Author Archives: rollietommers

The past two years have gone very quickly and we still can’t quite believe that we are writing this final Canadian post from the UK. Perhaps it will sink in once the jetlag fades.

It’s been a busy one, so we will keep it short. Last weekend Rosie took a nature bath… Ollie returned from his ski trip and spent the next few days selling things on facebook marketplace. He no longer has any faith in humanity. We have a lot of things to sort out before we leave.Continue reading “Our Penultimate Week In Canada”

It’s the R, O, I and E in Rollie here, reporting solo once again! My week has been very quiet. I have probably done a bit too much work, but my new job is pretty exciting and there is lots to learn. On Tuesday and Wednesday evening I sent my first commands to a satelliteContinue reading “Text Adventure”

Ollie has finished work now and gone off on a lads lads lads trip skiing with Thom

No excuses this week. We’re both healthy and one of us is getting used to the 5am starts, so we’ve managed to do a blog!

We have both now recovered from our bouts of COVID, but still haven’t prepared anything for the blog this week… Sorry! Last Friday was Rosie’s final day working for the Canadian train company. She is now working remotely for a UK space company again, in preparation for our return in 5 weeks time (how hasContinue reading “Sorry… again… zzz”

Predictably we started 2022 with hangovers (one of us worse than the other…) but you’ll be glad to hear that we have fully recovered now. We had lots of fun on new years eve competing in “apartment olympics” – mostly featuring ping pong ball based competitions, but with one paper aeroplane javelin event. Congratulations toContinue reading “Far Out Threads”

What are the chances that our blog was released on both Christmas Day and New Years Day. Aren’t you all lucky! Despite Ollie’s mum warning us not to leave the blog to the last minute on New Years Eve, we have done just that… We have some friends coming over and cocktails to make, soContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

Merry Christmas everyone!! We were planning to come back to the UK for the festive period but, unfortunately, we decided to cancel our plans because of some virus. This does mean, however, that we stand a good chance of having a white Christmas in Vancouver. There is snow forecast overnight and an Arctic outflow warning…Continue reading “A White Christmas?”

Not much to report this week. Another rainy weekend last week, but we had some life admin to do – Applying to switch to a visitor visor for a few weeks after our work permits expire in February (not long now!) and filing our UK taxes (which we almost forgot about… oops). We had ourContinue reading “Improved Views”