Leaving City Life Behind

Greetings with  some initial admin. I have been asked if I am announcing each time I post an update on this blog. Other than the initial bomb-burst email when I launched it, the answer is no, as I prefer not to be guilty of pestering those I emailed at the beginning who may not be that interested. For those that are, in general I aim to write an update every 2 weeks, if that works out a sensible period where there is either something worthy of reporting, or we have moved on a complete phase in the build. I also understand that if you click the triple bar seen at the top right of the main page to the blog, you have the chance to either "follow" if you are a Google+ account holder, or click to "get email notifications" each time I publish an update. Hope that helps. Onto the tale in hand.  The last two weeks has been very much a case of jumping back and forth between tasks but not fully completing any single item. While good progress has been achieved, it has ofte...

Greetings, and my apologies for having failed to post as promised on the weekend of 29th April. While it's been an extremely busy three weeks, the fact is it also made better sense to leave my post until the next phase of the build was completed in order to give you a decent picture of what has gone on. But first, a huge thanks to all that responded to my bomb-burst email announcing the launch of my blog and its first two posts. I sent that email out to over 120 addressees, and that generated in excess of 65 email responses, all of which ranged from cries of "wow", curiosity, "when can we come and stay," or just general good wishes for this adventure.  I also got corrected by one reader when I had said Calgary was the capital of the province of Alberta.  Apologies to my Canadian readers, as I should know rather better after studying for and then doing my citizenship exam a few years ago, but it is Edmonton.  Somewhere up North, it's often -40C to -45C up t...