The coronavirus has made me so grateful for city parks. We should fight for them
Josephine Tovey
Someone planning to build upon them? They being concreted over?
No? So what’s the hassle?
The coronavirus has made me so grateful for city parks. We should fight for them
Josephine Tovey
Someone planning to build upon them? They being concreted over?
No? So what’s the hassle?
Not read article, but if she means we should fight for more of them, then I’m with her. If there’s a binary choice between building on equal areas of brown field site near a town or arable farmland further away, with one becoming park land and one being housing, we should build on the greenfield site first, and turn the brownfield one over to park.
Probably cheaper to do it that way too.
Does she mean fight coppers for the right to use them?
I’m with Bongo. We need more of them. This ‘crisis’ has done one good thing, if it’s shown us that…
off topic but with the news that confirmed coronavirus case survivors are being asked to donate blood, I wonder if our fat friend will be rushing to help.
@AndrewC: Given that there’s still apparently some doubt over whether you can catch it more than once, what’s the point?
We live in the country. Every April/May we go up the Chilterns to the bluebell woods to see the show. Yesterday, we found the vehicle access locked and coned off. We parked on the roadside with all the other cars and walked in. What exactly was the point of blocking off the car park? Is there really a danger in strolling round a hundred acre wood wih a dozen other groups of people? Do ‘they’ not realize how plain silly they look?
@JuilaM
As you say, there’s doubt. So they need to do research and anti-body rich blood would apparently be useful.
Most media stories at the moment seem to consist of a scientist saying “we cannot 100% guarantee that you will not die of the virus” which is then reported as “‘you are going to die of the virus’ says scientist”
@rhoda klapp
You should be wandering around your own 100 acre back garden.
It’s just a way of talking among pampered left wingers, to show that they are in the club. “Fight”, “struggle”, “campaign”, “resist”, etc.
I believe it has its roots in 19th Century German thought, but has long since changed its meaning.
rhoda klapp,
Where was that? When we lived up there a large area of the best bluebell woods were fenced off and that was 10 years ago.
Mrs BiND reckoned the best area was around Turville, you just had to be careful not to bump in to Jeremy Paxman. The pub there had a good reputation as well.
Maybe not concreted over, but filled with sand, because f*ck you, that’s why.
Nah, the clue’s in her headline-“city” parks. She’s employed by the Graun for gawd’s sake. She’d crap herself if she had to actually go to somewhere outside South Ken or Hampstead or wherever these people live.
BiND, Cowleaze Woods, just off M40 J5 near the microwave tower. There used to be an outdoor sculpture trail there, since removed but the car park remains. I saw Paxman on the bus once, during the petrol tanker strike.
rk,
We used to go there quite a bit. We dragged a usually complaining master BiND round that sculpture trail many times, shame its gone.
The wood is owned by the Forestry Commission, the government should give them a kick up the arse, those sorts of places need to be open.
rk,
PS The Leathern Bottle was a regular haunt as well. They used to do a great steak.
The wood is owned by the Forestry Commission, the government should give them a kick up the arse, those sorts of places need to be open.
Thankfully I live at the back end of 1000 acres of forest owned by the state of NY. They could close the trailhead, but there’s no way they could close off the entire forest.
Now if all the other sh!ts could keep their dogs leashed….
BiND, I can walk to the Leathern Bottle, although I prefer the Crown in Sydenham. The LB still does good food, when it isn’t closed due to hysteria and fascism.
Our bluebells are a delight.
I can’t remember liking flowers as a boy, except bluebells.
Well, bluebells and daisies. Our daisies are looking good but so, I imagine, are everyone else’s.
There were three sorts of flowers I liked as a boy: bluebells, daisies, and buttercups. There was some game we played where you held a buttercup under the chin of a girl. I can’t remember anything else about it except that you picked a pretty or popular girl, naturally.
There were four sorts of flowers I liked as a boy: bluebells, daisies, buttercups, and bindweed flowers, the sort you could just about squirt out at someone else.
Unless you count flowers on shrubs, bushes and trees. There were …
It’s bizarre some of the decisions, 100miles of forest and they have shut all the access roads to the car parks, just means people congregating near the gates and the trails closer to the access road being much busier.
Also means a lot more cyclists as people just cycling up to the trailhead and they all use a small footbridge which gets busy.
Meanwhile another local authority left a lake access road and car parking open but made the lake loop trail one way and put up notices sayiNo please enjoy the beach area responsibly, much more sensible.
‘The coronavirus has made me so grateful for city parks.’
Can I play?
The coronavirus has made me grateful for pina colodas and long walks on the beach.
Rhoda: it’s probably shut to prevent dogging, so they are doing it to enforce social distancing…
Gamecock:
Don’t you mean piña coladas and getting caught in the rain? :-p
TG, no, dogging is on a layby off the A40 near Shotover Park. Reputedly.
what’s Shotover and who
…except bluebells…
…Well, bluebells and daisies…
…There were three sorts of flowers I liked as a boy: bluebells, daisies, and buttercups.
Nobody expects the Spanish Horticultural Society!
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There was some game we played where you held a buttercup under the chin of a girl.
Thanks, dearieme. I might never have remembered that.
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You can come in again.
Jet boat rides in Queenstown, NZ.
PJF
You know they’re in lock down…
@Roué le Jour, rhoda klapp
+1 and councils closing them, beaches and sea to ‘Protect NHS’
Two counties, two rules. – Ventura for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcZs9wlnFHY
@JuliaM
More not needed. Most parks are behind houses, shops and not visible from roads. Looking at maps shows we have lots. Thank Henry VIII for opening Royal Parks to public, other rich followed suit and opened or donated land.
@dearieme
Buttercup under chin, iirc like butter if….?
Dandelions were fun for marking skin