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Old Jan 17th 2019 | 5:24 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
We don't live in a fancy enough building to have an onsite building manager. There is a management company the strata has to run things, but they are offsite and never come during these sorts of things, if not home to open the door, they issue a fine to the unit.
Unless they're exempt from the act Siouxie linked to, that sounds kind of illegal.
 
Old Jan 17th 2019 | 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Unless they're exempt from the act Siouxie linked to, that sounds kind of illegal.
I contacted the tenancy board and they permit a reasonable window of time for entry, it doesn't have to be a specific time according to the email the tenancy sent me.

 
Old Jan 17th 2019 | 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
I contacted the tenancy board and they permit a reasonable window of time for entry, it doesn't have to be a specific time according to the email the tenancy sent me.
All day doesn't seem so reasonable a window though
 
Old Jan 17th 2019 | 12:44 pm
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
All day doesn't seem so reasonable a window though
they have scheduled 3 different things through the same day so its 3 separate things, but from what I can tell we are not required to be home, so not rearranging our plans which have been made 3 months ago.


The strata is not our landlord so really not even sure we have to give them entry.

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Old Jan 19th 2019 | 11:21 am
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Vancouver reddit forum man there are a lot of mean people.

 
Old Jan 19th 2019 | 11:26 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Vancouver reddit forum man there are a lot of mean people.
Not Canadians surely?

 
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Not Canadians surely?
Could be Russian trolls lol

 
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Old Jan 20th 2019 | 9:35 am
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Cock up on the catering front today.

Got some chicken portions out of the freezer yesterday. Nicely thawed by today I put them on the oven pan and thought, hmmm, they're a bit bigger than usual.

Part way through roasting they just didn't look right. When done, I realised why. They were obviously the four leg/thigh portions we saved from two stewing hens my stepdaughter bought in Sept 2016. I tracked it down to a previous thread, the idea being to use them for a coq au vin, but I'd obviously forgotten.

Completely inedible as roast chicken so we just had the roast spuds, veg and gravy. Good job I wasn't cooking to impress.
 
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Cock up on the catering front today.

Got some chicken portions out of the freezer yesterday. Nicely thawed by today I put them on the oven pan and thought, hmmm, they're a bit bigger than usual.

Part way through roasting they just didn't look right. When done, I realised why. They were obviously the four leg/thigh portions we saved from two stewing hens my stepdaughter bought in Sept 2016. I tracked it down to a previous thread, the idea being to use them for a coq au vin, but I'd obviously forgotten.

Completely inedible as roast chicken so we just had the roast spuds, veg and gravy. Good job I wasn't cooking to impress.

Woops! Chuck them in a pan of water and make soup /stock from them, perhaps?
 
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Someone posted this on reddit today, a tree has been spotted with flowers blooming...

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...peoples_trust/

 
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Someone posted this on reddit today, a tree has been spotted with flowers blooming...

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...peoples_trust/

That 'cherry blossom' looks remarkably like a Magnolia
 
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Originally Posted by mikelincs
That 'cherry blossom' looks remarkably like a Magnolia
It is, well at least according to posts in the reddit, the poster of the thread made a mistake on type of tree it seems.
 
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
It is, well at least according to posts in the reddit, the poster of the thread made a mistake on type of tree it seems.
Do you think that tree is kept artificially warm due to an exhaust or a vent from a nearby building ? or heat coming off the nearby building somehow. I've seen trees in Ottawa near buildings like that retain their leaves a lot longer than other trees in the autumn.
 
Old Jan 21st 2019 | 1:31 am
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Woops! Chuck them in a pan of water and make soup /stock from them, perhaps?
Ahead of you. Soup was started within 5 minutes of finishing eating.
 


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