Sun, sea and sand

Best Friend in America arrived on Thursday and we had a fabulous visit. I was sad to see her go yesterday Flights between our cities are so insanely expensive that we’re making plans to meet up somewhere in between (maybe Toronto or New York) next year. The cost of flights plus hotel room [...]

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Security clearance, Redemption and rugby, oh my!

Oracle Reports is a thing of pure, unadulterated evil *sigh*
Apparently I need a certificate of some kind to say that I’m not a criminal in the UK for my security clearance for the semi-government job that I’ve been doing for three months. A little behind there. Anyone know anything about how I go about applying [...]

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Six month emigraversary thoughts

As of today, it is now six months since I moved to Canada. I can’t believe how fast the time has flown! There have been ups and downs and the winter has not been easy, but overall it’s been wonderful and I’m absolutely certain that I made the right choice to do this. It’s been [...]

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Bad day

Today has been a bad day. I started out late to work (because I needed to shovel the drive) and it kept going downhill from there. Work was boring beyond belief and I worked through breaks and lunches to make up the time for being late because I planned to go to knitting tonight. I [...]

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New doctor: the verdict

Hmm, I am in two minds about my new family doctor.

I saw my new doctor for a grand total of five minutes. Her first language is definitely not English so we were having some communication difficulties – perhaps she doesn’t usually deal with things beyond the usual coughs and colds?
Explained that I had Hypermobile Ehlers [...]

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Things I miss

Mum has been gone for a bit over a week and I’m now starting to notice the odd things that I miss about England. It’s weird because a lot of them aren’t things that I thought I’d miss.
Radio 2 – particularly Chris Evans while I’m driving home.
The Today show on Radio 4.
The Independent newspaper.
BBC dramas.
Private [...]

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I can haz driving licence y/y?

For the curious, I passed my test and now have a Nova Scotia driver’s licence
After worrying, stressing, and ending up at the stage of being ready to throw-up by the time the examiner came to my car, it turned out to be much easier than I thought. In fact, he just had me [...]

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Job offer

The job that I interviewed for last week has made me an offer. The salary is less than I’d hoped for and the holiday is the statutory minimum, but the benefits are good and they have a company pension.
They’re emailing me the contract so that I can review it before saying yes.
It’s a job that [...]

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Um, eeep!

Today I took my written driving test (passed!) and had a driving lesson to check how I’m doing. The guy said that I should pass provided I remember the things he picked up.
So I called to book the test. It was tomorrow or mid-November. Guess which I picked?
EEEEEPPP!!!
I am so ready for it to be [...]

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Reflections

I am sitting in my office, listening to the Proms on Radio 3 in beautiful quality through the Internet. It’s the last night and it’s usually a family thing. But Da is in England, watching the Proms on TV, and we had a chat during the interval through Skype with vidcam in operation. Mum is [...]

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