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That is brilliant!!

How misguided motorcyclists are..... lol

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Probably also applies to those who drive trucks and cars with modified mufflers you know the ones who pass you on the road or take off at a red light.

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Happy Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you).

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Anyone remember Dom Jolly and his huge Nokia phone? I loved Trigger Happy TV, one of my favourite shows in the early 2000's.

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It was awful ! It expresses exactly to the letter what my 19 year old son thinks of these things...and precisely why I don’t want his backside on one...and I am losing, the moment the weather stops being odious here he will be off...lucky for me, he’s a wuss and doesn’t like bad weather!

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Home sales in Metro Vancouver down 40% in April, a 40 year low. Of course prices haven't moved much.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...-low-1.5554804

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I think the house next to us is about to be demolished. It's been empty for 6 years or more with windows and doors bolted up and notices posted on the door. The only sign of life has been the occasional parking of a car around the back.

A fire truck and its crew have checked the place regularly.

Today a large tank tread backhoe was delivered and has been parked around the back.

Maybe front row seats on the deck tomorrow.

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Yeah, it probably isn't a coincidence. Have you checked the real estate listings to see if it's for sale?

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Periodically, yes.
I've also been expecting to see it up for auction on one of those tax sale things.

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Well, I suppose anything is better than a boarded up firetrap. If they aren't going to build on it this year great spot for a neighbourhood garden. You never know when a city lot full of vegetables might come in handy.

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Demolition started 8.10 am! All knocked down in 70 minutes.

3 hours later, still clearing up the debris.

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I thought Banksy would show up somewhere:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52556544

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I'm a fan of communal neighbourhood gardens . We have them here.

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:wub:

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As if there isn’t enough to worry about now I am going to have nightmares about murder wasps :eek:

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I wonder if those electric badminton racquets for killing mosquitoes would bring them down? Those are quite affordable. ZOT!!!

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I saw this all over twitter, it's totally brilliant and so typical of him to do something like that.

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Couldn’t agree more...a very Banksy sort of move

Yes Bristol when they knock something down here they tend to put their all into it and do it quick...I hadn’t walked down a road about ten minutes away for a while, nice enough road but two very sketchy looking multi occupation dwellings at the end of it, I went there a week or so back, the two buildings had gone and a very nice looking apartment block is sitting in it’s place.

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24 hours later and still on the clear up. I can see the digger bucket disappearing into what was the basement.

Life in Canada - fixer-uppers; demolishing houses, moving (literally) houses; having trees taken down; wasp nest removal/deterrent, deck repair, 'shifting' door frames from ground frost :lol:

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I don’t bloody believe it we have a Special Weather Statement for 15 cm + of snow on Saturday ! :ohmy: It’s MAY for heavens sake

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That's a fair bit; we're forecast to have 60% chance of flurries Saturday and Sunday, but daytime temps of 6c should take care of it when it hits the ground.

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What?! are you taking the piss? I'd prefer those murder hornets over 15cm of snow right now.

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But it's bloody May Caretaker! I am wearing a fantastic party dress and I look utterly fantastic- believe me! I am now doing a very dramatic flounce!

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Don't I wish...me and Bristol did something bad in a former life I fear!

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Snow flurries forecast here tomorrow and Saturday...great.

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Nah, we're innocent. Pretty sure we're escaping it.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...603c1828bb.png
I always find the locality forecasts to be far more accurate than those other warnings.
We're both in for a bit of rain and a cm or 2 of snow that will melt on contact...just as that blizzard did a few days ago. :lol:

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Some of the nicest aquariums come from Chinese manufacturers, some of the crappiest some from US manufacturers made in the USA.

Being made in China doesn't make something junk, something being made in US/UK/Canada/Italy etc doesn't make it good.

Innovative Marine aquariums for example are made in China, they are top quality aquarium, very clear glass, well made and rimless giving it nice visual appeal and about as perfect silicone seams as you can find and glass of appropriate thickness but the quality comes with a price.

Tetra brand aquariums made in the US, are made from cheap glass, cheap plastic rim, poorly done silicone seams, and frankly glass that is too thin, the very bare minimum really, but they are cheap price wise, but they are cheap for a reason.

Just an example, and I am sure there are many other sectors and products where the products made in China are on par of better quality vs similiar product made in western countries.

My favorite is the label, parts made in China in small print, then in bigger print and a US flag says assembled in USA, sneaky marketing.


In general many quality aquarium products come from China, they must really like aquariums there based on how many brands are simply re-branded to an English name and resold in North America with no changes to the product itself.

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Polar vortex decided to make a spring visit to Ontario and region.

Apparently there are no weather systems in the northern US region big enough to push back the arctic air, so its coming down for a visit.

Out west we are doing nicely, low 20's during the day and some sun, I think we get a few days of this before rain returns.

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Global warming I'm afraid. It's the destabilisation of the polar vortex. It'll be a while before it all gets mixed up and a new warmer northern climate stabilises.

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I bet he changed his knickers when he got home

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Talk about close. I wasn't expecting that ending, thought for sure it it was going to hit the other car.

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Looking for these I found you can get a two-pack, I wonder if a mosquito rally is possible? They also had a bug killing nerf gun type thing which fires salt. Sounds messy but I am tempted. :sneaky:

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Salt is for slugs, so depends on where you are. [I can hear dear Aunt Madeline "You're just a big kid!"]

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My back garden...right now :blink:


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...60f95c5c3.jpeg
My back garden May 9th 2020

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:blink:
Shivering just looking at that! Beautiful though. Don't you guys get a Spring?!

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Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August :sneaky:

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Something to look forward to anyway :lol: It does look beautiful though. Snow has such a fascination for me, I've only seen snow that stuck once, over one Christmas in NW England. My husband made a video of me running around like an idiot and making snowballs, the family back in Perth were having a 40+C heatwave and were very jealous.

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Between the hours of ? a.m. and ? p.m.

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I'm a New Yorker and Hubby's a Canadian so we are both familiar with snow. I never minded snow because I wasn't a home owner but an apt. renter so I didn't have to shovel anything but a path around my car. I took mass transit to the office and that ran 99.6% of the time. Found the 'burbs in Ottawa had a great public thoroughfare method of street plowing. I was stuck there in the Ice Storm of '98.