We had a meeting today in our village hall.
For some time we have been trying to get affordable housing to buy or rent for local families.
There are so many people out there who know the score and are trying so hard to make it happen. It would bring tears to the eyes of a stone needle!
However, there are those who do not want it to happen for a variety of reasons! NIMBY being one.
It begs the question when it will not be in their backyard and the only real objection is the colour of the brickwork that will be employed.
A number of ideas/phrases surfaced during the course of the afternoon.
The first was that you can not have a good public meeting without bunting, obviously goodwill bunting. Herself admitted, under duress, that she had colluded with the man in the Town Hall in Hackney to secure bunting whenever there was a public gathering at the heath centre, often it was tatty bunting.
Later through the haze of the evening meal it was reported that one of the nieces had been appointed as the Curator of Yurts.
Maybe we should get a few yurts, plonk them on the village green and have a festival of Mongolian Throat Singing. Now that would stick in the craw of the the bad guys!