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Forum: Canniversary
Nov 2nd 2025, 8:03 am
Replies: 9
Views: 3,147
Posted By withabix

Re: 57 years on 4 April

We share our Birthday, although you’re two years ahead of me!
Forum: Canniversary
Nov 2nd 2025, 8:01 am
Replies: 0
Views: 460
Posted By withabix

12 Years last week!

Missed it due to a dose of the flu or the vid…

Time flies when you’re having fun!

Still not missing Britain too much…May move back when we retire though, as I’m so to be a grandad in...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 2nd 2025, 6:57 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,765
Posted By withabix

Re: Groceries

Did you get Covid?

I’ve not been able to taste or smell garlic much since December 2020.

I grow my own red russian garlic - about 60 bulbs per year. My wife says it is very strong and that I...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 20th 2025, 2:34 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,765
Posted By withabix

Re: Groceries

Safeway is very expensive, so not a good comparator.

Are you sure all meat is more expensive in Canada? Chicken, pork and lamb have always been a lot more expensive, but beef seems to be the same...
Forum: Canada
Dec 18th 2024, 3:47 am
Replies: 6
Views: 5,286
Posted By withabix

Re: UK Pension

Your UK pension will be paid without tax being deducted by HMRC if the UK knows you have moved to Canada, because there is a Tax Treaty in place to prevent you being taxed twice, so it will be...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Dec 18th 2024, 3:17 am
Replies: 6
Views: 2,380
Posted By withabix

Re: Inadmissible

When was the offence? Generally, offences which only stay on your driving licence in the UK for 4 years don’t appear on your criminal record.

IF there is No Trace (rather than No Live Trace),...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Dec 18th 2024, 3:10 am
Replies: 1
Views: 1,262
Posted By withabix

Flagpoling to be banned under new Border Security measures

Looks like Canada really is bowing down to the USA. Just heard on the news that Flagpoling will be banned as part of the border security measures being brought in due to the orange bully.
Forum: Canniversary
Oct 26th 2024, 7:04 am
Replies: 1
Views: 1,557
Posted By withabix

11 Years today!

Time has flown- that’s 1/5th of my life 😳

Still drinking PG Tips, watching mostly British telly, and taking the Land Rover ( which came with us) to fun places

...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 18th 2024, 1:13 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,765
Posted By withabix

Re: Groceries

Steelhead? That’s migratory rainbow trout. Superstore (and the supplier) is stretching it a bit there.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 9th 2024, 11:06 am
Replies: 1
Views: 1,199
Posted By withabix

Sarah Millican Tour - 2025 Canada dates

Completely forgot to post last week..Sarah Millican is on in Vancouver at the Orpheum on 27th April, as well as Kelowna and Victoria on other dates and other cities across Canada.

Initial dates...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 30th 2024, 10:59 am
Replies: 9
Views: 2,127
Posted By withabix

Re: Cell phone options when visiting UK

I got a 3 Sim on Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0B5PJJSXM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Unlimited talk and text and I was there for 3 weeks so went for the 30GB one...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 3rd 2024, 9:32 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,765
Posted By withabix

Re: Groceries

Superstore is Superstore isn't it? Real Canadian, Atlantic, Dominion?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 3rd 2024, 4:25 am
Replies: 43
Views: 15,242
Posted By withabix

Re: Why are the potatoes so rubbish?

See also: tea bags, bacon, etc
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 3rd 2024, 4:22 am
Replies: 2,699
Views: 327,765
Posted By withabix

Re: Groceries

Hell no.

Those things at Superstore are awful. Every sausage roll I've tried in Canada appears to have been made by someone who has never eaten a sausage roll.....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 29th 2024, 10:49 am
Replies: 11
Views: 2,081
Posted By withabix

Re: UK Inheritance

The Estate pays Inheritance Tax in the UK, not the Beneficiaries. So when you get the money, it has already been taxed (if any tax was due).

There is NO Inheritance Tax in Canada.

When I went...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 29th 2024, 10:43 am
Replies: 43
Views: 15,242
Posted By withabix

Re: Why are the potatoes so rubbish?

Another high-brow poll by The Scum in that article:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/britishexpats.com-vbulletin/669x365/screenshot_2024_03_29_154237_c84c542c1720972ef2af39c285fe13780dc4319f.png
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 29th 2024, 10:39 am
Replies: 49
Views: 8,205
Posted By withabix

Re: The next election

I think Trump sounds more like a bad stand-up comedian. In a pub/working mens club. That sort.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 26th 2023, 8:58 am
Replies: 6,426
Views: 457,994
Posted By withabix

Re: Coronavirus

I had No. 5 on Sunday, with a side of flu shot. No side effects other than 2 sore arms and a bit of general ache this time. Noted from my BC records that I've had all Moderna except for my first one...
Forum: Canniversary
Oct 26th 2023, 3:34 am
Replies: 1
Views: 2,159
Posted By withabix

10 Years today!

26th October 2013 we landed at Vancouver as Temporary Foreign Workers.
September 2015 we became Permanent Residents by flag poling at Peace Arch
2019 we got Citizenship

There were actually two...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 8th 2023, 10:36 am
Replies: 3
Views: 536
Posted By withabix

Re: Bayonet lightbulbs for Lamps brought over from the UK

Have been using these since we came in 2013.

Finally got rid of the two table lamps they were in last year sometime!
Forum: Canada
Jan 14th 2021, 2:50 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,263
Posted By withabix

Re: Air Transat

AC deal is going ahead unless EU blocks it.

The airlines have access to more money than they are admitting to.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 14th 2021, 2:47 pm
Replies: 1,030
Views: 96,259
Posted By withabix

Re: real estate prices in Canada sustainable?

Now, due to Covid, people are trying to move out to the suburbs and the market in places like Maple Ridge (edge of the forest, access to golden ears park and mountains) is super hot. Houses selling...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 14th 2021, 2:39 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 707
Posted By withabix

Re: Crystal Ski offering pleasure trips to Canada during Covid19?

A lot of travel companies are taking part in the same scam.

WestJet are still offering vacations on flights that don’t exist in February and March. Just so that they keep your cash and swap it...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 14th 2021, 2:14 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 4,755
Posted By withabix

Re: Rant-car dealerships

I bought a 2019 F150 last February, just before Covid (new old stock but only built in October 2019 in the last build week for that year).

With Ford, I like how you can view the whole Province’s...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 14th 2021, 1:46 pm
Replies: 6,426
Views: 457,994
Posted By withabix

Re: Coronavirus

They probably lied.

Like the two on Vancouver Island, who said they didn’t have contact with their relative who returned from the UK during their quarantine...

You don’t want Covid. Someone...
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