The Ouseys in Victoria Page

Yeeechhch.   Enough already!.  And we expect another 10 to 20 cms (thats 4" to 8") again tonight.  For a place that hardly gets any snow, (if we do, we go back to bed and wait a day for it to leave and it usually does) this is bit much.  We have had couple of feet in the past few days.  It has been difficult getting around, slippery hills and all.  Of course Victoria and environs are not equipped to handle anything more than a few flakes, and I think they have already blown their annual budget.  But we shouldn't complain things look bad to worse coast to coast.

Catherine put a nice collage of Dennis in her blog today, the day he passed on, and we are all thinking of him.  Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but this one will need a lot of time. Our thoughts and love are with Catherine, M, J and R not to mention Mom and Jack.   He would have been so proud of that little grand-daughter.  In my minds eye  I can see him oohing and aahing over that little cutie.

Catherine came for a two day visit which was timely as well as enjoyable.  She arrived Wednesday afternoon, in time to join us for a Christmas Concert at Megan's School.  We joined David to watch his little girl.  We had our trepidations once we saw the programme, it looked like it was going to be a long evening, it was, in fact, 3 hours, but it was so well done, that we hardly notice the time go by. It was well rehearsed, and went off like clockwork.  All numbers well done, altering solemnity with humour, lots of humour.   Considering all Grades 2 - 12 were involved, it was a wonder it ran so well.  We had a bonus event as they had Ken Lavigne, a young and upcoming Tenor do a couple of numbers.  He is doing a concert in Victoria next week and Megans school is the only school invited to sing with him.  He was excellent.  In fact he is singing in Carnegie Hall in January.  Very enjoyable, we were all pleased. The first picture shows one part of the group, the second shows Megan, that's her in the centre.