And now the news where you are.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I was just walking home from work when I heard a souped up car coming up behind me. Obviously I wondered which of the usual chavvy cars it was going to be.

It passed me and I laughed my head off when I saw it was a mid-noughties Vauxhall Zafira!

[Ullman]

On 30/06/2023 at 09:49, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I was just walking home from work when I heard a souped up car coming up behind me. Obviously I wondered which of the usual chavvy cars it was going to be.

It passed me and I laughed my head off when I saw it was a mid-noughties Vauxhall Zafira!

On the subject of spotting things when walking home, I take my hat off to whoever was responsible for this graffiti on a street corner down Princes Ave. Somebody must have done it hoping that somebody else might get it.

 

Edited July 3, 2023 by Ullman

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Ullman said:

On the subject of spotting things when walking home, I take my hat off to whoever was responsible for this graffiti on a street corner down Princes Ave. Somebody must have done it hoping that somebody else might get it.

 

Wow, the Princes Ave chavs are far more clever and sophisticated than I realised! 

[Ullman]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Wow, the Princes Ave chavs are far more clever and sophisticated than I realised! 

Artlink are on the next street corner along. Probably the work of one of them there witty Bohemian types.

[JohnM]

There's night flying from RAF Coningsby tonight. 

[Wolford6]

The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is a really ugly 1970's disused sports centre opposite Odsal Stadium. The council wants to knock it down and build either a new stadium or an industrial estate on the site. It would have knocked it down but kept it open as a contingency mortuary in the Covid Pan(dem)ic.

About ayear ago, some pesky dogooder got it registered as a List 2 Protected Structure because of the unique design of its steel-sheet roof.

A couple of months ago,there was a relatively minor fire at the site, extinguished by the fire service. Today, there's a report of a major fire ... in a concrete and steel building.

Check out the video interview with the fire chief in this report!

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23633770.emergency-services-attend-fire-former-richard-dunn-centre/

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

3 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is a really ugly 1970's disused sports centre opposite Odsal Stadium. The council wants to knock it down and build either a new stadium or an industrial estate on the site. It would have knocked it down but kept it open as a contingency mortuary in the Covid Pan(dem)ic.

About ayear ago, some pesky dogooder got it registered as a List 2 Protected Structure because of the unique design of its steel-sheet roof.

A couple of months ago,there was a relatively minor fire at the site, extinguished by the fire service. Today, there's a report of a major fire ... in a concrete and steel building.

Check out the video interview with the fire chief in this report!

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23633770.emergency-services-attend-fire-former-richard-dunn-centre/

 

Have you been trying to burn it down Wolford?????

Nah, it's amazing what some people get listed. In my town, in the last few years, there has been a couple of incidents of this. The first was a brick wall that is listed and a developer pulled it down and was ordered to rebuild it exactly how it was. The second was some paving slabs on a random residential street that were lifted and had to be put back exactly how they had been.

And yet now, the council are fine with Network Rail pulling down the railway station's listed footbridge, which is one of the few remaining of its design in the country, and replacing it with some boring, ten-a-penny, modern footbridge. 

Edited July 5, 2023 by The Hallucinating Goose

[Ullman]

6 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Have you been trying to burn it down Wolford?????

Nah, it's amazing what some people get listed. In my town, in the last few years, there has been a couple of incidents of this. The first was a brick wall that is listed and a developer pulled it down and was ordered to rebuild it exactly how it was. The second was some paving slabs on a random residential street that were lifted and had to be put back exactly how they had been.

And yet now, the council are fine with Network Rail pulling down the railway station's listed footbridge, which is one of the few remaining of its design in the country, and replacing it with some boring, ten-a-penny, modern footbridge. 

I think some of the coverage in the local media has been a bit misleading and some of them have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Network Rail are restoring the cast iron bridge at Beverley, not pulling it down. What they are removing is the rotten wooden canopy that was a later addition to the bridge.

[Farmduck]

All my spam today was in French.

[gazza77]

Anger over plant in hedgerow that's only dangerous if eaten.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-66136682

 

[Llangennech]

News where I am? Well, there's a rumour, lol

[The Hallucinating Goose]

This just sums up life in Hull!

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/i-live-former-hull-brothel-8607652

[Wolford6]

Chucked it down non-stop all day.

Even had to watch golf. The father of a bloke I work with caddies for Matt Fitzpatrick. A tenuous link but, no play in the cricket and I was bored stiff.

Matt's brother, Alex, finished joint-18th and won £146,000.

Samsung Health app on my phone set a target of 8000 steps per day.

Between the kitchen, front room, conservatory and downstairs toilet i've clocked up 244 steps.

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

3 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

Chucked it down non-stop all day.

Even had to watch golf. The father of a bloke I work with caddies for Matt Fitzpatrick. A tenuous link but, no play in the cricket and I was bored stiff.

Matt's brother, Alex, finished joint-18th and won £146,000.

Samsung Health app on my phone set a target of 8000 steps per day.

Between the kitchen, front room, conservatory and downstairs toilet i've clocked up 244 steps.

If you buy an umbrella you can still go outside you know!

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/crime/police-in-luton-lay-down-the-law-after-stopping-driver-with-huge-rolls-of-carpet-sticking-out-of-their-van-4216075

Guy was called Matt apparently 

[Futtocks]

 

[Futtocks]

Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66415545

[Futtocks]

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

All go round Goose Green, neighbours house just got raided! Goes without saying that I pretended to go to the shop but actually just walked to the end of the street and back to have a proper nosey. 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/little-fishy-mystery-surrounds-missing-8701828

Someone has nicked off with Hull's bronze cod! Barsteward! We want our cod back! 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/rogue-hull-fair-parking-leaves-8827220

Family faced with half hour walk home! Ooh no! Imagine such a lengthy walk, no one can possibly do that! Cos I didn't used to walk 45 mins each way to work every day in the early hours of the morning...... 

[gazza77]

One for @gingerjon

 

 

[Futtocks]

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

 

That shouldn't be funny but I will confess I laughed. 

[gazza77]

Here, or the Brexit thread?