About this blog

“This blog is about a journey. A journey that started in London early in 2005, and that will end – although of course journeys never really end – in Victoria, BC sometime in 2014.

Well – that’s the plan…

…and plans – as we all know…”

So began this blog when I first started to write it back in January 2012.

My wife (who I had met in London back in 2005 and who for the purposes of this blog goes by the sobriquet ‘the Kickass Canada Girl’ – or more simply just ‘The Girl’) had landed a plum job in Victoria BC and was about to fly off to this distant continent, leaving me on my own in London for at least a year and a half to wind up my career there. The plan that we had hatched was to see us eventually re-united in British Columbia (whence came The Girl in the first place) and riding off gracefully into the sunset years of retirement.

But plans – as we all know…

We eventually reached Victoria after many adventures in the summer of 2015. I am writing this in our lovely home overlooking the Haro Straight and Sidney Spit in April 2019, and though much has worked out as we anticipated a fair bit has not. Neither of us is exactly retired – though the fault for that lies squarely with us. Life continues to be incredibly rich and rewarding and we both feel most blessed.

I started to write the blog as a way for us to stay in touch back in 2012 – with each other as well as with friends, family and online acquaintances. It was also my thought that it might eventually provide a handy resource concerning the convoluted process of emigrating to Canada to any who might find it useful – as well as much else about life in general and in particular, which I hoped would at the very least occasionally prove amusing.

I wrote at the outset that ‘journeys never really end’. That is – of course – not entirely true, but whilst this one continues I intend to carry on logging it in these pages. If you would care to follow it do please subscribe here:

Andy Dawson Reid

April 2019