Copious amounts of chores again today. Well, the first one wasn’t really a chore…that is go to Elfsar to pick up my comics!  Then onto HSBC who wanted something else signed, seemed to be spending a lof ot time in there!!  Went to a nearby Chinese restaurant which was….ok, not ok enough for us to [...]

Another busy day!  We liked the Real Canadian Superstore so much we decided on an early morning trek just as it opened at 7am!  It was brilliant, hardly anyone in there.  Dropped off the rental car downtown and came back to Kerrisdale.  Found a store locally called London Drugs, wish we had been in there [...]

Short post today since we are nackered! Didn’t have any coffee in the house yet so went down the street to get 2 mocha’s, their chocolate is Godiva and I have to say it tasted pretty good if but a little on the expensive side. Spent the rest of the morning assembling furniture that Ikea [...]

Pretty exhausting day all in all and too tired to write too much here. We had breakfast in a [what they claimed to be] French cafe, I had a almond croissant and coffee that was just too huge for words.  Nothing sophisticated or dainty about it….but at least I got more than my money’s worth, [...]

This was our last day staying in Downtown Vancouver today, that is prior to moving into our new home tomorrow. We did a lot of window shopping today but didn’t get a whole lot.  We discovered a store called Meinhardt which seemed quite posh…different things in there but expensive with it.  They did have some [...]

One of the most hilarious discoveries of today was the little electronic man, called Aaron, at Future Shop.  He is one of those interactive guys who you ask a question about their products and an answer comes up.  However, I realized by typing in something unusual he has a response for that.  For example, try [...]

What a huge palava!  Ikea refused to changed the delivery date of our furniture so the contractor who has been doing our flooring has been phoning them on our behalf like a mad person.  He finally got a promise from them that if Don and I would go up to the store the delivery could [...]

Since this evening we were going to meet the neighbors at their roof garden party early this morning we went shopping to pick up some items for my Egg and Bacon pie.  Despite limited utensils at the downtown location we are staying at the pies turned out really well.  This evening we went to the [...]

Its now official, I am fed up of Ikea!  We went out to them today and bought $3,400 worth of furniture.  It was quite a struggle to get all those heavy items onto trolleys (see photo left) and man-handle them to them checkout.  Then there was a problem paying for it all with our debit [...]

First today we went up to Kerrisdale to do a few bits and pieces of business, banking, shopping and stuff.  We went into a local bakery (seems to be a lot of them in that area) called Cobbs, seems to be a chain, but the croissant wasn’t too bad at all. We met with the [...]

This morning we went to our lawyers to have another stab at signing papers for our property.  HSBC’s lawyers still made some errors but there weren’t as dramatic as yesterdays ones and were easily resolved by a bit over-writing. We investigated some insurance, health, contents etc.  There was a broker in the neighborhood which was [...]

Last night was probably the best sleep I have had in some time.  My body clock now seems to be adjusting to Vancouver time. We caught the B-Line Number 98 bus out to Kerrisdale this morning and had a coffee and croissant in a local coffee shop there.  Blimey, the mocha was really sweet!  We [...]

This morning we went out to Ikea to have a look at what we might buy for our new apartment.  We got a B-Line bus to the airport stop where we picked up the Ikea shuttle.  The driver was a really wonderful lady, British but moved to Vancouver many years ago.  We didn’t buy anything [...]

Lazier day than yesterday as we were very tired today. Went to two Staples to look for furniture, the first one didn’t have any.  We found a desks and chairs that we liked, both on sale which was great. We picked up something in Nesters for lunch and had it back at the apartment. This [...]

Surprisingly wasn’t suffering from jet lag this morning although did have some problems sleeping. We had two meetings with HSBC this morning, first one was coffee with their mortgage representative – thought she would be talking a lot of business but didn’t seem to be the case.  The next one was in the branch to [...]

Hooray, we will never see Barker Drive again!!! We got up at 7am London time and started all sorts of things straight away.  We cleaned out some more stuff, our large computer table and part of our sofa bed into the trash area.  We needed our hair cuts desperately so we went into Camden to [...]

That is it, the last day at London Metropolitan University.  The day went really slow as I was keen to get home to help out Don with the cleaning of the house and packing of the bags. On the way in to work I bought some cakes from St Pancras Station, quite a lot of [...]

Arrrggghhh!!!  I am starting to get worried that we aren’t going to get things done in time now, but we have to I guess. Too busy to blog really but just wanted to wind down for five minutes in between packing and cleaning.    Started to be more relaxed at work today, should have been this [...]