A few days later

Missed a few days, there, because Chris has been off work, which means we've been going out more often than usual. We would have flown to somewhere distant, but there was too much bad weather in the forecast for this to be a good choice. Therefore on Tuesday we simply went for a day's drive to the Rivière Rouge and back, doing half of this journey in the rain, which didn't matter. In the evening we had a condo meeting. Wednesday turning out to be a dry day, we cycled along the river banks almost as far as Orleans, and in the afternoon Chris went flying while I worked in the house and garden. Yesterday was very dull, cold and wet, a good day for catching up with jobs about the house and various errands on our walk into town. In the evening I went to the Bytowne Cinema to see the tongue-in-cheek film, Molière. This morning, a walk in the Gatineau Park around Lake Fortune with a couple of dozen diplomats' wives and a chance to meet the chairman of the National Capital Commission in the hut (the "Chalet des Érables") where we assembled for lunch afterwards. I had a lady from Adelaide in my car, the Australian wife of one of the German diplomats.

Maybe I'll expand on some of the above in my next blog post. In the meantime, here's a picture showing you how beautiful Ottawa looks at the moment, a view of Birch Avenue taken from the final approach to runway 09 at Rockcliffe airport last weekend: