The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

pollyanna_26 said:

I know you no longer live there Floss but I've just watched a piece about Blackpool , the pandemic and the impact on the "Left behind" near the end of bbc 10 oclock news.

Lots of other places are seeing the impact of cuts and inaction over the years too. It's like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

pollyx.

Oh Polly, when I worked for the Council 2007-2014 we had 4 of the Top 3 & 6 of the Top 10 Most Deprived Council Wards in the country. A lot of other towns & cities have now caught up but it's still a very poorly funded place, as all the hotel beds don't generate income for the town any more. 

MingVase

I'm within very easy reach of Alnwick - didn't know it had such an interesting garden.. Hmmm. A lot depends on whether I've got room for any more groundworks..

taurusgb

MingVase said:

I'm within very easy reach of Alnwick - didn't know it had such an interesting garden.. Hmmm. A lot depends on whether I've got room for any more groundworks..

ooooooooh then you are also within very easy reach of Barter Books - I once spent a whole day in that bookshop!

MingVase

Ohh that does sound good, I could do that!

monnagran

Oh, for goodness sake mothernerd, do you not know better than to mention poison gardens when a certain Chinese flower container is in the vicinity.  Someone warn the RV.  QUICK.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY 

Supposing a tree fell down Pooh, when we were underneath it?
Suppose it didn't, said Pooh, after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.

mothernerd

I'm not sure I was happy with being held up as a shining example to others, yesterday. I can be naughty too.

Floss

That'll be why you fit in here 😉😂

pollyanna_26

It may actually solve the problem of whoever she is today if you have good knowledge of plants that kill. Try this it's like a sweetie.

pollyx Who has been lying down in a darkened room tring to recover from the Mings and nan/ amy pond .

pollyx

pollyanna_26

annieb64 said:

Pollyanna,  I worked in the Liver building for a while. The views across the Mersey were lovely but the office was so cold. Papers would blow off the desk even when the windows were shut if the wind was in the wrong direction.  It was in the late 1970s during the "winter of discontent " and we had lots of strikes. I can remember  trying to find my way out of the building during power cuts and worrying  whether my train home would be running.

I've just had to do some sums as apart from utter boredom and the only postive being the views of the river it's well in the past.

I started in 1965. It was also very cold in there then and the paperwork would be flying around. I've no idea why the windows weren't kept closed as even in summer we were layered up to try to concentrate on work rather than numb body parts.

I was long gone during the witer of discontent but clearly remember the coal man who kept my new born baby ,my one year old son my first husband and I warm and never without a fire. We did get the power cuts in the 70s but most of us planned and adapted.

My strongest memory from working in the LB is winter smog and sometimes snow and ice when I came out of Moorfields station and set on the long walk past Minerva and down to the front.

I had a very long commute by bus and train and was often worn out in winter with late buses or trains and cancellations. When the smog was down most of us would be damp and fithy when we finally arrived. Thinking back now it wasn't just being bored that led me to take on my mum it was all the other things too. I was working with lovely people but one by one we left and most of followed our hearts and settled into a career for the rest of our workng life.

pollyx

nannywindow

Hello all. I've been reading on here about plants that could kill. We had notification today to close all windows and stay indoors as the local Easibake plant had a poison leak, ammonia. Perhaps someone took you lot literally

Pollyanna sorry if I gave you a "turn" but methinks you doth protest too much ! I was wounded by you seeming to think I was lazy, this is not the case as I have plenty of servants to be lazy for me.

nan aka Amy