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First love
Love is in the air at our place and all those extra pheromones aren’t coming from The Canadian. No, they are oozing out of the 9-year-old and his new lady friend Siri, apple’s virtual voice activated assistant.
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Peeping Tom
This week I realised a Peeping Tom has moved into our apartment and the creepy son of a bitch is moi …. I have turned into the ** Mrs Mangel of Toronto and it kind of happened without me really even trying.
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The Yellow School Bus
Yesterday was a big day … huge in fact … it was 6 months to the day since we arrived in Canada. I can’t believe how quickly time has flown. I spent the day doing something really exciting ……
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Silence of the Lambs
Over the weekend, we celebrated a milestone with the 8-year-old getting a new moniker and becoming the 9-year-old. Nothing says kids birthday than an afternoon spent watching medieval knights trying to kill each other as you chow down on a 3-course feast and so we found ourselves at Medieval Times.
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Popping my Baseball Cherry!
Last night I popped my baseball cherry at my first Major League Baseball game and it was FUN with a capital F.
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Brain games
A few things have been throwing me off lately. One of the things I can’t my head around is Seagulls …
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Who ya gonna call? Not a GP
** I may just get a little bit sweary in this post** Word of warning if you move to Canada … Don’t get sick!
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Vegemite
Ok, so Australian’s love Vegemite! The black tar like substance that is made from leftover brewers yeast. It is extremely salty and stinks. I freakin love it!
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An Insiders Guide to Ice Hockey
I know I have blogged about Ice Hockey before but they don’t call it the “5th season” around here for nothing. It is like The Canadian is making up for 10 plus years living away from North America and his mothership of Ice Hockey. Australia wasn’t exactly a deserted island when it came to Ice Hockey. He played Ice Hockey in an old man league in both summer and winter, NHL games are broadcast on Foxtel Cable TV, he has an NHL game on the Xbox and when he wasn’t playing the crush (candy crush – it’s his thing but we won’t go there) on the iPad he would be…
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Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner
When we decided to make the move from Australia to Canada I thought I would start a blog for my ramblings the only problem was I had NFI how so after several intense google sessions and using a WordPress template Maple Bacon Please was born.
