On Bowen Chez Mackay-Coles 24 vi 06
24 vi 06
Morning, Ellie, who had gift certificates, treated me and Stuart to a sea-kayaking adventure. Never having been in a kayak before, this was a bit of a challenge: I wanted to use all my canoeing moves, which were not quite right. Also, I had trouble understanding the steering of the rudder. But we got out and back without terrible incident; I did cut my foot and thumb on barnacles or mussels, and the wound on my thumb particularly took about ten days to heal. Of course, neither of us thought to bring a first-aid kit. Braddock’s last words on that ["We shall know better how to deal with them next time"].
In the early afternoon, went with Ellie, Tara, Calum, and Molly to shops in Snug Cove: Phoenix Photo, which hardly sells any photographic equipment at all any more – it is now a card-shop, bookstore, toy store; the Ruddy Potato, a whole foods store to give Kimberton [Whole Foods, in Kimberton Pennsylvania] a run for its money; and a pet store, which was nice inasmuch as it was the local pet store and the Mackay-Cole kids love animals.
In the late afternoon, Stuart and the kids and I drove around the island to see Opa, a 500-year old Douglas Fir. On the way back we stopped in "Artisan Square", a quadrangle of shops and restaurants above Snug Cove, and accessible to the same by a set of steps. There I had a particularly fine cup of cappuccino, sitting in the sun on a beautiful patio surrounded by lovely architecture and gardens (including trees festooned with twinkling fairy lights), looking out over the snow-capped peaks of the Tantalus Range, also eating a pannecotta flavoured ice-cream from Cocoa West. Delightful.
Evening at Bowen Island Film Society meeting – behind the meeting house is a small fenced yard, beyond that a field in which two deer – one with antlers in velvet, one without antlers, are feeding; beyond that a fenced pasture in which three llamas are feeding, and up the lane to the left – clop, clop, clop, clp – two ponies with rides come, one a sorrel, the other a beautifully marked Appaloosa.
Voices in the Sound announcement: "a festival to celebrate who we are".
Fabulous movie "Touch the Sound" by Thomas Reidelsheimer about Evelyn Glennie, OBE, a world-class percussionist, who, incidentally, is also deaf.
Refreshments at this event included hand-made chocolate mousse from our very own Ellie Mackay-Cole, who graciously saved a cup for the present writer, who reciprocated by doing dishes and otherwise cleaning up after the event.
Stayed up late with Stuart observing the wonders of Google Earth. I am a little peeved that their house is perfectly clear on Google Earth, but our whole neighbourhood is just a blur.
Morning, Ellie, who had gift certificates, treated me and Stuart to a sea-kayaking adventure. Never having been in a kayak before, this was a bit of a challenge: I wanted to use all my canoeing moves, which were not quite right. Also, I had trouble understanding the steering of the rudder. But we got out and back without terrible incident; I did cut my foot and thumb on barnacles or mussels, and the wound on my thumb particularly took about ten days to heal. Of course, neither of us thought to bring a first-aid kit. Braddock’s last words on that ["We shall know better how to deal with them next time"].
In the early afternoon, went with Ellie, Tara, Calum, and Molly to shops in Snug Cove: Phoenix Photo, which hardly sells any photographic equipment at all any more – it is now a card-shop, bookstore, toy store; the Ruddy Potato, a whole foods store to give Kimberton [Whole Foods, in Kimberton Pennsylvania] a run for its money; and a pet store, which was nice inasmuch as it was the local pet store and the Mackay-Cole kids love animals.
In the late afternoon, Stuart and the kids and I drove around the island to see Opa, a 500-year old Douglas Fir. On the way back we stopped in "Artisan Square", a quadrangle of shops and restaurants above Snug Cove, and accessible to the same by a set of steps. There I had a particularly fine cup of cappuccino, sitting in the sun on a beautiful patio surrounded by lovely architecture and gardens (including trees festooned with twinkling fairy lights), looking out over the snow-capped peaks of the Tantalus Range, also eating a pannecotta flavoured ice-cream from Cocoa West. Delightful.
Evening at Bowen Island Film Society meeting – behind the meeting house is a small fenced yard, beyond that a field in which two deer – one with antlers in velvet, one without antlers, are feeding; beyond that a fenced pasture in which three llamas are feeding, and up the lane to the left – clop, clop, clop, clp – two ponies with rides come, one a sorrel, the other a beautifully marked Appaloosa.
Voices in the Sound announcement: "a festival to celebrate who we are".
Fabulous movie "Touch the Sound" by Thomas Reidelsheimer about Evelyn Glennie, OBE, a world-class percussionist, who, incidentally, is also deaf.
Refreshments at this event included hand-made chocolate mousse from our very own Ellie Mackay-Cole, who graciously saved a cup for the present writer, who reciprocated by doing dishes and otherwise cleaning up after the event.
Stayed up late with Stuart observing the wonders of Google Earth. I am a little peeved that their house is perfectly clear on Google Earth, but our whole neighbourhood is just a blur.
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