please empty your brain below
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No mystery counts then..
Strandman | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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"But after Jerome's talk I'm now more hopeful that it'll be worth the wait."
You believed a developer? Oh dear.
Have you any idea how many hours of PR think-time would have been spent in preparing for that presentation, so that all possible questions would have been anticipated so that the presenter could deliver an answer that sounded convincing, yet was full of weasel words?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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I thought you might have been there!
It was a good talk - I thought he got away lightly with the Q&A afterwards though.
Ollie | 01.03.07 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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BW - I like to think that I'm cynical enough to spot the difference between a smarmy language-twisting weasel and a more genuine presenter. You might have had a different opinion had you been there in person.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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Windows 3.1 icon! Windows 3.1 icon! Windows ... you get the idea.
God, I'm a geek.
geofftech | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 3:25 p.m. | #
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baby steps, dg... baby steps...
Dave in Chicago | 01.03.07 - 4:15 p.m. | #
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Sadly I only have one view of developers who take allotments and open spaces from people in cities.
I've been to umpteen slick PR'd presentations about development (albeit in more rural areas) and been taken in. The reality never matches the rhetoric. Talk is cheap.
I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. The person there last night isn't the person who will be controlling the work on site, or doing the work. He's only the one with the dream. Look at how badly the Wembley Stadium project has gone wrong if you want any evidence of the plan/actuality discrepancy...
Blue Witch | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 6:12 p.m. | #
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Just went to the London map exhibition - the best thing that I have seen for ages! Really brought the history of London to life for me
Amelia | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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did he mention the allotment issue?
tikki | 02.03.07 - 12:02 a.m. | #
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One of the audience brought up "the allotment issue" in the Q&A at the end, but he buried it in amongst several other comments so it got overlooked.
And, sorry, but "the allotment issue" really isn't a matter for debate. The Manor Gardens allotments were doomed as soon as Jacques Rogge opened his golden envelope two years ago and announced "London". They're slap bang in the middle of the Olympic site, and there's absolutely no way they could continue right up to 2012.
We can bemoan the insensitive way that the allotment holders have been treated, and the lack of alternative sites they've been offered, but sadly we can't save their plots.
Not that this argument will stop people who've never visited Manor Gardens thinking they know better, of course...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 12:20 a.m. | #
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I'm just proud of you for getting out. Spread the Diamond Geezer joy, that's what I say!
Katie | 02.03.07 - 12:36 a.m. | #
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British Waterways anounced on Wednesday a £18 million new lcok which will transform the Bow Backs from muddy tidal creeks to permanently navigable waterways. It will also allow olympic construction materials to be brought up from the Thames. Worth a look at their web site.
Ian | 02.03.07 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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...but what if the whole site flooded...Someone's already thought of it...
christina | Homepage | 02.03.07 - 9:32 p.m. | #
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Oooh christina, you seem to have stumbled upon the latest in the DG Disaster Scenario Writing series...
Blue Witch | Homepage | 03.03.07 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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