OT - Discovery Toy Party on Saturday in London

[tinkerbeth]

If you are in the London area, I'm having a DIScovery (pun intended ) Toys party at my home in Strathroy. If you pm me, I'll send you the details. There aren't any DIScovery toys reps in London anymore; a woman is coming out from TO to do the party. She says that there's a business opp if anyone wants to sell them in London. I don't personally, but thought there might be someone interested!

Would love to meet some fellow DISers in person over cake and chips at my place on Saturday. Maybe we can convince Discovery to make Disney toys!

PM me if you're interested.

Beth

 

[Spook]

Beth, please excuse this ignorant Uk Londoner but where abouts is London in Canada and what is it like there. I always wonder when I see it on the boards. BTW hope your toy party goes well

Jan

 

[tinkerbeth]

Hey no worries!

London is in Ontario, about 2 hours south-west of Toronto and about 2 hours north east of Windsor/Detroit.

This is the city link http://www.london.ca/

It's a city of about 300,000 I think and pretty big geographically. It's large and sprawling with a lot of malls and sub-burbs and not really centred in teh downtown too much although they have been putting a lot of money into the downtown to revive it and there is a big stadium there now where they have some pretty big-name concerts. I think it has the highest per capita income of any city in Canada (correct me if I"m wrong, someone). There are quite a few hospitals; it's one of the best places in North America to get sick. There is also a big University. There are a lot of professionals: dr., lawyers, professors, etc. Not a tonne going on in the "arts" scene for a city of its size but we do have one good theatre and there's been a full scale Opera done there last year (Tosca - I was in teh chorus - AWESOME FUN) and this year (Rigoletto - I'm too pregnant this year. )

We live about 30 minutes outside of London in a town of about 11,000.

Those are relatively random facts...but the web site has lots of info.

Hope that helps! I'd rather live in London, UK than London Canada myself but my husband (British - born in peak district, grew up in Yeovil) says he doesn't want to live there. We might move to Bristol for a year or two at some point. We both like that city and have some friends there.

Beth

 

[Spook]

Thanks for the reply Beth. Congratulations on your pregnancy. Keep well and hope you have an easy birth.

Jan