Barkerburgh

Last night I got to meet 6 week old Simon Varkast Ambedian Kotanen. I’d already met his parents, Peter and Leslie, so I didn’t have to talk to them much.

He was bigger than I expected and quite an armful - I got to hold him for a while, then Luisa (and Reid) got there…

He was quiet but alert, and seemed to like me. We have the same do so it must have been like looking into a handsome mirror for him, the lucky little guy.

I like babies but I don’t get much chance to hang out with them so this was cool. Last night I had a dream about looking for baby things in some kind of special store that nobody knew about, and there was always something more interesting behind whatever it was I’d been looking for and just found. I was worried about being able to afford all the stuff I wanted that wasn’t on the shopping list.

Mum and Dad served up some very nice cheeses, including a nice stinky Stilton and a Dutch cheese called Beemster, which is an aged Gouda, very nice.

Wow.

I finally watched this CBC’s This is Wonderland last night.

Laughed out loud two or three times before the first commercial.

Law, crazy people, the Canadian court system exemplified by the Toronto courts with crazy people, and laconically wise-cracking judges and a smart-ass lawyer or two. Lotsa fun.

Watch it.

Oh, and Jayne Eastwood too!

Do you remember when she played her own character in the SCTV take-off on ‘Going Down The Road’?

Do you remember ‘Going Down The Road’?

As promised a few posts back, at the actual, real, honest-to-god King’s Cross Station, taken by an actual friend of mine (Anneli) who was actually there, Platform 9 3/4.

‘Nuff said.