Month: February 2012
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Our Trip 2012 (8)
A lot has happened since I last wrote here. We went to visit ‘Tip, she was staying at her sister’s house from Wed. to Sunday so that she could rest and relax before starting back at work on Monday. Tip came to us last Thursday to do some ironing, which she does much better than I, as…
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Our Trip 2012 (7)
Today was the Melbourne Cup Retrospective. As all you Race Meet aficionados know the Melbourne Cup takes place in Melbourne Australia every November and from what I gather is somewhat like Ascot with a bit of The Grand National thrown in. Anyway those Aussies manage to celebrate the event almost where ever they happen to…
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Valentine’s Day Messages
So my man created this demo of his coding skills for Valentine’s Day: interfacemaster.ca/love -> check it out! Click and drag anywhere on the screen (or tap and drag if you’re on a mobile device) and play! It’s so much fun. If you want to send a custom message to your love for Valentine’s Day,…
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Our trip 2012 (6)
Monday we did laundry and caught up on Internet stuff etc. Then we ventured out to taste some wonderful Belgian chocolate. Their is a chocolate shop near the hotel, on Sukhumvit, which has good hot chocolate thus we usually get a cup, even in this hot weather it is still delicious and happily it is still…
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Our Trip 2012 (5)
Sunday 5th Feb. saw us in the swimming pool, it was very cool to get into, usually it is warm at this time of year but due to the rain and cloudy skies it has really cooled off. After a light breakfast we went to church, holy Redeemer on Ruamrudi. It was our local church when…
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Our Trip 2012 (4) ‘Tip
“Tip, our housekeeper while we lived in Bangkok, came to visit us Saturday morning. We have stayed in touch, helped by the fact that “Tip speaks and writes English, not perfectly but good enough for us to understand each other. “Tip and I also share the same year of birth, although I am 9 months older…
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Our Trip 2012 (3) this and that
Friday3rd Feb. At breakfast this morning we bumped into Johan and Britta. They lived in Centre Pointe while we did and Dave worked with Johan for about a year, again it seems to be a very small world. I met with an old friend, Claudia, we went to lunch and caught up on what had been…
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Our Trip 2012 (2) Museum lecture
Thursday 2nd Feb. and we are up bright and early to travel to the National Museum, in the old part of town near the Grand Palace, for a lecture series. I used to be a member of the museum volunteers and a friend told me about the series which was postponed because of the flooding last…
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Our Trip 2012 (1) travel and arrival in Bangkok
Our friends, John and Joelle, drove us to Ottawa airport bright and early Monday morning the 30th January where we checked our 3 bags (more on this later) to be picked up later in Bangkok. We first flew with Air Canada to Toronto and then boarded another Air Canada flight to Beijing. The fourteen hours…
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New Beginings
My daughter and a few friends have suggested I might like to start blogging here again Dave and I are now settled in our house here on the Kemptville Creek in Oxford Mills Ontario. When we first moved in we put a new roof on it, had wood floors fitted in lounge/ dinner, new furnace/oiltank.…