Bloody tired and tired of trying
The wise thing to do when we arrived back from Canada would have been to have a really good sleep. A week on and I haven’t done that. I didn’t really believe I was immune to jetlag but on the other hand I didn’t really take steps to deal with it either. Right away from getting an internet connection I have been back online and back into the usual UK time schedule. Even this morning.
Stupid when I think about it.
I will have a good long sleep tonight. That should get me back on track.
So it could have been tiredness but now I am not sure. I think tired or not we are pretty much resigned to staying in the UK.
We have been here before of course, we have been going then not before. Vancouver was perfect all apart from the sheer insermountable expense. Winnipeg was ludicrously cheap but there are no jobs (at all!) and the mosquitoes and stupid winters. And no landscape anywhere. What’s up with that? No hills, not a one in the entire province.
So it turns out Calgary didn’t want us there. “Keep out we are full” I think they were telling us. We always said Amy would be our top priority in deciding about Canada. Time and again we realised there was no way it was going to work. No school places, earliest opening 2007 even if schools get built on time, hour-long bus journies across kilometres .. no chance, not putting my girl through that. Housing estates were getting further and further out of Calgary until it just got too much. We did consider High River but it just wasn’t going to realistically work.
We are bound to think again in a few months, we usually do. It has long been a dream and still is. Just right now not possible. Other than a premium bonds or national lottery win, looks unlikely.
Update:
We looked at houses today right here in the same town we currently live and are going to put ours up for sale. Looks like we are staying here for quite a while.
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