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Welcome back to the blog of Craig and Quince! Since our last update we have worked hard and played hard! The weekend before easter involved some serious rake action. Craig was armed with the finer toothed green rake, which later induced an OCD state of mind which rendered Alec's garden useless to resist his tidy raking wrath! Mandatory beer drinking followed which was welcome after the work. An evening of raucous card playing followed with Daria introducing the game "NERTS!" to us which we will certainly be playing from now on. Poker and Pig games followed until we were all done and fell straight to sleep. A special mention for Bugsy the cat who is practically human and took a liking to my lap and back, Bunny and Squirty were less forward cats, but no less enjoyable company!
We returned to Kingston for a couple of snow days where we planned buses and read "The Shack" which we have both now finished (thanks Sarah G). We went climbing in Kingston up Canada's tallest wall standing at a mighty 105ft which resided in an old mill chimney! That week we had a splattering of snow that undoubtedly would have brought Britain to a standstill, which our Canadian hosts shrugged off as a light shower. On the Thursday we worked at Brian's house shifting 3 tonnes of concrete from his porch to the dump (this dump being the second we have now visited in Canada). Good Friday was great as we returned to Alec's for more enjoyable hard (but fun) labour removing his decking and further raking. In the evening we went to see an Ice Hockey game involving Kingston Vees vs Oakville Blades. We were the loudest and proudest hockey fans there as the Kingston supporters adopted Crystal Palace's psychic and silent method of cheering. The Vees won 4-2 and a bloke called Tyler was our man of the match. We successfully annoyed a Blades fan by singing "Nana na na waaahooo goodbye!", to which she replied "Its only game 4 of 7!". Saturday saw another trip to the Landsdowne dump after visiting the Canadian equivalent of Starbucks - Tim Hortons (aka Timmy Ho's). After some funny filming and awful singing we returned to... you guessed it, more raking! That afternoon we took the polar plunge (see photos/videos for details). Later we sat down and enjoyed a feast cooked by Daria for which all the family were present!
Easter Sunday we said goodbye to the family and continued to work in the garden. By the afternoon Alec had contracted raking OCD and went crazy on the front of the garden, but it was worth it. "Planned overs" for dinner then back to M & M's to rest before one last days work for Brian on Monday.
Now we await the arrival of Mr. John Morey who is kindly taking us to Ottawa where we are meeting members of Greenbelt Church for a cuppa! So the travels continue! Ciao for now.
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