Day 190.........squished on a bus.

Day 190.........squished on a bus.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

Yesterday was Saturday and so it was laundry day-yippee. Clean clothes and towels for the coming week. I was telling the girls how it was so strange doing one day of laundry a week rather than every day. If not twice a day, when they were young. At least, that's my recollection-I could be exaggerating in my mind. But Andrew and Bill had rugby kit three times a week and there were five sets of towels and 4 sets of sheets plus messy little people make messy clothes, so I won't be far off the mark with my guess at a daily wash.
The cleaning didn't happen though because Jen fancied a visit to the mall. I think she had a bit of Cabin-fever.
Ali was out, in the morning, helping a friend do a school photography assignment. She was photographed eating poutine-a fancy name for what is basically chips, cheese and gravy-because the project is taking photographs of people doing things that they have always wanted to try. Ali fancied poutine :-)
We all headed out to Yorkdale, after she got home, only to discover that the subway track was being replaced between St George and Lawrence West stations. That'll mean nothing to you but to us it meant a squished forty plus minutes bus ride both ways instead of simply changing trains and having a fifteen minute subway ride. We almost changes our shopping-destination but decided to go ahead. The result being that we didn't sit down to eat dinner till 7.30.
I have said this before but I really must start checking the TTC website for delays/closures before we head out on a wee jaunt.
The TTC are brilliant with their organisation though. They have squillions of back-to-back buses and people directing you to them from any area that you happen to appear from.
So, our clocks went back last night and now there is only four hours between Scotland and us. That means I will get a wee bit longer to chat with Bill on his work-nights till the end of March-yippee. It was still dark when my alarm went off so I knew that it had done it's automatic-time-change-thing. I just have the stove-clock to still change. I will be tired tonight because it was nearly midnight old time when I went to bed. I will cope.
It is NOT Mothers' Day here and I do remember that my mum got two Mothers Day cards when I lived here before. Dad only ever got onethough because Fathers Day is the same on both sides of the pond

Okay folks-I am going for a wander in the sunshine and will post this when I get home. Poor Olaf is feeling the worse for our winter sunshine but there is still loads of snow in all the places that don't get sun, like our drive.
Much love,
Lxxx