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Posted By dingbat

Re: Have you ever been on the telly??

I think that lot wins the BE Trophy for random telly appearences! :rofl:

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 13th 2009, 1:31 pm

Replies: 33

Views: 2,883

Posted By dingbat

Re: Have you ever been on the telly??

LOL...it was at the beginning of the episode - the murder or whatever it was had just happened inside the supermarket and the Anderson, complete with incredibly orange hair at the time, had just...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 13th 2009, 1:28 pm

Replies: 33

Views: 2,883

Posted By dingbat

Re: Have you ever been on the telly??

Great - could you find the clip for a laugh? I have no idea if you can post it, even as a still. It would be funny to see it again.

Forum: Canada

Jul 13th 2009, 12:56 pm

Replies: 96

Wooden houses in Canada? O NO!!! / Concrete?

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Posted By dingbat

Re: Wooden houses in Canada? O NO!!! / Concrete?

After a serious contact fire which burned down < all, some, many of the > wooden houses in Peterborough Ontario, the city passed a bylaw that required all new build houses to be made of brick.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 13th 2009, 12:27 pm

Replies: 33

Views: 2,883

Posted By dingbat

Re: Have you ever been on the telly??

You can see the back of me on a 1998 X files episode - the one with the small supermarket (which was Shop Easy on Shaughnessy in Port Coquitlam) and the possessed doll, called Chinga (season 5)....

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 13th 2009, 5:54 am

Replies: 3

flea is this dh new employer

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Posted By dingbat

Re: flea is this dh new employer

:eek: Ssshhhh...you shouldn't know who they are either.....lol.....next BE headline "Fleas hubby gets canned because he told her who was in The Retreat"...:ohmy: ;)

Forum: Canada

Jul 12th 2009, 1:00 pm

Replies: 76

Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

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Posted By dingbat

Re: Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

Manchester Edinburgh and Glasgow - late at night, but in the eighties/early nineties. Not sure if that makes a difference. BTW I am from the back end of a shite council estate down South originally....

Forum: Canada

Jul 12th 2009, 11:56 am

Replies: 76

Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

Views: 7,896

Posted By dingbat

Re: Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

I think the other thing to consider is age. In my twenties/early thirties, I could hold my own physically, if I had to, in dodgy situations. These days I am more likely to suffer whiplash from my...

Forum: Canada

Jul 12th 2009, 10:48 am

Replies: 11

started the balling rolling

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Posted By dingbat

Re: started the balling rolling

My UK Uni tried to pull this one on me, and about nineteen years had gone by, by the time I needed a transcript. If it is an accredited degree issuing institution, it is required to keep your...

Forum: The Rovers Return

Jul 12th 2009, 7:28 am

Replies: 175

Anyone leaving Canada?

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Posted By dingbat

Re: Anyone leaving Canada?

Trying to....:fingerscrossed:

Forum: The Rovers Return

Jul 12th 2009, 7:16 am

Replies: 54

Want to go home, husband doesn't

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Posted By dingbat

Re: Want to go home, husband doesn't

You are going to SK aren't you? For seven months of the year there is no playing out on your chunk of land. Its covered in snow and far too cold for the kids to be out (frostbite). You will be away...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 12th 2009, 7:09 am

Replies: 16

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Posted By dingbat

Re: I want to go home, but been told I can't

In my part of Canada, there are strict rules while a section 15 is being done (the assessment), one of which is that neither parent may talk to a child about why the assessment is being done, or the...

Forum: Canada

Jul 11th 2009, 8:29 pm

Replies: 76

Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

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Posted By dingbat

Re: Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

....and I could match them, and likely raise you. ;) Its irrelevant really; what makes any place "safe" is how you define safe and how you live your life. When I lived in Lewisham (briefly, I was...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 11th 2009, 8:53 am

Replies: 16

Views: 2,561

Posted By dingbat

Re: I want to go home, but been told I can't

The OP appears to have been dealt a particularly harsh deal, though. Eire is hardly a ten hour flight away, her ex could visit and be back home in the same day if he really wanted to. My emotional...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 11th 2009, 8:31 am

Replies: 16

Views: 2,561

Posted By dingbat

Re: I want to go home, but been told I can't

I did not marry a foreigner. My ex only got into Canada on the back of my qualifications and money, which got us here in the first place. He then abandoned his kids here, has not bothered to see them...

Forum: Canada

Jul 11th 2009, 6:57 am

Replies: 76

Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

Views: 7,896

Posted By dingbat

Re: Do we want to move to Canada for the right reasons

Substitute drugs for booze, its the same. Knife crime has not gone up in the UK since I was a teen. Media reporting of it has. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/13/ukcrime.boris

Space is quite...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 11th 2009, 6:04 am

Replies: 26

Views: 19,193

Posted By dingbat

Re: Cost of living- Vancouver vs London

There is also the implied expectation that you work the extra time/random shifts required, as if you don't, someone else will, and you will find yourself out of a job.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 10th 2009, 2:12 pm

Replies: 26

Views: 19,193

Posted By dingbat

Re: Cost of living- Vancouver vs London

Thank you, likewise.

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 10th 2009, 1:40 pm

Replies: 16

Views: 2,561

Posted By dingbat

Re: I want to go home, but been told I can't

Welcome to my world. It took five years of fighting through the courts to be able to move from Canada, and now, when I can without restriction, I cannot find a job that pays enough to support us back...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 10th 2009, 1:22 pm

Replies: 26

Views: 19,193

Posted By dingbat

Re: Cost of living- Vancouver vs London

We challenged it before, it is right, as we do not get paid for a whole lunch hour, just thirty minute break. We get paid for 70 hours every two weeks. Add in the extra 47 minutes we have to do every...

Forum: Canada

Jul 10th 2009, 4:23 am

Replies: 15

What are the vancouver people here doing during the olympics

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Posted By dingbat

Re: What are the vancouver people here doing during the olympics

I'm out in the Valley, but no one I know has any interest whatsoever in the Olympics. The cost the taxpayer will have to pick up seems to be the main turn off, particularly since tickets are...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Jul 10th 2009, 3:58 am

Replies: 26