October 5th

2pm: A work day today in Mississauga - highly stressful given the goings on recently at the company I work for. I missed a rare Charlton live TV game. Watching it later I was amazed to see a comprehensive victory over the MK Dons - here is a photo  I took from my laptop of interviewees Scott Wagstaff & Kyel Reid. I missed the company Go-Karting ( which i wasn't sorry about) but enjoyed a good meal with colleagues somewhere in downtown Toronto - in fact I ate for the first time escargots, which I now thoroughly recommend.

July 28th

10pm: It wasn't easy getting a shot of Niagara Falls, first the darkness of the surroundings & the constant colour changes projected by the lights onto the water. Secondly the immense crowds of people there for a free firework show. It was a depressing place, ugly, rampant commercialisation of the very worst kind. You are even forced to walk through a horribly, tacky mall to get near the falls. I hated it so much. I am sure when the falls were discovered they were an amazing sight in their natural surroundings, now they are almost a secondary diversion to the casinos, Hortons, MacDonalds, Burger Kings & worse littered all around them & the tack vendors trying to sell glowsticks, beads, photographs etc etc. Horrible!

July 27th

8.30pm: Here I am somewhere over Eastern Manitoba on my way to Toronto for a few days work. Lovely evening for flying, this is an Air Canada plane - i am switching allegiance from Westjet to AC in a vain attempt to rack up some frequent flyer points!

February 5th

2.15pm: Toronto Airport. Finally the plane that would take me home, after the best part of two weeks on the road. I had a great time, visited New York caught up with wonderful friends & enjoyed myself with my work colleagues - a really nice bunch of people - however I need to get back & see Nicky, Tabby & Charlie & resume life in the Rockies!!

February 4th

3pm : A rather enjoyable team-building exercise with my work colleagues. We ended up in a downtown Toronto indoor climbing centre - something I had never done before & found really good fun. We started off on the small walls, learning safety & rope work - before playing a few games on the taller walls - I think I will take this up here in Canmore, which is after all one of the best climbing destinations in North America. The evening was rounded off in a beautiful Portuguese restaurant where I enjoyed some of the best seafood I have ever had the pleasure to experience.

February 2nd

7pm: Cambridge, Ontario fifty miles south-west of Toronto & the apartment block that my good friend from work John lives in. Another desperation shot really as i had been stuck at work all day & then the snow started on our way to Cambridge. My hotel was just round the corner from here & as we made our way to his excellent local Vietnamese restaurant, I turned & took this shot. Nothing special photographically but a nice reminder of a pleasant evening.

February 1st

7.30pm: Pete & Sabrina in their beautiful new house in Toronto. I spent a fine Monday evening with Pete that included Ukulele practise, bluegrass, fish & chips, record shopping, an acoustic shoegazing band & Pete's encyclopeadic friend who reeled off more facts about 80's indie rock than i care to remember.