2010 January 1st - December 31st Toronto and environs - Home 👍

 Dateline: 2010 December 31st Toronto, Ontario

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Just another year, January - December

And no one looks a day (or two) over 60, or so
Yet another birthday

It's January and biking weather

Down to the market for our world famous bacon butty

Biking (looks like solo) in February

Down to the lighthouse in early April

En famile in late April

View from the front bedroom of the crab apple trees blooming in early May

My major client has told me that due to finances, they need to restrict my hours to 100 per month

My immediate reaction was "GREAT! I can do that from anywhere in the world"

Therefore, I became one of the first "Techno Nomads":
And, somewhere in here, a few months in Oz and NZ

See separate entries

Family, complete with family dynamics,
August, back from the Antipodes

Brian, BBQ for, well
just about everyone

Next day, Bacon Butty to the fore at St. Lawrence

Then, heading down to a show and tell
at Tommy Thompsons park

On the bike lane near harbourfront
late August

Looks like a 60th birthday

Complete with cake and Margaret, somehow

Richard has been given the 
weekend off

And Richard, fresh in from Boston

An actual party, suitable for all the
old folks we know

With a sell out crowd

With most of our old mates

And so on

And a not so typical family

All gathered

Next day, actual birthday
and things are calmer

For the festivities

After arriving back from Australia,
pretty much the first thing we did, 

Was buy this house in London for Kayla

Visiting Val & Gerry at Innisfil for a weekend
Probably a Lord of the Rings bingefest

As we were out of the house for the weekend,
We had the floor redone. It has run out of finish
We pile everything into the kitchen
and let a professional loose with a sander and varnish

Mid October, lighthouse at Tommy Thomson
Still totally unknown to all but the intrepid few

Late November, down at the lighthouse
Not a sail or fellow biker in sight

Kayla now in 2nd year

music at Western

Here sporting the dad 

made flute stand

At the office, I'm working on advanced

stuff to wow my customers

This one, although technically marvellous,

 didn't go anywhere

US Thanksgiving and we head off to the NY
inlaws in Sleepy Hollow, New York
My approach is to see people alive, rather
than just arrive for a funeral now and then

Into town for a show or two
New York, Time Square
Looking for cheap last
minute tickets
Not really a good deal

So we queue up at our theatre of choice
Yes, we did get in

Departing Sleepy Hollow for our Vermont
time share week. Got rear ended

And Richard joins us for a few days in Stowe
I fell over on the slopes and cracked a rib or two

And of course, eventually, Christmas excess

But not the usual appalling amount thankfully

And Val & Gerry's again to round off the year

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