Welcome to Flicker's Lair

Welcome to our website, I am Heidi and I am a web developer, my husband is Steve and he does technical support for me and for Cognos! We live Ontario, Canada, having emigrated from England.

We love animals; especially cats, dogs aren’t bad either! We have an 8 acre homestead or hobby farm, with all sorts of livestock and a large vegetable garden. I love books (well reading generally), photography, walking in the country side, bird watching, scrapbooking, genealogy, the list goes on. Steve keeps a saltwater reef aquarium and is an avid golfer! This site is about all these things and anything else that happens to catch my attention or entertains me.

I – we – hope you enjoy.

Latest from Our Blog

• House warming gift! ~ I really dislike winding yarn, but it is often a necessary task. Possibly because I don’t enjoy it, I am not very good at it, and often end up with ‘yarn barf’ instead of a nice neat easy-pull ball. I had managed to convince Steve to help a couple of times, but when we saw [...] Posted on Thursday, 02 September 2010, 19:20 by Heidi
• So, ay? ~ A few days ago I saw an advert for Soay sheep on UsedOttawa and my interest was piqued. So I started reading a little about them. Soay (pronounced “so – ay”) is the name of several Scottish islands. It is Sòdhaigh (sometimes anglicised “Soaigh”) in Scottish Gaelic, and comes from the Old Norse so-ey meaning [...] Posted on Wednesday, 01 September 2010, 19:16 by Heidi
• To really appreciate the good times … ~ There was a very different post intended for today, but things don’t always go the way we plan, and sometimes the world feels the need to make sure you can truly appreciate the good times. By breaking your heart. On Saturday my little sister’s best friend died of cancer. She was in her twenties and [...] Posted on Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 19:58 by Heidi

Latest Site Updates

• Monday 5^th Apr - Updated the foster dogs page
• Monday 5^th Apr - Updated the population statistics page
• Monday 1^st Feb 2010 - Updated the foster cats page
• Friday 4^th Dec - Update the Red Dingo Leashes & Pet ID Tags page
• Monday 23^rd Nov - Updated the Shetland sheep page
• Friday 6^th Nov - More books added to the library section
• Wednesday 4^th Nov - Updated the photography page

Random Pages

These are pages that don't fit into one of the existing sections of the site, but don't warrant a new section.

We have a Calendar, alongside interesting events it also details the phases of the moon. I am currently working on adding all English and Canadian events, please feel free to help me out by suggesting events or information that you think the calendar should contain.

Here is my do some good page; it is a collection (small at the moment) of sites that let you do some good for no, or very little, expenditure of your time or money. If you have any suggestions of other sites you think should / could be included, please let me know.

Do you love our site, or hate it? We really hope you don't hate it! Do you think it needs something else, different, other? We really want to know what you think, so why not get in touch or post on our guestbook and let us know!