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Oct. 15th, 2012 03:05 pmI live on one side of the harbour and have no car. The shop i needed to get to is on the other side of the harbour at the far end of the urban sprawl in a retail park. At the back end of that, too. It takes ages to get there by bus so i was waiting for Mom to be free on the weekend to drive me. As Saturdays are manically bottlenecked with traffic over there, we were going to go last Sunday but she was busy so we finally managed to get there yesterday. I'm after a cap for Graham's dad that is waterproofed, and Lee Valley has them. We got all the way over there and noticed exactly no cars in the parking area. Yep. it's the only store that is closed on a Sunday! Yeesh!
I thought it was an American company so i didn't want to order online in case the order got stuck in customs as they sometimes do. I needed to take it to the UK with me but apparently they are Canadian based in Ottawa and their company policy is no sunday opening. Fair enough. I just didn't know! anyway because they're Canadian, I did order online so I think it will be here before i go. They say 3 - 5 business days from shipping which hopefully will be today or tomorrow.
In other news, I have a big bruise on my wrist. owie! When i mince garlic, i smash it by bashing my hand down on the flat side of a knife on the garlic to crush it and then chop it up. Except i only used a butter knive with out the wider blade that my butcher knife has and my wrist hit the edge of the cutting board and busted a vein. Graham always laughs at my clumsiness. Only I could make mincing garlic dangerous, he says I'm a menace to myself! Online at Lee Valley i found a garlic mincer. I ordered one.
I may have mentioned that i started a wordpress blog for my travel writing. Not just travelogues, but tips, memories, ideas, planning, cool websites, books etc, all to do with travel as i think of it or see something that might be interesting to blog about. The url is here if anyone wants to read it. I've only had it going a couple of weeks so far so it's still in it's infancy but it's garnering a little attention on the wordpress community which is nice. Lots of likes but few comments so far.
I thought it was an American company so i didn't want to order online in case the order got stuck in customs as they sometimes do. I needed to take it to the UK with me but apparently they are Canadian based in Ottawa and their company policy is no sunday opening. Fair enough. I just didn't know! anyway because they're Canadian, I did order online so I think it will be here before i go. They say 3 - 5 business days from shipping which hopefully will be today or tomorrow.
In other news, I have a big bruise on my wrist. owie! When i mince garlic, i smash it by bashing my hand down on the flat side of a knife on the garlic to crush it and then chop it up. Except i only used a butter knive with out the wider blade that my butcher knife has and my wrist hit the edge of the cutting board and busted a vein. Graham always laughs at my clumsiness. Only I could make mincing garlic dangerous, he says I'm a menace to myself! Online at Lee Valley i found a garlic mincer. I ordered one.
I may have mentioned that i started a wordpress blog for my travel writing. Not just travelogues, but tips, memories, ideas, planning, cool websites, books etc, all to do with travel as i think of it or see something that might be interesting to blog about. The url is here if anyone wants to read it. I've only had it going a couple of weeks so far so it's still in it's infancy but it's garnering a little attention on the wordpress community which is nice. Lots of likes but few comments so far.
