P&A on Saltspring Island

Okay so I almost missed February!

Where has the time gone. Seems only last week we were celebrating Chinese New Year - oh - it was only just last week. Great party - typical Neale/Nunn due. I just love waking up in my clothes at 3am - how does that work - you go to bed and can't remember the bit of removing the shoes? Must be what it will be like in the Seniors Home later this century - or month at the rate I'm going. More on that later.

Grand Announcment

House is up for sale - no body will buy it but they will make appointments to view - I really dislike that word; actually I'm making a list of words that I don't like I have 2234 pages of them. I guess I might have to give up English as my first language and return to jibberish.

The way it goes with these viewings (the bloody work got bigger!) is after having spent 5 hours doing a boil wash on the place, getting fresh cut flowers, putting on expensive fresh coffee, scenting each individual room with the finest French perfumes, all that these people will want is to have a snoop and then say something like this or similiar to that due to the fact they saw a deer in the garden and it upset the them and therefore the place is not suitable. Stupid buyers or is it a case of really stupid sellers? I suppose the fact we chased the deer of the property with a sawed off shot gun maybe it was just too Applachian for them. Hey, I kept my teeth in.

Well this time we've tried the upmarket route and gone with:

I was dually impressed, particularly after I said that most experiences with Realtors were near enough evil ones. We, of course, were otherwise. (Note to oneself: get pixies ears
Actually on that note we could wear them and hangout at school yards scaring littl'uns)

Promotional material on the house is at http://www.thehobbs.ca/ (bless them, as I've not said the hobbit word out loud) Actually the agents seem very genuine. You can also go to Sotheby's site at: http://sothebysrealty.ca/listings/L1367.html

Okay now some current activity news from the island - or at least in PVN's small portion. Yesterday we had to go to the children's toy shop to pickup something for one of our friend's niece's children - very extended family I thought. When I asked the lady in the shop if she had anything in the way of a book on narcotic abuse for a 3 year old she actually started choking. At first, thinking I had offended her, she told me to stop making her laugh has she had very bad throat and found it difficult. I explained to her that maybe working in a children's store whilst suffering from the Norwalk Fever might not be a good idea... well she started choking again. I then suggested that she pop up to Greenwoods Seniors Home (its been quarantined for a fortnight due to Norwalk) and see if she could get accommodations, usually reserved for seniors. They could make an exception and there always seems to be a warmish bed available there. That might be because they've just remove another body, however, it could be also due to the heated coals they use for centre heating. It's such a modern facility. I'm told the piano player is nearing 100 and stone deaf. They have one lady that can still hop with a cane. Fun to watch when she trips on her heavy woolen tights that are sagging due to the adult diaper she's been told is fashionable.

Back to the shop. In this shop there were stuffed toys which when I pointed them out to our friend's they oohed and awed (very adult public behaviour) - however, these things had very odd noses which somewhat looked like terrifying dildos. That made them stop. I don't think I should be allowed in these shops. Recommending to the shopkeeper that she should have a section on evil mothers for bedtime reading didn't go done that well - though she did keep coughing. She may have died if we hadn't left. There now is a sign of a bald guy in brogues outside the shop, underneath it reads: Not welcomed.

Well our friend did find a gift - it was suggested that it wasn't a good idea to send the child's story set in Saltspring because they don't want them to visit. This, I understand, infants can be messy and usually best went taken back to where they come from (except our little girl Katelin).

For those outside of the realm of SSI a weather update:

Dry today - wet tomorrow - dry possibly the next day - and moist for the remainder of the month. I'm comfortable with moist.

Well that's it for Feb - I will try to do more entries but I sometimes forget what has happened. Oh I found these two pics - please do now spew on your computor screen: