

Thu July 15th
Simple Pleasures


At the same time we are making decisions about our continued presence in Canada and what we do with our main house in the UK, we learn the NZ branch has been granted residency in the country they love.  After two and a half years, the stress and uncertainty over their continued presence, Covid travel restrictions and wedding plans; their residency came through today - well tomorrow their time, it's already Friday there!  A bubbling, babbling Ros was overjoyed.  We were for her, though it cemented the international nature of the Cronk gene pool.  

In some ways it reinforced our wish to stay in BC and loosen our ties to the UK.  We have decided to go ahead and put Eastcourt House on the market.  Even if our plans fail, we're not sure we'd want to come back to the house the 'kids' were brought up in knowing they were so far away and have all the maintenance liabilities of a three hundred year old property.  
Passing Ships

After thirty three years of acquiring possessions and investing in a house, it's time to move on.  Parting company with our furnishings, ornaments, technology and home comforts has been surprisingly easy.  They are in the end not that important.   

At a local and more mundane level, the last two tires arrived at Coastal Tire.  Fred made a visit to town to pick up some sourdough starter and get a haircut,  then I was off to get the wheels to match.  

I also confirmed purchase of the lathe and all its bits and pieces, for collection next week.  It's going to take me weeks to sort our all the kit that comes with it and get it set up and running in the cavernous double garage.  Quite exciting though and it will be good to be doing something practical again.

This afternoon we took a stroll down to the beach below us and got talking to Tom, who'd just been swimming.  His European accent was a bit of a giveaway and once we got talking with him discovered he was Swiss (but has been a citizen here for some 20 years) ;and had been working for Swiss Radio and TV as their head of legal.   He was there when I paid a visit with a BBC World Service team in the  80's and met their head of legal to talk about their funding and government constitution.  More conversations to follow I think.  Small world and yet another coincidence.

My lasting memory of the trip to SRI was that they had the BBC World Service (BBC External Services at the time) news running order on their newsroom whiteboard. Where some lead, others follow ..... sadly SRI is no longer part of the international broadcasting scene.

Jack continues to enjoy his swimming and is difficult to extract him from the water once in it.

Waves no longer bother him, he is in, paddling around as soon as the opportunity arises.

This morning's walk was cooler and the distant mountains had cloud floating around the peaks.  On the walk to Hopkins Landing, I took in the surroundings.


The biggest problem we have had so far, is the inability to find any Marmite.  There is, we understand, a shortage on the West Coast and small jars have been selling in the grey market for north of $15....  













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  1. BobJuly 16, 2021 at 11:43 PM

    Ahh the morning Marmite, what would we do without it. There was a slight run on it here a few weeks ago, supposedly due to the lack of brewing due to shut down. Now thankfully resolved! Can always send you some via snail mail.

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