Expedition Canada

Sick Gulls Sat May 7th Ravens - escapees from the Tower of London on Bonniebrook beach Heading back for the ferry from our first round of grandchild infatuation last Saturday (May 1st), we turned up at the Departure Bay terminal slightly early only to find the ferry was running late. No option but to wait it out.   Two hours later, coming into the berth at Langdale, a driver from an adjoining car was impatiently pacing up and down, angrily talking into his phone trying to explain that the boat was about to unload and asking ‘ where are you?' . His manner and temper control was pure John Cleese/Basil Fawlty.   ‘ We are at the front of the boat. You are at the back. Look which way the cars are pointing ’ and  ‘S o you need to head in the direction the cars are pointing ’.  Over the one or two minutes of this sketch/explanation to Mrs 'Manuel' we had to stifle our hysterics as our window was open.   Clearly his wife/partner at the other end of the phone hadn’...

Container Packed Fri Feb 18th Our ship - courtesy OOCL This week has been full of house hunting and taxes! We have been to look at a couple of houses during the week.  The first a stunningly located property on top of 'the bluff' in Gibsons.   We know the property has been empty for some months as we were tipped off by our lovely letting agent that the previous owner had died and the property was likely to be coming on to the market.  Two bedrooms, in need of extensive work and a leaking indoor plunge pool, stilts supporting half of the house needing repair, it was a 'project'.  Even if you included the classic MG in the picture it was a ridiculous price compared with others we have seen recently.  Needless to say we won't be making an offer for the house.  It will probably be bought by someone and knocked down (a 'tear down' in local parlance) and a new modern property built to replace it.  As we are likely to have other prior...