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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
    The hidden wilds of the motorway
    I couldn't believe it when the local council put up signs saying "roadside nature reserve" which probably was just an excuse not to maintain the verges. Poor rabbits and field mice: "ooh, this is a nice place to live!" ..... <splat>

    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      I couldn't believe it when the local council put up signs saying "roadside nature reserve" which probably was just an excuse not to maintain the verges. Poor rabbits and field mice: "ooh, this is a nice place to live!" ..... <splat>

      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37703

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        I couldn't believe it when the local council put up signs saying "roadside nature reserve" which probably was just an excuse not to maintain the verges. Poor rabbits and field mice: "ooh, this is a nice place to live!" ..... <splat>

        Some councils are belatedly coming round to the idea that roadside verges don't have to be "maintained" until fauna have nested and had their offspring. Trimming back verges and hedgerows provides no extra safety to nearby wildlife, I wouldn't have thought.

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        • oddoneout
          Full Member
          • Nov 2015
          • 9218

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          I couldn't believe it when the local council put up signs saying "roadside nature reserve" which probably was just an excuse not to maintain the verges. Poor rabbits and field mice: "ooh, this is a nice place to live!" ..... <splat>

          Trying to deflect criticism, and calls to cut the verges, by pointing out that the 'neglect' is deliberate.

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          • DracoM
            Host
            • Mar 2007
            • 12976

            'Staged' on tonight BBC1 9.45
            NO, sorry NOT ON. - was on the newspaper listings at the w/end, but not now....mystery?
            Last edited by DracoM; 07-07-20, 20:42.

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            • Pulcinella
              Host
              • Feb 2014
              • 10963

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

              Just saw episode 1 of Staged. Absolutely brilliant

              (And yes, Outnumbered was great!)
              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              ... yes indeed - each episode a real gem. Don't miss the little bits of foolery after the end credits. And of course the credits with changes to the names...

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              Originally posted by DracoM View Post
              'Staged' on tonight BBC1 9.45
              NO, sorry NOT ON. - was on the newspaper listings at the w/end, but not now....mystery?
              Just binge watched.
              Brilliant!

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              • DracoM
                Host
                • Mar 2007
                • 12976

                ......switched on, and it WAS on, despite not appearing in online listings...............what on earth.....................???????

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                • kernelbogey
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5753

                  Greyzone on Channel Four catch up. Excellent Scandi thriller, mixing terrorist threat and well-done characters, and up there with The Bridge et al. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen very watchable (she was tv journalist in Borgen.) I'm half way through a binge-watch of the ten 45 miniute episodes.

                  Apologies if duplicating up-thread posts.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37703

                    Black Nurses: the Women Who Saved the NHS

                    On BBC4 last night, conveying the incredible story of those who came from the Caribbean on the Windrush, and subsquently, to work mainly as midwives and nurses in the NHS. Such programmes have usually tended to overlook the female portion of that intake, and it was heart-wrenching to see them describe in unexpurgated words the unforgiveable racism from white patients and discrimination in terms of recruitment and promotion given as thanks for their hard working devotion to duty and care. The programme concluded with a small crowd gathered to witness the unveiling of a statue outside one of the big London hospitals to the first black woman to come to this country, in 1855, to care for the sick. It seems almost impossible now to repay these wonderful and strong women the gratitude for what they did for us, and continue to do.

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                    • johncorrigan
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 10371

                      Finished watching BBC1's 'The Luminaries' last night...still not completely sure what was going on and I doubt I'll be delving back in to check. Looked quite good, but I thought some of the acting was really pretty duff, to be honest.

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                      • eighthobstruction
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 6444

                        Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                        Finished watching BBC1's 'The Luminaries' last night...still not completely sure what was going on and I doubt I'll be delving back in to check. Looked quite good, but I thought some of the acting was really pretty duff, to be honest.
                        ....just a gothic romp eh?....lead is Bono's daughter....
                        bong ching

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                        • johncorrigan
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 10371

                          Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                          ....just a gothic romp eh?....lead is Bono's daughter....
                          Not Edgy enough, 8o!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                            Not Edgy enough, 8o!
                            I had a go at episode 1 but gave up: the characters, plot and production completely failed to engage me
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22128

                              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                              ....just a gothic romp eh?....lead is Bono's daughter....
                              I wonder if she’s inherited his self importance and dark glasses!

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37703

                                Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                                I wonder if she’s inherited his self importance and dark glasses!
                                Further genetic engineering would have been required to produce dark glasses-wearing newborns!

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