One of the high lights of last year was taking Rebecca to the Royal Winter Fair for a few visits. We only made it down once this year but it was just as magical. We had some toddle company which just made things lovely. Rebecca is a very good teacher and showed Poppy everything she […]
Waiting for Jack: Two visits to see Jack Layton in Toronto
Waiting for Jack May 1st, 2011 Waiting for Jack August 26th, 2011 There are so many great photographs and articles about the outpouring of emotions surrounding the death of Jack Layton, leader of the NDP and Canada’s Official Opposition that I wasn’t planning on posting these here. After looking through some photos I decided I […]
Soup Swap was a Smashing Success!
A dozen or so of us with quite a few pets and babies had a great soup swap yesterday. We represented Toronto in (Inter)National Soup Swapping day and next year we’ll be participating, but on a much larger scale. We gathered in the afternoon. We ate a crockpot of chickpea soup, some nice bread and […]
International Soup Swapping Day! (No really)
After a holiday cookie swap we decided that although we like cookies, what really what we wanted was each other’s dinners. Within hours Shana had discovered National Soup Swapping Day, which as Canadians we have changed to International Soup Swapping. We made a facebook event and had 8 interested couples/families/groups/embryonic ninjas quite quickly. The idea […]
Adventures in local food: Our visits to the Royal Winter Fair
This post is really one week late, but this week has been a little nutty, filled with Foodland Ontario videos, babies who attack with scissors and appearances on Etsy’s front page. The Royal Winter Fair takes place in Toronto for 2 weeks every November. I haven’t been for a few years; I think first year at […]