As you can imagine, there has been lots going on at this end.
The remainder of November went by in a whirr, while December brought a little visitor from Scotland for a quick visit, then Christmas and New Year had been and gone before we knew it.
Now we are in February. What on earth happened? Where did the time go?
It was the first Christmas I have spent away from my family so it was interesting for L to watch and occasionally assist in the non-traditional dinner preparations. After the Thanks Giving turkey fiasco I refuse to deal with poultry... I have just had a giblets flash back and it still horrifies me.
New Year brought with it fireworks from the hill overlooking Canmore which was a giggle. Lots of crazy truckers were around us and they sang us the countdown which really puts a twist on the standard tick-tock countdown.
And now for February which marks our first year living in Canada. On the 24th February we will be having, dare I say it, our 'Canniversary'. I would like to thank L's colleague for this term and take no responsibility for it.
My parents are also coming over for a week at the end of this month, which will be filled with lots of snowy activities, or so we hope. The '9 month winter' we were warned about has been somewhat unexpectedly not true. Thank you Scotland for making me a grateful weather girl.
The '9 month winter' apparently means the 9 months when the temperature is below 20 degrees and you are unable to wear flip-flops - though I have actually seen several individuals in flip flops recently thanks to the sudden increase in temperature. We are above the Scottish spring temperatures and therefore I no longer listen to Canadians who say the winter is dragging on.
Many other visitors are either booked or planning to come across this year so Lewgi's Adventure Tours will begin again!
"be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still" - Chinese Proverb
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Monday, 9 February 2015
Thursday, 2 October 2014
A Little Something
As always things come up and blogs get somewhat forgotten. Oooops.
You will be delighted to know that it has not been through laziness and lack of exploring.
In the past few months we have had an array of Craighead family here for weeks at a time. It was absolutely amazing and when my dear other-half gives me photographs I shall upload them (my phone unfortunately broke so I have no photos to share).
Their visits allowed Lew and I to be tourists once again and explore new areas near and far. We even drove to my birth town of Lethbridge in a single day - epic trip of 10 hours driving!
The latest, and for me the proudest, news is that I recently launched my very own Pilates website. Last year I embarked on a mini adventure to become a Pilates instructor and after several trips to London I became a fully qualified Body Control Pilates Instructor.
Gi Pilates has been in the works since my lovely sister took me screen printing to Rhubarb & Ginger Textiles and I created my little business logo. This lovely swirly logo has inspired me to keep going and see where this new road takes me and I could not be happier.
It may not be a lot to many people but on the first day of the website's launch I had over 250 unique visitors and it keeps on going! Happy days!!
Lew, as always, knew all along that this is what I loved doing and keeps offering new ideas to make it bigger and better... watch out as some of his suggestions have stuck!
Please feel free to look around my (mine, all mine!) website.
You will be delighted to know that it has not been through laziness and lack of exploring.
In the past few months we have had an array of Craighead family here for weeks at a time. It was absolutely amazing and when my dear other-half gives me photographs I shall upload them (my phone unfortunately broke so I have no photos to share).
Their visits allowed Lew and I to be tourists once again and explore new areas near and far. We even drove to my birth town of Lethbridge in a single day - epic trip of 10 hours driving!
The latest, and for me the proudest, news is that I recently launched my very own Pilates website. Last year I embarked on a mini adventure to become a Pilates instructor and after several trips to London I became a fully qualified Body Control Pilates Instructor.
Gi Pilates has been in the works since my lovely sister took me screen printing to Rhubarb & Ginger Textiles and I created my little business logo. This lovely swirly logo has inspired me to keep going and see where this new road takes me and I could not be happier.
It may not be a lot to many people but on the first day of the website's launch I had over 250 unique visitors and it keeps on going! Happy days!!
Lew, as always, knew all along that this is what I loved doing and keeps offering new ideas to make it bigger and better... watch out as some of his suggestions have stuck!
Please feel free to look around my (mine, all mine!) website.
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| The original Gi Pilates logo The new 'computerised' version |
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