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Mood: flippery when wet

Expat Brit. We call Vancouver, B.C. home, except I'm a bit of a professional nomad. I don't live in a yurt, I just move a lot with work. We moved to Calgary in 2012, so the shorts went into storage and the skis are getting a lot more use! Finally home (as we know it) for the first time this century.

I will stop putting geographical references in my profile.

Assistant elf for 2012/13, 13/14 and now 14/15 Quonsmas. It really is the most wonderful time of the year.

Professional butler to the cat.

All in all, he's just an old, saggy cloth cat.
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams.
But Emily loved him.

Sparrows are seriously underrated.

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” -Winston Churchill

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