Instant llama’s gonna get you
Blog posted 17.08.09 This is Ladybug the alpaca, one of the residents at the Blood Moon Alpaca Farm, near Erin, Ontario. The farm held an open day on Sunday and we went along to have a curious snuffle.
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Blog posted 17.08.09Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening
Blog posted 12.08.09 Toronto isn't the first city I've lived in on this continent. About nine years ago, I spent a summer in New York City on Bunac, working for minimum wage in a bookstore and surviving on fruit juice.
The literal Toronto TTC subway map
Blog posted 29.07.09 The Points of Interest London Underground map, by Dan Zambonini, replaces the stop names by what people might find if they disembark. For instance, Earl's Court is 'Antipodeans' and Vauxhall is 'MI6'. I don't want Toronto to be left out of the potential fun to be had, so I've had a go at making one for the TTC.
The future of local journalism
Blog posted 27.07.09 If local print journalism has any kind of future whatsoever, it most likely will be a bit like this magazine, which we picked up during our jaunt across the US border the other week.
Over the borderline
Blog posted 21.07.09 As you may know, I come from a country that essentially consists of a damp island in the north-east Atlantic. In my former home, it was pretty easy to tell you'd left...
828km
Blog posted 09.07.09 That's the distance between London and Aberdeen. It's also the distance we drove on Canada Day weekend from Mississauga, ON, to Tobermory, then to Bracebridge via Collingwood and then back to Mississauga via Toronto.
Sauces and sunshine
Blog posted 24.06.09 What is the difference between these two bottles of HP sauce?
Clothes and chickens: how to get in trouble in Toronto
Blog posted 18.06.09 Welcome to Toronto. You can marry who you want, talk on the cellphone while driving and wear seal fur. But there are some things that you just can't do, or at least couldn't until a few years ago.
Where the wild things are
Blog posted 10.06.09 Let me introduce you to the raccoon, a creature unknown in the UK but very much present in Canada.