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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 16th 2017, 11:31 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

No, but people visiting here from England want the touristy ........ Niagara Falls, Whistler, the Rockies. The people living here are almost incidental or a means of getting free accommodation.
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Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 11th 2017, 3:34 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

We have been tourists in areas one or both of us had never been to before, and also to areas that one or both of us loved in our earlier lives

For example, in 1995 we drove along Hadrian's Wall...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 10th 2017, 8:02 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

We will have been in Canada for 49 years in August, and this has felt my home since soon after that.

We became citizens in early 1974, never renewed the Brit passport ............. in my mind,...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 5th 2017, 11:36 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

I'm not at all convinced that is true!

We live within a 10 minute drive of a major international airport .......... hasn't made much difference in the UK ones who visit and those who don't!!
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Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 5th 2017, 11:23 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

We have one friend who has been to visit once, travelling with a friend who went on to see family in Victoria and then came back here to meet her for the return trip.

She was one of my best...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 6:29 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

Because they would have gone to jail otherwise, and that school was the nearest to your house OR the better / best of 2 or more choices. :lol:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 2:57 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

Don't worry ................ our best friend was 49 before he decided to ask his long-time friend (never really girl friend) to marry him. She was a year older than him

Their mothers (both fathers...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 2:36 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

It's also to allow extra room to get the kids (especially ones in car seats) out of the car and into stroller or pram without banging up the car next to them. :nod:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 12:43 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

We had been married 7 years before we had our daughter, out of choice.

I was always glad that no-one ever asked us if or why .... most unusual in that late 60s /early 70s time.

I think it might...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 12:36 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

Keep the contact with them, and make an offer for them to come visit you when they can travel on their own. There is an age before which they cannot travel alone .......... and there is also an age...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 2nd 2017, 12:25 am
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

I had a best friend like that

We met at age 11 on our first day at grammar school, became really friendly in the summer we turned 18. From that point on, her mother considered me another...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 1st 2017, 11:02 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

Paul .............

re family.

My brother was over 10 years older than I was. He left school at the age of 14, trained as a draughtsman which meant going to night school to get the various...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 1st 2017, 9:21 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

we had our first true holiday in the UK in June/July 1995 ........... and by that, I mean 3 weeks in which we did what we wanted to do, and saw who we wanted to see.

Mother-in-law had died in late...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 1st 2017, 8:14 pm
Replies: 196
Views: 15,366
Posted By scilly

Re: When did your relationship with UK friends and family start to fade

Very quickly!

We left the UK for the US in 1967 10 days after our wedding, and arrived in Canada in 1968.

My dad visited us once in 1969, but died very suddenly in 1971. Our first visit back...
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