If they gave everybody between London and Birmingham an alarm clock, they could get up 20 minutes earlier. We would then not need to spend billions on a train that would get to London twenty minutes faster.
If they gave everybody between London and Birmingham an alarm clock, they could get up 20 minutes earlier. We would then not need to spend billions on a train that would get to London twenty minutes faster.
and save the bother of bulldozing houses, fields and trees: but that would be too simple.
Presumably the idea is to improve business and productivity. Surely tele-conferencing would achieve all that without anyone wasting any time travelling.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Presumably the idea is to improve business and productivity. Surely tele-conferencing would achieve all that without anyone wasting any time travelling.
There are businesses everywhere , not just London. We've had decades of Londoncentric governments who could all have done much more "for the regions" but haven't. I have no confidence that that situation is going to change any time soon, unfortunately.
Exactly. Forget the London-centric rail investments and get everyone on superfast comms links and move big govt admin departments out to the regions too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Just catching up with this thread - l love that forsythia @Lyn. Do you have it in your garden? Not feeling very curmudgeonly at the moment to be honest , sitting here with a cup of tea and a (small) bar of chocolate.
Just fancied some chocolate too but we only have dessert cooking chocolate which is too strong for me on its own.
Having a quiet grump about brambles and other horrors. OH is busy cutting back a huge mess of weedy, straggly brambles and other self sown tree thugs growing along the wire mesh fence between us and the neighbours. Our predecessors had planned to turn the ruin into a gite so our neighbours promptly planted a long row of conifers 2 metres in along that side and have their paddock on the other side of that so now ignore that section of the garden tho, now we have assured them the ruins are for the birds - literally - they have at least lopped the tops of their conifers.
Meanwhile we have a jungle of brambles and self-sown tree horrors to remove. There ought to be rules against them.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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We've had decades of Londoncentric governments who could all have done much more "for the regions" but haven't. I have no confidence that that situation is going to change any time soon, unfortunately.
Not feeling very curmudgeonly at the moment to be honest , sitting here with a cup of tea and a (small) bar of chocolate.
Having a quiet grump about brambles and other horrors. OH is busy cutting back a huge mess of weedy, straggly brambles and other self sown tree thugs growing along the wire mesh fence between us and the neighbours. Our predecessors had planned to turn the ruin into a gite so our neighbours promptly planted a long row of conifers 2 metres in along that side and have their paddock on the other side of that so now ignore that section of the garden tho, now we have assured them the ruins are for the birds - literally - they have at least lopped the tops of their conifers.
Meanwhile we have a jungle of brambles and self-sown tree horrors to remove. There ought to be rules against them.