Tick Tock

[Lisa Blundell]

Thursday December 23, 2010

 

Well, I guess we pretty much know by now, as we did at 7.30am, that today is the day before Christmas Eve. It's like living with two town criers. You hear the really important things over and over.

 

Connor called tonight. he's been away the last two nights with friends at their century old stone cottage in the Kingston kind of area. Connor's friend is called Christopher Kuitenbrauer. They've been boarding at a near-by mountain called Bata Mountain. And the property has a pond on it so they took to it with shovels and cleared it so they could skate on it. All real good Canadian experiences. He's so lucky he got to do that right at the very end of our stay.

 

We went to Sporting Life and bought great big coats which is exactly NOT the thing you need in an Australian January but we are so tempted by good Canadian cold weather gear that you just can't get over on the other side of the globe.

 

I will be very grateful for my new coat come footy season.

 

Darling Geraldine took our two little boys out skating all day long. She's awesome. She has a laugh exactly like Sally Clift. I cannot wait for them to be together and to listen to Ian tell a joke. It will be hilarious. Geraldine is a very cool lady and I like her a lot and will miss her very much. Her two are in our two boys classes.