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Danny B May 7th 2020 1:01 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
I bet he changed his knickers when he got home


scrubbedexpat091 May 7th 2020 2:12 pm

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Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12849912)
I bet he changed his knickers when he got home

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

Teaandtoday5 May 8th 2020 1:12 am

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Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 12849396)
I wonder if those electric badminton racquets for killing mosquitoes would bring them down? Those are quite affordable. ZOT!!!

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:


caretaker May 8th 2020 9:41 am

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Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5 (Post 12850049)
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:

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

MillieF May 9th 2020 3:40 am

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My back garden...right now :blink:


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


spouse of scouse May 9th 2020 3:43 am

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12850547)
My back garden...right now :blink:

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

MillieF May 9th 2020 4:19 am

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

spouse of scouse May 9th 2020 4:26 am

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12850556)
Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August :sneaky:

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.


Rete May 9th 2020 5:32 am

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12850556)
Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August :sneaky:


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

Rete May 9th 2020 5:35 am

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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12850561)
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.

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.

BristolUK May 9th 2020 6:42 am

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12850547)
My back garden...right now :blink:

That's weird. Since that snow warning appeared for northern NB, the forecasts for here and your gaff were much the same, that is about an inch to be washed away by rain. And so far it's been accurate for us. Rain since mid morning. Bit of lightning too.

Perhaps we'll see some after all.



Originally Posted by spouse of scouse (Post 12850549)
:blink:
Shivering just looking at that! Beautiful though. Don't you guys get a Spring?!

I was going to come up with something witty but I can't beat Millie's comment. :lol:


Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12850556)
Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August :sneaky:

There comes a time when you have to put the air conditioning on and it occurs to you that just three days ago you still needed some heating. Then y ou realise spring came and went. That's not me bing witty, that's the truth. :nod:

Autumn is great though.

caretaker May 9th 2020 6:46 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12850608)
That's weird.

One day years ago I was sitting with my neighbours outside their cottage at the beach, and in the space of about 3 hours that afternoon we experienced nearly every kind of weather, barring tornadoes. It was surreal.

scrubbedexpat091 May 9th 2020 6:48 am

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I like the snow but its mostly a novelty in Vancouver, we don't get much, a few days a year, some years we don't get any. When it does snow in Vancouver though it causes a mess, it doesn't snow often enough to justify spending large sums of money on snow removal equipment, so they do the bare minimum.

Nice in Vancouver this weekend, very spring like.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...76526b75f3.jpg

I would imagine those on the 4th floor have a pretty nice view.

scrubbedexpat134 May 9th 2020 8:07 am

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Phew. It aint arf hot mum. 1pm in Kamloops its 22 degrees bright blue sky, sunny, a few wispy clouds, and suposed to get up to25 by 5pm. wonderful.

BuckinghamshireBoy May 9th 2020 8:22 am

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Ahah, a closet 'straaalian.

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 12850610)
One day years ago I was sitting with my neighbours outside their cottage at the beach, and in the space of about 3 hours that afternoon we experienced nearly every kind of weather, barring tornadoes. It was surreal.

Four Seasons In One Day.

I was going to post a YouTube link, but the vid is so dreadful that I daren't. :p


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