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  1. I know I can buy waxed cotton online but was hoping to get something today or tomorrow. As I think I said, time is tight. And yes, I know one can buy picnic blankets cheaply but my friend likes the things I make, and would love something made by me. Thank you for your time, though. It was kind of you both to try to help.
  2. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong part of the forum, I couldn't find anywhere better to put it. I'm trying to find a few old Barbour waxed jackets, in green. I'm making a picnic blanket for a friend who is very ill, so I've had the idea of making a backing for it out of waxed jackets to make it waterproof, so she'll be comfortable on it if she uses it on damp grass. If anyone has an old coat they'd like to donate please let me know and I'll collect it from you. Or if anyone has seen any coats like this in charity shops please tell me, so I can go and get them. They don't have to be Barbours. Other makes are fine! So long as they're proper waxed jackets, and in green. We don't have much time to finish this, so I'd be very grateful for any help at all. Many thanks.
  3. Can anyone recommend a general builder who can put in a couple of RSJs and make good around the new opening? Preferably one who can get to the job quickly as we've been let down by the builder we originally hired. Thank you!
  4. Nope, not stirring the pot at all. Much of the rubbish that I saw was still there this morning. There's more than enough to fill the back of a pickup truck. It's good someone cleared up the bags that you saw, but it's not so good that so much was still there when I saw it today. Also, I've been told that there were so many vehicles parked around the reservoir that the residents couldn't get out easily. Which is a potentially big problem, as a couple of them are doctors on call.
  5. There was something on near Redmires Reservoirs last night. I saw taxis queuing up around the reservoirs and loads of people packing their stuff away. The amount of litter left behind is disgraceful, with it half way across the road in places, and a large metal framework just abandoned on the side of the road. I don't object to people enjoying themselves, but I do object to them expecting other people to clear up after them like that.
  6. I'm glad to say the owner saw the signs I put up this afternoon and has got in contact with me. It was all very sad, but I am glad they now know what happened to their lovely cat. Thanks, all, for your support today.
  7. I don't think the driver of the car which hit the poor cat knew what had happened: if they did, they would have swerved a bit, or something, I am sure. So I don't fault them for not stopping. I've been back to Slayleigh Lane and have put up signs saying what happened and giving my email address, so that the owners can get in touch if they see them. If they want to. It's so sad. I knocked on the door of the house which took the cat in but there was no answer, so I couldn't take it to a vet to get scanned for microchips, but I will have another go tomorrow. I suspect they'll have disposed of it by now, though. Thank you all for being so nice about this. It's just awful, isn't it? I keep thinking of the cat's family, and knowing how worried they'll be. I do hope they see my signs, at least.
  8. I don't have her: one of the people on the street took her in, in case they found where she lived. I live quite a way away. I wish I'd thought of that at the time, it would have been a good idea.
  9. On Saturday 23 January, in the afternoon, I saw a cat hit by a car. The car drove off without stopping. I stopped, stroked the cat and spoke soothingly to her, but I think he or she was already dead. I moved the poor thing off the road as I didn't want her to get hit again. The accident happened on Slayleigh Lane, in Fulwood, very near to the squash club. The cat concerned was a largish brown and chestnut coloured spotty tabby, I think. She was obviously well looked after, as she was well fed and her fur was lovely and clean. So sad. I had nothing to wrap the cat up in so I asked one of the people on the road if they had a bin bag: I put the cat in carefully and made sure it was ok, and then the person tucked it into a corner of the garden, in the hope that we could find its owners. Another driver, who had also seen the accident, stopped too. We knocked on several doors, but couldn't find anyone who knew where the cat might live. I put notices up on a couple of trees on Slayleigh Lane but they've blown away in this stormy weather we've had. I'll put a couple more up this afternoon, but if anyone can think of anything else I can do to find out where this cat lived I'd be grateful. Her owners must be so worried.
  10. Thanks for the new link: it worked fine. If you open the PDF you'll see that on the very first page, the report states that it is not "analytically robust", that it "includes early, often vague, assumptions which are not supported by appropriate evidence", and that the report "refers to data from overseas studies which cannot be used to predict impacts in the UK with any degree of reliability. The author of the paper was not asked to consider, and did not have an in-depth knowledge of, the UK regulatory framework." I don't think it's something we should rely on in making any decisions about fracking. It's obviously flawed. The writer of the article on BusinessGreen which you linked to should have made that clear, instead of using the misinformation it contains to write an anti-fracking piece. ---------- Post added 27-08-2015 at 19:30 ---------- Sorry to multiple-post but that BusinessGreen article is so poorly-written that it's making my teeth itch. It misrepresents the report in all sorts of ways. For example, from the BG article: The only part of the government report which mentions a fall in house prices of seven per cent is this: That doesn't refer to house prices in the UK, it doesn't refer to the effect of fracking on house prices, and it doesn't use a decent amount of data to reach its conclusions. It has nothing to do with what might happen here. It does not suggest what BG said it did. There are plenty of other examples of such misrepresentation of the facts in that article, but I'm sure you get the picture.
  11. That's really interesting. Could you give me a link to your sources, please? I'd like to see the statistics for myself. Thanks.
  12. I did. I quoted an article which I linked to, which stated, That's not true. The much-publicised grooming and abuse ring in Rotherham is a good example. There has been far more press coverage of abuse by Asians and other ethnic minorities than coverage of abuse by white people, although most abuse is carried out by white people.
  13. Agreed. If you rely on newspaper and TV news coverage of current events, you'd assume that most abuse is carried out by Asian men on white girls: but they are only a small proportion of the abusers who have been convicted. Abuse is not a colour issue, it's an abuse issue. From here: https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/kind-perpetrator-race-religion-gender-rotherham-child-abuse-scandal/
  14. That link leads to an article hidden behind a paywall, so I can't read it. But it's a report of the report, not the report itself: do you have a link to anywhere else we can read the actual report? They were clear. And if you look at the link Eric Arthur provided in an earlier post, you'll see just what tremors of those magnitudes are like: On that link, you'll see descriptions of tremors as rated on the Abbreviated Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. Anything up to 3 on the Richter scale comes in the first category. The maximum intensity of the tremors caused at the Cuadrilla site was 2.3, so they call come into this grouping. And this is what that first category is described as: I'd be interested to know where these tremors are measured, too. I might well be wrong here, but I think they're measured down at the face. So would they have been felt at the surface? I'm not sure. Note that both mining and quarrying operations routinely use explosives to get at the stuff they're after, and that these produce tremors. The ones produced by coal mining are not usually felt above ground, and coal mining can work up to a minimum depth of 40m--much closer to the surface than fracking, which is, I think, 1500m or more below ground. As quarrying is on the surface the tremors produced here are felt throughout the surrounding area, and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of complaints against it.
  15. It can't be guaranteed, but it can be predicted with good levels of accuracy. Mining surveyors have been doing this for decades. If a fracking borehole (I'm not sure what the correct term is: anyone?) were to collapse the loose rock around it would fall into the spaces left by the retrieved gas. But it would be surrounded by larger and larger pieces of rock which would be too big to fit into the resulting hole, and so they'd stay where they were. Fracking is done at very low depths. It's very deep. Far deeper, I think, than coal mining. The only way fracking could lead to a collapse of the ground on the surface is if it were carried out in an area that was made of small bits of rock from the fracking workings all the way to the surface--and that's just not going to happen, because that sort of geology would have let all the useful gas (which fracking is designed to harvest) escape already. Poisons aren't used in fracking. It's mostly water which is used. I'm investigating what other chemicals they use, and how those chemicals combine with the rocks and minerals below ground, as it's possible the two neutralise each other. I'm not sure, though. The seams can't really collapse (see my comment above) so the poisons they don't use can't seep through the collapsed rocks. But if they did, my betting is they'd follow the laws of physics and be affected by gravity, and seep downwards, away from us. We can't predict for certain how the layers of the earth will cope; but we can predict with a very good level of accuracy. Those predictions are made based on decades of data and the people who do this work have a lot of training and expertise. And once they've made their predictions, they add in a huge margin for safety. It's not the chemicals which fracture the rocks in fracking, it's the pressure they're pumped in under. For the record, my husband is a minerals surveyor. He started off in the pits but now works in other areas. He doesn't work in fracking at all, but this is something which interests us both. We started off very concerned about fracking, but have spent some time looking into the various objections and worries people have, and have looked at the reasons given against fracking, and many of them are red herrings. The media and the internet have whipped up a lot of anxiety over it, instead of presenting the information in a straightforward way but much of it is easily explained (see Eric Arthur's useful information about the "earthquakes", for example).
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