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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Pauline 7 said:
    My finger is hovering over the ignore button
    Don’t do that Pauline, we won’t have any fun anymore. 😉
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2020
    It is funny when the WUMs don't realise they're being wound up isn't it @Lyn ... it's so kind of them to provide isolating gardeners with amusement on rainy days 👍

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





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718

    I do not remember the previous Birmingham poster scattering full stops at random all over the text. I always feel I ought to read his posts in a breathless manner.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The number of “WUMs from Brum” on here over the years leads me to suspect that there’s something in their water ... either that or some sort of poetic compulsion to conform to a type. 

    It’s a shame ‘cos I’ve met some really interesting people from Birmingham in the past. 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    BenCotto said:

    I do not remember the previous Birmingham poster scattering full stops at random all over the text. I always feel I ought to read his posts in a breathless manner.
    You may well be right. Perhaps the forum needs a Miss Marple thread - didn't she do a bit of gardening in between the detective stuff ?  ;)
      

    And knitting 😉 🤣 


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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Can you get a bus from Birmingham to the Isle of Wight?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Different sort of Needles @B3 ... not so useful for pinpointing 😉 

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





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Maybe this is a curmudgeon post...

    I haven't a clue about covid but I think the gov was a bit slow introducing restrictions again. My problem though isn't really with the Gov - but with the local responses. I'm not sure what sort of message Manchester is sending and it seems a bit short sighted to me. If they duck the restrictions being set by central government, they must still apply their own restrictions or else everyone suffers anyway - even during any protracted ongoing discussions or legal battles. The problem they then have is if its ok for local gov to refuse central gov, what makes them think the residents will then just follow the restrictions they (local gov) want to apply? Doesn't it just give more and more ammo to the idiot in the street to just ignore all restrictions they don't like? If its ok for local gov to ignore central gov, then it's ok for me to ignore local gov.


    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    It stayed hovering in the end Lyn. It takes a lot for me to have to use the ignore button......I can always skim read his posts if need be. 
    West Yorkshire
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Normally I'd have no objection at all to people rebelling, discussing, protesting etc - as that is what make our democracy. My problem is time. Unless you have something to replace the gov's restrictions immediately, then only Covid wins. Time is Covid friendly.
    All the time arguing whilst restrictions aren't applied just means you have to apply even more restrictions eventually. To me - apply the restrictions while arguing your point or apply other 'better' restrictions.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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