May 13th

3.00pm. On a country road just north of Edmonton, an old truck gently rusts in a farmer's field. All over Alberta you can see in the backroads, the rusting carcasses of cars, trucks & farm machinery. I don't mind them, they add a touch of the past to a landscape which is often spoiled by the garish new. I was making a long, hot 4 hour drive back home from Edmonton to Canmore.

April 28th

8.30pm: I stopped in the swirling snowstorm at the PetroCanada service station near Cochrane, the weather has been appalling all day - heavy snow, 90mph winds, generally miserable. I don't want to turn this into a weather blog, but we get such extremes here. Just a week before I was playing football in balmy conditions & now this. I had been for dinner in Calgary with a colleague over from Toronto - he was lucky (in a sense) to get to Calgary given the hurricane force winds that all but closed down the airport.

January 5th

Trans-Canada bleakness - a truck thunders down the East - West highway at Scott Lake Hill as the sun struggles to break through the snow clouds.