That’s it, 2008 has passed and its been quite a year for us as usual. Some of the highlights of 2008 for us were: February: Celebrating Chinese New Year with friends May: A trip to Paris which we named “Tour De Death” where we got to see a lot of cemeteries.  Great new during the [...]

More sad news over this festive season, Earth Kitt has died.  Probably most remembered for her Santa Baby song, below, however I will remember her most for her part as Catwoman in the Batman series – to me, being a superhero fan, this was her finest moment.  She did have many fine moments which will [...]

What a mix up the past couple of days have been concerning the in-laws visit to Vancouver!  Poor things! We were very concerned that Don’s mother was ill, not seeing a doctor, but had to cancel her visit over Christmas and New Years.  Due to the severe weather conditions in Vancouver we couldn’t have her [...]

Winter seems to be the time of year for people passing away although it could be just be a worse impact during the holiday season which should be a time of happiness. Just heard today that an ex-colleague of mine died today.  Over 30 years ago my first job was at the Foreign and Commonwealth [...]

Such sad and unexpected news today as I heard that Majel Barrett died yesterday of leukemia.  She is one of those people who you think would live forever. Majel had such an incredible career in TV science fiction even though she started appearing on TV in the late 1950′s.  She had appeared on such treasured [...]

The last couple of days have not been good for traveling for me.  I am a poor British geezer who is just not used to snowy conditions, especially being from London.  Grannies seem to walk faster than me in the snow.  Left is a picture from my office of the snowy Burnaby. Sunday we had [...]

This weekend was absolutely delightful here in Vancouver, even though I felt like staying in bed all weekend we did go out and have some fun. On Saturday we went down to West Broadway as we were recommended to check out a few things down there.  Because it was a clear day and new snow [...]

Kathy Staff, one of the mega-stars from the soap opera Crossroads died today (source: BBC).  She is pictured to the left appearing in 2001 Crossroads. Crossroads is one of the few soaps I watched and Kathy did a long run on the soap opera from 1978 to 1985, she played character Doris Luke.  Crossroads was [...]