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dino48 wrote:

Good to hear you will be here for awile..I have heard they do not have large supermarkets there except in the big cities.

They don't really even have them in the big cities.   Tesco seems to be the biggest,  and the Fred Meyers down the street from me is three times the size of the biggest one I've seen.

I actually like that, though.   Instead of picking up everything at SuperMart, walk down the street, stop at the baker for some fresh bread, the butcher for some meat, the local grocer for some produce....

I agree with the expressions about sentimental value; there's no way to measure that. My three personal assets are my musical instruments, my library (+/- 3,000 books), and my fishing rods & gear. Unfortunately, neither of my boys are interested in any of it, so I expect they will be left to close friends that I shared these interests with.

My grandfather died in August 2000, and he didn't really have much except a heart as big as a clear blue sky. He left me the two things he knew that I would treasure most, being his two Merrick bamboo fly rods. One is an 8' - 5wt he used for trout, and the other is a 10' - 9wt he used for salmon. All I have to do is pick one up and the tears start ... he was a very special man.

If any of our stuff could hold value for our off-spring, that would be where I'd want it to go. Grampie taught me that.

I would tend to echo your thoughts Roger..... there is such a thing as "Sentimental Value", which transcends intrinsic value like a Royal Straight Flush trumps Four Aces (I hope I got that right.... not a Poker player).

My wife's from England, and if we happen to be watching "Coronation Street" together, I often need her to translate expressions. Here in Eastern Canada, we have a province called Newfoundland (locally pronounced Newf'nland) where there's a whole vocabulary of familiar & unfamiliar terms, but all pronounced in a way that is almost foreign to anyone outside of the province. Here's a really fun song that illustrates it nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUt-OFR0vE

Hello Friday,   can't go wrong with a King,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJU81OB … F263422656

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