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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: chrissiecruiser on Sunday 12 February 23 22:39 GMT (UK)
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Good morning from South Australia.
I hope you don't mind my starting a new week!
It is a beautiful day here right now. Not a cloud in the sky and a temperature of 25 degrees forecast, which is cool for this time of year.
All my horses are fed, watered and the poos picked up.
I have arranged gates so that they can move around to find shade which they will need when it hits 38 degrees later this week.
Now off to water my garden. I have vegie plots in raised beds and pots here on the farm, under shadecloth.
Our soil is not good-sand over limestone.
After having a bad health scare last year I have finally found more energy (with help from great vitamins and the gym).
At 73, You have to pay attention to your body!
So to anyone not feeling well, please look after yourself.
Cheers
Chris
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Ha! :-*
I just realised why no one is posting after me....I think.
It's the new week here down under and the old week up there!
Duh!
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Greetings from Auckland, where we're in the middle of Cyclone Gabrielle. Never seen anything like this before in my 40+ years of living in New Zealand. I guess we won't be asked to conserve water for the rest of this summer!
I'm fairly new on Rootschat and have only just discovered this page. It's wonderful to find out what others are doing around the world. Hope I can contribute again when I'm not anticipating a power outage!
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Ha! :-*
I just realised why no one is posting after me....I think.
It's the new week here down under and the old week up there!
Duh!
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They’re probably just waking up on Monday morning Chris. ;)
Welcome griffo. I didn’t even realise NZ had cyclones till this one - at least I don’t recall hearing anything about them in over the years. It’s all you need after the recent flooding. I heard about power outages. Hope you are safe.
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Thank you Ruskie, yes I think I'm as safe as possible, where I live there's little chance of flooding so lucky with that, but the wind is pretty scary. According to the news, only another 24 hours!
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Well good morning from those of us who live on the other side of the planet!
Welcome griffo always nice to see new posters!
Well your part of the world is certainly suffering at the moment… last year it was all the flooding in Australia and now NZ… can’t imagine what it’s like.
Caroline
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Gosh you've got so much done Chrissie, and I'm here just having breakfast! Well done on being the first to start this week. Mare from NZ did the honours last week.
Welcome to the diary Griffo, it is always nice to have someone new join in:) That does sound scary to be experiencing a cyclone. :o I am glad you feel safe; I hope you can continue to feel safe. Take care.
My weather forecast site is still showing a big yellow sun symbol for today. There is the slightest hint of a blue sky outside my window so you never know.
I'm on nightshift tonight. So there's a lot I could potentially do in the meantime; albeit nothing too tiring as I have a long night ahead. I feel like hibernating in this cold weather like the squirrels are said to (although, I have seen some scampering about occasionally). I'll have a cup of tea and then perhaps I'll feel a bit more oomph after that.
Ps Good morning to Ruskie & Caroline too :) - you just posted as I was typing mine. Hope you enjoyed the football yesterday, Caroline.
I have a family member who is going to NZ on holiday in a few weeks. I am feeling a bit apprehensive for her. Hopefully, this weather situation will be better by then.
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Hi Griffo,
It's a bit scary over your way at the minute. I have been keeping an eye on what's happening to the North Island as my daughter's fiance's family are all from Hawke Bay.
All ok so far.
Welcome to Rootschat Griffo, we all strive to help one another and there are some very knowledgeable people here. They have helped me immensely and broken down a 15 year brick wall! Plus traced my family back to the 1600's in Sweden. Very good records there.
Ruskie, just a tad slow today!
Cheers,
Chris
PS.... Why has my number of posts not changed for ages? Been 242 for a long time.
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Morning all
Sunny north east England today and 9.30 am Monday here, though there was a hard frost during the night ( frozen on the cars).
Chris the reason your post numbers might not have changed is only certain forums count as posts. I can't remember where I read that, but it's things like the common room and lighter things don't count as posts, but serious query boards do. Someone else will be along in a bit to tell you what counts where I'm sure.
Welcome to Griffo.
Off to switch the washing machine on - still helping daughter out as hers isn't mended yet.
CF
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Morning Candleflame, I'm not too far from the coast, Tyneside. We have a bit of sunshine and light bluish sky but I'm still feeling a bit short changed from the big sunshine symbol showing on my weather forecast. :-X
Have just got message from my family member. She says she is going to NZ not this Saturday but next. Oh dear!!😳
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Hi River Tyne Lass, I think it depends on where your family member is going. The South Island has had some wonderful weather and very high temperatures. Here in Auckland, it's still very unpleasant but I think the worst is over, I've just read that the weather is starting to track further down the country. I'm sure things will be much improved by the time your relative arrives. Theoretically, it's still summer here so fingers crossed!
It's been fascinating reading other people's posts and finding out about other people's lives - or maybe I'm just nosey! I joined this site to find information about my Sussex family, and the help I've had has been invaluable. So my thanks to everyone!
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Hi River Tyne Lass, I think it depends on where your family member is going. The South Island has had some wonderful weather and very high temperatures. Here in Auckland, it's still very unpleasant but I think the worst is over, I've just read that the weather is starting to track further down the country. I'm sure things will be much improved by the time your relative arrives. Theoretically, it's still summer here so fingers crossed!
It's been fascinating reading other people's posts and finding out about other people's lives - or maybe I'm just nosey! I joined this site to find information about my Sussex family, and the help I've had has been invaluable. So my thanks to everyone!
Hello griffo99! Just looked at some of your previous posts re your Sussex lines - my mother was from Sussex (Heathfield) and you and I might have a connection re the Waterhouse/Hyland family.
Hope the weather improves in NZ!
Diana, Ontario, Canada
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Hi Diana, amazing if there's a connection - small world! Stephen Hyland and Hannah Waterhouse were my 2nd great grandparents. I'm hoping to get back to the UK next year, it's been a while since I was last there and I'm looking forward to doing a bit more research, and visiting some of the main towns that feature so much in my past - Ticehurst, Burwash etc.
I hope the weather in Ontario is better than Auckland! The rain has stopped now so life's looking much more cheerful than it did yesterday.
All the best :)
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Nice to “ hear “ from posters so far away.
Thoughts with those having or threatened with really bad weather.
Sad news from Turkey and Syria, had to get my World Atlas to really pinpoint where places are.
50’000+ conservative estimate of fatalities .
Chris, do you make your own compost from plant leaves etc and vegetable food waste?
That would enrich your sandy soil .
Sorry if you already do that.
Horse droppings were prized in the not too far off days of horse drawn transport ,but it needed to rot down for a good while before being used as a top dressing or soil additive .
Well,I am off to bed.
Usually wash on Mondays ,also other days as needs be, but not today with family visit so if a good day for hanging the washing on the line tomorrow I will get some done.
Cheerio everyone .
Viktoria.
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Hi Diana, amazing if there's a connection - small world! Stephen Hyland and Hannah Waterhouse were my 2nd great grandparents. I'm hoping to get back to the UK next year, it's been a while since I was last there and I'm looking forward to doing a bit more research, and visiting some of the main towns that feature so much in my past - Ticehurst, Burwash etc.
I hope the weather in Ontario is better than Auckland! The rain has stopped now so life's looking much more cheerful than it did yesterday.
All the best :)
I am sure we are related somehow! I too have lots of folks from Ticehurst and Burwash - and Warbleton and Heathfield!
I will send you a PM, perhaps tomorrow, am going away for a few days, but I will check my files and see what I have.
Weather here is normally very cold in February but we are having a mild winter and the snow has melted again.
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Good to hear cyclone didn't affect you too badly in your pocket of Auckland griffo99 and same for us really, expected to be wilder than it was and wind didn't really pick up too much until overnight Monday and through Tuesday, and then was without the rain and so no flooding and just some debris from our trees on ½ acre. Others didn't fare so well of course, sodden or unstable ground and swelling waterways and falling trees. Out west my nephew had to evacuate again as he did a fortnight ago and went to stay with my sister, his mum with no wet floors but roads were then flooded her area also in west. Auckland schools mostly closed as precaution Monday, Tuesday, travel by trains, boats and
trains planes out and warnings to stay of roads unless necessary, businesses including supermarkets closing early etc.
Daughter and family in rural Whangarei have had 'insane' wind, her words, from Sunday through to Tuesday but subsided today Wednesday, however have woken to no power again. They lost power a couple of times for a few hours over Sunday night and early Monday and then from early Monday afternoon to early evening Tuesday and then again overnight. They're managing OK with that having had to deal with it in past, power packs for charging and camp stoves etc, though they lose water supply too as power needed to run a pump but get by with big flagons of water and a full bath to bucket water into cistern. There's a generator at in-laws across town that they can use if roads accessible to go out at all, so many trees and lines down their way and low lying ground flooded, school closed again for them today as no power.
Extended to National State of Emergency by Tuesday morning as slow moving cyclone made its way south and delivering wild conditions to other areas and road closures and evacuations.
Sorry to say Chrissie, Hawke's Bay have had a really rough couple of days,extensive flooding in region and concern for residents, hopefully all good with your family connection, communications difficult with cell phone towers down in places. We have family there too, Napier and Hastings, also Gisborne and the Coromandel where access has been further cut off with washed out roads, slips etc. Earthquake just west of cousin's place in Gisborne early Monday evening, a bit of extra anxiety but they just felt a light shaking, another north of Wellington this evening with a strong shake. The Civil Defence Emergency alerts on the phone are enough to make you jump, almost need an alert that they're coming through, though sort of getting used to them as had a few through Covid as well. Also a bit like when we tell people not to be alarmed if testing fire alarms where staff and public might get a fright … and they still do even with just a wee beep.
Harder hit areas are suffering with loss of power, water, roads, plus communications and supplies, plus more ongoing and long term affects of course. Many comparisons being made of the damage caused by a similar event with Cyclone Bola 35 years ago late February early March and particularly bad for those East Coast regions, and memories of that. Quite often the sub-tropical cyclones are down-graded before they reach NZ and we'll get a lashing of wind and rain or they'll take a deviation away from us.
Has been sunny with just gentle winds today, lots of cancellations for some events over these past couple of weeks and for the next week or so, Ed Sheeran concerts went ahead in Auckland Friday and Saturday nights. Princess Anne is in NZ on brief visit atm, schedule slightly rearranged. We're still to catch up with family in the north, planning for past 3 Sundays have been a no go.
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Hi Mare, we're in west Auckland and things haven't been too bad compared to so many others. Such a sad time, for people, livestock and the country. Now compounded by a 6.1 earthquake in Wellington, felt even here in west Auckland.
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Didn't actually sense it here at all, friends did quite a lot further south.
We're on the southern side of the city, sis lives more north west and nephew where all the worst flooding was on 27/1, but yes, some so much more worse off than others and feel for them with loss of homes and livelihoods.
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Hope everyone fares well in such extremes of weather.
Why some people still don’t believe in climate change is beyond me!
Sunny morning here ,washing almost done so on the line in the sunshine shortly.
I get a through breeze as there is a gap in the houses to my side and a fresh
Westerly wind blows right through my back garden ,lovely for drying clothes and the sunshine keeps them sparkling white.
I like hanging up washing.
Going today to pick up the amazing bargain I got from the Sue Ryder Charity shop , they have new wool so really went in for that but a new dolly’s pram, a
well made one was only£15 ,our baby Kyra was one in November 10 th, toddling everywhere , so will be ready for the pram in the not too distant future ,perhaps birthday.
Why it was there and so very inexpensive I can’t think.
I give them quite a lot but that is not relevant to the price asked .
Also a garden storage chest ,mine -which leaks! - cost £80 the one in S.R was £39-00.
I must get that today if still there .
No idea what to do for tea, our main meal.
Son is pretty easy but a few dislikes ,not keen on smoked haddock which I do like.
We won’t starve.
People in Turkey and Syria and still Ukraine would like the” problem” of a choice .
Cheerio and look after yourselves and hope no one is badly affected by extremes of weather.
Viktoria.
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Thanks Viktoria and Mare for your thoughts.
We do utilise the mountain of poo which I clean out by putting it onto the next garden bed when it's broken down.
I am on a farm, small by Aussie standards, 220 acres of deep white non-wetting sand.
The piggies or chooks get my vegie scraps usually.
I was reading my "Gardening Australia" book today and wishing I could have the beautiful gardens in there.
My big problem is keeping the ground clear...tiger snakes, red belly black snakes, king browns visit often.
A big blue tongue lizard frightened the hell out of me when I uncovered the horse hay the other day!
Mare, I visited my SIL tuesday, his house has been spared, they don't know how mind you. All the family are ok, some got told to get out. Off they went with tents etc to the top of the hill/mountain.
Tui said that there was plenty to survive on up there.
He dearly wants to go home to help but can't yet.
When will this end???
My thoughts are with you all.
Love
Chris
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That is very kind given your worries ,rest assured many people’s thoughts are with people in Australia,New Zealand and Ukraine .
News here - Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon has resigned and shortly there will be a Police announcement about Nicola Bulley ,
,who has been missing in very strange circumstances since 27 thJanuary.
Such heartache for her family and friends .
Viktoria.
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Pleased to hear you and SIL have had some contact Chrissie, just had word tonight from niece in Hastings and they're OK and well prepared but have been flooded in with roads inaccessible and phones out. Huge worry for folk down there with not being able to contact to check if OK amid devastation.
Daughter in north has her power back on now too, fingers crossed for longer this time, now also has the generator as standby.
First hand news via you Viktoria, mostly local updates here presently.
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My Winter flowering Jasmine is in flower, and big fat buds on the fig .
Sadly no Snowdrops this year , I did not see any evidence of squirrels in the Autumn so where the bulbs have gone is a mystery.
Visit from lady who is 95% blind and deaf.89, lives alone and her daughter has just bought a house in The Lake District .
I won’t say what I think of that.
Her son who was her help died a year ago after only hours in hospital.
She is amazing ,getting out for a walk and managing I know not how without a washer, a functioning oven or fire.
Well a quick tea ,cheese and mushroom omelettes ,a few chips and salad.
Son down to head office tomorrow , just overnight.
Hope all are well.
Cheerio ,Viktoria.
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Supermarket visit this morning revealed lots of gaps on the shelves - salad stuff, tomatoes in short supply. Fish, milk and chicken all at or a day before their sell-by date. Eggs in 6 packs in very short supply. I think they must have missed a delivery. They have cut out night-time shelf stackers now, so the aisles are often blocked with trolleys and stackers. Prices are certainly rising. Last week I ran out of milk and had to go to the Co-op supermarket, where I was charged £1.90 for a 2 pint container of semi-skimmed milk - £1.65 at my usual shop! How do people manage? I always buy something for the food bank, usually something healthy, like tins of tuna, veg or fruit, something which doesn't need to be heated, as many of their customers can't even afford to use their stoves.
A community nurse told me that Covid rates are rising now, particularly in schoolchildren. Not many people are wearing masks these days. Shelves bearing cold and flu remedies have been stripped following the outbreak of flu after Christmas.
Gardens are beginning to look cheery as the bulbs bloom. Primroses, snowdrops, daffodils all help to raise our spirits, don't they? Birds are beginning to pair up - we have 2 robins which visit our bird table, along with a pair of blackbirds and several sparrows. Bluetits have already taken up residence in the nesting box and a pair of very fat pigeons try to bully their way onto the table, but we scare them off, as we do the jackdaws which live in the tall trees next door - can't stand their noise and they are very greedy.
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Yes ,aisles blocked with stacks of pallets and disgraceful price hikes!
British Gas profit £3 .3 Bn I seem to remember from early morning news.
Also disgraceful.
Up by £2 Bn .
We had it hard but somehow it did not seem so bad ,perhaps because we were used to austerity ,all many young people had known since 1939 and things just getting better by the mid fifties.
I hope Roobarb is alright , she did post briefly a little while ago ,be nice to know all is well.
That goes too for everyone.
Son off to Head Office this evening, stopping off at ex Uni friend’s ,back Saturday so I can have a go at his bedroom, office, store room !!!
(All the same room!)
Must phone number one son,to see if things are still progressing .
Also some tidying up to do and a bit of ironing .
Cheerio folks,Viktoria.
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Thanks for your concern Viktoria, I'm okay thanks you. Have had some stuff going on but I've been reading everyone's posts, it's good to hear from people around the world as well as those closer to home.
Have battened down the hatches, we in the North East and Scotland are in for a battering tomorrow, a yellow warning of high winds. Hope RTL doesn't get caught up in it all on her journeys to and from work.
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I've just found a piece of paper from 1975 listing prices from various supermarkets in Cheadle Hulme:
Butter - 16p
Sugar - 22p
Lamb shoulder - 42p per lb
Rice Krispies - 36p
Cornflakes - 25p
Cheddar cheese - 36p
Baked beans - 12p
Frozen peas - 22p per lb
;D
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Roobarb —- when is your baby due?
I should not go far from home,if your avatar is a portrait it looks as if the head is engaged!
Keep us posted.
Don’t forget those breathing exercises !
Viktoria.
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Gillg and Viktoria we must be very lucky up here as haven’t noticed any shortages. We have eggs including a range of sizes and prices. We do suffer from the stacking going on blocking things, but the main delay is at the pay points, where staffed tills have been removed to just two maybe three and the rest are self scan or scan and shop. We use two or three different supermarkets depending on where we are and they’re all the same. Only ones where you can get real staff promptly are Aldi and Lidl, and even an Aldi now has a self scan set of tills.
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Yes, the last two visits to Tesco, there has not been one manned checkout .
Only self service.
Morrison’s the same , their self checkouts are abysmal ,one member of staff permanently sorting out problems .
Only one manned checkout at Aldi and no self checkouts ,at our local branch.
Same at M&S ,one manned and one member of staff helping at the self checkouts .
Next week they may be robots.
Viktoria.
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Roobarb —- when is your baby due?
I should not go far from home,if your avatar is a portrait it looks as if the head is engaged!
Keep us posted.
Don’t forget those breathing exercises !
Viktoria.
:o :o ;D ;D ;D
No, not a portrait, my green friend is the complete opposite of me. :D :D Could do with him sending a few pounds my way!
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Just a joke Roobarb ,I ought to have looked at his boots !
I wonder what we all look like?
Well not green with no clothes on and big boots !
Night night.
Viktoria.
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I've got some catching up to do with the diary and will properly soon.
Roobarb, there is a fearsome wind blowing outside and it has kept me awake half the night!
I have a backshift today so will have to set off at lunchtime. Everything is blowing like mad outside and there are no seagulls on the rooftops; they must be sheltering somewhere. I can hear the sounds of things being blown over.
I'm dreading going out in this and just hope it might have calmed down a bit by lunch time. I hope there won't be bus travel disruptions. I wish it was a day off and I could stay at home. :-\
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RTL you're right, it's blowing a hooley out there. The cat can't decide if he wants to be in or out! He wants to chase the leaves that are blowing about all over, however he doesn't like it when the wind blows his fur about lol. Inside jobs today as far as possible I think.
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Yes Candleflame, your poor cat must be wondering what's going on. I think you're right to be planning an indoors day. I have read a weather warning that there might be danger from flying debris. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a few more trees blow over.
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I expected to be kept awake by the wind but I was really tired and slept right through. It seems to have eased off now, the weather warnings are in place until earlyafternoon so hopefully it'll have settled down for you going to work RTL.
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Wild day here ,washing in twisted knots on the line !
Hopefully will be dry soon.
Furious is not the word, a nice couple across the side lane have had some hardcore put down to replace flagstones which were not up to taking the weight of their camper van .
Pretty big machinery involved,well with so much rain the natural surface of the lane is a quagmire .
Excess hardcore spread all over the place ,covering the wild flowers I have encouraged .
A huge hole now full of water across more than half the lane ,small children going to the nearby school will have filthy shoes . The people who own the
camper van are very pleasant .had them both at the two schools where I worked .
I am pretty sure they will get it sorted but what a cheek to mess things up like that ,especially as the stones now cover a small lift up iron lid covering a water main and another a gas supply pipe .
Honestly. to leave something like that ,I wish I had taken their number from the heavy equipment but probably that was hired .
Not spoken to the owners yet,they are reasonable so I must give them a chance to sort it ,it inconveniences them too so perhaps I had better take a big step back!
On a happier note ,Kyra’s little pram is here ,so I can make a mattress and pillow and some sheets and blankets etc whee hee, what fun!
See, it pays off to keep scraps of material!
I feel so lucky I can see well enough to do these things ,it has been three years ,of operations and drops but so lucky it was at the same time as lockdown etc ,wouldn’t have been going out anyway.
Well must check my washing is not in the muddy lane with double pegs it ought not to be.
Status Quo belting out Margarita Time,now The Wanderer I ‘m The Type of Guy — Chicken
Run — he has just torn off his shirt!
Cheerio, I am dancing to the washing ,going round and round and round .
Viktoria.
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It was alright by lunch time after all. Just a little bit windy but nothing of concern and buses running okay. :)
Weather seemed a bit milder tonight until it started to rain.
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When I was on way to work yesterday afternoon and almost there, I saw a public notice on a lamp post. I don't know why I stopped to look at it as I don't usually read these things. It was a notice about someone wanting to have a local house demolished and a tree cut down and a new one rebuilt. The house was just over the road. I went to look at the house and felt dismayed when I saw it. I think it looks like a very old Victorian building which is full of character. I feel very saddened that someone would want to knock such a beautiful old house down and replace it with a new one. I think of it having survived two world wars and housed some people's ancestors. Oh, it feels very sad to think that this is likely to be demolished. Perhaps I should take a photo and send it to the local studies for posterity.
The bus station was so busy last night as a football match had been on. I heard we lost.
There was so many people in the bus queue I wasn't sure if I would get on but I did.
It's bright outside with a bit of sunshine but it continues to feel very cold. I might have another cup of tea before heading off to Church.
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RTLi it seems to be the way these days - knock down what's there and build something bigger and more modern in its place. They do the same on some of the industrial sites too saying that it's cheaper to build new units on brownfield sites than upgrade the existing buildings. There's a road that leads into Darlington on the A167 that used to be all individual bungalows on big plots. Now many of them have been wrapped around or demolished and they are huge houses now. I feel quite sorry for the few little bungalows left as they now look so tiny!
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I agree this seems the way of things, Candleflame. I happen to work in quite a well to do area. Quite a few years back someone near us had another Victorian house of character knocked down and another large one rebuilt. The new one has money written all over it and it is reputed to have a swimming pool I have heard but it is totally lacking the character of the old one.
It's just my opinion but I wish if people wanted a new house they would go and buy one elsewhere without having a historic, character filled house demolished into the bargain. Surely, there must be lots of new buildings people could choose from?
I mentioned this to a colleague and I said that I would object but they would probably be of the opinion of what's it to you, you don't live in the area. But it does feel like desecration and it is quite sad to think of this house being knocked down.
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I agree with you RTL… you’ve only got to look in London at some of the heritage buildings being knocked down to make way for glass soulless replacements.
I read online a blog called Spitalfields Life written by the Gentle Author and he’s constantly campaigning against big business that wants to do this… Whitechapel Bell Foundry for one that’s been there for hundreds of years now wanting to be redeveloped into a modern monstrosity…. I know that’s a far cry from oldVictorian houses being knocked down but it’s still the loss of heritage buildings.
One should embrace progress I suppose and some is wonderful but please let’s keep some of the older buildings!
Where I live one of the local towns, when we moved here in 1973 had some quite nice buildings giving it that country town look… not long after we arrived the whole of one area was demolished to be replaced with a modern ghastly shopping centre that to this day makes me weep when I look at it…
Well that’s my moan for today! It’s a bright sunny one here and the garden is calling..have a good day all.
Caroline
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The things that are being sacrificed to this High Speed Train malarkey !
It has destroyed swathes of virgin land ,with sites of historic importance and in the end will I believe only reduce the journey by 30 minutes!
Thousands of years for thirty minutes.
I know historic sites have also been uncovered, but trees etc that we need so much given the speed of global warming- gone.
Energy conservation was not Victorian builders’fierce ’ priority but if we can get to the moon and back it should not be so hard to sort out economical energy that does not add to global warming.
I am fed up with “progress “ —— many towns have no banks thus forcing people to bank online- how do you do that if you have no computer or modern mobile phone, ?
If you do ,your old arthritic fingers touching the wrong buttons etc .
It was so easy by our estimation ,not so long ago.
The featureless modern buildings have little artistic merit ,one near Victoria Station Manchester looks like a collapsing barrage balloon!
Another sagging liner!
The Emperor’s New Clothes!
Who will tell the truth and say they are monstrosities!
There is also it seems a strong possibility the High Speed Train has well over run the budget and it might never be completed— leaving a swathe of destruction, very expensive destruction too, in cost and what has been lost forever.
When will they ever learn!
Viktoria.
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Well said Victoria! I couldn’t agree with you more..
Our local bank has also closed down now so we’d have to drive 10+ miles to go to an actual bank!
On another point about ‘change’ … the Sunday Times has an article about Roald Dahls books being altered to fit in with the ‘politically correct’ world we live in so as not to upset those children who might be weight sensitive, not quite attractive enough etc… I’m gobsmacked that Puffin the publishers can actually get away with it…
Caroline
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I must look out for that blog Caroline, it sounds interesting.
The street I often walk down (after my two buses) to get to work is a treat for the eyes! Each house has distinct character. It is a great pleasure for someone like me, who loves history, to walk down this street and admire it all.
I think some modern buildings seem soulless. I think people need buildings that are a joy to look at and inhabit.
I will also mention that there is a large farmer's field near me which has been sold for housing. Oh, I know people have to have places to live but I will miss seeing that field through the seasons. I suppose that might be called progress by some.
But the Victorian house .. I think this would be desecration and not progress. It's a Mrs * who has made the application - in my opinion I think she might have more money than sense.
Talking of banks - one of my local ones shut down altogether during lock down. I don't know why - it was a very busy bank. However, I can now use the post office in Shields like the bank and I like it there as the staff are so nice and cheery. So the situation actually feels better than before. :)
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Well, pride goeth before a fall!
Yesterday roasting a chicken, did a mix of butter,thyme , black pepper and lemon juice.
The butter did not cream very well, but carried on regardless .
To be brief, it all looked odd when the chicken was done and resting .
Got some more “ butter” to cream into the mash ,funny!
Then it dawned,I had mixed up a lump of butter, with a lump of cheese ,both in foil !!!
So all that swanking about seeing well enough to see and knit ::)
Actually it did not make the chicken uneatable.
Finally got news from Edinburgh Police re the person who is not responding,their computer is down and being hard of hearing cannot really
phone .
Well they are O.K I am pleased to say.
Another week gone by,pancakes on Tuesday !
Had visit from lady who is almost totally blind and very deaf and her daughter has just bought a house in the Lake District, I feel so sorry for her, how she will manage I can’t think.
Grand daughter phoned to apologise for not phoning earlier in the week.
She has a viral infection in her salivary glands .
Face all puffed up.
She was very worried as she had extensive surgery on her jaw, she was absorbing her chin bone ,like Princess Anne and Gail in Coronation Street.
Some was grafted from elsewhere ,her face was almost turned inside out as a crescent shaped piece of bone was grafted .I can’t remember the exact details now, it must be ten years ago.
It was healing nicely and she was getting out and about again when an old friend met her,a big lad, who knew nothing of the surgery ,he got her chin and waggled it in a friendly gesture !!!! She heard a crunch ,so went straight back to Fairfield Hospital and was XRayed immediately .
He drove her.
It was O,K. But if it ever goes wrong not sure what more could be done .
She is nice looking but has to be so thorough with mouth hygiene , it is a wonder the viral infection has affected her.
Well an earlier night I think , I wake at about five, turn over then back as I don ‘t breathe very well on my left side and don’t wake up until about nine!
Hope everyone is sleeping well ,it is a blessing if we can.
Viktoria.