Well it has been a pretty eventful past few days for Albie.
Most importantly, let me introduce Ralph:
Most importantly, let me introduce Ralph:
In addition to this new friend/brother/toy, the DVD player is not broken after all! We gave it one last shot, with coloured cables instead of the HDMI lead and it worked! A huge relief that we didn't have to buy another one (complicated as we now have DVD's from different countries - different regions), and Albie was very pleased to be reunited with it:
Swimming in Balmoral was back on this week. The air is getting a little cooler, and although the water is still very warm, it is becoming more refreshing.
The clocks went forward in Montreal at the weekend, so there was a minor panic as to what time it would be for T's work tele-meetings. We then got up for our Sunday surf/walk in the pitch dark - previously it had been light - and wondered if we had got it wrong, and it was in fact Australia's clocks that had changed.
There has been some interrupted sleeps. On Ralph's first night I ended up sitting up with him from 4am, and subsequently there have been a few cat play-fights on the bed, in the middle of the night, on top of T and me. They don't mind one bit - after all, they get to catch up on sleep throughout the day...