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When it reaches the point where you can recite along with the soundtrack, it's probably time to move on to something more edifying.
Naked Gun perhaps?
Naked Gun perhaps?
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A bit highbrow for me Penners.
Watching "Waybuloo" with my youngest one too many times has softened the brain irreversably I fear.
(For those not blessed with a 1 year old whose favourite word is "Beebies!", Waybuloo is a programme for very young children on CBeebies. Not as bad as Teletubbies but not far off.)
Watching "Waybuloo" with my youngest one too many times has softened the brain irreversably I fear.
(For those not blessed with a 1 year old whose favourite word is "Beebies!", Waybuloo is a programme for very young children on CBeebies. Not as bad as Teletubbies but not far off.)
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Don't worry, it'll soon be time to start watching Jungle Book. 
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The Teletubbies stands as an intellectual giant by comparison with In The Night Garden, which seems to me to be the absolute antithesis of mental development for young children.Feltwell said:
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Penners said:
It's a wonder kids ever learn to speak these days, the rubbish they put on telly.
Bring back Bill and Ben I say.
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In the Night Garden is dreadful - Derek Jacobi should be ashamed of himself!
Hi all,
Apologies still for the lack of photos - I have stacks but prob need to open a fotki account or similar.
Renovations / repairs etc all on target from my point of view though sadly not my schedule doesn't fit with the local council - a hugely long story and although I know I am not unique why is it SO painful when you are 100% transparent from day 1. I have completed all of the required paperwork and also voluntarily written an additional 20 page document to support my renovations having taken on a building that has been empty for 20 odd years covered in cement and then ignored and left to rot.
There is no money in the pot to chase and prosecute those that own a listed building but take no action as its gardian for future generations - apparently.
By the end of this as with some of you I will be able to jump through varied sizes of hoops, hurdle the daily barriers that get thrown in my way, bend over backwards but still not be able to work out exactly how the cogs in the public sector turn the vision of the complete cottage means I will however still be smiling!!!!!!!!!
Fortunately I went into this with my eyes WIDE open but maybe now understand why the previous owner had made no progress along the path I have chosen!
Anyway to get to the point I want to install 1 x off road parking space. Due to creep but ignoring the fact that it would help drain water away from the cottage walls I am not allowed to lay gravel as the chosen top surface to the parking space. Instead I MUST lay a permeable surface but could not be advised what would be best when I requested advice.....
therefore I leave it to you good folk to see if anyone has encountered the same? Any advice is welcome especially from those that feel 'confused' about gaining permission to do works in your own garden............
cheers
Churchy
Apologies still for the lack of photos - I have stacks but prob need to open a fotki account or similar.
Renovations / repairs etc all on target from my point of view though sadly not my schedule doesn't fit with the local council - a hugely long story and although I know I am not unique why is it SO painful when you are 100% transparent from day 1. I have completed all of the required paperwork and also voluntarily written an additional 20 page document to support my renovations having taken on a building that has been empty for 20 odd years covered in cement and then ignored and left to rot.
There is no money in the pot to chase and prosecute those that own a listed building but take no action as its gardian for future generations - apparently.
By the end of this as with some of you I will be able to jump through varied sizes of hoops, hurdle the daily barriers that get thrown in my way, bend over backwards but still not be able to work out exactly how the cogs in the public sector turn the vision of the complete cottage means I will however still be smiling!!!!!!!!!
Fortunately I went into this with my eyes WIDE open but maybe now understand why the previous owner had made no progress along the path I have chosen!
Anyway to get to the point I want to install 1 x off road parking space. Due to creep but ignoring the fact that it would help drain water away from the cottage walls I am not allowed to lay gravel as the chosen top surface to the parking space. Instead I MUST lay a permeable surface but could not be advised what would be best when I requested advice.....
therefore I leave it to you good folk to see if anyone has encountered the same? Any advice is welcome especially from those that feel 'confused' about gaining permission to do works in your own garden............
cheers
Churchy
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churchy said:
Erm - am I missing something bleedin' obvious here? Gravel is a permeable surface, if laid on top of a membrane. In fact the only time I can think of where it would be impermeable is if you laid it on top of an old concrete driveway (which would be a right bodge anyway) or if you used that resin-bound solid "gravel" surface you sometimes see.
As I understand it, from the Building Regs you now have to have either a permeable surface or if you have an impermeable surface then the runoff water must go to a soakaway and not drain to the sewer. I don't think there is any compulsion to have a permeable surface - it's just to stop more surface water runoff entering the sewers. All of which is nothing to do with LBC.
We had this when our driveway was relaid - despite being in exactly the same position as before, it wasn't allowed to have it's runoff draining over the pavement and into the road gully as it had been previously. We had to put a drainage channel across the end of the drive which goes to a soakaway, honest Guv.
For this part of the project it falls under planning permission - I am in a conservation area.
I am keen to use gravel with respect to the overall look and drainage as the area will meet with the end wall of the cottage - considering the option of asking if I can gravel the parking area but with a cobbled boundary to contain the gravel and a linear drainage channel off the shelf from jewsons or similar. The issue however I believe is that the area slopes towards the road therefore there is a potential issue with creep of the gravel onto the road.
I am keen to use gravel with respect to the overall look and drainage as the area will meet with the end wall of the cottage - considering the option of asking if I can gravel the parking area but with a cobbled boundary to contain the gravel and a linear drainage channel off the shelf from jewsons or similar. The issue however I believe is that the area slopes towards the road therefore there is a potential issue with creep of the gravel onto the road.
Have you considered some form of cellular system to hold the gravel in place?
http://www.pavingexpert.com/cellpav1.htm
These should ameliorate the concerns re: creep.
http://www.pavingexpert.com/cellpav1.htm
These should ameliorate the concerns re: creep.
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Feltwell said:
Never mind, in about 15 years his favourite word will look like "beebies", but with a couple of "o"s ...
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And in a further attempt to drag this back into the safe waters of the wildly off-(original) topic, this absolute gem is now available on DVD for a fraction of the cost of a TV licence...Feltwell said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixjhmy9dtNE
(or indeed, free, on youtube)
Perfect.
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That's just so sweet.
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Ahh yes - my kids have been thoroughly tutored in the works of Smallfilms - Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and others, plus selected other 70's kids programmes such as The Flumps and the original Mr Men. Purely for educational value you understand, no nostalgia for the parents (well, mostly the father ) at all. I was very sad to hear of the death of Oliver Postgate not so long ago, one half of the duo behind Smallfilms. Such lovely innocent programmes that were very cleverly made.
To stick up for the BBC though - there are some excellent programmes made by them now for pre-school children, as well as rubbish like In the Night Garden. "Something Special" was intended as a programme for kids with special educational needs, with a particular emphasis on Makaton, which is a greatly simplified form of British Sign Language - not intended for deaf children but for those with learning and communication difficulties. This programme has managed to cross-over to appeal to all kids, the first special needs programme to do so, and is very popular with young children - my youngest loves it.
Similarly, programmes such as Alphablocks and Numberjacks - which as the name implies teach literacy and numeracy - and Nina and the Neurons, which is a science programme, are genuinely educational as well as being fun. My eldest son used to love playing the Alphablocks games on the Cbeebies website, as well as watching the programmes - on starting school he skipped most of the stages in their reading programme as he was so far ahead, his reading age was assessed as being 10 when he was actually only 5. We encouraged him to read before school but certainly didn't pressure him to do so. The educational content of programmes now for young children does seem to be much better than it was in the past, on the BBC at least.
I'm sure it will. He was bad enough as a baby - he was a little devil for "copping a sneaky squeeze", as a female friend of mine put it - we first noticed it when he was 2 days old and the health visitor commented in surprise! Driven by hunger I'm sure, he's got a healthy appetite and luckily by 6 months old had grown out of this phase. Their attractions will return to him I've no doubt!
) at all. I was very sad to hear of the death of Oliver Postgate not so long ago, one half of the duo behind Smallfilms. Such lovely innocent programmes that were very cleverly made.To stick up for the BBC though - there are some excellent programmes made by them now for pre-school children, as well as rubbish like In the Night Garden. "Something Special" was intended as a programme for kids with special educational needs, with a particular emphasis on Makaton, which is a greatly simplified form of British Sign Language - not intended for deaf children but for those with learning and communication difficulties. This programme has managed to cross-over to appeal to all kids, the first special needs programme to do so, and is very popular with young children - my youngest loves it.
Similarly, programmes such as Alphablocks and Numberjacks - which as the name implies teach literacy and numeracy - and Nina and the Neurons, which is a science programme, are genuinely educational as well as being fun. My eldest son used to love playing the Alphablocks games on the Cbeebies website, as well as watching the programmes - on starting school he skipped most of the stages in their reading programme as he was so far ahead, his reading age was assessed as being 10 when he was actually only 5. We encouraged him to read before school but certainly didn't pressure him to do so. The educational content of programmes now for young children does seem to be much better than it was in the past, on the BBC at least.
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I'm sure it will. He was bad enough as a baby - he was a little devil for "copping a sneaky squeeze", as a female friend of mine put it - we first noticed it when he was 2 days old and the health visitor commented in surprise! Driven by hunger I'm sure, he's got a healthy appetite and luckily by 6 months old had grown out of this phase. Their attractions will return to him I've no doubt!
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JoceAndChris said:
If you liked that Joce:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7773124.stm
I can't imagine there is any way a television programme, even for kids, would be made that way now - which is a great shame.