Hello Readers
Welcome to another issue of Nelson Weekly News and for those of you who received our last update hopefully you will notice some improvements to the format.
We are now blogging with the dudes, well we figured it was better to send you all a link each time we post rather than clogging up your in boxes so hope you will still enjoy our news.
You may also notice that the Weekly news has now become kind of fortnightly after the Editor started her new job.
Well, what have we been doing over the last couple of weeks - there was a major revelation when we discovered Top Gear on BBC Canada. Shaun has managed to reduce his commute down to just 2 minutes and 48 seconds. I have started working at the Optometrists (Opticians) in town as an assistant which has been really interesting and has broadened our social life too - we have been out around Nelson with one of the girls I work with and her husband and we have even been invited to their wedding reception party which is coming up this next weekend.
We are still discovering there are a lot of English folk in Nelson, I was at the deli in the supermarket ordering some ham for sandwiches when a chap stood next to me said "so what part of Yorkshire are you from then?" it turns out he was from Selby and moved to Nelson in 1955.
NEWS FLASH - it rains in Canada too - after almost 7 weeks of dry weather we have had 2 days of showers although it has still been quite warm around 25 degrees. No need for water sprinklers today - its coming down like stair rods! Its good news for the forest fires and also the firefighters.
I have been decorating some of the house - the en suite bathroom was pink so that really had to go and is now a kind of stone colour and the study which we fondly call Kevin's room as it used to house a teenage boy had some really odd rag rolling going on in dark green, so that also had to go and is now an off white ready for Shaun to hang some of his photography works.
We are busy trying to learn the Canadian version of the Highway Code ready for our theory and practical driving tests - yep we really do need to do them again - we have them booked but the dates are secret until hopefully we will pass, or our car will be stuck down at City Hall with no one to drive it home ?? ooopps! Fingers crossed one of us will pass at least.
The kittens are growing quickly and are lovely - Harley the ginger is really calm and laid back whereas Phantom is gorgeous but is a challenge. We have caught his new habit is eating slugs - yuck. He still enjoys climbing up the fly screens on the doors and digging in plant pots. We have come to the conclusion that he is going through the cat version of the terrible twos.
Yesterday we decided to go out hiking in the rain and went up to Balfour and across Kootenay Lake on the ferry to Kootenay Bay - this is a car ferry which takes about 35 minutes to cross the lake and the views are very pretty. We then headed out on a hike to Pilot Peninsula which was 12km round trip mainly in forest and on beaches, we saw some huge ponderosa pines and cedar trees. Luckily no bears! It was a great hike but we both had very tired bodies this morning.
We have been to see The Bourne Ultimatum at the cinema in Castlegar which is about 40 minutes away - the sound was good and they had air conditioning too which was an improvement on our Nelson cinema experience when it sounded like Harry Potter was stuck in a biscuit tin.
Well, this week promises to bring some good social activities - along with the wedding reception we have Shaun's works BBQ at the lakeside park and we are going to do Sunday Brunch in town at one of the hotels - yum.
We hope that you are all doing well and we look forward to hearing your news and gossip.
Bye for now
Rachael, Shaun, Phantom and Harley xx
