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Our bathroom is small, really small. For a short person like my wife with shorter arms, it's not an issue, but for a tall person, well elbows into the walls constantly in the shower due to how small it is, I am sure the neighbors appreciate the elbow bangs late at night or early mornings.....

If I laid down at the tub, I could not close the door as my legs would need to exit the bathroom to lay flat.

Some reason they build apartment bathrooms way too small. But tis the trend in Canada, compare a 1bedroom apartment built in the 60's to 80's to one now, and they are a lot smaller.

Not including the bath tub/shower, the bathroom is 4'8" x 5 feet.

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Small kitchens are a pain to, counter to counter our kitchen is 3'2" wide, dishwasher door barely opens, and if open you can't open the fridge, only way to open the drawer is to open the oven door, someone forgot to measure properly when putting the cabinets and counters in.

For as much as these condos/apartments sell for they sure build them cheaply and low quality.

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I can't help it Jsmth but you've set me off:rofl: I have a wonderful image of you in the bathroom which will stay forever...it's been a ho hum sort of day, and you've cheered me up immensely :thumbup:

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I assume you're talking about Escape to the Country in which case watching more episodes will greatly enlighten you as to current British bathroom practice. A Indian man with one of those very British Indian accents engagingly specified the need for two bathrooms as his wife "is not about to share one with me". One couple grinned lasciviously at a bath tub in the middle of the bedroom and, as you say, many complain that the bathroom is not larger than the lawn of the house in which I grew up, "we've lived in America, don't you know?"

My favourite episodes are the ones where, after much muddy trudging, the prospective purchasers come to their senses choose a flat in London or a villa in Portugal instead.

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Grand Designs is a better show on the property theme. I think it could be reworked as Emigration Stories to great effect. The participants start out with good ideas, high hopes and a little money. They engage professionals who blow their ideas up so they have fantastic expectations. They get rained on a lot before ending up broke, in debt to everyone they ever met, and wondering why they ever started down this path. Emigration however doesn't litter the Lake District with leaky monstrosities.

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Lemon Hart and egg nog.

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Thursday:unsure:
Got a phone call Thursday, late afternoon...buyers need extra time. The short space between offer (Sat) and closing (Thurs) meant the buyer couldn't clear a cheque that day.

Okay...so long as that was the truth and not some cover for the other parties fleeing to Bolivia or something.

Tense Friday. No news in the morning. Blood sugar went low. BUt if a 24 hour delay, it wouldn't be until afternoon anyway. Calm down.

Into afternoon. No news by 2.30. Blood sugar low again. Drank orange juice, usually enough but blood sugar no better 30 mins later.

Emailed lawyer. "Buyer's lawyer on the way...I'm told..."
"I'm told"? So far as I'm aware. The language of the duplicitous politician covering his back.

But it all goes through and lawyer delivers my cheque.

On my way to my bank to deposit it, I see him coming out of another bank. Depositing his cheque or putting a stop on mine? :o

I'm not, by nature, a worrier but these last two years...

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One wonders why they couldn't use bank drafts or certified cheques.

If your lawyer's cheque was a trust cheque (in Alberta it would have to have been) you are good as he wouldn't have issued it unless he had sufficient funds (it's a serious disciplinary breach to issue a trust cheque without sufficient funds).

Anyway, good to hear all ended well.

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Re: post #767

I know that feeling well.
Some years ago I had a boat and put up a 'for sale' sign as I was too cheap to pay commission to a broker.
A couple of young brothers wanted to buy...but only if I'd take cash and record the sale price well under the actual. They didn't want to attract attention to Revenue Canada. I understood they were in the restaurant business (cash income) and so complied.
At the agreed time for the transaction, which happened to be in the evening, they turned up at the boat with an envelope full of cash and I gave them the boat's documents but said the keys would be held by the dock-master and could be collected from him.

The banks were closed...I had an envelope full of cash...it was dark in Downtown Vancouver....and I was nervous. WHAT IF...they had a gang on the street ready to recover the cash...they had the boats docs...the bill of sale and agreed note to get the keys...and I'd have nought and maybe a broken head!

I called my wife and she suggested I stay on the boat as it was in a secured marina and bank the money next day when open...this I did but it was almost a sleepless night...the slightest sound had me twitching.

Fortunately, all went well, and later I became friends with the new owners as I used their money to buy a bigger boat and moored close by.

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You've got a dishwasher?!

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Other than the amount and payee, I didn't notice too much about the cheque, but the documents referred to "in trust" so it sounds like it.

Thanks.

It's a shame the first one didn't follow through nearly 3 months ago but you can't have everything.

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We've just completed on the sales of a business. 18 months of stress and BS from potential buyers. It was easier to own and run than the sales process itself.

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Congratulations:thumbsup:

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In this place yes. Newer buildings in BC tend to have them.

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Rice pudding with a blob of jam.

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I'd quite like my bathroom to be a bit bigger: anyone over 5'4" has to kneel in the (over tub) shower & crouch/crawl sideways out of it, & forget actually having a bath in the mini tub! Shower/bath is crammed into a space under the building's main staircase, with sharply sloping ceiling over it. No way to install a shower curtain either! Fortunately the "room" (if one can call it that) is tiled all over.

Not the smallest I've ever had to deal with, that was a Paris apartment where the only way to sit on the loo one had to put one's feet in the shower.

This apartment has a reasonable kitchen, thankfully. I've lived in places where the fridge had to live in a corridor or the living room; & in places where kitchen & bathroom were separate from the house in the backyard.

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When I lived in Vancouver the not so legal basement suite I shared did not even have a kitchen.

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The West Point Eggnog Riot of 1826:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_Riot

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So I go into the LB to grab a bottle of Drambuie and an extra Scotch and there's a little recipe card on the shelf telling me how to make a rusty nail, and it says I should be putting a twist of lime in it! I haven't had a rusty nail in maybe 6 or 7 years, but I've had my share overall and never with a twist in it. I had limes so I tried it; totally unnecessary. That little advertising card is for the benefit of the people who print and sell little advertising cards, and no one else.

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I broke a leg this morning.

I was following a suggestion from Caretaker about slow cooking a turkey leg but it was too long for the small pot I was using, so I broke it to fit.

:sneaky:

Leeks, onion, carrots, red wine, chicken stew mix.

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Barehanded?

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There wasn't enough to grip and I didn't have any spinach handy http://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/po...esailorman.gif so I chopped the small end enough to break it.

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Ooh I'm so disappointed in you. Visions of your rippling biceps have gone.

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You missed them by a few years. :lol:

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I didn't break a leg this morning, but it wasn't from lack of trying ;).

Freezing rain.

I got stuck on the ice 1/3 way down the steps. neighbour got stuck on the ice 1/3 way up, trying to come to my aid. It was all rather ungainly & undignified...

Putting the bins out tonight is going to be fun...? :sneaky:

(I like the sound of that turkey recipe, btw).

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That's a reason not to go out. There's not much I'd risk it for.
I complain about our garbage system but at least it's bags. I can throw them close enough to where they have to go.
I only did it to see what it was like. But I just took out the leg to take the meat off the bone and remove the knitting needles and the turkey tastes fantastic.

It's so good it's going to be part of supper.

Next time bigger leg, bigger pot.

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We have to get bags to bins (which I was originally trying to do this am when I discovered steps were impassable). Then move bins to street-side for garbage collection. This will be "amusing"...

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We have knobs at the halfway point and corners of the deck rail. Like the top part of Chess Pawns.

When it snows, the way the snow sits on top and "makes shoulders" around the neck always reminds me of Queen Victoria.

Today one of them makes me think of Louis XIV (except white hair/wig obviously). Or is it Brian May?

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I came hone and found a soggy envelope on the outside doormat. We had forgotten to pay the water bill and thus letter was a "pay up within 48 hours or we cut you off " notice. Good job it hadn't been windy.

I had polite words with the township office

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People moan about Kelowna being totally crap for jobs ... maybe not - sadly availabilty of these "amazing jobs" still isn't that easy

Need a job? Here are the best cities to work in B.C. in 2017 | Globalnews.ca


Squamish is even better JS- you could be our ping ponger!

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Squamish has jobs. Problem is they tend to be mostly low paying jobs. Sky high rents as well.

Income average is skewed a bit there due to the high income professionals who commute to Vancouver. If working in town, good chance it's not well paying.


Kelowna from my looking online seems to have jobs, but they don't seem well paying either and rents high and the jobs don't all se that well paid.

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And Chilliwack and Vernon I see are pants, down the bottom of the table

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Canada has crap Christmas sandwiches. :thumbdown:

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Rather chuffed for one of my offspring who has had a shaky start in the world of work (for various reasons): a series of "dead end", minimum wage jobs, the last of which they stuck at for want of something better & a need to pay the rent, has led to an offer of management training within the company, AND possible access to employer contributions to further education :)

(Holy run-on sentence Batman! ;) )

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No we don't, Canada has No Christmas sandwiches. Having never heard of such a thing I had to look it up, and it's some sort of British tradition. No doubt you managed to find some hip facsimile out there but that doesn't make it Canadian so no need to whine. With a little supervision you could probably make one. Now I want to make some sausage rolls and Scotch eggs to take to the bar. Good project for the weekend.

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What does xmas taste like? Is there an Easter sandwich, something with chocolate?

I'm fortunate enough not to have been in that position - although there was a time when the medical costs were rapidly depleting my hard earned money and something different was needed - but that's exactly the sort of thing I'd be aiming for.

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TFC v Montreal game last night was the best game ever in MLS period. Toronto now East Champions and MLS finalists, and deserving so !!

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I saw the highlight reel and it looked pretty good, I sometimes watch the weekend EPL matches, etc but have shied away from MLS. Maybe now I'll have to take a look.

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I watched it and it was a real back and forth game but lets be honest it isn't Champions League/Premier League/La Liga/Bundesligia level in terms of skill.

All in all a positive impact for the game in Canada. I read somewhere that Toronto FC outdrew the Argos in terms of attendance this year. CFL tends to have a very low takeup by new Canadians and is increasingly the domain of the dreaded 'cradles'. :eek::eek:

I must admit I was cheering for the Impact as I've been to see them about 4 times and I left Toronto before Toronto FC was formed.

The atmosphere seemed really good. Were those flares or fog from the lake that seemed to come on to the field.?

Until European or South American players go to MLS in their prime players like Giovinco (sp?) won't be capped by Italy once they head to MLS.

A lot of wayward, hail mary passes seemed to occur well before those type of passes tend to come into games in the dying minutes.

Hopefully Toronto won't get hit by a snowstorm on December 10 :thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Did they paint the lines on the penalty box properly this time?

There was a howling cock-up very recently at a Toronto-Montreal game in Montreal when the ref noticed, when the stadium was already full, that the box was, er, rather too small (a few feet on either side).

People were sitting there twiddling their thumbs while staff repainted the box.

The media extracted the urine in grand fashion (Quebeckers are just as sarcastic as Brits, in case you didn't know).