Re allergies: around 20 years ago I helped arrange an exchange visit for a Czech youth choir from a rural area who were visiting my husband's choir in Northumberland. The children were to stay with host families, so we sent a request to the Czech choir for a list of their children who had allergies, asthma etc. But none of them was allergic to anything. This was apparently the case generally in the country at the time. I've no idea whether that's since changed, or why it should have been so different from the British experience.
Probably, in part at least, from being raised in an environment where they are exposed to allergens from a very young age and therefore build up natural immunity. I get the impression in this country that far too many children are brought up in an almost sealed world surrounded by the smell of antibacterial wipes and disinfectant.
I can't get over the selfishness of some people. A friends granddaughter (12) was hospitalised, she has numerous health problems, but was really ill on this occasion so a bed for her mother was set up in her room. He mother posted on social media that the bed was uncomfortable so she came home because 'I need my sleep as well'. This caring mother doesn't work and according to her children actually spends most of her day in bed! Her son, who now lives with his dad, mentioned recently that he had to get is own breakfast from about age 6 or go hungry until the mother decided to get up.
The council contractors were out strimming down the wildflowers here this week. A lovely bank of Lady's smock and primulas were all mown down. I doubt it was to do with 'Facebook complaints' though and no one was worried that the wildflowers were somehow creating dog crap or waterlogging the ground. The council should know by now that people who complain on Facebook are rarely worth listening to.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It would be interesting to know how many complaints it take to be referred to as 'numerous'. The dictionary definition is 'great in number', but I'd be very surprised if a field like that actually raised more than half a dozen. A freedom of information request might make interesting reading.
That story about the wildflower meadow being mowed down by the council is so sad. I thought there was a 'mind my weeds, we are feeding the bees' campaign going on? Around here we are split. There are those who love the wildflowers growing along the bottom of walls and those who want the council to spray them. I think we can all guess which side I am on. I was in a meeting the other day - I have got dragged into the jubilee celebration planning because I represent the business association - and the town councillor, who was perfectly normal before she joined the town council, who is in charge of producing the programme has got very bossy. She was talking about items in the programme and I said I hadn't seen it. I was told off as she had sent it and several other documents to the committee days ago. She found an old printed version and handed that to me. Then they started talking about something in the version I didn't have and I asked about it. Another councillor snapped at me that - it's all there! There was a lot of 'rising above' going on, on my part! Later that evening - an email from the councillor, with apologies because she had, inadvertently missed me off the email list and here now are the documents I didn't have for the meeting. What she has produced as a programme looks very amateurish! But I say nothing.
I suppose it's something to shout about if a council actually responds these days.
The automated reply to a query I raised recently stated "due to the national situation, we aim to respond in 3 to 4 working weeks ". They didn't specify which National Situation they were referring to so one is left guessing - Covid, cost of living, lack of rainfall, Parliamentary Porno, holiday disruption, Russia, Ukraine, lack of sunflower oil, endless enquiries into this that and the other, local election worries, sheer boredom or WHY.
LIDL - I go there for decent wines at good prices and occasional bits of house or garden stuff when they have a special supply in. Today, for the first time they'd got racks and racks of shrubs, climbers, fruits trees, bedding plants, veg seedlings etc outside by the entrance
Yippee, you'd think, but all bog standard and lots of pelargoniums and fuchsias all looking thirsty. I bought a peony and some kohl rabi plugs.
Curmudge? They'd taken six disabled parking spots for this promotion.
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)."
They've gone completely over the top with ivy-leaved pelargoniums at my local Lidl too, for some reason. Tons of the things, and they all look a bit grim. They did have some absolutely gorgeous, healthy looking hostas too - I imagine they must have only just arrived because they could not have looked bonnier.
My curmudge is the government successfully dead catting us all yet again, taking over the Electoral Commission while the press slavered over the porn-in-the-Commons story instead.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Been there @LG_ . Couldn't use car park unless you signed up for some sort of app. Bgggr that. Left and went to Southend Lane. industrial quantities of geraniums and a friendly Labrador. but they had some nice fuchsias. Probably teabagged . Bought some .but will check before planting..
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Probably, in part at least, from being raised in an environment where they are exposed to allergens from a very young age and therefore build up natural immunity. I get the impression in this country that far too many children are brought up in an almost sealed world surrounded by the smell of antibacterial wipes and disinfectant.
I was in a meeting the other day - I have got dragged into the jubilee celebration planning because I represent the business association - and the town councillor, who was perfectly normal before she joined the town council, who is in charge of producing the programme has got very bossy. She was talking about items in the programme and I said I hadn't seen it. I was told off as she had sent it and several other documents to the committee days ago. She found an old printed version and handed that to me. Then they started talking about something in the version I didn't have and I asked about it. Another councillor snapped at me that - it's all there!
There was a lot of 'rising above' going on, on my part!
Later that evening - an email from the councillor, with apologies because she had, inadvertently missed me off the email list and here now are the documents I didn't have for the meeting.
What she has produced as a programme looks very amateurish! But I say nothing.
The automated reply to a query I raised recently stated "due to the national situation, we aim to respond in 3 to 4 working weeks ". They didn't specify which National Situation they were referring to so one is left guessing - Covid, cost of living, lack of rainfall, Parliamentary Porno, holiday disruption, Russia, Ukraine, lack of sunflower oil, endless enquiries into this that and the other, local election worries, sheer boredom or WHY.
Yippee, you'd think, but all bog standard and lots of pelargoniums and fuchsias all looking thirsty. I bought a peony and some kohl rabi plugs.
Curmudge? They'd taken six disabled parking spots for this promotion.
My curmudge is the government successfully dead catting us all yet again, taking over the Electoral Commission while the press slavered over the porn-in-the-Commons story instead.