A life of exile in Vancouver, Canada

May contain spoilers for those who haven’t read this yet! As you can tell from this blog entry I am a little bit behind reading my comics!  Every now and again a comic comes along which is truly memorable and that is this 4 part series Silver Surfer Requiem. This comic was released to coincide [...]

I got this Christmas Pudding from Market Place, for level of posh-ness I would class this store somewhere between Tesco and Waitrose. The pudding I bought was by a company called Max’s Donuts which don’t have much of a website!  If had made this Christmas Pudding I would have want to remain anonymous! When opening [...]

Don’t forget to go to dinehere.ca to look at my restaurant reviews of Vancouver. The most recent additions are Tony’s Fish and Oyster Cafe on Granville Island and a Chinese restaurant called Golden Harvest.  We went to both these restaurants to celebrate Don’s birthday. There is no scientific methodology to these reviews, they are fair, [...]

After being here over a year now I’ve had quite a bit of experience of Canadian Customer Service to write another review, I have already done one for Canada and a previous one for the UK a while back so I have been inspired to do like an annual report on my most memorable experiences, [...]

This is my second Christmas Pudding review of the season and I was quite pleasantly surprised by this offering. Frankly I have never heard of the company name called John Lusty before, it sounds a little rude.  Searching for them on the web they seem to be more famous for their Brandy Butter but I [...]

The festive season begins for me when Christmas Pudding’s hit the stores.  I did a review of the 2007 puddings back when we were living in the UK, Selfridges won my special award back then.  Unfortunately I do not have access to Harrods and Selfridges puddings but thought I would review what I find here [...]

Every time to time I review what is happening with same sex immigration legislation in the US.  There doesn’t seem to be much progress at all this year, people got excited when there was a congressional hearing but seems like its all gone pretty flatline again.  I am hoping things will pick up on the [...]