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People Don't Use Parks Enough
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Slightly random statement but still.
I was about town today (partly skiving, partly on study leave
) and we went to a park near our school that we didn't even know was there, it's massive and really quite nice.
It had a duck pond, and was well kept, me and a few friends had a go on the swings (we're 6 at heart
) and walked about. It was really nice, but completely empty. I'm not sure whether it was because it was in the day but from what my grandfather told me it's always quite empty. It's such a shame.
I urge people, to visit their local parks and get some use from them, whether it's kids, adults or grandparents.
Do you have local parks in use?
I was about town today (partly skiving, partly on study leave
) and we went to a park near our school that we didn't even know was there, it's massive and really quite nice.It had a duck pond, and was well kept, me and a few friends had a go on the swings (we're 6 at heart
) and walked about. It was really nice, but completely empty. I'm not sure whether it was because it was in the day but from what my grandfather told me it's always quite empty. It's such a shame.I urge people, to visit their local parks and get some use from them, whether it's kids, adults or grandparents.
Do you have local parks in use?
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Mind you, there's also other parks that are equally full every weekend but then it's a tourist traps and the ones in the town centre are full of foreign holidaymakers from Easter onwards. The one we go to is a bit more out of the way and seems to only be really used by locals. We only discovered it last year.
Is it wrong that during the winter I loved the park being empty when I walked my dog? Just me and other dog walkers.
Now it's full of - well it's full of 'people'. :mad:
They should be made to use it all year round or not at all.
That sounds lovely. Our actual local park is less of a park now, more of a field. Vandals ruined the bowling green, then they took away the children's play area.
However, they have renovated a nearby one, which is a trap for the primary kids and is always busy. I hope they might do the same to ours.
That would explain the complaints from the members of the Bowling club about the bumps developing in their green.
In the bushes with another man?
Depends if you have a dispersal area or not.
That's the price to pay for living in Tunbridge Wells
I live nowhere near there lol
Gardens, lakes, trees, animals - I've seen squirrels, foxes, hedgehogs, terrapins and big fish, ducks, swans, lots of other birds. There's proper ornamental gardens, hundreds of different flowers and bushes hardly any of which I recognise, which is a bit sad but that's what comes of being a townie.
The bits i like best are the wild nooks and crannies where they don't tend the area but just let it grow naturally - where you get bluebells and daisies and buttercups and daffodils, ie the ones I do recognise............
I've seen somebody walking two alpacas.............:eek:
Our village park has a zip ride and if there are no teenagers in the skateboard area to see me, I'll play on it for ages. I'm a bit of a screamer, though.:o
Whenever I go along to inspect there are kids and parents about.
Bloody annoying, I want to look at the stuff, and have to get them to clear off for a bit whilst I check out the swing/slide/climbing net/whatever.
The parents are the worst, a few of the parks have the relativley new 'exercise' equipment; ski machines, etc.
They are on them whilst the kids are mucking about on the slides.
I would love it if the parks were empty, much less bother.
Particularly from the 'nice' parents, getting pissed on tins of lager and swearing in the park whilst their kids play, who call the police on me, despite me showing my ID and clearly doing a job of work.
People use parks to much, grrr:p:p:p
Just a little joke
You can't say that for George Michael...
But there is no way I would walk through the park at night time for all the crime that goes on in there apparently.
I am a grandparent and I love to take the children to the park in the mornings.
Unfortunately we are not allowed to feed the ducks bread but the kindly council does put out a box of duck food for children to throw into the pond.
At one time every park had one.