Kate the cat lover????

I am not usually enamored by cats but I must confess 'our' cat is rather cute. She loves to be in things - the potato basket, the shopping bag, the ski boot bag .... lately, she has enjoyed snuggling up with the hedgehog (such a prickly chap) on his new electric blanket.

Snowball is a super helper-cat too. Walking along the piano keys when it is being played and plonking down on the keyboard when using the computer. She also makes herself useful as a paperweight when the Calgary Herald is spread out across our kitchen bench, assuring that turning to the next page is an event!

Phew!

Despite choosing the coldest, snowiest day Calgary has had in weeks to do the test, I am now the proud holder of a Class 5 Albertan Drivers' Licence.

Hurrah!

Call me Andy

Give an engineer a cool piece of software and even she can find a creative streak.

Theatre in an igloo (yes I am serious!)

Set following some catastrophic event with the world plunged into another ice age and just three known survivors ... a play in an igloo. It actually started with the audience ringed around an ice rink from where we proceeded into the igloo. Our chairs were covered with a sheep skin and a thick white blanket provided for our comfort. The stage was built from snow and ice. The characters claimed to be cold, we knew we were cold.

It was clever, it was witty, it was eerie. A fabulous experience that was mercifully one act - for both the players and the audience!

Canadian

Whilst compiling the Australia Day quiz for work, I discovered that term “blind Freddie” is completely foreign to the Canadian ear. So I have compiled a few of my favourite Canadian words that are not in common usage in Australian!

Teeter-totter - sea-saw
Kitty-corner - diagonally across
Parkade - undercover carpark
Pop - soft drink
Visit - as in “do come in and visit”/”we had a lovely visit with Grandma”
Toque - beanie
Double double - coffee from Tim Horton’s with two creams and two sugars

Loonie - the Canadian one dollar coin

Oh, a double double is not recommended - nor is coffee of any form from Tim Horton's!

Back on the Booze!

Hurrah - it is February!