Sounds like murder to me a trail of soft warm sponge, sheets of cosy paper and a conveniently placed tub of hazardous wast.
My first question is " was the wast in a suitable locked container?" it would appear not and "was it labelled correctly as hazardous wast?"
And do people really leave hazardous materials just laying around for vulnerable, poor cold and homeless little mice to crawl into only to meet a horrible death?
That's the case for the prosecution your Honour.
It could have been genocide. My gran was kitted out with all kinds of poisons, weed killers, slug pellets, insect sprays, enough to wipe out a significant chunk of the local wildlife. I thought I was doing the planet some good by disposing of it but didn't expect suicidal mice.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have been in a few homes recently and I think it should be mandatory that all windows in homes should go right to the floor so the residents can see out of them. All of them that I have seen so far are at normal height so unless a resident is mobile, they can't see out of them. How awful it must be to stare at a pastel wall all day???????
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@wild edges I think you could get off on a technicality there @hogweed I totally agree my wife is in a wheelchair and often finds things impossible to see because the fence, barrier, window to name just a few are to high.
When we moved to our new flat from which we have wonderful sea views the wife could see nothing because the balcony had been fitted with solid panels so one of the first jobs was to have them removed and glass inserted.
Builders and architects are still very poor at considering people with limited mobility needs despite all the new rules and regulations, but please don't get me started on that one I could go on for hours and hours and hours ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Architects can be very aware of the needs but clients don't want to pay the costs involved with improving housing for all users. I've always said that architecture students should be forced to spend a week in a wheelchair as part of their studies. Low windows are also good for pets and small children too though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Building Regulations require a minimum sill height, or minimum balcony hand rail height, of 1100mm above floor level, for safety - to stop people (especially children) from falling out/over. They can be lower but only if you have toughened glass, or you can have toughened glass balustrades. But as WE says, that can be more expensive than 'standard' - a solid wall is much cheaper even than standard glass, especially as other regulations regarding energy performance, etc, tend to push towards smaller windows anyway. Bigger window areas means lower insulation standards means you have to spend more on everything else to make it compliant.
It's not that it hasn't been thought about, it's just that it's expensive to do
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That's always the excuse it's to expensive, they manage it just about everywhere else in the world. and are happy to retrofit after completion at there expense when they are informed that actually regulation and the law says that's what the should of done in the first place.
I have had a lot of experience chasing and explaining to builders and architects that the disability regulations apply to them and they are not "exempt" under some special rule as I was once told.
Its amazing how many still expect to put in steps and no facility for wheelchairs for instance yet the law (Equality Act 2010) states that every disabled person has the same right to access as any able body person would.
I could carry on but won't this is quite enough for now.
I have been in a few homes recently and I think it should be mandatory that all windows in homes should go right to the floor so the residents can see out of them. All of them that I have seen so far are at normal height so unless a resident is mobile, they can't see out of them. How awful it must be to stare at a pastel wall all day???????
Having lived in a house with a massive floor to ceiling window I have to disagree. Keeping the place heated was a nightmare. It also greatly restricted where furniture could be placed.
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@hogweed I totally agree my wife is in a wheelchair and often finds things impossible to see because the fence, barrier, window to name just a few are to high.
When we moved to our new flat from which we have wonderful sea views the wife could see nothing because the balcony had been fitted with solid panels so one of the first jobs was to have them removed and glass inserted.
Builders and architects are still very poor at considering people with limited mobility needs despite all the new rules and regulations, but please don't get me started on that one I could go on for hours and hours and hours ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
It's not that it hasn't been thought about, it's just that it's expensive to do
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I have had a lot of experience chasing and explaining to builders and architects that the disability regulations apply to them and they are not "exempt" under some special rule as I was once told.
Its amazing how many still expect to put in steps and no facility for wheelchairs for instance yet the law (Equality Act 2010) states that every disabled person has the same right to access as any able body person would.
I could carry on but won't this is quite enough for now.
All the information is here http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents
but I warn you there is lots of it.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog