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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Well my career has not exactly taken off in Vancouver. I have been a stay at home woman for the past 6 months with the exception of a couple of temporary jobs in insurance agents and real estate offices. The most recent was with Dominion of Canada, General Insurance Company. It was mainly filing and a bit of reception work. So I\'m not exactly fulfilled in my work life at present. However, we are in the process of setting up a new company called Blue Moon learning, which is very exciting. We will look at the company\'s present training and develop it into online learning where appropriate. The first contract we have is with a Mortgage Broker (our mortgage broker actually), who wants some post course basic training putting online, and who, by coincidence, is also part of the Dominion group. It will take a while to get it all sorted out but I think this first contract will be good practise for us, I\'m really looking forward to doing something that combines my educational skills and fantastic interpersonal skills (even though I say so myself...).</p>\n<p>I must say that I am ready to do something other than reception work now though, but we do need the money - just a minor issue :-) Hopefully we will have the first product up and running by Feb next year, I\'ll keep you posted how it goes.</p>\n', created = 1328659566, expire = 1328745966, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:a72d2763f0ab674b654aea1daf674c3b' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.</p>\n<p>Or rather, we\'ve just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Place\">GM Place</a> - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.</p>\n<p>They have reformed for a world tour of which this was the first date, and looking out the kitchen window we could see plenty of limo\'s taking the estemed audience home afterwards.</p>\n<p>To be honest I\'d forgotten they were playing in Vancouver as it was a while ago the date was announced, and it wasn\'t until I looked at the BBC News website the next morning I realised what had been on.</p>\n<p>Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4306936.stm\">Vancouver is rated as a city</a> was in the list of the top five most read stories. But then I realised that it must have been The Police\'s presence in the city that had drawn attention to it.</p>\n', created = 1328659566, expire = 1328745966, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:0c572db92e5add6f13ad2c58d0f897e6' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>I just came back from the <a href=\"http://www.nten.org/ntc\">Non-Profit Technology Conference</a> and had to change planes in Salt Lake City.</p>\n<p>It\'s a strange place physically, on a large flat area lodged between the mountains, next to a huge lake with an island that looks like a battleship. I didn\'t have much time to check it out socially or morally, though I did try by doing a bit of research by going to the Squatters Brew Pub (Terminal C in the event that you also change planes there).</p>\n<p>Good selection of beers including a good pale ale, Captain Bastard, Provo Girl (which unfortunately does not feature an Irish Tricolour on the label) and the Polygamy Porter (\"why have just one\"). Also a wheat beer served with a slice of lemon (probably after many complaints).</p>\n<p>So maybe it\'s not such a straight place as I\'d imagined.</p>\n', created = 1328659567, expire = 1328745967, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:c36662d0e248f81022496f7a4e12309f' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We went to our first ice hockey game, the Vancouver Canucks v. Minnesota Wild, for Rowan\'s birthday. Luckily the Canucks won after extra-time and a shoot-out, thanks to some good saves by his hero Robert Luongo, the goal-keeper.</p>\n<p>I\'m only just getting the hang of knowing which team is playing better, who is likely to score and whether a goal was due to good attacking or bad defensive play. It\'s coming though.</p>\n<p>Compared to UK football (soccer) matches the music is better, but I was a bit thrown by the national anthem played before the game as it was only a league match. It was against a US team though.</p>\n<p>There\'s more shoving and pushing on the pitch. Although some of it seems a bit ritualistic and half-hearted, referees do not intervene until somebody falls down. As a friend of mine made out, he once went to a boxing match and a game of ice hockey broke out half-way through.</p>\n<p>Strangely the game seems based on threes which seems unusual for a sport. There\'s three periods in a game, three referees on the pitch, and three sections to the pitch.</p>\n<p>We\'ll be living just across the road from the stadium so it was great to see what goes on inside, although I don\'t know how often we\'ll be going as it\'d be expensive to go to regularly. It was the 159th consecutive sold-out home game (beat that Man U.) so there\'s no incentive to bring the prices down.</p>\n', created = 1328659567, expire = 1328745967, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:8012c3b8ac9dd09548b8d94c796d0d9a' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Keeping in touch with home is easier now using email. I also listen to the radio online - it\'s great waking up and choosing whether to listen to Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Evans or Woman\'s Hour. We are 8 hours behind the UK so it\'s all happened by the time we get up! Simon is very happy that he can get up on Sat morning and see the football results immediately :-) Crystal Palace don\'t seem to do any better though ;-)</p>\n<p>The TV is quite bad here, due to the excessive amount of adverts you get so I will often sit and listen to a play online with headphones on in the evening (we have a small apartment at the moment so there\'s not many places you can go....) - it\'s very reassuring somehow, to hear UK accents. What did we do before t\'internet?</p>\n', created = 1328659567, expire = 1328745967, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:16deefa08bb004bd53297d9cfd58f825' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>It was the last day of freedom before the boys went to school yesterday so we went 10 pin bowling in Burnaby where we lived when we were over in 2004. There isn\'t another 10 pin bowling alley downtown which I was very surprised by. Aparantly they have 5 pin bowling here which is unique to Vancouver, but I shied away from going to it with the boys as it is quite hard to do when you first go.</p>\n<p>Travelling back across the Burrard Inlet on the seabus the sun was shining on the North Shore Mountains and it was really beautiful. I thought, this is a fantastic place to live, we\'re so lucky. It is absolutely stunning when the sun shines.</p>\n<p>People are, for the most part, very smiley, and want to help you if at all possible. They do have a problem with my accent though. Most people who work in shops and coffee bars are Chinese or Japanese and are used to hearing the North American version of English - they don\'t understand my dropped vowels, so I often have to repeat myself.</p>\n<p>But I don\'t have to talk to the Mountains, just look at them.</p>\n', created = 1328659567, expire = 1328745967, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:76ba5c8ace4f9fd2a9ee70719d33de50' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Well my career has not exactly taken off in Vancouver. I have been a stay at home woman for the past 6 months with the exception of a couple of temporary jobs in insurance agents and real estate offices. The most recent was with Dominion of Canada, General Insurance Company. It was mainly filing and a bit of reception work. So I\'m not exactly fulfilled in my work life at present. However, we are in the process of setting up a new company called Blue Moon learning, which is very exciting. We will look at the company\'s present training and develop it into online learning where appropriate. The first contract we have is with a Mortgage Broker (our mortgage broker actually), who wants some post course basic training putting online, and who, by coincidence, is also part of the Dominion group. It will take a while to get it all sorted out but I think this first contract will be good practise for us, I\'m really looking forward to doing something that combines my educational skills and fantastic interpersonal skills (even though I say so myself...).</p>\n<p>I must say that I am ready to do something other than reception work now though, but we do need the money - just a minor issue :-) Hopefully we will have the first product up and running by Feb next year, I\'ll keep you posted how it goes.</p>\n', created = 1328659584, expire = 1328745984, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:a72d2763f0ab674b654aea1daf674c3b' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.</p>\n<p>Or rather, we\'ve just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Place\">GM Place</a> - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.</p>\n<p>They have reformed for a world tour of which this was the first date, and looking out the kitchen window we could see plenty of limo\'s taking the estemed audience home afterwards.</p>\n<p>To be honest I\'d forgotten they were playing in Vancouver as it was a while ago the date was announced, and it wasn\'t until I looked at the BBC News website the next morning I realised what had been on.</p>\n<p>Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4306936.stm\">Vancouver is rated as a city</a> was in the list of the top five most read stories. But then I realised that it must have been The Police\'s presence in the city that had drawn attention to it.</p>\n', created = 1328659584, expire = 1328745984, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:0c572db92e5add6f13ad2c58d0f897e6' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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17 June 2004 - 1:32pm — jane

We got a car. It's a red Mazda MPV and we called it Layla after my nephew Toby's new baby daughter born on Tuesday 15th June (congratulations Toby and Louise) because that's when we got the car. Canadians are outraged at the cost of petrol at the moment - C$.91, that's around 36p per litre. When we tell them how much it costs in the UK they just go apoplectic. We had been travelling by public transport up to then and the public transport system is fantastic.

Our car - a Mazda MPV: