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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2007 9:20:43 GMT
If you get a chance, head over and leave a comment. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stmIf you'd like to support my comment, it is posted under the name of John Irvine from Rochester, Kent and can be found near the start. Just click on Recommend. Thanks! |
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Post by nightowl on Jul 18, 2007 10:50:02 GMT
Oooh, DG, I'm on a sticky wicket here!  In principal I totally agree. In practice it's a different story.  I am very, very allergic to cut grass, so cannot have a lawn. About 60% of my tiny garden is paved (and covered in pots/containers  ) The rest is flower beds so I'm not a total concrete-monster! But I do get grumpy when I'm sitting enjoying my garden and someone starts up a lawn-mower!  cos I have to go indoors and close all the windows!  or suffer a mega asthma attack!  Can't go back out for ages after they've finished cos the juice vapour is still in the air.  It's a real bummer!!! ....So that's why I'm a bit pro-concrete! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2007 10:53:36 GMT
Nightowl, you have a good reason, so shouldn't feel one bit bad about a bit of concrete. Grass at the expense of death is not worth it! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2007 11:22:54 GMT
Nightowl, completely empathise with your situation.
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Post by nightowl on Jul 19, 2007 8:58:50 GMT
The really weird thing is that grass pollen doesn't give me Hay-Fever!  I get it around February ( catkins? crocuses? dunno. ) and really badly in November ( fungal spores I think ). But the high pollen warnings on TV in the Summer leave me smugly smiling. ( til I hear a lawn-mower! Then I run like a jack-rabbit!!!! ) And when I'm abroad,( Med or N.Africa) I hardly have any breathing problems at all, even when I am around horses (which I am badly allergic to, but love too much to keep away from them!) Sorry DG, for hi-jacking your thread and taking it off topic.  I'll shut up now |
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Post by Plocket on Jul 19, 2007 9:12:46 GMT
I'm with the person who blames the Government for building so many houses, especially on green-belt land and flood plains!!!
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Post by nightowl on Jul 19, 2007 9:29:38 GMT
There was a small estate of new houses built about 3 years ago, somwhere near me in Hampshire ( been on local news a lot) that local people warned, right from the planning stage, would be in a flood area which was semi-pond most winters. But they still went ahead and built!!!!  And it flooded almost as soon as people had moved in, and many times since, and the people have never been able to move back in! I believe they are now going to have to demolish the houses!! DOH!!!  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 19, 2007 21:59:04 GMT
;D
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 20, 2007 6:26:16 GMT
just to remind you, your intials are DG, not GG  |
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Post by prodigal gardener on Jul 21, 2007 13:43:43 GMT
Christ - dont start on here as well - had enough of that "over there" !!!!!!!!  Just been and had a read through some of the comments ! Some people are just thick, unpleasant and selfish aint they, and they all seem to be airing their ignorant, ill informed and badly punctuated views on there. Wont bother with that anymore. I do think that something has gone horribly wrong with our summer this year, and the building of homes on flood plains is not a good idea, but having a go at folk because of where they live is just idiotic. Still wouldn't do for us all to be the same would it !!! |
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 21, 2007 17:53:15 GMT
It's evil over there Just had a look and I cant believe the mud-slinging, unveiled racism, regionalism and loads of other 'isms' being spouted. Where's our compassion gone? |
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Post by MamIDdau on Jul 21, 2007 18:04:54 GMT
It always makes me laugh when these people complain about the fact their houses have been flooded when they live in certain areas that were either previously a flood plain or in a valley.
There are houses being built where they shouldn't and then they complain about this that and the other. It's like people complaining about the planes from an airport when the airport was there first if that makes sense? You know it's a possibility before you buy the house so how can you complain about it when it happens?
We've got lots of fields around here and flood plains which are largely un built on. However, Trefriw and Llanrwst flood quite a bit when the river Conwy bursts its banks. They want to dredge the river but this will have damaging effects on the RSPB sanctuary in the Conwy estuary.
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Post by nightowl on Jul 22, 2007 9:32:48 GMT
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Post by beanie on Jul 22, 2007 11:05:47 GMT
our local dog kennels have had problems with new neighbours a couple of years ago. couple moved in and then proceeded to complain about the dogs barking. what did they expect there is a large sign out the front which says that it is a boarding kennels, they knew what they were buying. i used to walk my dogs past there regularly and although the dogs did bark it didn't seem to get out of hand.
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Post by Shrubrose on Jul 22, 2007 16:41:31 GMT
Something odds happened on this thread, or I'm losing it (ok, I know, dont say it!). Have just looked through them again and the comments I had responded to above are not there. Am I being dense? Have they been removed? It wasn't really GG who was posting was it? I thought it was DG having a laugh. I've come over all goosebumpy.
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In principal I totally agree. In practice it's a different story. 
) The rest is flower beds so I'm not a total concrete-monster! 
or suffer a mega asthma attack! 
Can't go back out for ages after they've finished cos the juice vapour is still in the air. 
I'll shut up now 
