Living

IT was 6: 30 a.m. when I slipped on my shorts and jersey, and grabbed my pack as the garage door eased open. The golden light of the morning sun was revealed and I hopped onto my bike and headed off into the quiet streets of Lynn Valley.

- The Secret Life of Your Cat, by Vicky Halls. Published by Firefly Books, $19.95. THEY have been worshiped by ancient cultures and many of them still act like they are on a pedestal. Cats are welcomed into millions of homes around the world.

SPENDING two weeks in India soaking up the culture, tasting delicious authentic dishes and taking in the country's beautiful landscape sounds like an amazing holiday, unless of course you spent those two weeks within a three-wheel motorized rickshaw

NOTICES Seniors Acting Up: A cabaret group that performs for seniors twice a month, rehearses Thursdays, 10 a.m.-noon at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver.

THE University of British Columbia has been awarded a research grant to study the North Vancouver Recreation Commission's Health and Wellness Project for Newcomers initiative.

You won't find a happier guy in Vancouver these days than David Hawksworth.

Material bloom at circle craft gallery

LAST MONTH'S TRIP TO BIG SKY GOLF CLUB IN PEMBERTON GAVE CAUSE TO SCHEDULE A RETURN VISIT WHEN THE WEATHER GOT BETTER.

Call for North Vancouver Community Gardeners: UNIBUG - the User Network for Insect Biology in Urban Garden, which fights insects the natural way with other insects - is looking for volunteers to dedicate a small area of their plots in community garde

RASPBERRIES ARE IN MY TOP THREE AS FAR AS FRUIT GOES.