Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

Have only been to Roundhay Park once can’t remember what year it was but it was for the World Cyclo Cross Championship
That was the year Roger Hammond won the Junior race.

Year was 1992

I walked into a (swinging) swing in Roundhay Park. Early sixties. There was quite a lot of blood from the split lip I gave myself and I still have a small scar.

Meanwhile, it's a little chilly this morning. I may need to layer up if it doesn't warm up.

 

[Illaveago]

Round here they build houses on them

In the last 18 months three farms have sold productive land for housing.The smallish eighty houses ,The largest one hundred and twenty.

The school and the Doctors are feeling the strain It doesn’t seem that planning takes into account these factors

It is chaos!
No planning for the future. At the moment food prices are soaring . You would think that politicians would see that their plan to build , build and build won't help when we are in desperate need for food .
All of the previous building fuelled the crash!

 

[tyred]

The weather was glorious when I was out for my walk earlier and I was considering put in a washing but now normal service has been resumed

The never ending roadworks continue where the council continue to play their game of "let us try to inconvenience pedestrians as much as possible."

 

[Andy in Germany]

I had a look at St. Austell. Yowser, but there's a lot of sprawl. It would probably be a bit more compact if they didn't insist on all those detached houses, with the occasional semi.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Not a very challenging morning: we need a Fachanleiter (roughly translated "facilitator") present whenever there are clients present but I'm really there for emergencies and training. As my current clients know what they're doing, I'm not very busy.

 

[Paulus]

Today is the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Gravelly Hill interchange, otherwise known as Spaghetti Junction.

 

[Illaveago]

Well that's bu993red that then !
The MOT place just rang to say that our Mot was due at 9.30. For some reason we have it as 10.30. It will now be 2.30 .

It's a good job we weren't leaving at 8 .

 

[Jenkins]

Round here they build houses on them

In the last 18 months three farms have sold productive land for housing.The smallish eighty houses ,The largest one hundred and twenty.

The school and the Doctors are feeling the strain It doesn’t seem that planning takes into account these factors

Round here, if they don't build houses on the fields they stick up a bloody great distribution warehouse.

 

[DCLane]

Round here they build houses on them

In the last 18 months three farms have sold productive land for housing.The smallish eighty houses ,The largest one hundred and twenty.

The school and the Doctors are feeling the strain It doesn’t seem that planning takes into account these factors

They're doing that near me. Dewsbury's adding 25,000 to the population through a series of planned developments. But there's no transport infrastructure development and only a bit for new schools. Other aspects don't appear to have been considered.

Despite the planned developments, some piecemeal and others massive, houses are still selling very quickly.

 

[Jenkins]

Another grey morning, but at least it's dry at the moment. Need to go out and get a card for my stepfather's birthday and that's it as far as plans for the day.

 

[Hebe]

Hope the coffee helped @fossyant and that your MiL isn't waiting too much longer for palliative care.
The universe must have decided that I had enough on my plate because the plumber has postponed until Friday. So after I have made my coffee I will move everything that I moved out of the utility room this morning back into it.

 

[rockyroller]

Our little monster just caught a Slow worm. It was a biggish one. I scared Georgie off so that I could rescue it . I don't know if it was playing dead as it wasn't moving . I had some spots of blood on my hands . My wife took it off me to take it up to our compost bin . They usually gather in there .

we used to have a cat that brought up small Gardner snakes from our basement. they were never alive

 

[Andy in Germany]

Working out the route to go and look at an apartment tonight. I'll also pass one that I'm going to look at on Friday, so I'll swing by that to get an idea what it is like. If the Friday one is where I think it is, then I think that may be better. We shall see...

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
Raining here

 

[pawl]

Round here, if they don't build houses on the fields they stick up a bloody great distribution warehouse.

The A50 going into Coalville is the same in fact that side of the town is covered with these massive monstrosity's Almost without exception built on what was previously farm land.I imagine one of the reasons is proximity to the M1