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entwisi · 31-01-2008, 11:22

My mum still lives in Springhill and lets be honest most people who live there aren't 'well off'. They can get 4 cans for the price of a pint in a pub so why would they go to it. No matter how 'good' a landlord is he is only ever as good as teh disposable income in his catchment area.

The kids are "trouble makers" because they are bored. I'm the last to advocate sending them on holiday when they do stuff wrong but unless you meet them half way you will never make a forward step. When I grew up there we played footy on the field. thats now a school, we played tennis against Lang Bridges, you'd get told off now, we made rope swings down the clough, H&S would be there fencing the area off as a hazard. We made karts and rode them as fast as we could down charter st/exchange street, youd' get run over now by all the nutters

"You can only bang your head against a wall so many times before you realise its hurting you more than its hurting the wall"

Give them something to do and you have a chance to channel that energy into something useful/less distructive

31-01-2008, 11:22	#20
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: springhill club!! My mum still lives in Springhill and lets be honest most people who live there aren't 'well off'. They can get 4 cans for the price of a pint in a pub so why would they go to it. No matter how 'good' a landlord is he is only ever as good as teh disposable income in his catchment area. The kids are "trouble makers" because they are bored. I'm the last to advocate sending them on holiday when they do stuff wrong but unless you meet them half way you will never make a forward step. When I grew up there we played footy on the field. thats now a school, we played tennis against Lang Bridges, you'd get told off now, we made rope swings down the clough, H&S would be there fencing the area off as a hazard. We made karts and rode them as fast as we could down charter st/exchange street, youd' get run over now by all the nutters "You can only bang your head against a wall so many times before you realise its hurting you more than its hurting the wall" Give them something to do and you have a chance to channel that energy into something useful/less distructive __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?