Social Media In 30 Seconds
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Monday, 21 September 2009
Social Media In 30 Seconds
Great slide for explaining social media - some discussion on whether RSS should be in there as a social media element or a tool to enable the dissemination of information through social media sites.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Mermaid
Just thought I would throw this into the mix as you are all probably bored of seeing photos of Mr R and me...
The Vancouver house sitting in the summer - with pool and resident mermaid....see...we lulled them into a false sense of security and then hit them with the cork flooring extravaganza!
Sorry G&T got waylaid by Bones (Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer as cute FBI detective with forensic anthropologist partner - now officially my third favourite job to do after astronaut and volcanologist....sorry and Operations Director at Twin Creek Media! Obviously...)
Mr R had finished the fancy new sink in the bathroom - all glass, including the taps and an funky pop up sink - I love Ebay! Unfortunately top half finished but bottom half still under construction so no running water yet...
Camera battery on recharge so photos (possibly even a vid-clip - yes it IS that fab!)
Mr R had finished the fancy new sink in the bathroom - all glass, including the taps and an funky pop up sink - I love Ebay! Unfortunately top half finished but bottom half still under construction so no running water yet...
Camera battery on recharge so photos (possibly even a vid-clip - yes it IS that fab!)
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Second most consistent activity of the summer
DIY, renovating call it what you will that was the other thing we spent the most time (and money!) on this summer...in fact most of Shaun's extra hours can been seen in the new kitchen, floor, bathroom etc etc.
Couldn't have done it without Mum and Dad, who although we lured them over here with promises of wine tours and lazy summer days by the lake, still managed to lay the ENTIRE front room and hall with cork tiles - a achievement in anyone's book but when the front room in question is 25 ft by 15ft and the hall 17ft long (yep, they build 'em big over here!), the chop saw chopped wonky and it was edging 40C at times it was stunning!
More of the adventures of M&D later (so we did let them out for a few days!) but just to give an update on the changes we have gone from:
a very pink and mint green hall
to a more open look with cork floors (thanks to hubby- labour of love that one!) and a fabulous light - am amazing gift from Rik and Janneke but was a labour of love to put up - 52C at the top of ceiling, balanced on a dodgy orchard ladder, light in one hand,
screwdriver in the other and the nails at the bottom of 
the ladder...the language was not pretty...but the results were!
A slightly pink lounge (are we sensing a theme?) & shag pile (otter is still pining over the pile - he LOVED it!)
To (more) cork floors and what we hope is a retro 70's feel without putting Shaun back in short shorts and me as a twinkle in Dad's eye!
The kitchen is still a work in progress as the kitchen company had a bit of an oops counting the number of doors versus the number of cabinets (the missing ones are coming tomorrow) and we still have to tile around the backsplash and put in a oven hood. More cork floors again courtesy of Mr
R (I did do the painting and the light fittings honest!)
Couldn't have done it without Mum and Dad, who although we lured them over here with promises of wine tours and lazy summer days by the lake, still managed to lay the ENTIRE front room and hall with cork tiles - a achievement in anyone's book but when the front room in question is 25 ft by 15ft and the hall 17ft long (yep, they build 'em big over here!), the chop saw chopped wonky and it was edging 40C at times it was stunning!
More of the adventures of M&D later (so we did let them out for a few days!) but just to give an update on the changes we have gone from:
a very pink and mint green hall
to a more open look with cork floors (thanks to hubby- labour of love that one!) and a fabulous light - am amazing gift from Rik and Janneke but was a labour of love to put up - 52C at the top of ceiling, balanced on a dodgy orchard ladder, light in one hand,
screwdriver in the other and the nails at the bottom of 
the ladder...the language was not pretty...but the results were!A slightly pink lounge (are we sensing a theme?) & shag pile (otter is still pining over the pile - he LOVED it!)
To (more) cork floors and what we hope is a retro 70's feel without putting Shaun back in short shorts and me as a twinkle in Dad's eye!
The kitchen is still a work in progress as the kitchen company had a bit of an oops counting the number of doors versus the number of cabinets (the missing ones are coming tomorrow) and we still have to tile around the backsplash and put in a oven hood. More cork floors again courtesy of Mr
R (I did do the painting and the light fittings honest!)
Uncle Shaun & the Cherry Farm
As this was the most consistent element of the summer I thought I would start with Shaun's job at the cherry orchard....
...so back in April he gets the job and things start to get busy with the installation of the new plant machinery and the completing the new building in May and June....then there is a slight pause at the beginning of July, well, we thought it was a pause, but really it was hell taking a deep breat
h before it let lose!
h before it let lose!In the space of a week or so the standard team of 40 odd was plumped to a stunning 350 odd collection of students, Mexicans, and Quebecois! Shaun's language skills have come on immensely and he can now say eh? in 4 different languages....(come to Canada and you'll get it!)
The reason for the loosing of hell - bumper, bumper cherry season and only 8 weeks to pick, wash, inspect and pack the little buggers before its over....all in about 12 hours!Obviously there are fringe benefits to being the wife of a cherry farm manager (as well as being able to watch Grey's Anatomy, ER and Bones back to back w
ith no interruptions as hubby works in the plant until 11pm - but more of that later!) - the first arrived in a small basket of beautiful juicy fruit, then we had a bucket, then 3 buckets and then bin bags full of the little darlings!
ith no interruptions as hubby works in the plant until 11pm - but more of that later!) - the first arrived in a small basket of beautiful juicy fruit, then we had a bucket, then 3 buckets and then bin bags full of the little darlings!Needless to say we are now well versed in the variatels of cherry and have been scouring the recipe books - still haven't got bored of them though! and the freezer (thank god for the second one in the basement - when we bought the house we though, doh! 2 freezers? - slightly revised that opinion now.
Discovered a cherry wine recipe in a book from Mum so off to buy the home brew equipment at the weekend to turn them into even more deliciousness, plus Tess came up with the scintillating idea of cherry vodka (ala sloe gin, before I get carted off for illegal hooch making!)
Anyhoo, Shaun has worked like a dog (not Otter, obviously, otherwise it would be a summer of ball, ball, nap, ball, ball eat , ball, ball, sleep, eek theres a deer in the garden, sleep, ball etc etc) all summer with one 145hr stint in 2 weeks with no time off.
But, amazingly, he smiled through it all and impressed the socks off everyone (go, hubby!). The season finished at the beginning of September and he had a week off and very well deserved gun purchase!
Back in Business!
Right....DIY/cherry/visitor frenzy is over!
Absolutely fantastic fun for the last 2 months but pretty crap for leaving time for blogging...
... but we have a moment of pause, downloaded all the photos from the camera and am sitting at the computer (new, very whizzy, oodles of hamsters doing their stuff) ...with the virtually obligatory gin and tonic ready to regale you with tales of ice cream, sunbathing marmots, irratating squirrels and BBQ's - the juxtaposition of those last 2 items was a coincidence, Shaun has not, I repeat not, gone red necked and starting grilling the local bushy tailed inhabitants....well not yet anyway....
For all those reading in the UK, Toronto and Vancouver I would like to say the summer was over but it not...as we hit 32C here....mmmm toasty....
so where do I start???
Absolutely fantastic fun for the last 2 months but pretty crap for leaving time for blogging...
... but we have a moment of pause, downloaded all the photos from the camera and am sitting at the computer (new, very whizzy, oodles of hamsters doing their stuff) ...with the virtually obligatory gin and tonic ready to regale you with tales of ice cream, sunbathing marmots, irratating squirrels and BBQ's - the juxtaposition of those last 2 items was a coincidence, Shaun has not, I repeat not, gone red necked and starting grilling the local bushy tailed inhabitants....well not yet anyway....
For all those reading in the UK, Toronto and Vancouver I would like to say the summer was over but it not...as we hit 32C here....mmmm toasty....
so where do I start???
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