Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Shipping container refurbs, office block repurposing, and pre-fabs maybe.

 

Last above 300,000 60s and 70s.

 

By building all over your garden.
Once the land tax comes in, then we will be bricking up windows because of the light tax.
And building overhanging second storeys.

I' think we have been here before.

 

A lot of the 60s and 70s stuff was tower blocks, I'm seeing a return to them already, after all governments have slagged them off for about 30yrs.

Some how calling a flat an apartment seems to have made them more desirable.

 

Going back a bit, thanks @simone_in_wiltshire, I did have an update a day or so ago but can't remember whether it was Microsoft or my Avast anti-virus programme.

It's still causing me annoyance today and I did have to log in again today @shiney and @Fat Controller. I never shut this website down properly, just close the lid. Think I originally ticked the 'keep me logged in' box.

 

@lizzie27 you can always check the box is ticked by login out and back in again. I've recently started to not tick the box and it automatically logs me off when not active for 30-60 minutes or so. Not a problem for me as for sites I don't need secure I get Edge to store the logon details so they are there for me without typing them in each time....

 

I agree it hits the same people twice. I don't think Labour has any intention of addressing the WASPI issue. It makes me sad that those campaigners have worked so hard for yrs, but while they have increased awareness, compensation is so unlikely.

I said to my sister in the run up to the election that I could see power might go to Reeves' head and she had the potential to become like Thatcher, driven but ultimately unable to see or foresee the effects of her determination. I just didn't expect it to happen within a month.

 

I just watched the RHS AGM recording that took place a couple of weeks ago at Harlow Carr and I was particularly struck that the roadworks near Wisley have impacted them to the tune of the loss of £5m which is pretty serious. It looked healthily busy when we were there on Sunday but you could tell the footfall was lower in the shop and garden centre.

Also 1h30 mins in there is a question about allowing people on benefits to visit RHS gardens for £1 which is surely an initiative that I really can't imagine anyone would complain especially considering how elitist the gardening establishment tends to be in this country. But apparently some grumpy member took exception...the response was rather good and it boils down to out of 2 million visitors a year only about 40k used this perk. Just amazes me how cruel we have become to want to exclude people who are not similar to ourselves. The fact that most of their gardens are challenging to access by public transport is a barrier many low income families won't be able to overcome to benefit from this offer is something they clearly haven't even considered. Just depressing that this level of bigotry is still so normalised.

You can watch it here btw

 

My money goes on Avast. It deletes the temp folder. Check the settings if there is something with “Delete Temporary Files”.