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@Man of Kent, I have been to Martin Kemp’s 80s set twice, lots of fun and nostalgia, great night out. And cheaper than Westminster Abbey, lol.
*The drinks weren’t 80s prices, sadly …
What are you on about? You can use pretty much all your Amex offers in Scotland, and there’s even a current Amex Experiences offer in Edinburgh.
Er.. no! There are an awful lot that I can’t use and I Can’t use dining unless I travel over 120 miles.
Then don’t get the card? Nobody is forcing you to buy something. This argument is so tiring.
I never said I got the card for its offers only . I just can’t use some of the offers. There are other benefits .[/quote]
Huh? You said in the op that you cancelled the card because you couldn’t use ANY of the offers, but suddenly there’s other benefits, so what is it?
surely you leave the island to go to Edinburgh or glasgow once every 6 months?@ RonnieB.I think all the quotes have got mixed up and attributed to the wrong posters..
I haven’t cancelled any cards and don’t live on an island!I think you are mixing up Jill and Jill Kinkell who are 2 different people
TBF the majority live on an island
Just yesterday councillors at Wandsworth rejected plans for a huge residential redevelopment.
To be fair, the older I get the more NIMBY I become. I guess I’m not alone.
Me too Aston, I think this is a feature of the older me. Someone wants to build three houses in the field next to our house, and I feel quite affronted about it. Especially as I thought about trying to buy the field three years ago to stop such a thing happening, and then apathy set in, and I forgot all about it so I only have myself to blame. I think it’s part of the governments, ‘affordable housing’ plan, which must be rubbish as there is no way first time buyers would be able to buy what the plans are showing.
I was thinking along these lines earlier. Do these things bother us more as we age, or are we just not caught up in the excitement of youth any more 🤷♀️
Yes I think so Northern Lass, I’m not hughly into politics, but I really don’t understand why none of this new house bulding is centered in the North (apologies for such a generic term) surely it would bring prosperity and create jobs.
Sitting about in the Shires with all this endless house building going on, 350 houses on the end of one of my friends villages, lots of ‘infill’ building where someone sticks a couple of tiny detached houses whose gardens you couldn’t swing a cat in. No extra school provision, etc.etc. I think one day the politcians will fancy a day trip to the countryside (if they haven’t already got a second home there) and find out it no longer exists.
We have friends in Bury St Edmunds, I don’t know if it’s representative, but they moved there about 10 years ago from Greater London, and apparently in that time it has doubled in size,
Old persons rant of the day, I’ll get my coat.
Fair enough that some are willing to put their hands up and confess to being nimbys. But then why complain about rents in the south? Its like two parts of the brain that refuse to connect or reconcile.
Met a couple in late 20s worried that they will be outbid on a property and blaming everyone else for rents being so high. Wanted to say that their parents generation being the nimbys might be the ones to blame, but speaking logic isnt helpful these days.
The other day a councilor was proud that mobile mast applications were rejected, while on the same day i saw an old couple claiming they couldnt download the ticket as data connection was rubbish.I think one day the politcians will fancy a day trip to the countryside (if they haven’t already got a second home there) and find out it no longer exists.
If you want countryside in an hour or two, you need to approve high rise buildings in the city. But the nimbys are blocking that as well and now complain that the green belt is being used for residences!
@Misty, they are building on every space they can get permission for up here, huge estates which are causing chaos in terms of the extra traffic that of course nobody foresaw or planned for! My mum was campaigning for a few years to prevent such a development across the road from her, on land which had rare toads on it or something similar. They lost in the end, of course, because the developers promised a minimum number of “affordable” homes. I joke that the day her view of Manchester city centre in the far distance was blocked was the worst day of her life.
@NorthernLass So it isn’t just a down south thing then. ‘Affordable homes’ is such a nebulous concept. My son has just managed to purchase his first house, & he’s just turned 30 and I expect he is one of the luckier ones, although he’s approx 1.5 hours from Central London, but in fairness to him, he’s not fussed about being close to London, as he can take it or leave it.
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