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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    The CBE has been handed back. 
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The CBE has been handed back. 
    Let's hope she ends up going to jail.
    Sorry if the snowflakes find that too political.
    Actually, I'm not in the slightest bit sorry.
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Our smoke alarms have now all been replaced so we're hoping we don't get any more annoying early morning beeps.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    The CBE has been handed back. 

    She shouldn't have been allowed to hand it back.   She must be formally stripped of it.  'Handing it back' suggests that she has the slightest bit of conscience over her part in the massive cover up.  All those involved before her once the initial issues were identified need to pay the price too.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    On another note I  "rescued" several good bits of timber from a skip today.  I did ask the builder first   it's amazing how much these guys throw away. 
    AB Still learning

  • KT53 said:
    Does anybody else get a great sense of satisfaction when they are the 5th person to put a spam flag on a post and it disappears before your eyes?  Or is it just me? :D
    Yes, definitely!!😎
  • On another note I  "rescued" several good bits of timber from a skip today.  I did ask the builder first   it's amazing how much these guys throw away. 
    I used to rescue timber for my parents' wood burning stove. 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    edited 10 January
    On another note I  "rescued" several good bits of timber from a skip today.  I did ask the builder first   it's amazing how much these guys throw away. 

    Far to expensive for builders to store all the offcuts which may be useful at some other date.  Not only do they have to store it, they then have to go through everything to dig out pieces that would be usable on their next job.
    Much more time, and cost, effective to purchase what they need.  After all, it just goes on the customer bill anyway.  Stuff in skips isn't just chucked in landfill any more.  The skip companies generally sort it and sell on anything useful.  Dumping in landfill costs them a fortune.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Oh yes I  understand that point about offcuts, time is money after all.  One of my fellow Allotmenteers,  recently got a whole stack of 8' lengths in near perfect condition,  they had been used to frame a temporary partition in a house extension.  He said he spent less than 20 minutes taking out some screws but that was all.
    On the plots we all use all kinds of odds and s*ds, for compost bins shed repairs etc. 
    AB Still learning

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