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Skelf (don't believe everything you read)
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Haters gonna hate
Posted 7 years ago # -
All entitled to their own opinion.
Only thing I am struggling with is the idea this wasteground was a community woodland.
THe area was I think self seeded and had no woodland paths or anything just dog poo and the occaional needle?
SKELF came up with a great idea. THey consulted over a long period.
No other uses for the wasteland were ever proposed in the extended period between the idea being proposed and then realised.
As Mark Steel noted on his recent trip to Barnard Castle in Co. Durham THe trouble with tourist attractions is they attract tourists.
So the bike park is being well used. Shame if you don;t like that sort of thing? Or set up a wee cafe out a van and make some cash?
Posted 7 years ago # -
Also being used by locals (esp kids) and has locals as volunteer 'caretakers'
Lotsa needles.
Generally popular -
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Sally Hinchcliffe (@sallyhinch)
22/04/2017, 20:12
Any truth in the rumour that the bike police all ended up at Skelf Bike Park after @POPScotland?"
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theSKELF Bike Park (@SKELFBikePark)
22/04/2017, 22:46
@sallyhinch @kim_harding @POPScotland Yup! Saw them all come up the hill from inside the Crags"
Posted 7 years ago # -
"yummy families" not quite sure what that means possibly the pesky middle class taking over again
Posted 7 years ago # -
Is that the squeezed middle, hard working, law abiding, sharp-elbowed, entitled, playing the system pesky middle class?
Posted 7 years ago # -
The Skelf and Gypsy Brae - bumpy bike tracks - same thing innit!
Posted 7 years ago # -
The opinion piece in the EEN is, Surprise! by the key objector who kicked off drove the (mostly online) campaign to try to block the project last year...
She is, almost heroically, still on the war path & continues to fire off epic, borderline unhinged screeds to anyone who will listen (including amusingly the local outpost of the fourth estate).
The 'Stop Skelf' FB page is here if you need more batshit crazy in your life:
All very tiresome, but at the end of the day, the bike park is built & very popular, and views like hers seem increasingly isolated.
Angus
Posted 7 years ago # -
still no supportive comments on the EEN page - must be a record!
Posted 7 years ago # -
Don't suppose many Skelf users bother with the EN.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Ah yes, the EEN, without question my favourite newspaper; soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@chdot Don't suppose many Skelf users bother with the EN.
Other way round. No supporters of the complainer are in the comments.
Everyone is positive about it
Posted 7 years ago # -
> Everyone is positive about it
Indeed - we've been there 3 times in the last 10 days.
A guy working hard on the landscaping around the entrance asked my opinion 'as a cyclist' on desire lines and suitable plants/shrub layouts for guiding people/bikes along paths. So if you find yourself wondering 'what were they thinking' then you can partially blame me.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"Other way round. No supporters of the complainer are in the comments."
Ah!
Should have read the comments!!!
Posted 7 years ago # -
Has anyone sought the views of Suits Not Kids on the SKELF?
Posted 6 years ago # -
"Has anyone sought the views of Suits Not Kids on
the SKELFany matter at all?"FTFY
We haven't heard much from PG Tips lately. Which is A Good Thing. Please don't encourage the fella.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"Has anyone sought the views of Suits Not Kids on the SKELF?"
Um, yeah, please don't, we've got enough of our own bamsPosted 6 years ago # -
Just seen one. "Where is the chiffchaff?"
Posted 6 years ago #
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