Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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We don't pay for them in Lydden.
The hedges are there for free
Reg - please tell me what you mean..............
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What does this mean ?
"# 153 .....`most`villages pay for their toilets.....how many villages pay for their toilets? "
Cryptic as ever....
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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usually takes longer to get it up and running.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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That's a good sight, presumably the barriers won't be staying or is that a sop to health and safety with all the crowds expected over the summer?
No, just realised, it's to stop people nicking the water for their gardens
And presumably the quick action was needed because someone realised they couldn't fill it once the hosepipe ban and associated regulations came in.
Get the damned barriers down!!!! How half-ar$ed is it to get the fountain running again (lovely, thank you, much appreciated) and leave the blasted barriers up making it look like a building site?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Thank you Howard, that is worth waiting for. It would look lovely frozen, but we will have to wait till the morning to see that.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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aha looks like they have put the right kind of water in at least.one down just the planters to go.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Apparently the wrong kind of water is one of the reasons why we haven't got a national water grid - northern water would upset the delicate southern environment.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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when the issue of a national water grid came up a month or so ago the minister involved said that it would be far too expensive to implement.
ray may be right about the cloth capped water from oop north, i remember the great sage bernard manning having a heading on an album cover that said "buy this record or i will come round your house and be northern".
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Dr Barnaby Smith of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology said: 'There are issues to consider, as water has a different chemical composition in the North and the South which can affect the ecosystem.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123862/Southern-drought-versus-Northern-rain-Reservoirs-Yorkshire-overflowing-despite-dry-winter-therell-hosepipe-ban.html#ixzz1r5gpJY00
Doing a search for this quote I found articles going back almost to the birth of the web with people saying it would take too long and be too expensive, and another about Severn Water using their own grid to transfer water from west to east of their region, just doesn't make sense when it's downhill all the way from the north
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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well now the unitary council raises it's head again.
offloading serevices is it a good thing?
we still end up paying
but what is correct is this govt is happy to see us head towards 4 milion unemployed. so harping on about a few like some do is a bit strange
paulw
notice your silent on many issues
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Any sort of national-grid for water is not "too expensive" it is just not a money spinner (as yet). The privatised water companies will need more public money expended for their benefit for anything to be done.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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This morning in the blazing sunshine...all is well
Well done DDC
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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How long before the intelligentsia put Fairy Liquid in it?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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You know in a kind of a dumb way I almost forgot about that possibility. I am just hoping nobody thinks of it. However if they do we just have to take it on the chin and keep going...we are now right up there with the Fountains of Rome....
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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It matters not, the Fountain will remain open,subject to vandalism [i.e. it will not be repaired] until the events occur & then be replaced by the new version after contracts have been agreed.
I don't know the dates.
Watty
