Karl & Allison Saynor move to Canada

Ok we’re not bloggers.

karl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:44:22 +0000

I guess you have to experiment with things to see if you’ll actually use them. We obviously are not natural bloggers. Hence a year since the last post. I guess you could say that this blog is permanently closed. Sorry.

A shameful two months have past since my last post

karl — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:31:32 +0000

Hopefully you can forgive me though. Coping with a new business in full swing and Luke at the same time has caused the ‘update-my-blog’ to-do item to get severely knocked down the priority list.

Well at least, here is a short post to let you know that I’ve uploaded some more photos of Luke, with a promise of more on the way (honest). These photos were just too cute not to share - we had a professional photographer take some photos just before his 2 month birthday. For some reason the photographer like to try out a variety of hats!

Luke’s first month

karl — Sun, 27 May 2007 02:04:38 +0000

Luke was one month old on the 24th of May! So to celebrate here’s a few photos. Although I’ve been writing mainly about the ice cream parlour recently, Luke is never far away or anything less than the absolute focus of our attention (his strong lungs see to that!).

We’re already seeing a few changes in him; he’s getting heavier, longer and apparently starting to look more like me! (Karl). I can’t see it myself though. Anyway I hope everyone is doing well - thanks for all the emails, comments and messages. I’m sorry if I’ve not responded yet, but I kind of have my hands full.

Enjoy the photos.

Summer’s arrived

karl — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:05:58 +0000

It’s been a long weekend over here (Canadians get a day off to celebrate Queen Victoria - funny eh?). And it’s been a sunny one. Great if you’re the proud owner of a new and shiny ice cream parlour (and café!).

I’m beginning to realise how instrinsic our success is to the weather. When it’s hot, we’re packed. I’m mean rammed - it’s great, particularly as we’ve not yet really hit the summer months. We’ll see how it goes when it’s 10 degrees outside and raining though - that was one of the reasons for adding coffee, cakes, sandwiches, etc, - to counteract the seasonality of ice cream. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Our menu boards

karl — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:43:42 +0000

The response to the new look has been amazing… people love it, and despite a few horrendous weather days, sales of the new products are doing well.

At the suggestion of Francois (my old boss when I worked in London), I’ve uploaded the menu boards - so you can see our ice cream and coffee offering. Allison made the ice creams and I took the photography and did the layouts… all on no sleep!!

You’ll have to dust off your schoolboy /girl french to understand the menus… the photos should help.

The (almost) finished article

karl — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:38:11 +0000

See the fruits of our labour. Here’s the first shots of the finished ice cream parlour. (Ok, not 100% finished but you’d never tell).

So… why the silence?

karl — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:14:40 +0000

Yes, I know it’s been a little while since I posted anything on the site. There’s a good reason for this…

The ice cream parlour (& café) is now open!

It’s been an incredibly busy couple of weeks since Luke has been home, with always a million and one things to do. In actual fact there still are a million and one things to do, but the most important one, at least for our finances, is done; open the doors.

I’m happy to report that so far, so good. Sales have been brisk (as they say), people love the renovations and style of the place, and best of all; people are starting to order coffee. Long may it last. I will post some photos of the ice cream parlour soon.

It’s really quite amazing what you can achieve if you put your mind to it!

Luke’s arrived home!

karl — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:57:56 +0000

Wow!! After 5 days in the hospital, we’ve finally come home. Although we had got used to the hospital routine, it’s great to be back in our own home - if a little daunting! It’s suddenly hit us that life will never be the same again… and we love it! Luke is doing well, getting used to his new home, and teaching us lots about how he likes to be fed…

I’ve uploaded some more photos for you to see our beautiful little boy. It’s in the following album: Luke’s journey into the world

Once we develop the film from our proper camera, I’ll upload some more (better quality) photos.

As you can imagine, everything ice cream parlour has ground to a halt this past week, and as we knew from the beginning the timing is certainly not great, but I’m sure we’ll manage. Thankfully it’s not great weather here still.

It’s a boy!

karl — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:34:28 +0000

Our beautiful baby boy, Luke Karl Saynor, was born 8.55am on 24th April.

Luke arrived into the world weighing 8lb 2oz. He’s beautiful - absolutely perfect!

More information coming soon - am rushing back to the hospital now.

Contractor’s finished. Family help called in!

karl — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:04:37 +0000

Allison’s father and brother Peter are very kindly helping me paint the ice cream parlour. It’s making the job go by so much quicker it’s not even funny. I think I’ll owe them free ice cream and coffee for a while. See some photos of the paint so far.