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2012 Lambeth Country show - 15 and 16 September, Brockwell Park

Minnie_the_Minx said:
No! You don't need to do that, it's not your problem. I'm having problems with pictures on every site

What's the vegetable with the red jacket supposed to be? :hmm:
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Terry Nutkins and the okra otters. I kept getting jostled by people either side of me and I just couldn't fit him and the attached banner in :(
 
I was there v briefly - apols to dooby, idumea and co who I said hello to and the buggered straight off. Shit, shit day - wasn't fit for company. Will try again tomorrow. Maybe.
 
spanglechick said:
I was there v briefly - apols to dooby, idumea and co who I said hello to and the buggered straight off. Shit, shit day - wasn't fit for company. Will try again tomorrow. Maybe.
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I was only there for about 2 hours including crossing the park there & back, didn't see any of you either, but there'll be other times, I hope. :)
 
Family stuff meant i couldnt make it today but looks like much fun was had. hopefully make it tomorrow, want to see pig racing!!
 
In that same tent, near the geraniums, they had a Parrot Impatiens. It was half the size of mine though. I should have bought mine along to shame it :D
 
The "carrot thing" was confusing - it appears to have started as an attempt to replicate "Field for the British Isles"
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but then got various other bits of homage to Antony Gormley added in.

There were a couple of mums close to me who thought the photo of Field was actually of a gallery full of carved carrots, of which the Country Show display was only a small part.:)
 
Great day yesterday. Not going today. Totally knackered and a bit hungover. :oops:

Great to see everyone, not seen most of you for bloody ages!
 
lang rabbie said:
Part of Cressingham Gardens estate - some blocks on the estate have apparently had massive subsidence problems. I think plans for a major refurbishment were abandoned last year.

They only had steel shutters last time I cut through there.
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Not "normal" subsidence a la undermining from tree roots from what I recall, very bad damp that's undermined the foundations and rotted some of the loadbearing walls. Some of the similar blocks on the estate have the same problem, but not as bad as those at the bottom of the estate. I think they were basically too far gone to save, without spending as much as it'd cost to demolish them and build something else.
With our block (we're kind of in the middle of the estate), they basically emptied the ground floor flats of the same type as in Crosby Walk, dug out the floors down to the footings, renewed them, and then put some hi-tech membrane down (about 4 times thicker than the standard dampcourse membrane). Seems to be working, as the peeps in the groundfloor flats haven't had problems when the water table has risen, whereas when we first moved here, if it rained for more than a couple of days, those flats would have water coming up through the floors.
 
Greebo said:
The estate was only finished in the mid 1970s, and that block was breezeblocked up last year. As others have commented, it's ridiculous considering how many people are desperate for soemewhere to live.

I live on that estate and I'm wondering if the "subsidence" would have anything to do with a leaflet circulated on the estate about a lot of the mature trees having caused subsidence (aspirational problem or what?) and therefore being about to get felled.

There's also another rumour going round about what's coming next. Will post the details on the Brixton thread after I've emptied the washing machine.
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Nah, it's mostly a water problem, despite the carping about the trees (most of those trees are within 18-24 inches of paving that hasn't been unduly disturbed by roots). It doesn't help that those flats on Crosby Walk are at the very bottom of an estate that facilitates drainage of surface water straight down there, and that the sites further downhill have much better soakaways than this estate does. That civil engineer guy who came round about 10 years ago also said that rainwater drainage from the properties on the estate was merely "adequate" because the original flush-fitting guttering was narrower and shallower than standard, so the external walls got a lot of overflow down them that should have been carried away by the guttering.
 
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