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Author: Mike

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Snow,eh!

    We have been welcomed to Canada this week, more precisly, Ontario, by a huge fall of snow. It started on Monday when it snowed all day leaving about 3 inches and two, very excited, just returned to the land of snow and ice, people. We should have known better, being the age we are with…

  • Montreal and musings

    This was first writen about my Canada trip April/May 2008 Continuing with Canadian trip. Christina and I drove to Montreal, quite a pleasant journey and not too busy on the roads. We stayed with Jean and shared a bed, something Christina found interesting! It was great to see Jean looking well, she was 95 years…

  • Our New House

    We have moved into a house in Kemptville Ontario. It is situated on 4+ acres of land and we love it or we did until………….. We took over possession on 16th Nov. and our furniture arrived from UK on Wed. 25th Nov. We spent our first night in the house last night.Yesterday the roofers began…

  • The Reception

    Mum, me and Mum’s sister Bernadette 2003 We were driven back to Knott End and the Golf Club, taking the flowers with us as we wanted everyone to see them and also to take photos to send to US.The golf Club is a lovely venue, we had part of the large lounge upstairs overlooking the…

  • Vera’s funeral

    Mum’s funeral took place on 21st May 2009 at 11:30A.M. A Requiem mass was said in St. Bernard’s church Knott End, followed by a short service at the Crematorium in Carlton. Finally a reception was held at the Golf Club in Knott End.The funeral directors brought the coffin to Ashness where they placed the Liverpool…

  • Veronica Constance Mary Ormerod nee Rattray RIP

    My Mum died. Mum died at 2:15 A.M. on 13th May 2009. Mum died in Victoria hospital Blackpool. Mum was surrounded by her husband, two daughters son in law and four grandsons. We all loved her and we all miss her. My Mum was the best mum in the whole world, just like my daughter…

  • Typhoon Jangmi (Rose)

    Here we go again yet another “Super weather system” is working its way across Taiwan. It has hit us in the middle of the country bringing wind and rain to Taipei. All night the wind raged sounding exactly like a sound track for a Bronte novel. now 6p.m. and still it is raging, the rain…