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Don’t you mean a cold piddle?

My dad taught an evening class, one night a week over winter. Part of his route to the school took him (on foot) past a very good fruit and veg shop. We got to sample some unusual things over the years. Can’t say I always liked them, but it was good to get to try them.

Lots of sympathy to Emily! I broke my collarbone when a bit older than Emily (3 or 4), also doing gymnastics on furniture. I still remember something about the episode - going to hospital on a Glasgow Corporation bus, and going home on another bus with the same conductress. My wife, my sons and their partners accuse me of worrying too much when seeing grandkids clambering about on chairs, sofas etc. but I broke my collarbone doing that - they didn’t!

Krispy Kreme made an attempt to invade Canada. Locally, there were newspaper adverts, flyers, TV adverts etc., plus news reporting on the opening day of the first franchise. After their first experience of Krispy Kreme donuts, very few people went back for seconds. Many people didn’t even try them a first time, based on reports from people who had. There is still only that single Krispy Kreme shop in BC. Timmies rule! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons

Forecourt of a hotel in Victoria, BC: I wonder if they host dentists’ conventions.

After my aunt had her second eye done, my uncle went round the house replacing all the 200 watt light bulbs with more sensible ones.

The engine is obviously an attempt at representing a camelback: https://www.deviantart.com/rattlerjones/art/Number-Four-1187-925312328

Wrong response to that question: https://youtu.be/r30rw64OlDA?feature=shared

I assume it’s the ginger and black shape in front of the fallen log at the edge of the path.

You must be superhuman!

Close! https://youtu.be/dxNMgoiNLFs?feature=shared

Yesterday’s main activity (apart from changing time on the clock in the car - q.v.) was watching soccer games. 9 year old granddaughter has been playing for three or four years - goalkeeper and defender. Yesterday was two games in the end-of-season tournament, and she got to play the second game as a forward. She scored her first-ever goal! They won 4-1. Understandably, she was over the moon. Then her dad’s team were playing in the cup final of the league they play in. A good, hard, but generally fair game (only two yellow cards - both sides of the same incident). They won 5-2 and move on from the local competition into the provincials.

Relevant experience yesterday, while resetting the clock in the car to account for the change to daylight saving time: - As happens every six months, relearn the sequence, through several menus, to change the “hour” figure on the clock. - Decide to try to do it ‘automatically’, by Bluetooth from a cellphone. Never done it this way before. Connect the phone successfully, but answer one question wrongly, don’t upload relevant information, time does not change, and I can’t find the way back to answer the question differently - Go through the manual process (with several wrong turns as usual) to change the “hour” figure - Due to the length of time since first starting the process, have to reset the “minute” figure too. - Success! - Driving the car later in the day, realize that I’ve somehow managed to hide the digital speed readout during the process. - Have to learn a new sequence, through a different set of menus, to recover the digital speed display. - My wife suggests that next year, instead of changing the clock in the spring, I put a post-it note on the dash saying “add one hour”, to be taken off in the fall.

Most of the province of Saskatchewan stays on central standard time all year. The provinces immediately east and west of it do change to daylight saving time. That means that for part of the year, Saskatchewan is on the same time as Alberta and for the rest of the year, it’s on the same time as Manitoba.

British Columbia (well, most of it) changes to daylight saving time tonight. In October 2019, B.C. passed legislation to make daylight time permanent. However, the change will only be enacted once Washington state, Oregon and California also make the move, to ensure B.C.'s economy is aligned with its U.S. neighbours. And there appears to be some confusion in those states about what they want and/or what the states can do without federal approval.

You should seek treatment, or else you could go downhill quickly.

How will it be verified that the defendant made this confession to his or her defence lawyer during a privileged and non-monitored face-to-face discussion?

Some years ago, a group of us hiked the West Coast Trail, a 75 km wilderness trail on the west coast of Vancouver Island. There were two of us dads, one son-in-law, three 14 year olds and two 12 year olds. The other dad has died and one of his sons (then a 12 year old) is going to hike the trail again this summer to scatter his dad’s ashes. Two of my sons (12 and 14 years old the previous time) will do it with him. Talking tonight to the son who was 14 last time and is now 45, he pointed out he will be the same age on this trip as I was the previous time. Thanks very much, son, for making me feel old !

I believe an accused’s previous history cannot be introduced to a jury trial before the guilty/not guilty verdict has been rendered. Guilt is supposed to be established on the evidence of a particular case, without reference to previous events. (Not criminal, but I have seen punishment given out in schools on the basis of “Oh, him - he probably did it.” in cases where the pupil definitely had not done it.) Previous history can be considered relevant in sentencing. I thought the purpose of a trial was to establish the guilt, or otherwise, of an accused individual. How would guilt be established before a trial? If a person is obviously guilty, should it be too difficult for the prosecution to establish that in a trial? Don’t get me wrong, I think some sentences could be much more appropriate to the (proven) crimes. But I don’t think establishing a short-circuiting of the trial process would be a good thing. (It would lead to many more appeals, if nothing else.)

Definitely was! I saw the end of steam banking out of Queen Street, when they were using V1/V3 tanks, all the N15s having been withdrawn. By then, steam locos as train engines were very rare.

Some information about rolling stock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeyangho_armoured_train (Edit - there’s a more general wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_North_Korea )

Relative of somebody we know here?

Ah … but when did the bar fall down?

Looks like you would have to get there quickly if you wanted to be able to sample the beer!