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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Notre Dame. OMG!!!!!
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I know!  :o:'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Just how many important buildings go up in smoke during "renovation/restoration" work?  You'd think they'd learn!
    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)."
    Plato
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Hostafan1 said:
    I never switch the TV on before about 7pm ( Hubby likes Emmerdale ) 
    Daytime tv is pretty much "entertainment for the hard of thinking . Even when I've been housebound after surgery I've never watched any of it.
    So how do you know that it's not worth watching?  If you've "never watched any of it" you must find it hard to make a judgement!  A bit like those who never read the Daily Mail, but feel constrained to criticise it unread!  (For the record, I rarely indulge in the former, and never in the latter - which I refrain from passing judgement on other than being aware of its reputation).
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Visited Notre Dame some years ago and remember how beautiful it was. Very sad. However it does appear that no one has been injured which is a relief. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hmmm!  I was there with Possum 15 months ago and found it very dull, dark, grey and heavy inside.  Didn't like it.  Much more impressive from the outside but inside no great shakes.

    Still, it's an important building with rich historical associations and I do hope they can save most and restore the rest.
    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)."
    Plato
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I think it was the stained glass that stuck in my mind, in particular the rose window. It's just that feeling of the centuries of history as we walked around - although you could say that about any cathedral l suppose. 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Notre Dame. OMG!!!!!
    900 years and probably destroyed by some dickhead leaving a blowtorch unattended.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Have been watching the News about Norte Dame , looks bad , very sad 
    Remember the fire at York Cathedral  
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Shrinking Violet said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    I never switch the TV on before about 7pm ( Hubby likes Emmerdale ) 
    Daytime tv is pretty much "entertainment for the hard of thinking . Even when I've been housebound after surgery I've never watched any of it.
    So how do you know that it's not worth watching?  If you've "never watched any of it" you must find it hard to make a judgement!  A bit like those who never read the Daily Mail, but feel constrained to criticise it unread!  (For the record, I rarely indulge in the former, and never in the latter - which I refrain from passing judgement on other than being aware of its reputation).
    Feel free to give me your intellectually stimulating highlights which I've been missing and I'll tune in.
    Devon.
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