Kidding Around Vancouver Island

Downtown Nanaimo will be transformed into the Island’s largest backyard barbeque on July 14th and 15th , thanks to the people behind the Nanaimo Barbeque Festival. Teams from around North America will descend on the city’s downtown core to compete in a Kansas City BBQ Society sanctioned event. Local residents will get a chance to [...]

Not quite dead! I am back. So busy with work and life and let this slide. I keep hearing about so many wonderful events, places, ideas and fun here on Vancouver Island, that I have to write about it. So, I am back. I hope I keep you and your children entertained.

We’ve all been laid up with stomach flus for the last few days, which is why I didn’t post the winner of our Pete Pan ballet tickets at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo.  Luckily, Elizabeth Clay and her parents weren’t ill and had a marvellous time at the Winnipeg Ballet production – in fact Elizabeth [...]

Click here for all the details on how you could win a pair of tickets to this enchanting production by the Winnipeg Ballet at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo. ENTRIES MUST BE IN BY Thursday, March 26th

Readers of our weekly newspaper column know what we’ve been up to since December, but here on the web, it’s been a bit quiet, and we apologize for that. But thanks to our sister-in-law, Shari, that’s all changing. She’s going to help us with maintaining the website and making it a great addition to our [...]

Having traditions is very important for kids – even if they don’t always recognize it until later in life – and one of our traditions is to attend a pantomime each Christmas. A pantomime is a tradition in British theatre dating back to the middle ages – something between a music hall production and Italian [...]