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we saved and sailed 1 from Liverpool to CAN COOK, WANT TO COOK, WILLING TO
Quebec City, where Jean’s uncle met us.
We had seen an iceberg at close quarters GIVE IT A GO?
on the way, at the entrance to the St
Lawrence River – a first and not to be As it has every month for the past 10 years, Salt and Pepper cooked and served a
th
repeated experience! 3-course lunch to 50 people on Thursday 16 April. Lunchers and helpers alike
enjoyed a friendly gathering, a good lunch and plenty of chat.
Soon after our arrival, 2 Jean’s aunt took us
to the local tennis club 3 so that we would Our cooking team is a bit short
start making friends. As we knew no-one handed, and would love to
other than Jean’s relatives, that was a very welcome anyone who is prepared
good idea. We were also job-hunting. to help out. You don’t need to be
Once we had decided that we were a Michelin starred chef, or to have
Canada-bound and started to save for the appeared on Master Chef. If you
enjoy home cooking, are prepared
fare, I took a secretarial course, specialising to get involved, and like working in
in medical terminology, as I wanted to work a team please get in touch and
in some sort of medical environment. I was see if you might be able to offer us
lucky to be quickly offered a job working for an Ear, Nose & Throat Surgeon and a hand.
had decided to apply to do a Degree in English Literature at the University of
Toronto, too. Ian Ventham, 007836643210
Jean and I then found an apartment and our lives became busier, particularly as it
began to include boyfriends! I visited Ontario’s lake district, called Muskoka, which
has about 1,600 small lakes. One of my boyfriends had a sea plane and he flew
me to his family’s cottage in Muskoka on several occasions which was a
wonderful, new experience! I also visited the many seasonal faces of Niagara Falls,
Ottawa and Montreal and
particularly enjoyed the
bilingual aspect of the latter. By
then, I had started my Degree
as well as doing evening
courses in journalism and
interior design, and had met
many members of the medical
profession. This led to my being
asked to write the history of the
Hospital for Sick Children’s
(HSC) School of Nursing. 4 This
was to accompany the first
research project of its kind,
looking at the possibility of
moving nursing education from hospitals to educational institutions. The project
needed to be handled sensitively as several of the HSC’s Board Members had
children and grandchildren who had graduated in nursing from the hospital.
While doing my Degree and writing the HSC history, I had a particularly interesting
experience. Having been asked to help with research into epilepsy, I was then

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