Alan G
Well-known member
So there I was looking forward to the coming Autumn and a few early, morning wanderings in the tranquil setting of my my local park (Ridley Park, Blyth) which has had a bit of a rep for migrants over the years due to its habitat and proximity to the coast, when I happened to pass it this evening en route to the 'offy' for a well-earned bottle of red.
The sight that befell me was enough to force me to buy an extra bottle of wine, purely to settle me nerves, you realise!.
They've only gone and built some kind of miniature/psuedo ''Wet & Wild'' ensemble of pools & fountains and water cannon (water bliddy cannon yu knaa - jeez!) for kids to play with.
And, like moths to a flame, there they were - humans and their retchid offspring......in their hundreds!
:storm:
Of course I shouldn't begrudge them, as they have very little in the way of places to play, but whatever happened to playing on building sites or on the roads, or in disused mine workings like we used to when we were young?
:stuck:
So, I'm now hoping for a long & bitterly cold Autumn with bitingly cold North Easterlies that not even the hardiest rugrat can endure so, with any luck, I can still have the place to myself........myself and some decent Autumn migrants that is!!
Alan
The sight that befell me was enough to force me to buy an extra bottle of wine, purely to settle me nerves, you realise!.
They've only gone and built some kind of miniature/psuedo ''Wet & Wild'' ensemble of pools & fountains and water cannon (water bliddy cannon yu knaa - jeez!) for kids to play with.
And, like moths to a flame, there they were - humans and their retchid offspring......in their hundreds!
:storm:
Of course I shouldn't begrudge them, as they have very little in the way of places to play, but whatever happened to playing on building sites or on the roads, or in disused mine workings like we used to when we were young?
:stuck:
So, I'm now hoping for a long & bitterly cold Autumn with bitingly cold North Easterlies that not even the hardiest rugrat can endure so, with any luck, I can still have the place to myself........myself and some decent Autumn migrants that is!!
Alan