Sociable Us?

On Thursday our Canadian friends had a baby boy!! We visited the new family on Friday and the baby is gorgeous.

Yesterday was the Great Glebe Garage sale. We’d read about this in newspapers and seen adverts on lampposts, but we didn’t realise the scale of the Great garage sale. When we’d finally stirred and left the house at midday, the streets were packed with people. Almost every household had sorted through their attic and placed their junk on the roadside to be exchanged for other people’s junk. Whilst this was interesting to see, it did get in the way of our favourite weekend ritual of buying a newspaper, getting a hot-chocolate in a coffee shop and ignoring each other as we read through the paper.

After our a pleasurable hour of silent reading and people watching, we drove into town to watch another friend do the Ottawa 5 kilometre run. We wouldn’t even walk that far!

Then we went to the driving range as I wanted to practice for my round of golf today. It was early evening and although there didn’t seem to be any bodies of water around, there we loads of mosquitoes and I got bitten all over my arms and neck. I react badly to mossy bites, as you’ll remember from our Brazil trip and my arms are now all puffy and blotchy red. Nice! I really enjoyed the round of golf though.