The Vent and Rant Thread

[John F]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

You gotta luv the special snowflakes.

[ownedbycats]

And who exactly it was that told the special snowflakes they were special? Didn't ask to receive the participation trophies, yet blamed for it.

[John F]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

And who exactly it was that told the special snowflakes they were special? Didn't ask to receive the participation trophies, yet blamed for it.

I'm not quite sure what that means.

They are special snowflakes because they think the guidelines don't apply to them.

[ownedbycats]

just bloody say it directly to the person.

God forbid someone explain why not comfortable to do something (because no explain it's be WHY WHY WHY). Do explain, say no more post about it, snide comments about rule-breaking.

[ownedbycats]

Rant: Heat wave.

[John F]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

just bloody say it directly to the person.

God forbid someone explain why not comfortable to do something (because no explain it's be WHY WHY WHY). Do explain, say no more post about it, snide comments about rule-breaking.

Explaine away, just put your P&R explanations in the P&R forum. Please and thank you.

[ownedbycats]

I don't even know where the p&r forum.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I don't even know where the p&r forum.

You can't see it unless you opt in on your control panel.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I don't even know where the p&r forum.

Umm... you may not want to go there. Politics & Religion is a bit of a swamp.

[Graham44]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Umm... you may not want to go there. Politics & Religion is a bit of a swamp.

I joined it and I think that's probably quite an apt description, I have now left the group. Also to be fair most of the posts seemed to be about American politics and that has no relevance for me here in the UK

[Graham44]

Rant - Discovering Clubroot in one of the beds on my allotment, that means no growing Brassicas in that bed for 5 - 7 years

For non UK residents that may not know and who might find this interesting an allotment in the UK is literally a piece of land allotted to you (if you apply) by your local council for growing food. Another interesting fact, the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 imposes a legal duty on Councils to provide a site for allotments if six or more people within the councils area say they want an allotment. We have to pay rent (about £8.90 per SQ Meter at the site I'm on) but it's worth it.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Graham44

Rant - Discovering Clubroot in one of the beds on my allotment...

It took me some time and research to parse that sentence.
Originally I was thinking that "beds" referred to sleeping devices.

I'm sorry to hear of your run-in with Plasmodiophora brassicae.
I love the whole family of Brassicaceae.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Graham44

For non UK residents that may not know and who might find this interesting an allotment in the UK is literally a piece of land allotted to you (if you apply) by your local council for growing food. Another interesting fact, the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 imposes a legal duty on Councils to provide a site for allotments if six or more people within the councils area say they want an allotment. We have to pay rent (about £8.90 per SQ Meter at the site I'm on) but it's worth it.

Seems nice, but sorry a field costs circa 3-4 euros per mq generally... Is £8.90 per square root a-once per year rent cost?
In here (Italy) there are some urban gardens that are being rent, normally those are few mq each.
Can I ask if those allotments are being serviced with water, yet?

[Graham44]

Originally Posted by nana77

Seems nice, but sorry a field costs circa 3-4 euros per mq generally... Is £8.90 per square root a-once per year rent cost?
In here (Italy) there are some urban gardens that are being rent, normally those are few mq each.
Can I ask if those allotments are being serviced with water, yet?

Sadly it is a yearly cost, you do get a water trough but they are shared between 10 - 20 plots, luckily the water trough servicing our piece of the site is right on the edge of my allotment.

Sadly here in the UK (well at least England where I live) the government/ councils don't really want people having allotments anymore, even though by law they have to provide them (as I mentioned in my other post) they try to dissuade people from taking them (by not informing the people on the waiting list when a plot becomes available, by not cutting the grass on the communal areas of the sites etc)

Why do they do this? Because they really want the land to build houses on, in my town there were 153, 000 residents living here in 2021, in the 4 years since then they have built homes/ flats with the capacity to house between 3,500 - 4,000 people, that's a 2.3% - 2.6% increase in population in just 4 years, and the building projects are nowhere near finished! So they are desperate for any land they can get, farm land, flood plain, allotments it's all under pressure

[Graham44]

Originally Posted by Renate

It took me some time and research to parse that sentence.
Originally I was thinking that "beds" referred to sleeping devices.

I'm sorry to hear of your run-in with Plasmodiophora brassicae.
I love the whole family of Brassicaceae.

Yes I should have qualified what I meant by beds!!

It's a really old system of growing vegetables, I have a picture in a book that was drawn around 1565 it shows the town Wilton in Wiltshire UK and it clearly shows 'beds' being used to grow food.

To clarify the 'bed system' is when you take a plot of land and divide it into sections, each section measures roughly 2 feet (0.6 meters) wide by 6 - 8 feet (1.8 - 2.4 meters) long, this is what you grow in and they are surrounded by paths