Christmas Parties

Last night was the Christmas party for work. It was at a golf club, and consisted of dinner (yum!), speeches / awards (yawn!) and then general milling around / dancing.
Before dinner they played all Christmas music - which felt a bit odd as it is still only November and feels far too early for all this festive-ness!

Isn't 'people-watching' great?!
Last night I saw one of the funniest sights that I have seen in a long time. There was an older couple - the man looked like an older, wrinkly-er version of Christopher Eccleston (in the dark, anyway!) - and they were doing a Jive routine on the dance floor. Nothing too amusing about that you might think, but........they were up there for over an hour, and they danced to EVERYTHING. And I mean, everything. From 'YMCA' to 'Let It Rock' to Summer Of 69' to '(You) Shook Me All Night Long' and everything in between!!! They somehow managed to find the rhythm in each song and adjusted their speed accordingly.
After a while they swapped partners and started to teach other people there! They kept dancing the same 30 second sequence over and over and over again!

Then a young couple got up and started doing their own version - which they made up as they went along! there was a lot more shaking and jumping around going on in theirs, but it still made for an entertaining night!
Very funny! :-)

I have just had a thought! In a few weeks, I will have been out of the Child-Care profession for a whole year! and I thought I would never escape!!!

Update

I haven't blogged for a while, have I?
Sorry. That's what comes of being too poor to have the Internet and having to wait till Sunday to catch up with everything!

Well, basically, work is fine, my flat is fine, (empty, but fine!)

I went to see 'Hairspray' and 'The Drowsy Chaperone' yesterday in Vancouver, and I have started a new Blog where I am writing about them. It's called 'Critics Corner'. Very original, I know!

When I first thought about this trip, I decided that I was going to have an adventure. I think that the adventure is that I am learning how to budget! A necessary lesson I believe!

Bonfire Night

I missed Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night this year and I am very sad about it. :-(
It is one of my favourite nights of the year because it just smells so great! The whole night smells of woodsmoke! Mmmmmmmm!

It is best if it is a cold, crisp night though. The rain tends to spoil it a bit!

Oh, and one more thing. I saw six, (count 'em!) police cars on the way home tonight! All at different incidents. I had never realised that Canadian emergency vehicle lights are a different colour to the English ones! Much prettier actually.

Singing And Cycling

It was chilly tonight coming home. It was much better than the precipitation I have had to deal with in the last few days though!

I was in a rather good mood and I found myself singing Christmas songs as I pedaled along! Out Loud!

Goodness knows what people must have thought of me. It was probably a good thing that it was 10.30 at night and there was no-one around. I hope!

Spiders And Their Webs

There are three places on my journey too and from work that are narrow enough for a spider to string up a web.

And they do.

You would think, that as I destroy them twice a day as I pedal through, they would get the hint and give up.

But no!