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Bev ........

.......... I don't like very spicy food either, but the nice thing about tacos is that you can add your own fixings.

I have very fond memories of the excellent (in my mind!) tacos from a stall in El Mercado in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio is my favourite place in the US, and luckily we have a friend who lives there so we've been able to visit about 3 times between about 1993 and 2004.


Strangely enough there was a very good Mexican restaurant in 100 Mile House, BC. I loved their tortillas, the meat and veggie fillings came sizzling hot on a metal dish and the tortillas were good.

The restaurant is still there, so I'm hoping they still offer the Mexican menu!

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Flour tortillas are soft and generally used to wrap food in and create say a burrito.

Corn tortillas are not as soft, and when deep fried get relatively crunchy and are good for tacos for example.

As long as you put nothing spicy in them tacos and burritos are not going to be spicy, rolled tacos the same.

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Our cell phone went down today, seems Rogers and others had some network issues.

It's times when the cell goes down I am glad we pay the $10/month for the landline.

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I dunno what a burrito is really either. I think I prefer the idea of wraps rather than crunchy.

What wuld you put in them then J and Scilly

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A burrito is other food wrapped in a soft tortilla, both ends wrapped so its like a food blanket of sorts.

Can put almost anything in it, sometimes just beans and cheese, sometimes chicken/beef, rice, cheese, sour cream.

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I heard last year that Emergency Services prefer landlines ............. if you call in and cannot complete the call to give your location, they can pinpoint where you are with a landline and send emergency vehicles to you.

They apparently have much more difficulty pinpointing where a call has come from if you use a cell phone.

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Yup. Also better for natural disaster events. Very sensible.

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:wub:

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Quite similar technique to making chapatis (roti) - :D

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What with our AC cutting out Friday and continuously ever since and the 2 hour power outage yesterday afternoon I reckon

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...da9c621d64.jpg

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My kid is stressing me out, she gets so stroppy when I try to talk to her about what she's upto, when I ask why she is moving so far away from where she is going to school and all that stuff, she seemes to go off on half baked ideas with no real research, then as I don't want to stress her I look into things (it's what I do when I'm bored in front of the tv) and find info that may or may not be right - seeing as I don't really know Ontario very well. I asked her what sort of cost with the bus be (going to school), I got a I dunno I haven't looked, well I looked last night for a rough estimate, $17+ each way with student discount, I hope I've got it wrong. I've sent her a message (she works nights at the moment) please look up costs of busses before you move.

Right now they have one car (his), they are moving from Burlington to Guelph (or that was the last info I had) He works in Guelph. She works two jobs in Burlington and will be going to school at I believe Sheridan ( i just picked that info up in light conversation) and it planning on bussing, she has already said she will have to find new jobs. I can't see where any of this is making sense. I'm trying not to interfere as they are adults but it's just doing my head in.

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She'll need a little car then, and she'll have to add to expenses the cost of parking.

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I think all we parents can do is to hope/trust/presume that what we've taught our children up until they leave home, stays with them after they've left home. What if he/she emigrates, as you (PP) did? We're in that situation ourselves, and we just have to be thankful that we're on wonderfully friendly terms with our son and his children. That's the truly important thing, which not every family is lucky enough to experience.

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that was an idea, she was going to use some of her sadly tiny resp to buy a runaround, but has decided it would be better to pay off her credit card as she decided she couldn't really afford a car. But a car would be cheaper than a bus.

oh I know, we have a phone call scheduled for 7pm, wish me luck, I'd like some sleep tonight lol.

she already has 'emigrated in away as she moved province, hence why I am unsure of wether I have googled the correct information. I have a fab relationship with my kid, she just gets prickly and then she comes through and sort things out and then can talk without me irritating her. She just needs to process things. I sent her a message today asking her to check bus routes and prices, she has asked for a chat so that good!

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Wonder if Uber will rush to come to Vancouver? Lyft doesn't currently operate anywhere that requires drivers to have a commercial drivers license so I don't expect they will show up since BC will require a class 4 commercial license.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...arting-sept-16

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I just know the exact words to flip her out, even without trying🤣 I can't wait to see her in August, I miss the death glares after saying good morning lol

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My daughter is 45, been married 20 years, and I can still flip her lid by asking the "wrong" thing .:rofl:

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Fight breaks out at Disneyland, probably NSFW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBW...ature=youtu.be

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it must be a Mum thing 😂🤣😂🤣

Tonight's conversation went a lot smoother than expected as she thought the bus fare would be more, I had entered the destination slightly wrong so it cones in just under $10 each way, she will have the car on the Days her boyfriend doesn't need it for work, he is on shift work, I should give her far more credit sometimes, still not sure why they have decided to move to Guelph though and not somewhere closer to the school, must be down to housing costs.

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According to Anaheim Police everyone in the fight is from the same family and were uncooperative with police. Police continue their investigation, no charges have been filed at this time.

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It sure is!!

I'm glad tonight's talk went better than you're were thinking.

Mine's told me more than once

"Mum, I am married, and I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING"

I can easily imagine the expression that goes with that sentence :rofl:

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My parents pretty much operate on a if the kids want to talk they will contact us, my dad will send a Christmas and Birthday email but otherwise unless I call, I don't hear anything, my mom will write every couple of months if she hasn't heard anything from me, but never have long or in depth calls.

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The thing is, they will make their own decisions - and, really, that's the way it should be. My Mum and I were close all her life, but spiritually (if that's the word), not physically. We exchanged two or three letters (aerogrammes, mostly) every week, back when international phone calls were unspeakably expensive. She survived at her end, and I at mine. Mum's worst moments were when I backpacked for three months through the Middle East (this was in the mid-'60s) with a girl companion whom I met "on the road". She and I later married in Canada, and were introduced to our respective mothers-in-law in Australia almost four years after that.

I have always felt a strong admiration for all those English mothers who in the 1800s watched some of their children emigrate to Australia and other colonies (voluntarily, I mean!) in the almost certain knowledge that they would never see them again. Imagine what a terrible "Mum thing" that must have been, Piff. Yikes. We have it a lot easier than they did!

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My daughter tries to phone once a week, usually on a Sunday as that fits both our schedules best, but will call on a week day if she's missed it. Then we have irregular email contact, and I look on her private FB page.

She discusses all kinds of things with me ................ in fact, despite what the OH says, I listen far more than I talk during a call that can last over an hour. She even passes work worries by me, not that I know anything about her work, but she sometimes says I spot some common sense possibility that solves a problem, and that just talking to someone else other than her OH and partners about it helps.

We always have talked a lot ........ and her "flipped lid" doesn't last very long


Gordon ........ those mothers in the 1800s probably responded very much as my father and OH's parents did. "We wish that we could have done it when we were young. You'll have a better life than here."

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Where's Donald Duck when you need him?

I did get the impression there were a lot who knew each other, but I thought it was two groups.

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If she gets a Presto card it will be cheaper for her - after x number of trips the price reduces / can be free. https://www.prestocard.ca/en/

As to housing costs in Guelph - it's a Uni town, so prices aren't generally that cheap.. however, there's lots of pubs, restaurants and 'stuff' to do there :D

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Those poor kids.

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Are you familiar with Mexis - Mexicali Rosa's Authentic Mexican Cuisine

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For sure. If they act like this in public, who knows what home is like.

I am not, never heard of them but they don't appear to have many locations and none out west.

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I know...I just thought it an extra reason to change sides ;)

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The rest of the family asked me what was for supper tonight.

I answered them in morse code

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Ooo aah ooo. . :eek:

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I really don't like this new thing that some websites do now where you need a password and a text code, sometimes I need access to a website but don't have access to the cell phone, so annoying.

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I don't have a cell phone. I take the audio option via the landline.

So far it's only a couple of banks doing it and I'm not accessing the accounts outside the home.

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I tried to use the landline (this is with Capital One) but they wont let me use our landline, something about being unable to verify it, maybe because the landline is in my wife's name.

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So 'nothing' then. I leave it blank when they ask for cell/mobile number.

So far, it's only been a random, once in a blue moon thing.

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Capital One has been requiring a phone confirmation for the last couple of months, they just wont accept the landline only the cell phone. There is no way to sign in without text verification, enter password, then says enter code being texted.