365: Red; Duh de da da dah, Duh de da da dah, duh duh duh dah dah dada!

Is there anything more Canadian than hockey? In October 2015, I travelled with my youngest daughter to Montreal, where she would attend her immigration interview in preparation for her move south to join her American husband.

I moved to Montreal when I was 17, and lived there three years. Those years are, to this day, the highlight of my life, with the extended and profound exeption of being mamma to my girls. Montreal was then and is now a fantastic, wonderful place to live. As a 17 year-old from what was then a pretty conservative city, Montreal was a world apart. I loved it and I still love it and going back there is like going home.

The whole time I lived there, hockey games too place in the Forum, which was at Atwater. I worked across the street about a block away from the Forum but never went into the building.

My daughter and I decided a night out at a comedy club was a great idea, and we were both pretty happy to find out the club was located in what is now called the old Forum. The renovation has made love to the zeitgeist of the building by maintaining the colours and structure and with the main floor painted to look like an ice surface. Oh. and yeah, Les Habitants? Best team ever. Yeah, I said it.

365: Red; It's That Time of the Decade Again

Once every decade or so, our city's hockey team gets itself into the playoffs (this is Canada; we say it's not themselves - because a team is one thing... but I digress)

Last time was 2013 and it was all sorts of debauchery, public drunkenness, lots and lots of naked boobs - because beer plus normally self-respecting females apparently makes for "Sure you can post my naked breasts to Twitter/Instagram/Facebook, and I won't even regret it until I remember the Internet never forgets...

I like this sedate little display, even if it looks a bit like a wash line. I'm not at all sure about the blue and white stuffies...