I was referred from the dental school to my GP over my sore throat, and in turn this morning was referred to the ENT/Otolaryngologist. I try to keep a glass half full sort of outlook. When a growth was detected in my jaw way back when, decades ago (I'm sure the fight caused it, so my fault in a way), the oral surgeon gave me a summary of what he would do, and asked if I had any questions. I asked what is the worst case scenario if it's a cancerous tumor? He said, well, if I'm unable to just remove it, I'll cut a section out of the middle of your jaw and replace it with a plastic piece. I said ok. He said, You seem pretty calm about this. I said, Have you seen the news? There are people getting blown apart all over the world right now... this is nothing.

Not sure that would help us at the moment. Our buyers are pretty much at the top of their budget and the current stamp duty holiday is a significant factor for them - that finishes on 31 March so that's acting as a hard stop for them. To be honest we want it done as soon as possible because the Scottish system is much quicker than the English system and we can't put in an offer in Scotland until we have exchanged in England.

Have you ever thrown away something you shouldn't have? This guy did!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/uk/bi...ntl/index.html

Vancouver's last wooden ladder company has made it's last ladder.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...wooden-ladders

This sucks for Pemberton, the only bank is set to close in July.


There is a credit union in town still, but credit unions can't always meet peoples needs.

Next town with a bank is Whistler, 30km away but its not exactly a fun 30km drive especially in winter.

Why would you need to actually visit a bank, I've been into my branch once since I moved here and that was to change address. everything else is done on-line.

There are places around Pemberton where internet/cell service can be spotty, in town its fine, but a fair few live up in the hills if the area where internet may not be easily accessible to some, one reason I can think of needing to go to a bank.

Also cashing checks, getting checks, a lot of landlords in BC want paper cheques still.

We do about 99% online but we still need to visit a branch a couple times per year.

'Canada' still likes cheques

As an aside, some organisations still insist on a fax.

I closed my bank account long ago and switched to my local credit union. I can't think of anything the bank did that the credit union doesn't. I haven't been inside it since last March, but haven't had a need to. I get cash from the drive-through, make e-transfers, and transfer money by phoning them when necessary. Their app lets me deposit cheques when I get them. Not all credit unions are created equal, and I found Valley First less helpful than Conexus here in Saskatchewan, but they had the convenient location.

Fortunately I've been able to do that with a tablet when the province insists on sending me a cheque.

My bank is in my home town, which I left 33 years ago. I have not needed to go into the branch in all that time.

Despite not living there ever, my bank is classed as the branch where I was working when I opened it. However I do register my moves whenever, but they don't change the record. My cheque book that I have left,(not used a cheque for many years, still has the original branch as my bank address.

Technology wise the banks can be ahead of credit unions, Van City for example they were behind the banks in adapting mobile check deposit which they do have now, but the app is finicky, often doesn't like a cheque and refuses to accept it....

Biggest downside to credit unions is they are localized so that can be tricky sometimes such as when you receive a foreign check and have no local branches to deposit at lol

The Quebec family that I married into, when feeling rain or snow just starting have all said "I received some rain/snow" and I always thought this was because they had just translated from a dictionary or something and used a word that is okay but not necessarily the best.

My mother in law, for example, will search (rather than look) for a pen. There are better examples but that's the best I can come up with right now. And I'm not being critical because their (partly) self taught English is very good, whereas my French is...

But a headline on the CBC website says New Brunswick to receive significant snow, rain over weekend.

I'm pretty sure I've not seen that use before. "In for snow" or expected are more usual phrases. Or the one that always strikes me as strange "...calls for snow" as if whichever forecaster is involved is almost campaigning or encouraging snow.

So perhaps it's a North American thing