Idiots. Birling Gap. I go there quite frequently during the summer and stay at least 30ft away from the edge as the South Downs are chalk and the cliffs are known to crumble and vast sections fall away into the sea. The erosion is so bad that the cafe at the site has lines marked on the floor showing where the cliff edge will be in 10, 20... years time.
If ever a story was dreamed up to try and match it to the facts already known to the press, it has to be that fairy story by Dominic Cummings yesterday. Had he 'only' travelled to his family property to self-isolate then maybe things would have quietly gone away. When he comes up with reasons to do a side trip and have a picnic, particularly when the 'reason' is that he wanted to test his eyesight to see if it was safe to drive, he is taking the population for idiots. He may work for one, but the rest of us aren't as dependant.
If ever a story was dreamed up to try and match it to the facts already known to the press, it has to be that fairy story by Dominic Cummings yesterday. Had he 'only' travelled to his family property to self-isolate then maybe things would have quietly gone away. When he comes up with reasons to do a side trip and have a picnic, particularly when the 'reason' is that he wanted to test his eyesight to see if it was safe to drive, he is taking the population for idiots. He may work for one, but the rest of us aren't as dependant.
On the plus side, the longer Bojo supports him, the more folk will Bojo for what he really is.
@wild edges - we've had the Covidiots out on hills at the weekend, and then they needed Mountain rescue. They'd travelled from Motherwell - which is about 50 miles away. W******. I looked yesterday at the walking site I use, after not looking for a while. Needless to say it was a prominent topic. I was astonished at the attitude of some people on there. Idiots wherever you turn... I saw that the fire in Dorset had caught again too. Disposable barbecues. How much time have the emergency services had to spend on that?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's time to ban disposable barbecues. Along with sky lanterns and helium balloons. The exercise equipment in our local park is surrounded with a rubber safety surface which costs thousands of pounds. One of the park's Friends group found a family sitting around their disposable barbecue on it. When he asked them to move and pointed out the damage they were doing, they said: "Oh sorry, we thought it was concrete."
Totally P'd off. Our garden waste collection happened today for the first time in a month, and only the second time since lockdown. I went out to get the bin and it hadn't been emptied. There was a notice on it say it was too heavy, and contaminated with rocks. The only content is green waste and the weight is 4 weeks of grass cuttings from a lawn approximately 30 metres x 10 metres. Tried contacting the council, although that is a lost cause as even if I do get through it won't be emptied for at least another 2 weeks. Can't take the content to the tip myself as it is by appointment only and over 2 weeks until the next available slot.
As I don't grow veg I have no use for compost bins, and insufficient 'brown' to make decent compost anyway. Is it surprising people resort to fly tipping when things like this happen? Any suggestions for legal ways to get rid of it as I now have a full bin and nowhere to put more grass etc.
It's time to ban disposable barbecues. Along with sky lanterns and helium balloons. The exercise equipment in our local park is surrounded with a rubber safety surface which costs thousands of pounds. One of the park's Friends group found a family sitting around their disposable barbecue on it. When he asked them to move and pointed out the damage they were doing, they said: "Oh sorry, we thought it was concrete."
Conversely there's a path at the end of my street that gets really boggy in the winter. I spent ages dragging stones and old paving slabs up there and laying them nicely to make a half decent surface to walk on. Last summer I found a women had ripped up all the stones to make a fire ring for her kids even though they were burning on an area designed for camp fires with several metres of gravel all around 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 - I'm always astonished at how you can't put a piece of turf into a green waste bin, but you could fill it with all sorts of nasty, invasive weeds. Perhaps councils need to employ people who have some working knowledge of how 'nature' works. Can you bag up the grass, and tuck it somewhere for a couple of weeks? With you on those barbecues @josusa47 - a very unpleasant invention. They reckon that the fire in Dorset was caused by them. I know we get fires up here caused by 'day trippers' using them in places they shouldn't. No end to the people who think signage and advice simply doesn't apply to them, regardless of the circumstances eh?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I looked yesterday at the walking site I use, after not looking for a while.
Needless to say it was a prominent topic. I was astonished at the attitude of some people on there. Idiots wherever you turn...
I saw that the fire in Dorset had caught again too. Disposable barbecues. How much time have the emergency services had to spend on that?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Can you bag up the grass, and tuck it somewhere for a couple of weeks?
With you on those barbecues @josusa47 - a very unpleasant invention. They reckon that the fire in Dorset was caused by them. I know we get fires up here caused by 'day trippers' using them in places they shouldn't.
No end to the people who think signage and advice simply doesn't apply to them, regardless of the circumstances eh?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...