I bought a couple of colour changing cars for the kids today. The sort that change colour when dunked in hot and cold water. Nowhere on the packaging did it say "comes covered in bright orange paint that washes off". There's very small print on the leaflet inside that tells you that the paint might stain basically anything it touches though. Who thought this was a good idea?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Think maybe you should report it, what happens if a toddler sucks the car? Everything goes to a child's mouth first. There's always something or other that gets past retail safety laws.
Bad thing: elderly person has a nose bleed or something. Good thing: four disreputable looking youths called an ambulance and looked after him
Totally different subject. Sainsbury's is trying the Tesco cheaper with loyalty card thing. I don't think they quite understand the concept. Eye watering shelf price sans nectar card but normal price plus a bit if you use your nectar card.
I can see it from both sides. If the area the kids are playing in is officially designated as a parklet, presumably a fancy name for a small park, then cars shouldn't be there and it should be safe for kids to play. However, if their play results in cars being damaged and major nuisance being caused to neighbours I can see the reason for the council taking action. Even a deadend road doesn't automatically make it safe for kids to play there.
Having been on the receiving end of unruly children kicking balls around on the street into my plants, house windows and car (parked on our drive not in the street) I do sympathise. The noise doesn't bother me, it's the damage they cause. But then, they do need somewhere to play and the parents probably don't want their own garden, car, windows etc getting trashed. Maybe the answer is more proper parks where they can go to play (I'm talking junior school age and older, not little ones who shouldn't be out unsupervised anyway).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We finally got hold of the hospital and they've booked my son in for his blood test. Sadly it's a four week wait for someone to become available to take a small blood sample. It will be interesting if they find he has something infectious and he's been going to school for that entire time. I suspect by the time he actually gets the results he will be well over anything they could have found anyway.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Just over a week ago I accidentally brushed against a cactus at the garden centre and got a finger full of tiny spines. I think I've just finally removed the last one.
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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Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Good thing: four disreputable looking youths called an ambulance and looked after him
Totally different subject.
Sainsbury's is trying the Tesco cheaper with loyalty card thing. I don't think they quite understand the concept. Eye watering shelf price sans nectar card but normal price plus a bit if you use your nectar card.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.