The day dawned fine, so I decided to do some sightseeing in the morning and then spend the afternoon and evening at the computer. I won't bore you with the computer time! I only had to walk about 15 minutes to take my choice of about five bike hire places near the edge of Stanley Park - the jewel in Vancouver's crown. I went to the first one that opened and hired a Norco City Bike for three hours. It was a nice bike, well maintained. Norco. Sounds like it shou...

We should take a leaf from the Sound of Music, and start from the very beginning. When I left you, dear reader, we had just wrapped up the first night of the conference. i hope you followed the link to the Rev Al's Youtube clip. Worth the visit. Monday began with a business session of the Centre executive from 0700-0800. Much too little time really for the agenda we had - although we made a fair fist of it. If this is our only face to face meeting each year, th...