1st Christmas in our own house
Walking the dog at -20, remember to dress warm 
Gizmo with his Christmas bone
No more turkey sandwiches for us, its all gone in the curry
Oh well the big day has come and gone, Boxing Day is here and its time to start eating turkey salads and try to walk off some of that Christmas dinner from yesterday.
Luke has been keeping hisself to himself, testing out all his christmas prezzies, hes now got is own fancy digital phone in his room that he can even send IM and IV across MSN, he's been running round filming everything with his video camera and it took both of us to set up his new telescope with its equatorial mount, barlow filters and other thingamywotsits.
Tonight we are setting it up outside and doing a bit of star-gazing, we got all the star charts ready and using Google Sky so hopefully we should know what we are doing.
I have heard there is a particlarly strong solar wind coming out of Uranus at the moment.........
Must have been too much Christmas pudding Muhahahahahahhah !!!
Anyway its pretty much cloudless at the moment and its just dropping dark, weve just come back from walking Gizmo, there is a fantastic path towards the south end of town and thats the one we normally use. Trouble is though not many people have used it recently so it was a case of trudging thru snow about 2 feet deep, we marched a mile out towards the resevoir but when we got there we were all exhausted, even Gizmo was knackered and covered in snow, in the deep bits he completely disapeared, he absolutely loved it. Anyway we decided to use the roads to come back in and i think even Gizmo was glad.
Gizmo is on the sofa at the moment cuddling his Christmas bone, i dont reckon he will move now for the rest of the night.
Lyndon, Thanks for an amazing blog, and merry Christmas to you and your family.
ReplyDeleteSteve C.,Whitby, Ont.
You want to keep any open flame away from that solar wind...
ReplyDeletealready found another company to drive for on the other side of canada in newbrunswick we started with the lmo Stephen did not even contacted me anymore hope to come over at the end of febuari or march to start working again in Canada of east side
ReplyDeletewith greetings ronnie
Lyndon,
ReplyDeleteI second the vote of thanks for your blog--I'm enjoying it immensely. I've been skimming the archives, but haven't really read anything on why you decided to uproot your family and immigrate to Canada. I'm curious.
Did you consider other places? Oz, New Zealand or even the US?
Anyway, keep up the posting, and keep the rubber to the road!
Hey
ReplyDeleteWhos that Russian bloke with Jan ??
Happy new Year t 2U all... Not seen u amoungst the other red horde dudes yet.
Take care
Steve
I have a question, when you were in the bronx you asked if they would tip you. who and why would you or the other drivers be tiped? please explain so i will understand. thankyou very much. tim
ReplyDeleteSlightly off topic, but your trucking readers may be interested in reading a recent story in the Toronto Star newspaper in how a female Indian immigrant, who only learned to drive a car in 2001, now drives a big rig.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a member of Britishexpats.com
so I chose your informative blog to post this bit of trucking news.
Thanks Steve
ReplyDeletesame to you and yours........
Hey Jim
was that A SOLAR WIND ???
Hi Ronnie
Good to hear from ya, glad to see you are coming back over, maybe se you out on the asphalt.
Hi Rooster
hows it goin comrade
Hi Tim
Being tipped is trucker slang for being unloaded, a lot of warehouses over here use sub contractor lumpers (truck unloaders) and you have to pay them to load or unload you.
We normally just write a company check out and it gets billed back to the customer.
Hey Anon
interesting story, i did a short article on it.
Hi Prince Roy
ReplyDeletehought i had better answer this one separately.
I was based in Germany when Jan and i got married and spent the first 5 years of married life over there.
The military sent me back to UK against my will so i left.
We never really settled in UK and for the 10 years we lived there we looked at various options including, Oz, NZ and USA, we even looked at Spain and Greece.
We looked at different ways to move across but obviously didnt try hard enough.
Then we heared about the PNP system in Canada and just went for it. Neither of us had ever been to North America before so it was a leap of faith.
I dont really hate UK, i just think its better over here, luckily Jan and Luke are in the same mind and now this is our home.
Thats about it really.
Why do you ask ?
Hi Lyndon,
ReplyDeleteNo reason other than mere curiosity--from what I had read in your earlier archives, it looked like you had a pretty decent life in the UK. But I know Canada is a nice place--but too cold for me. Oz (Well, Tasmania anyway--those damn bush flies everywhere else in Australia are brutal!) and NZ are more to my liking.
I'm a bit of a nomad myself--my job keeps me moving around every two years or so.
Best of luck to you--I've always been interested in trucking, and I enjoy living the life vicariously through your fine website!