It’s been such a busy time doing that I don’t get to write things up! So here is a brief summary of the ‘firsts’ and highlights from the last week.
- Buying a house (OK, I did report on this one)
- Venturing downtown for the first time since we’ve been here to see Where the Wild Things Are at the Imax (as Imax is a Canadian technology, this seemed appropriate) and drifting out of the cinema into a bookshop where we browsed until well after 9.30 pm.
Friday night at our local (Quigley’s), doing our usual half-time swop between risotto studded with PEI (Prince Edward Island) Mussels and bursting with calamari, scallops and prawns, tomato and basil and a spicy chicken, bacon and chipotle pasta, washed down with Creemore (a fine drop of beer from a small town we visited in July) and accompanied by live rock, much of which took me back to my early 20s.- Going to the mall (another first) and investing in a really good mattress – the Brick (a major furnishing store) had a one day 50% sale on mattresses.
- Scarborough Bluffs – where sculpted cliffs rise steep and tall and, on an unseasonable November day, I basked on a rock in the sun, savouring the shore’s soothing susurrus and the dancing diamond path across the water to a sliver of silver tranquility on the horizon.
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Doris McCarthy Trail to Guildwood
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
Scarborough Bluffs (November 2009)
- Saturday night supper – eating Catfish, which we thoroughly enjoyed. We have promised ourselves that we will try at least one new food each week when we go shopping!
- Our first trip to ROM (the Royal Ontario Museum) and a magical exhibition of unusual gems, Light & Stone: Gems from the Collection of Michael Scott (one of the founders of Apple). This included some stones neither of us had heard of in raw form and as jewellery or sculpture – fabulous! We also took one of the museum tours to get an overview and went to photographic exhibitions of Vanity Fair portraits and key Canadians photographed by Michael Dickinson. Thanks to Paul’s brother Robin and his wife Justine who gave us a year’s membership, this should be the first of many visits – we have yet to take in the current major exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Wandering back to the subway through upmarket Yorkville – Prada, Louis Vuitton, Max Mara ( you get the picture) – to be explored at our leisure, particularly Holt Renfrew, an upmarket department store.