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Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 11th 2022, 2:11 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Thanks for your patience, bats! I've misremembered, all these years. I misplaced the church, for one thing, and the Four Seasons for another. I'm still figuring it all out, but you've put me on the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 10th 2022, 6:50 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Thanks, bats. I guess this (the link at the top) must have been the one. I had in my mind The Inn on the Park, but the one I was looking for was not a huge building like that one.
The older one -...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
May 10th 2022, 4:29 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

On another thread (Living and Moving Abroad, "Rest of the World" item #39, if you want to read it), I reminisced about my wedding in Toronto in 1967 - January, in the snow. I remember our reception...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 6th 2019, 2:21 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I wonder if any of you are taking cannabis oil - especially now that it's all legal in Canada. It's wonderful for reducing pain, so check it out if you haven't already.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 20th 2019, 9:49 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I love that show! ("Would I lie to you?") Only discovered it six months ago, and am working my way through the whole thing! The Bob Mortimer stories are among the funniest ever. Highly recommended.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 2nd 2019, 9:22 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Very few BE members, probably... But anybody who has "travelled poor" in most parts of the Third World would recognise the need for the signs!

I remember my shock when first in France, with its...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 9th 2019, 4:45 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

The thing is, they will make their own decisions - and, really, that's the way it should be. My Mum and I were close all her life, but spiritually (if that's the word), not physically. We exchanged...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 8th 2019, 10:43 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

I think all we parents can do is to hope/trust/presume that what we've taught our children up until they leave home, stays with them after they've left home. What if he/she emigrates, as you (PP)...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 5th 2019, 12:59 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Who knows? Individual persons have their individual hopes and their individual priorities. My wife, aged 79, is not afraid of dying, but is deathly (...) afraid of pain. So am I. She was diagnosed...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 3rd 2019, 10:12 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Yes, it's an individual thing. Here in Cayman (in the Caribbean) there is an active cancer-survivors group that meets once or twice a year for a (sponsored) hotel breakfast, and most members' photos...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 24th 2019, 8:13 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

This below may be a bit more adventurous!
https://adventuresoverland.com/fixed-departures/road-to-london-2019.html
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 3rd 2018, 2:41 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Of course driving is more fun, in the snow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeqG0CqzHq4
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 2nd 2018, 6:42 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

All this talk of snowy winters... It can be a conversation-stopper at times. It's a joy to watch Americans' faces when I tell them about having to put our rubbers on before going outside... ("You...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Oct 2nd 2018, 4:04 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

The last time I saw snow like that was in Toronto in the winter of 1966/67. In the December I was invited to make a temporary move to the firm's office in Nassau, Bahamas - just for a couple of weeks...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 23rd 2018, 2:43 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Limey it is, often used contemptuously, in the same way that the P*** word is in England and the P**** word is in Oz.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 23rd 2018, 4:26 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Excellent find, Jsmth! Here's another weird sea-creature, with an even weirder name ("the hairy-angler fish")!
https://phys.org/news/2013-10-d-scans-reveal-deep-sea-anglerfish.html
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 23rd 2018, 2:58 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

And yet it's acceptable to call Russians Russki*, and Norwegian N*rskies (at least, my Norwegian grandchildren have never objected to being called Norskies; their father calls them Norgies). And do...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 22nd 2018, 10:43 pm
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Outside Britain (and Canada?) the abbreviation P*** is usually quite acceptable, and P*** individuals themselves see nothing wrong with it. I was once threatened with expulsion from BE for stating...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 22nd 2018, 12:45 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

Piff Poff - what's this about a '59 Beetle, in your signature? No, I'm not in the market for it, but my second car was a '59 Beetle, and my heart goes all piff-poff at the very thought of one. Was...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jul 12th 2018, 1:32 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

You don't have to permit comments, you know.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 28th 2018, 3:26 am
Replies: 9,776
Views: 648,439
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread

So. "Random stuff", eh? I'm 78 and have never owned a wedding ring, because it wasn't really the fashion back in 1967 (in Toronto, as it happens). Roughly when did it become pretty much compulsory...
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