Latest Episodes for this Channel
Tue October 07 2008
Podcast 66 – get your kicksImmigration we landed permanent residence long journey – enjoyed the ferry problems with Canadian immigration w...
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Podcast 66 – get your kicksImmigration we landed permanent residence long journey – enjoyed the ferry problems with Canadian immigration wait times CIC study to immigrate good way to
“try before you buy” bureaucratic system CIC need to work with people not against themBroadband, highspeed, ADSLSpencer - the purr is silencedIntroducing Chloe and Harry – 3 months
laterC...
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Podcast 66 – get your kicksImmigration we landed permanent residence long journey – enjoyed the ferry problems with Canadian immigration wait times CIC study to immigrate good way to
“try before you buy” bureaucratic system CIC need to work with people not against themBroadband, highspeed, ADSLSpencer - the purr is silencedIntroducing Chloe and Harry – 3 months
laterChickensGarden update Greenhouse – up and inflated Lots more produce More time More experience Produce – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, potatoes
(including lovely blue ones), beans, peas, courgettes/zucchini, carrots, corn, leeks, asparagus Business update Park - community involvementBad thingsMatt – our friends moving to OttawaAJ -
negative election campaigningGood thingsAJ - potential of us having chicksMatt – PR and ADSL
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Sat May 10 2008
Not podcasted since December… quite a winter.. January – snowFebruary – more snowMarch – less snowHorticultural happenings - ...
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Not podcasted since December… quite a winter.. January – snowFebruary – more snowMarch – less snowHorticultural happenings - awards- Skills Canada gold medal- commissions-
business- jobOur garden- greenhouse- soft fruit- grapesHome brewing- beer- wineImmigration update- medicals- bureaucracy- new 5 year graduate work permitMy job- at the University- website workAnimal
upda...
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Not podcasted since December… quite a winter.. January – snowFebruary – more snowMarch – less snowHorticultural happenings - awards- Skills Canada gold medal- commissions-
business- jobOur garden- greenhouse- soft fruit- grapesHome brewing- beer- wineImmigration update- medicals- bureaucracy- new 5 year graduate work permitMy job- at the University- website workAnimal
updates - Spencer- Dylan- chickensVisitors from England next weekendBad ThingsAJ – ticksMatt – bugsGood thingsAJ – Twinnings Herbal Teas (wellbeing range)Matt – living in the
country
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Fri December 28 2007
2nd anniversary of our first podcast (not going to play it again)63 podcasts later but bit out of practice.Nice to hear people have come to us after w...
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2nd anniversary of our first podcast (not going to play it again)63 podcasts later but bit out of practice.Nice to hear people have come to us after we stopped weekly podcasting and they have
listened all the way through - out of real time.Winter- Quite a winter - 5 storms (including last night) - last winter 5 in total- 10cm last night- snow most of DecemberHorticultural happenings-
passed semest...
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2nd anniversary of our first podcast (not going to play it again)63 podcasts later but bit out of practice.Nice to hear people have come to us after we stopped weekly podcasting and they have
listened all the way through - out of real time.Winter- Quite a winter - 5 storms (including last night) - last winter 5 in total- 10cm last night- snow most of DecemberHorticultural happenings-
passed semester with honours- one more to go- lots of houseplants propagatedKnittingquest for the gnometree decorationknitted our hatsCreeping CanadianismshighwaygasImmigration to Nova Scotia - we
have PNPPeople not always doing what they set out to do coming hereTrue of many downshiftersAdapt plans if things don't turn out exactly how they are plannedBad ThingsAJ – TVMatt –
snowGood thingsMatt – snowAJ – snow
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Mon October 08 2007
Why we stopped podcasting Busy Ran out of things to say Spencer tries to stop the podcast Was worried slightly we had “lost our way” with ...
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Why we stopped podcasting Busy Ran out of things to say Spencer tries to stop the podcast Was worried slightly we had “lost our way” with my new jobWe are poor, we knit our own yoghurt
and hats.Didn't get chickens as we hoped to this year. Got some great emails from people – people said they understood but would miss us.Met some great people visiting Welcome to Nova Scotia
&ndash...
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Why we stopped podcasting Busy Ran out of things to say Spencer tries to stop the podcast Was worried slightly we had “lost our way” with my new jobWe are poor, we knit our own yoghurt
and hats.Didn't get chickens as we hoped to this year. Got some great emails from people – people said they understood but would miss us.Met some great people visiting Welcome to Nova Scotia
– Mark and Tania, Richard and Jane, and Flora and LarryHarvest – potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini/courgettes, squash, chilli peppers, some berries. Next year – carrots, parsnips, more
potatoes, onions, more zucchini, berries – hoping the grape vines and kiwi survive. Triumphs of the year - we can look back and give thanksSo settledSurvived the winter Had some great
produceGreat fun - spent time togetherEnjoy walking the garden after dinnerNew job meant physiotherapy on foot and filling replaced which came out in NovemberAJ learnt to can - chilli jelly, jam,
chutney, pickle, salsaAJ has mastered beer - Matthew likes the beerSetbacksTruck still dead – setback – bought car – on creditNot grown as much as we would have likedMoney running
out faster than we hopedDownshifting is about finding your own path. Choose a different way of living. We need BBC Canada.. Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Robin Hood, It's not Easy Being Green,
Buildings that Shaped Britain. Don't feel homesick but nicely nostalgic. Found our house in a book.The school was bigger than we thought. More outbuildings - like we thought. Bad ThingsAJ – the
truckMatt – cost of insuranceGood thingsAJ – a general sense of joy and contentmentMatt – Nova Scotia is my home
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