Scarlet Pimple

Is that one on wheels IHE? Looks more like a wealthy person's ski cabin than a residence though and I'll bet these roof panels are solar. Here is a wee look at one type of mobile home: https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=pictures+of+mobile+homes+inside After purchase, wheels are frequently taken off the mobile homes here and then the structure is placed on blocks to sit on a concrete base which one rents for $600 -$700 per month in a mobile-home park. The park owner does provide running water though along with electric and gas fittings but you pay the heating and lighting bills yourself. Parking is allowed in driveways. There will be a small grass strip or two around the place and there is room for a shed if you want to spend the money and/or do the work of building it yourself. These mobile home parks tend to ...er...deteriorate though since they are not solidly built and often have an assorted type of personnel owning them. The hoi-polloi (with regrets for repetition to Charles B.) tend to look down on whom they call "trailer park trash" who don't have the money to spend on grotesquely overpriced homes hereabouts. But they can serve a very useful stop-gap purpose until, say, young couples with a small family can get on their feet financially and they are quite comfortable inside...one bedroom is classified as single-wide, 2 beds as double wide and 3 bedrooms are classed on the sales sheet as triple wide. They contain at least one bathroom, a kitchen and a family room. In short, perfectly adequate accommodation...cozy like. "Mobiles" are not to be confused with what are described as "modular" homes in Canada, though ,which are more-or less built from kits and are much more sturdy and specifically structured in order to be built on a site and made to last. They look like modern, contractor-built houses and are more expensive to set-up of course than mobiles. The drawback with this excellent type of modular home , however, is the fact that you have to have acquired and own a lot on which to build the house (that's a plot of land whose dimensions accord with Municipality rules for this type of alternative housing) and then you have to foot all the bills for water supply, drainage, laying (I think) of gas pipes and electric cabling, foundations etc., almost as if you were buying a new and professionally-built home, the difference being that in the latter case all the costs of this work is already included in the builders' price. Not to mention the fact that you had better be a knacky bloke so that you can do all the work yourself or you will still have to pay someone to put it all together for you and your family. And the final kicker is that you will still have to pay property taxes to the Municipality because you own the lot and the home structure itself. In a mobile home the landlord of the park pays all the property taxes as I recall.

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Wow- sounds great to me. What I have wanted for years and was what I was pursuing direct with the club when I first contacted the Board Chairman at least 9 years ago, to point out that it would be a godsend for us overseas fans, especially in a modern era, and was very favourably received. The price? Just ask me to sign on the bottom line. That's sums it up for me. Fantastic and dedicated work, obviously, so a hearty thank you from the Western hemisphere. I do not like the BBC for their policy of stopping all broadcasts of this type to any overseas destination for whatever reason, since I thought they were supposed to be the provider of well-informed and well researched news on every front to be freely disseminated to the world. 'Nuff said on that .

With prices in this city (Vancouver) soaring and seemingly completely out of control ,the local city Mayor has finally bowed to the enormous pressure from inhabitants who cannot afford to buy any house nowadays and slapped a 15% up-front tax on all foreign buyers of property here in this province. Many of these buyers are strongly rumoured not to be living in these homes but are using the property purchase to stash away their hard-earned savings, currently in China , which they fear that the Chinese Government will otherwise tax to death. From what we read ,Toronto may be just about to do something like this too since their market in the East of Canada is hot too and similar price hikes are also in vogue so we are informed. For example, a 3 bedroom house bought in January 2013 here in Maple Ridge (a suburb situated about 45 miles from Vancouver centre) for just over $500,000 will now possibly sell for at least $730,000 and possibly a lot more. In short, for the average family with kids that is a huge ask. In Vancouver city the prices are unbelievably high (very average and not new 3 bedroom of any age) will be asking $1,000,000 or more depending on the suburb in which it is located. So one thinks. 'Whee, all I have to do is sell and retire in luxury since my loan is now paid off . But then what do you do?Rents have doubled for a one or two bedroom apartment and you cant even find a decent place to rent outside the main city for less than between $1.000 and $1,350 per month. Oops I'll just buy a small townhouse then --no, no that means taking out another mortgage -- and that I don't need and won't be able to afford as for any senior." How does that compare with Inverness I wonder..?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36943472 Scott Brown seems to have forgotten the existence of ICT in these new times..is that goo0d or bad I wonder?

Ross P. A useful crowd attendance. Thanks for the info. Just been reviewing the game video. Great video and so clear. I must say the Caley strip looks very fresh and a real standout like the play which at times seemed to be unbelievable -- controlled possession and calm confidence exuding from the players. The Partick game may turn into a cracker.

Must be the heat over here the noo -- 85 degrees yesterday- goes to the head and sends you off topic a wee bit. So my apologies. But Scotty is right I think. It could have been HSBC, or even HBC, on the large building signs. Not HBO of course which is , as he states, related to T.V.

What was the crowd figure?

cuties.

It's probably the manufacturers doing the orders for the large clubs with thousands and thousands of supporters. If so, we probably just have to live with it. Money talks.

IBM , I do believe that it once did -----as Hong Kong Banking Corp. I remember seeing tall buildings here in the Vancouver area with HBO on the top as an advertisement not that long ago. We have a district called Richmond here in the city which once was home to about 12,000 anglo-saxons when I first arrived to live there. Now there are well over 100,000 Chinese residents and as a result he Municipal Managers decided to put the street signs into the Chinese language. It confused me for ages when suddenly it started to appear in the different context on the T.V.

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That looks like a very nice spot where you lived, one with a view too. Seems like you were very lucky to live in the fresher air up there?. Was it accompanied by fresh country butter as well?

Since Willo Flood has been released by Aberdeen would he fit in to our midfield. Apparently he may have had other plans but the Dons praised him highly for all his work. Would his salary be too high? Would the Dons need to be compensated.? Would he be regarded as over -the -hill? Is he coming quickly to the end of his career-? I still think he has gas left 8n the tankand has tons of experience but...? IA very good and skilled performer IMO. Rarely was he ever robbed of the ball when in possession.And has a fierce shot (for such a slight -framed man). I always enjoyed watching his dynamism. Views please?

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But do you know what Kirk-O-Shots means?

. I knew that.

Persil. (Still on the go in Canada but pronounced PerSIL on the TV ads.)

Hi Fool Physio. I didn't know that..smile. Mind you the craze had not actually started in my young day in the two years I spent in the RAF doing my National Service. This was at least 60 years ago and the times sure have changed in that period.

Interesting!

Missed poor old Scarlet, Bughtie. Not even a mention in dispatches? You clearly know all your P's and Q's though and my A. B. C's could easily be yours if you become a changeling and after you have dotted all your "I's". and crossed your "T"'s. OOPS! Just had a senior moment, -- time to rest.....zzzzzzzz.!