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I've always said that it can help with other things. It can allow you to work part time or to add to a pension.

Or even to do that work you like rather than the better paid work that you don't actually like.

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That's the cheese shop, by the way.

Wensleydale?
Yes?
Ah, well, I'll have some of that.
Oh, I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mr Wensleydale, that's my name.

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I know us out west joke about the warm weather here, but for what it's worth I really do feel for all you guys who are really going through it. L

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Cheers.

Buses are back on the road. Remarkable for what the place looked like Sunday night. A ton of snow was taken away prior to this weekend but despite that, the streets have never been so narrow.

Yesterday we had a tractor/loader thing on our drive pushing and then lifting snow onto an already piled high snowbank. Then today our usual Mr Plow turned up and completed the job.

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I found the car!

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That is a boat load of snow.... I can pretty much guarantee if we saw that, it would shut down the place for days....

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Impressive!

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That pic should be stickied in the Wiki somewhere :(

This came to me this morning with an "offensive language" warning. Personally, I found the gentleman remarkably calm/pragmatic ...

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Not far from here.

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Thought as much.

We've - so far - got off very lightly as far as snowfall goes this winter. We're expecting to get seriously dumped on at Easter.

It's been extra-effing-freezing instead.

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Just been playing it to the rest of the family and watching their reactions.

We all feel a little better now seeing what might have been. :nod:

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The kids must be loving it!

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Wow! It's not just Eastern propaganda then. You really do have snow!

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I am *somewhat miffed* to learn that it's 20 degrees warmer in Calgary tonight than here.

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Not really. They're 22 and 24 now. :eek:

As for other kids, the local paper and radio had features about people having to stay home with the kids and keeping them occupied.

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So we've had a bit of a break. The city has taken a lot out of town to the snow dump. The streets are still narrow with high snowbanks making it dangerous at junctions. But it's mainly only been flurries for a week.

I wasn't bothered by the projected 2cm for today. I wasn't bothered when it was upped again later in the day. I wasn't too bothered when last night it was amended to a snow alert because at least it's not a warning.

But then it changed to 10-15cm. Then 15-20cm.

Well, that's still under 8" and I'd have taken that if offered a week ago.

But there's no sign of it stopping yet and there was more than 8 inches on the top step (no drifting at all) over an hour ago. :(

Ah...I just checked and now it's saying up to 25cm :frown:

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I love that silly weather report A Expat...it still makes me laugh, even though I now believe it's deadly serious.

My worst habit in this weather is getting stuck in my own snow bank...I've done it three times this week (admittedly in blowing snow) but my husband is not at all amused:unsure:

I and a couple of colleagues got trapped at work on Wednesday. The car park is behind the building, down a long incline, the snow fell so fast that none of us could get our cars up the hill to get out. We had to walk to the main road and get cabs....irritating...but the sun is shining now, it hasn't snowed for two whole days...life is looking good:thumbup:

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You poor thing. Sunny and warm-ish here. I do feel for you....

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Stockholm Syndrome :lol:

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Just read a book about that. It started off badly but by the end I really liked it.

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I am leaving BC and Seattle's nice weather for rainy weather in Vegas today and temps there not much warmer then BC..... Should have had the wedding in BC...:rofl:

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Bon voyage & félicitations!!

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Say hello to the CSI team. You're bound to see at least one of them.

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When is the wedding?

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It's been a good March so far. There's been a fair bit of melting although the snowbank in front of the house is still higher than it's ever been in 10 winters.

And we're due another blizzard on Sunday of up to 35 cm :( followed by another 15 cm Tuesday.

Two days ago there was nothing worse than 5 cm on a couple of days in the coming week and yesterday it was 15-20 cm forecast for Sunday.

Amazing how the forecast changes so much one day to the next.

Hopefully by the time Sunday arrives it will change back again.

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Right now we're also forecast to get your Sunday blizzard on Monday. No amounts yet but ominous mutterings about "slow moving storm", "multiday event" and "significant snowfall". It's all about the track though - it it goes further offshore then we get less snow. If it just grazes Eastern Newfoundland we get lots and if it tracks up through Newfoundland to the West of us we get less snow and more rain. That's what's happened for most of the winter thus far.

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so tired of it all :(

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Don't give up, this is the best time of the year!

• Days are getting longer and sunnier.
• No bugs.
• Grass doesn't need cutting.
• The birds, plants/flowers, trees and animals are just about to go crazy breeding and explode into action.
• Colour is about to reappear on the landscape.
• Right now, next winter couldn't be any further away.
• Because of the recently suffered symptoms of winter, you'll appreciate spring, summer and fall way more than if you lived in a tropical climate.
• In just a few weeks, it'll be hot and dry or hot and humid. This will last all the way into October.
• This time of year draws an end to the five month long season of complaining by east-coasters. (Unlike the west-coasters, as their period of dissatisfaction usually lasts around nine months).

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Southern Ontario. Definitely signs of improvement in the last week. The "great melt" has seen off roughly a foot of snow and grass and bushes are re- emerging. Forecast is pretty good. I sat outside to read on my front porch a couple of times and some twittering of the birdies heard. I feel for you Maritimers but surely this will be winters last gasp (hopefully not "last blast"). The sun is getting more powerful by the day so winter will be defeated!

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Depends where you are....Grass around here needs to be cut.

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My grass desperately needs cutting.

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This is the first winter where the grass cutting people have had to cut through the winter, usually they can go Nov to March without needing to cut it in the complex, but they have been coming about twice a month this winter.

It's 70F outside right now, I am hoping summer won't be a scorcher but I think it might be this year.

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My patio needs scrubbing.

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Here in South Ontario I am so glad the thaw has started as my water pipes have been frozen outside for the past couple of weeks and I am fortunately hooked up to my neighbour's hose pipe tap to get water into my house. The pipe in my driveway was completely renewed last year as there had been a leak in it when I bought my house so I thought all was going to be fine but although pipe is 5ft down there has been frost going down 7ft this year people say. I just hope it thaws out without any bursts as the thought of having the driveway dug up again does not bear thinking about.

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I just did mine but now, at 28C, it's too hot to work outside. ;)

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We had a 1 day heat wave today, 20 ish probably.

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You want to do mine for $20.00 hr?

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I'm sure you can find a couple of scrubbers.

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All too effortlessly probably:thumbup:.....but he's not 'that' type of a man! Are you Ounk?

I went to Moncton last week Bristol - gosh your snow banks are even more impressive than ours! This weather does change all sorts of things on a long term basis, that one might not have initially thought might be problematic....over a long term it is thought provoking.