Carrick to Calgary

Just a quickie post from work - 08:45 am here, Mel and Stevie got here OK, quite exhausted by the flight but managed to sit up until 9pm before flaking out. No sign of them this morning, but I suspect they may have been up earlier in the middle of the night (seeing as how it's almost 4pm UK time now). They're probably going to head off into Downtown today to see the Bow River, etc., using the 421 bus and the LRT (in the footsteps of Mum and Dad!). Weather lovely today, a warm morning, beautiful blue skies with just a trace of high cloud, some snow on the Rockies. It's going to be nice tomorrow too (+21), then colder on Sunday (down to +12) and then nice for the rest of next week. Seems like our visitors have brought the good weather with them. Hopefully going to head off into the Rockies tomorrow - maybe Bragg Creek or Kananaskis Country...

Great article on BBC News today on how dogs can sniff out cancer. Quite amazing. They did a study to see if dogs could tell the difference (well, smell the difference) between urine from normal patients and urine from patients with bladder cancer. Turns out they can!



But the most interesting part of the study is that every single one of the dogs identified one of the samples from a 'normal' patient as being abnormal. (All the normal patients had tests before the study to proved they had normal kidneys and bladders). And guess what - the patient wasn't normal after all, as further tests picked up a small kidney cancer! The moral of the story - get a dog and let him smell your wee if you want to stay healthy! (I think!)

J