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Allotment Stuff => Allotment Movement => Topic started by: Nathan on August 27, 2005, 23:06:15

Title: Disgusting Olympic Games
Post by: Nathan on August 27, 2005, 23:06:15

I was sad to see in todays Independent that an allotment site in East London is threatened by the Olympics.

Its a metaphor for everything that's wrong these days.  Something genuine, local, honest and healthy to be sacrificed for the glossy, dishonest, commercial, superficial.

I wonder if the people there are happy to lose an allotment site but gain a concrete walkway?

Title: Re: Disgusting Olympic Games
Post by: amphibian on August 28, 2005, 01:12:22

Quote from: Nathan on August 27, 2005, 23:06:15

I was sad to see in todays Independent that an allotment site in East London is threatened by the Olympics.

Its a metaphor for everything that's wrong these days.  Something genuine, local, honest and healthy to be sacrificed for the glossy, dishonest, commercial, superficial.

I wonder if the people there are happy to lose an allotment site but gain a concrete walkway?

Awful.

Title: Re: Disgusting Olympic Games
Post by: daveandtara on October 31, 2005, 23:24:48

blimey wardy, where are you?
council houses are rarer than rocking horse pooh round  'ere i london  :o

Title: Re: Disgusting Olympic Games
Post by: TEL on November 02, 2005, 17:34:06

I'm in the building trade but i cant believe how they keep cramming houses  in to the tinyest littel plots & get away with it.
There seems to be a free for all any house with a big garden put two more houses in it.
Money must talk >:(

Title: Re: Disgusting Olympic Games
Post by: Steve on November 04, 2005, 21:12:04

Ti's to late for my village the council has already sold off our allotments for housing my nearest ones are now 6 miles away in another town :'(
Steve