Many of the fences/gates are now in the process of being painted. This does definitely reduce their impact on the scenery.
I know what the idea of all this new metalwork in Denton Woods is about - but it will never work - and it is an eyesore completely out of keeping with the environment in which it has been placed.
During the last year or so there has been confrontations between walkers, cyclists and horse riders with youths on small off-road motorcycles and quads. The complaints are largely unjustified in my opinion because I have always found the youths on the motorbikes and quads to be extremely polite and courteous. When ever they encountered me and the dog they always slowed down as to not cause alarm and unlike some of miserable so-and-sos’ who I have encountered in the woods they were near enough always cheerful.
So this metalwork is designed to keep off-road motorcycles out of the woods. It will never work because these type of bikes can go virtually anywhere and despite the effort and expense of installing these gates and fences the bikes will just go round them and create new paths - you watch and see.
Despite my dislike of these new additions to the woods I must congratulate the Tameside Council for awarding the contract to a truly local company - Anvil Masters of Denton. They have done a great job of the installation - it’s just a pity there wasn’t a way to make them blend into the surroundings a little better.
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What a bloody eyesore. Painting them green for a start would help.
They must have cost a right few quid too. I thought Tameside was short of money?
This is Tameside all over, a good idea ruined. Why couldn't they make them out of wood?
Still, it's not their money is it.
That's a good idea but the local scroats from the estate would probably burn them if they were made of wood.
The local scrotes will probably nick them for scrap.
A team has been dispatched by the council to paint them.
Alan Johnson has resigned. Second choice Ed Bollox is now Shadow Chancellor, alongside second choice leader Dedward Millipede. Second choices, second rate party, third rate policies.
The thicko ex-postman got the job because of his union connections. Harman's still there because she's the head of the man-hating female Labour mafia. Balls is there because Ed Miliband's too frightened to sack him. Miliband is there because the ballot was rigged (if it had been one man one vote David Miliband would have won easily) to get Ed, the union's man in.
Name one member of the shadow cabinet there through ability. It's the same old same old losers and cranks, tainted by failure and the economic ruin they nearly brought to Britain. Winning one by-election (praise be to Allah in Glodwick) is meaningless if, as a party your own shadow cabinet is totally unelectable.
A few more performances like that at Prime Minister's question time and Ed Miliband will be irrecoverably undermined with no-one of any talent, conviction or electability anywhere in sight to replace him.
I enjoyed reading that but the inexorable Labour march to the electoral stratosphere continues. Support for all the small parties has completely collapsed. Here are the results for tonight’s Wythenshawe by-election. UKIP worked their socks off in this election. It was a catastrophe for the Lib Dems and the BNP did no better. We must face the facts - the electorate prefer Labour.
Lab - 996
C - 160
UKIP - 76
LD - 52
BNP - 52
Green - 51
Ind - 19
Yes and more fool them. (Sheep)
You lot just dont get it do you. our voters come in three categories. in crappy places like wythenshaw we target the welfair recipients who always vote if we bring them postal votes and help them fill them in. just tell them the tories will cut your benefits and you have there vote. second category is the asian vote. not relevent to tameside but works a treat in bolton and oldham. then we have the traditional labour voters. they vote for us because they love labour and they know we are the party who helps the workers. if there was a general election tomorow we would win by a landslide. we will take at least three tory seats this year in tameside and i hope i get one of them. the smaller racist parties are out of the game. they will get nothing in may.
We will pick up the bnp vote this year. Big campaign for us in Dukinfield, knocking out the local racist/nutter once and for all.
Labour til i die,
You are still bitter because you didn't win in Duki/Staly due to the BNP candidate taking some of your votes - resulting in a Tory win.
You are one bitter old Queen. Get over it fatso!
Aluman, comments deleted due to foul language. Please re-post minus the expletives.
Labour 'til I die and Forget the transfusion get me a psychiatrist, why have Labour dropped five million votes from 13.5 million at the 1997 general election to 8.5 million in 2010? The introduction of the Alternative Vote system and the reorganisation of constituencies to get rid of Labour's unfair advantage will massively exacerbate this plummet in support. You've currently got 185 out of 532 parliamentary seats in England, That will probably drop by forty or fifty at least after the next general election going by your current level of support, however the shambolic, tainted and talentless nature of your shadow cabinet, if left unrectified, could make things far worse.
Winning a few council elections by electoral corruption to cling on to the local gravy train is one thing, regaining national power is something quite different.
Apathy won in Wythenshawe.
By the way TC you're spending far too much time in those woods.
Yes I do, but I have an energetic anti-social hound that needs lots of exercise and seeing as many of my regular haunts are muddy quagmires at the moment Denton Woods is my dog walking circuit of choice at present.
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