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By Jenijenjen · Posted
I raise your pedantry. Language evolves and Merriam Webster gives the meaning as "drastically reduced especially in number." The word originally derived from the Roman practice of killing every tenth soldier in a mutinous army but I'm sure nobody uses the word in that context now. -
Thanks all for the replies. When the roofer come to look at the roof more recently, there were holes in the felt in the same place that the original leak had been, as well as where the new leak is. There doesn't seem to be a reason why a hole the the felt was the cause of one leak and not the other. It would have been good to have got everything sorted at the same time, rather than having to put scaffolding up again. But my main issue is around the vagueness of a 10 year guarantee. After work was done the first time, the roofer gave us a summary of the work and just wrote '10 Yr guarantee' after, without specifying what exactly that means. If a roofer comes and doesn't diagnose the problem quite right (which i imagine is common with roofs, given it's not always clear what's causing a leak), the guarantee doesn't seem to apply. But anyway, we'll be getting a different roofer, because we think he should have checked the felt under the tiles the first time round. -
We used to feed the birds, but once the parakeets discovered this they just took over, scaring away all the other species and eating everything in sight. I tried scaring them away with a Nerf gun, but they just didn't care. I know it will open a can of worms (no pun intended) but I really think the parakeet population needs to be reduced; yes they are pretty, but they are just like a plague of locusts when it comes to food supplies. PS apologies for pedantry @malumbu but the true definition of "decimate" is to reduce by a tenth... 🫤 -
If anyone is going to the meetings above, you may wish to raise the issue of the impact of the lights, noise & activity on the local bat population. Gala commissioned a survey on bat activity, which stated that activity had been identified, with several species detected, and that action must be taken to minimise any disturbance to these legally protected species. One of the recommendations was "to limit artificial lighting and reduce noise levels starting at least 20 minutes before sunset throughout the event period" I asked the Events Team three months ago whether this recommendation had been implemented. I finally got an answer yesterday - "This recommendation was not achievable due to the nature of the event... it was concluded that not implementing this recommendation would have little impact" So there you have it. Commission a survey (box ticked) and then don't adhere to the findings because it's "not achievable", thereby wilfully and knowingly negatively affecting the foraging & commuting habits of a legally protected wildlife species. This is on top of the useless bird survey, which only takes into account activity within the walls of the site, not the surrounding area which is full of trees with nesting birds which are undoubtedly disturbed by a month of noise, lights & activity.
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