Following the flooding of my greenhouse due to the neighbours' sheds shedding water towards my garden I've now seen that one neighbour has converted his whole garden to plastic grass in the last week. Another neighbour has also just been forced to apply for retrospective planning permission for 130m2 of decking uphill of my garden. In a positive spin at least I'm getting some good ferns and moss growing about the place. I found another patch of self spored ferns on the weekend that I can transfer to my living wall project. If I could channel all this generously donated water into some sort of feature it might work in my favour too.
I also spoke to someone today who told me he had just had the carpet fitters in to lay his lawn. There's a sentence I never thought I'd hear. The 'lawn' was pool table green though and he was already complaining about the leaves all over it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@KT53, have you had your leaflet concerning the changes to recycling yet ? Fair enough that they won't take batteries anymore due to the fire risk, but they are not going to take textiles anymore. They want clothes taken to charity shops or clothes banks. Trouble is, the stuff l was putting out for recycling was in such a state no charity shop would take it, and l don't think it's fair to dump it on them to sort out. Looks like it will be off to the Incinerator.
The letter arrived yesterday. As you say, if all the textiles are basically rags there is really no fair option other than to dump them in the bin. We already take decent clothes to charity shops but, like you, wouldn't dump junk on them.
Channel 5 regularly has series of programmes following traffic police, and I enjoy watching, as much to see the stupidity of some drivers as anything else. However, one thing stood out last night. As I say, I watch these regularly, and no mention has ever been made before about the cutbacks in police numbers and the fact that many cars are single crewed. Last night that was stated 4 or 5 times, although I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that there is an election coming up.
Channel 5 regularly has series of programmes following traffic police, and I enjoy watching, as much to see the stupidity of some drivers as anything else. However, one thing stood out last night. As I say, I watch these regularly, and no mention has ever been made before about the cutbacks in police numbers and the fact that many cars are single crewed. Last night that was stated 4 or 5 times, although I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that there is an election coming up.
don't be fooled by the "20,000" new police promised by bojo, that'll just make up the number to the level before Mrs Mayhem got rid of 20,000 police when she was home secretary
I don't believe anything any politician of any party says. I don't think I ever have, does anybody? Right now, they'd promise you the earth if they thought there was a vote up for grabs. I'm curmudgeonly today because I've just received my 'free' silver George V threepenny bit from the London Mint, a ridiculously tiny coin in an extraordinarily large amount of cardboard packaging, six pieces of paper bumph and a welcoming letter which includes the following unbelievable sentence " This threepence would have been used by every man at the time; in the pockets of soldiers, fathers and grandfathers, Britain's heroes."
Excuse me, no mention at all of the other 50% of the population? Women couldn't handle finance or do the shopping? I am incensed of the casual dismissive unthinking sexism implied in that sentence. I am about to tell the company what I think in no uncertain terms and if anybody is on Facebook (which I'm not) please feel free to name and shame them.
There must be loads of those coins still around, wonder why they’re minting new ones I have several, given to me when I was born. My dad had some made into a bracelet for my mum, but when they were robbed it got stolen.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I'm curmudgeonly today because I've just received my 'free' silver George V threepenny bit from the London Mint, a ridiculously tiny coin in an extraordinarily large amount of cardboard packaging, six pieces of paper bumph and a welcoming letter which includes the following unbelievable sentence " This threepence would have been used by every man at the time; in the pockets of soldiers, fathers and grandfathers, Britain's heroes."
Excuse me, no mention at all of the other 50% of the population? Women couldn't handle finance or do the shopping? I am incensed of the casual dismissive unthinking sexism implied in that sentence. I am about to tell the company what I think in no uncertain terms and if anybody is on Facebook (which I'm not) please feel free to name and shame them.