@KT53 - doesn't work in Belgium. A friend of mine has an "episode" at a dance evening a few years ago and I could see it was serious - pain, disorientation, loss of balance, nausea - so, as it was midnight on a Saturday and urgent, her husband drove her straight to a large A&E in Namur nearby. As she hadn't been brought in by ambulance they decided she could wait.
Turned out she'd had an aneurism in her brain and there were two more waiting to burst. Not too clever. She did recover but it took months and two ops and she had to give up dancing.
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)."
The table in the cabinet office must be so piled up with dead cats at the moment it's a wonder they have anywhere to put their coffee down. Even Ukraine is being used as a dead cat to deflect from what is going on with this govt's lack of regard for the law as it applies to them (partygate, N.Ireland, regulatory bodies, lucrative contracts for their mates) and the chronic underfunding of the NHS and local authorities. This of course leads to the poor services for which the NHS and local authorities get the blame. I'll never forget the woman from somewhere in the North (former red wall) who, when berating Labour for the problems everyone was feeling was told that actually it was the Tories who were in power. 'Not round here they're not' was her reply - and off she went to vote Tory.
@KT53 - doesn't work in Belgium. A friend of mine has an "episode" at a dance evening a few years ago and I could see it was serious - pain, disorientation, loss of balance, nausea - so, as it was midnight on a Saturday and urgent, her husband drove her straight to a large A&E in Namur nearby. As she hadn't been brought in by ambulance they decided she could wait.
Turned out she'd had an aneurism in her brain and there were two more waiting to burst. Not too clever. She did recover but it took months and two ops and she had to give up dancing.
Your friend wasn't the Chief Exec of the hospital though. If she had gone in with a broken fingernail she would have got immediate treatment!
The whole issue of the plastic grass at Eden is being blown up out of proportion, literally, it’s a very small area that the children can play on without getting in other people’s way, a fraction of the overall size of the complex.
It’s not put down to stop children getting muddy, if you’re a frequent visitor to Eden through the winter, and quite a lot of the summer, will notice that the small area resembles the Somme in midwinter, thousand of children play on that small area of grass, it’s reduced to mud in no time, putting down plastic grass is the best thing they could have done given the situation.
Of course they would be slammed for doing that by certain people. The same people that will travel many hundreds of miles in their cars to visit the site.
I’m sick of people telling us what we can and can’t do. Hypocrites the lot of them.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Okay, but it's the Eden project. Mission statement:
Our global mission is to create a movement that builds relationships
between people and the natural world to demonstrate the power of working
together for the benefit of all living things.
If anyone should be looking for ways to avoid plastic grass imported from China then it should be them. They've got a shop full of local, plastic-free, sustainable tat that they're trying to guilt people into buying so it looks bad when they don't stand up to their own morals. Could they really not have improved drainage and used locally harvested woodchip or something instead?
I'm sure in the grand scheme of things the place has more ecological bragging rights than most but if your main aim is to encourage people to follow your example then you have to set an example worth following. Now every time someone gives their garden plastic surgery they can just say "well if it's good enough for the Eden project..."
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Plastic grass is an environmental nightmare even when it hasn't been shipped all the way from China with its dodgy labour practices and other politics. There have also been cases where people playing sports o plastic patches have nasty skin reactions so I wouldn't be happy with it as a surface for kids. Let them get mucky. They love it.
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)."
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Turned out she'd had an aneurism in her brain and there were two more waiting to burst. Not too clever. She did recover but it took months and two ops and she had to give up dancing.
Even Ukraine is being used as a dead cat to deflect from what is going on with this govt's lack of regard for the law as it applies to them (partygate, N.Ireland, regulatory bodies, lucrative contracts for their mates) and the chronic underfunding of the NHS and local authorities. This of course leads to the poor services for which the NHS and local authorities get the blame.
I'll never forget the woman from somewhere in the North (former red wall) who, when berating Labour for the problems everyone was feeling was told that actually it was the Tories who were in power. 'Not round here they're not' was her reply - and off she went to vote Tory.
Your friend wasn't the Chief Exec of the hospital though. If she had gone in with a broken fingernail she would have got immediate treatment!
It’s not put down to stop children getting muddy, if you’re a frequent visitor to Eden through the winter, and quite a lot of the summer, will notice that the small area resembles the Somme in midwinter, thousand of children play on that small area of grass, it’s reduced to mud in no time, putting down plastic grass is the best thing they could have done given the situation.
Of course they would be slammed for doing that by certain people. The same people that will travel many hundreds of miles in their cars to visit the site.
I’m sick of people telling us what we can and can’t do. Hypocrites the lot of them.
Plastic grass is an environmental nightmare even when it hasn't been shipped all the way from China with its dodgy labour practices and other politics. There have also been cases where people playing sports o plastic patches have nasty skin reactions so I wouldn't be happy with it as a surface for kids. Let them get mucky. They love it.