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8:22 pm
Tue 2-Feb-10
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elrohana
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Nope, not had a single issue with Vista so far *crosses fingers*
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
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4:35 pm
Wed 3-Feb-10
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Toffeeapple
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brightspark said:Ah, TA, I think I need a spanner !!!!!!!
Zapped!
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12:03 am
Thu 4-Feb-10
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Danny
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Whoops. All you guys have similarly emotional tales. Pets are family, and let nobody say otherwise.
Sorry, I did go a bit a bit OTT about Charlie. My fault for derailing this "Rant" thread.
Let's get it back on track.
Next Rant?
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11:47 am
Thu 4-Feb-10
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KateUK
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This is a sort of rant.
Why don't people plant snowdrops in their gardens?
I was walking to the Doc yesterday and I saw snowdrops in ONE garden,Hellebores in ONE garden…why don't people plant them more often. Mind you, I lost count of the number of gardens that had been paved over. How depressing must it be to look out of your window to a sea of paving? No car completely fills a front garden 24 hours a day- there is room for some life..oooo…turning into a proper rant….paving up the fences, the front door…how miserable must that make you? Especially when you have also paved the back garden as that makes it "easy'. Oh, and cut down any trees as 'the roots might get under the house'.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
No wonder people get miserable and cross if all they look at outside is paving/gravel/concrete….
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12:29 pm
Thu 4-Feb-10
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devongarden
| | Devon, UK | |
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And increase the water run-off and add to flooding for their neighbours (and themselves, but they deserve it) and only have slippery surfaces to walk on in the winter. And the back is decking that lets rats live underneath. Garden has to be instant, bought from garden centre (preferably a national not local company) and complained about because it all died due to lack of care/being wrong for the soil or aspect. And all plants have to be totally non-poisonous because little Joey might put things in his mouth or pick them or pull them up because he hasn't been taught otherwise. And no scent to flowers, or taste to veg because all that matters is looks! 
End of rant for the time being. I could go on and on, so will stop now
p.s. Little Joey could be he or she.
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6:59 pm
Thu 4-Feb-10
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JoannaS
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You should come to Latvia Barbara, people here like their gardens 
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10:24 pm
Thu 4-Feb-10
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Danny
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I do so agree, Barbara. I hate decking anyway (so false) and paving over driveways and garden areas is so ant-environmental. In fact, I think it should be subject to the same planning regulations as any other building works. I think is that serious.
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3:56 pm
Fri 5-Feb-10
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Toffeeapple
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Danny said:In fact, I think it should be subject to the same planning regulations as any other building works. I think it is that serious.
I'm in full agreement with your statement Danny. I wish there was some way to enforce it.
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6:33 pm
Fri 5-Feb-10
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SOL
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it already is in force I think. Something to do with concreting it. But to get around it you can have block paving on a certain percentage of the front garden as it is bedded on sand it is porous. I will stand up for all the people who have hardly any or no parking and with more and more people having cars, instead of them being on the street making a hash of parking, to me it make sense to provide your own parking rather than cluttering the high way. in some areas where my bus route is, over the last 3 years it has got to the stage where only one vehicle can drive down the road as cars are parked all over, half on half of the pavement. it would make sense for them to use part of their garden for a drive. there is good and evil in every side of the story.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/63943
Or the answer which everyone in Britain would hate is make it a one car per house hold? that would make it so no one had to change their garden… bet you all grimace at that … who on here is a one car family?(not including single people obviously). we are, but I work in the centre of town and use the bus. for lots this is not an option. The petrol price is slowly creaping up so maybe they will stealth tax the cars off the road. double edged sword. it is a fine balance. people who have large drive ways already, are kind of lucky to not have this headache.
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7:07 pm
Fri 5-Feb-10
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elrohana
| | North West Leeds, UK | |
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Post edited 7:09 pm – Fri 5-Feb-10 by elrohana
We're a one-car family, although we did have two, we gave mine up 3-4 years ago, partly for money reasons and partly for environmental ones. We both work, in opposite directions to each other. At one point, OH worked in Thirsk (38 miles away from home) and I worked 6 miles away from home in the opposite direction to Thirsk. We managed by a mixture of walking all the way, cycling all the way, and setting off early in the car to drop me part way to work (to walk the rest), depending on the weather. I was down to 8 stone 5 at one point with all the healthy exercise. Not any more, sadly. I couldn't get to work on public transport, then (well, I could, but it costs a fortune and took as long as it did to walk and longer than it did to cycle). Now I only work a couple of miles away, and COULD use the bus, but generally walk or cycle. OH walked to work and back on Monday as a trial, took him 2 hours 10 mins there and 1 hour 40 mins back (he found a shortcut and its downhill coming back). Its safer to walk the route than cycle, as its country roads for a lot of the way, so dangerous on a bike, but grass verges to walk on.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
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10:15 pm
Fri 5-Feb-10
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Danny
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Elrohana – that is a sad indictment of any government inducements to use a bike outside of urban areas. Sure, it is easy and cheap to paint bike lanes on existing pavements but a major and expensive project to introduce bike lanes, beside roads, in rural areas. And you are quite right about the real dangers of cycling in outlying areas. I would not do it around here even though I was offered a £200 bike for free by a friend last year. It’s like dicing with death and I would not attempt it.
S.O.L. – re driveways: why cannot people simply lay down good old-fashioned gravel if they need to park in driveways or even on existing grassed areas. I have no problem with that. My issue is with households that insist on laying concrete or paving that prevents rain soakage and adds even more strain on overloaded storm drains. It just does not make sense IMO.
Isn’t a decent rant great fun?
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6:31 pm
Sun 7-Feb-10
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Rae Mond
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At the moment we are a no car household, as our latest vehicle is off having its engine rebuilt. This is no fun at all, as we live long way from the centre of cardiff, getting the bus to work of a morning takes over an hour, the same on the way back. cycling isn't really an option as there is a rather large hill in the way. It might be alright on the way in to town, but would be murder on the way back.
Hopefully we'll be mobile again on tuesday though, fingers crossed. And then next weekend our friend joel is coming to stay with us for a few months, and he has a car also, so we shall be a two car household.
at the moment my drive way takes up the whole front garden,and it would be possible with a bit of manouevering to get about 5 family sized cars on there. we think this is ridiculous,and plan to take up half the block paving and replace it with plants and suchlike. will be much nicer.
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8:47 pm
Sun 7-Feb-10
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devongarden
| | Devon, UK | |
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Danny, I so much agree that paving over gardens should need planning permission. I know it now needs permission to put solid paving on front gardens, but what about the back? There are various surfaces that let water drain through and plants grow through which look much nicer than concrete and are kinder under foot and to pushchair/wheelchair users than gravel. And as for orchards or gardens being classed as brown-field sites so it is easy to get permission to build on them… 
But my current rant is about bonfires. They are not necessary on a weekly basis! (I used to have 1 a year, Bonfire Night, and have recently added Winter Solstice. I burn bits of tree that are too big to shred such as the trunk of the previous year's Christmas tree, and use the fire to cook a meal.) But around here some people seem to have frequent smelly, smokey fires. The council provides green bins that take garden waste, it is easy and economic to have a leaf pile and compost bins, and more sensible than burning it all and then buying soil improver or whatever. And before anyone points out that not all gardens are big enough for that, the fires all are in gardens big enough for composting. As for having fires on Sunday afternoon, mid-afternoon, week after week–not necessary! Of course not everyone does this. Some wait for particularly fine afternoons, when everyone has washing out, and then light fires. Grrrrrrr
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9:11 pm
Sun 7-Feb-10
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shelley
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in France there are laws as to exactly when you can mow your lawn, light a fire etc. Mostly common sense.
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9:45 pm
Sun 7-Feb-10
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Danny
| | Newmarket, England | |
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Good cause, Barbara.
It’s not a problem where we live, thank goodness. In fact, we were the main cause of complaints in our small patch over the years. Our garden help. John C, loved nothing more than a great bonfire to dispose of our garden waste. He was a real small boy at heart. His face always lit up at the possibility of a garden fire. In fact, he killed off a few of Fiona’s yew trees with his fires some years ago.
Our garden runs down along the back of several house in the terrace next door. They used to be council houses. One of the occupants, Doug S, is a tough old boy of 80 or so. The kind of guy that lets loose a shotgun up his chimney to drive off pesky rooks/crows who might be thinking of nesting. Anyhow, Doug took exception on more than one occasion to John C’s fires. “I will jump over the fence and duff you up,” he once declared, according to John C.
Midsomer Murders may visit our tiny village one day 
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