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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    OH has got the football on TV. It's half time and there was someone being interviewed beside the pitch. In the background, a massive sprinkler pumping huge amounts of water onto the pitch. That kind of thing makes me really resent being told to be sparing with water on the garden.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I was up in North Wales recently and there was a massive Marks and Spencers up there with a big multi-storey car park complete with landscaping and living walls. All the rainwater from the roofs was harvested and reused for watering the plants and flushing toilets. You'd be amazed how many large commercial buildings do it now and at times they need to use up the water just to free up capacity in the tanks in case of heavy rain but also because it saves them money. I'm not saying that football club would do that but you never know.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Maybe, maybe not @wild edges .
    Is that the new M&S in Llandudno? I thought they were moving to the old Debenhams building but that's not got a multi-storey car park.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It was in Chester or close by. I was a bit lost by that point. Thinking about it now we'd probably slipped into England by that point :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    That's exactly why they water at half time @pansyface.  They want the surface slippery so the ball moves better.  The players wear studs to stop them slipping.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Why is the price of a fast food burger headline news? They certainly don't need all that free advertising on the news channels 😡
    AB Still learning

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    It was in Chester or close by. I was a bit lost by that point. Thinking about it now we'd probably slipped into England by that point :#

    Cheshire Oaks, probably. Not been there for a long time. Maybe I'll have a look when I'm over that way in a couple of weeks.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    KT53 said:
    That's exactly why they water at half time @pansyface.  They want the surface slippery so the ball moves better.  The players wear studs to stop them slipping.

    Surely being able to play in different conditions would demonstrate more skill? Dry and brown in summer, mud in winter etc.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    JennyJ said:
    It was in Chester or close by. I was a bit lost by that point. Thinking about it now we'd probably slipped into England by that point :#

    Cheshire Oaks, probably. Not been there for a long time. Maybe I'll have a look when I'm over that way in a couple of weeks.
    That's the one. https://green-walls.co.uk/projects/view/ms-cheshire-oaks-green-wall/ It certainly looks better than the Brutalist car parks we get around this way.

    On another environmental and football note; The Government just responded to a petition saying
    Since 2010, 364,803 football pitches of new priority habitat has been created or restored
    This annoys me because football pitches are not a unit of measurement and are variable in size, and it doesn't say a) who created/restored the habitats (charities or government?) or b) how much priority habitat has been lost in that time to projects like HS2 or golf courses. Either give us the accurate net gain figures or this is just more lies from the Johnson party.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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