Of course, the blocks of flats have communal TV aerials. Must get our priorities right.
The area is known as Sundermead, I suppose because the River Ravensbourne runs through the middle of it. One of the new streets is called Smead Way. Gee, do you suppose someone once abbreviated the new name to S'mead in a memo, and some stupid herbert didn't get it, and passed it on as Smead? A pound to a penny!
Most of the streets are named after trees that have never grown in the area - or at least, not in living memory. But at the heart of the development is an ancient mulberry tree,which has been fenced round for its own protection during the demolition and building work. Miraculously, it has survived the trauma. So to celebrate this iconic tree, the local authority has named the road it's on the corner of - Pine Tree Way!
They are either terminally stupid and ignorant, or just so full of themselves, they don't consider how ridiculous their decisions are.
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What a bunch of friggin morons. And why are there TV aerials (we call them antenna); don't you guys have cable TV? Too bad they didn't put solar panels on though.
Smead Way reminds me of the first ELO album name...a secretary was asked to call and find out the name of the album. She received no answer when she called so she wrote, "No Answer" on the message pad and that's what the album was named, quite by mistake.
Thats so like builders here! They clear cut old beautiful trees on thier sites build monstrous houses and then the new owners plant little tiny treess cue=s there is no shade anywhere. Talk about living green, when will people wake up?
You should see how bad they have raped the land here in WA. Torn down gorgeous fir trees in the name of profits and ugly developments. We're going to have to change our state slogan to "formerly known as The Evergreen State."
Course we have cable, JoJo - how else would we get Hallmark and first showing sof LOCI. I imagine the cables have been laid. But most people opt for satellite (don't blame them these days) and there is still a lot you can get through an aerial, include some free digital services. Putting up individual aerials would be impractical and possibly dangerous, so blocks usually have a communal aerial with outlets in each flat.
vpdzoo, they did leave the tree - they had to, it has a preservation order on it, as do all mature trees in the UK. You can only remove them with permission, usually granted only if they are sick or dangerous.
But in the park attached to the development, they got permission from English Nature to chop down mature trees because they were not native trees. They have replaced them with native species - but they imported them from elsewhere in Europe!
This is a real Green development!
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