We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.
Or rather, we've just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from GM Place - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.
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.
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.
Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly Vancouver is rated as a city 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.
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 ;-)
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?