And I think it's better weather here than they had in Sydney! Bright sunny day...can't ask for more...ok perhaps we could ask for a meat pie which I am dying for.
Major cravings lately...hint hint.
Up Island
Katherine and I went to see a new comedy
There is a fantastic new play at the Stanley Theatre I highly recommend to all of us who love Vancouver Island and all things Canadian. We just laughed the whole night. It’s a group of brilliant actors who play really fun characters, some of them acting up to 3. It’s a play about relationships, friendships, neighbors and hard times in sickness and breakups.
There are some mad new quotes for us (temporary residents) to learn like "Most people stop at Port Hardy..... After that, they say it's just for hermits and frogs." And “you’re from Manitoba? Taking over eh?”
It’s only playing at Stanley Theatre (on Granville Street) for a month from Jan 25th to Feb 25th so hurry, about $25 per ticket and worth every laugh.
Weekend plans:
Friday 7.30 Incendios on Burrard and 6th. Dinner with Kristy and Behrouz. Yummy to Infinity!! (quote from Up Island)
Grouse Mountain on Saturday for snow shoeing with Donna. Maarten and Amanda will ski.
Saturday evening – girly movie night
Sunday – David’s (Quigg's) birthday sing-along at 2pm till... !!!
Friday, January 26
Wednesday, January 24
January 24th, 2007
A full day of sun in Vancouver today. So beautiful. You can clearly see Grouse from my desk and the Lions from where the sea planes take off. What a difference the sun makes to this city.
2 more days to Australia Day, pity it's not a public holiday here. Will have to make some lamingtons for the work crowd.
Vancouver's Cheapskates is probably going to close in a few months due to new changes in the bylaw that affects second hand goods dealers... making it seem that all second hand goods are stolen. The law itself puts consignment stores, second hand dealers along with the pawnbrokers. The police want records kept of all the people who sell goods to these shops, and then the goods itself have to be kept in storage for 35 days in a warehouse facility on the premises of the shop. Doesn't seem like a viable option for Cheapskates who'd lose whatever money they do make. Seasonal sports goods would be no good sitting in storage while the season goes by. I totally understand keeping a record of people who bring in stolen goods but for a standard trading 2nd hand shop to keep on record the ethnic background, skin colour, eye colour of everyone who walks in to sell their equipment...doesn't seem right or fair. As it is they already take the address, licence details but a further invasion of privacy when it's not their job to do that seems a bit ridiculous. I mean there no law saying they have to close but certainly the new changes make trading really difficult.
For people like Maarten and I who like to try new sports, buy 2nd hand good first it's such a pity that these places are closing or changing the way they trade... like Sport's Junkies.
There are things we can do like writing to the Mayor...so lets do it. Plus there are tonnes of families to who to these places for equipment...I think it's a sorry state of affairs when you also target a certain kind of people who unfortunately may never be able to try new sports due to lack of funds.
2 more days to Australia Day, pity it's not a public holiday here. Will have to make some lamingtons for the work crowd.
Vancouver's Cheapskates is probably going to close in a few months due to new changes in the bylaw that affects second hand goods dealers... making it seem that all second hand goods are stolen. The law itself puts consignment stores, second hand dealers along with the pawnbrokers. The police want records kept of all the people who sell goods to these shops, and then the goods itself have to be kept in storage for 35 days in a warehouse facility on the premises of the shop. Doesn't seem like a viable option for Cheapskates who'd lose whatever money they do make. Seasonal sports goods would be no good sitting in storage while the season goes by. I totally understand keeping a record of people who bring in stolen goods but for a standard trading 2nd hand shop to keep on record the ethnic background, skin colour, eye colour of everyone who walks in to sell their equipment...doesn't seem right or fair. As it is they already take the address, licence details but a further invasion of privacy when it's not their job to do that seems a bit ridiculous. I mean there no law saying they have to close but certainly the new changes make trading really difficult.
For people like Maarten and I who like to try new sports, buy 2nd hand good first it's such a pity that these places are closing or changing the way they trade... like Sport's Junkies.
There are things we can do like writing to the Mayor...so lets do it. Plus there are tonnes of families to who to these places for equipment...I think it's a sorry state of affairs when you also target a certain kind of people who unfortunately may never be able to try new sports due to lack of funds.
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