Mundane News

[Mo1959]

Bit random, but I've noticed as I have pottered about the countryside that there seem to be many more 'exclusive' housing developments going up with wistful names of what could be seen before it had a crap load of concrete stuck on it. No matter how exclusive the artist renditions they all look cheap.

We have a couple of sites of new builds going on here too. What were lovely green fields are now covered with little concrete boxes all squeezed in as closely together as they can get away with. I’ve heard from people who moved in to the first ones completed that that were loads of snagging problems and poor finishing.

 

[Illaveago]

Bit random, but I've noticed as I have pottered about the countryside that there seem to be many more 'exclusive' housing developments going up with wistful names of what could be seen before it had a crap load of concrete stuck on it. No matter how exclusive the artist renditions they all look cheap.

I'm angry that they have built houses on the fields where I used to play .
The things that we used to get up to and the discoveries we made . Making a quick dash for the fences when the horses ran after us . Finding newts in the ponds, one was a Great Crested. Playing with clay and coming back home plastered and getting told off by my mum . Mud twanging ! We had a diamond mine ! I think they were gypsum crystals large parallelogram shaped. Ice skating on the ponds in the winter.
So those fields that we used to play in are now lovely houses with small gardens with nowhere for their children to play in !

 

[PeteXXX]

I haven't got any Sherbet Lemons! I thought there was another bag in the sideboard drawer, but there isn't.. 😔

 

[Tenkaykev]

Bit random, but I've noticed as I have pottered about the countryside that there seem to be many more 'exclusive' housing developments going up with wistful names of what could be seen before it had a crap load of concrete stuck on it. No matter how exclusive the artist renditions they all look cheap.

A couple of years ago we were gazing across the flooded fields to Eye Bridge on the outskirts of Wimborne. We could just about make out the last few steps to the top of the bridge amid the swirling flood waters. Now it’s “ Executive Housing “. The “ artists impression “ on the sales hoardings do make it look idyllic. I was half tempted to print off a few A4’s of the photos I took during the flooding and stick them on the hoarding.

 

[oldwheels]

Off soon, hope our toy town boat is sailing. Wind is supposed to go down mid morning so it may go.
Somebody termed it The Sampan which coincides with my opinion.

 

[tom73]

@Oldhippy Your right we've over 300 being built at back of us the streets are all named after birds. The very one's that have now have no place to go.
Around me 17 fields have gone over the last few years. The last few just over 10% of the boroughs green belt are about to go making way for 5000 homes and an industrial estate. Sadly hardly any are being built that are affordable or totally sustainable.

 

[fossyant]

Covid's loss of smell and taste hit last night. Only noticed as I was cooking curry from scratch last night, so loads of ginger and garlic and couldn't smell a thing. I didn't even eat any - a couple of portions have been frozen for 'lunch' as some point.

 

[Andy in Germany]

We got our mountains back:

 

[pawl]

We have a couple of sites of new builds going on here too. What were lovely green fields are now covered with little concrete boxes all squeezed in as closely together as they can get away with. I’ve heard from people who moved in to the first ones completed that that were loads of snagging problems and poor finishing.

It’s happening here in Desford.Three areas of farmland are now covered in houses One new estate now has a massive new development of metal and glass on the opposite side of the road Caterplllar have developed their site a area the size of ten football pitches.They were allowed to remove a copse of mature trees
We keep hearing about re wildling.and what do we get more land covered in concrete Land that soaked up rain absorbed carbon and produced cereals

 

[Illaveago]

Here are some bits that I have been working on. My Trysarahtops Christmas decoration and a shield boss.

 

[mybike]

Like injecting Lysol?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...fectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

Utterly amazing how MSM misquoted him.

 

[pawl]

A couple of years ago we were gazing across the flooded fields to Eye Bridge on the outskirts of Wimborne. We could just about make out the last few steps to the top of the bridge amid the swirling flood waters. Now it’s “ Executive Housing “. The “ artists impression “ on the sales hoardings do make it look idyllic. I was half tempted to print off a few A4’s of the photos I took during the flooding and stick them on the hoarding.

Planner’s They couldn’t plan there way out of a paper bag.

 

[mybike]

You must have had a different experience or different Covid over there, here, we had no panic, but lots of death and dying, because of hoax myths promulgated by irresponsible politicians in one party.

We had lots of deaths caused by sending the elderly out of hospital into care homes without checking if they had caught COVID in the hospitals.

 

[mybike]

I was put in charge of something called "Sustainability" at te start of the year. This week we got this award -

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I did that <chuffed>

I just think 'carbon literate' is a very strange way to put it.

 

[PeteXXX]

When I delivered furniture, mainly to New Build estates, I found that most were named after what had been grubbed out by the earth moving equipment.
Hazel Dene
Dragonfly Meadows
Ete Etc