The crib in Oswaldtwistle, near the Co-op
 

I think the council has been a bit inconsiderate with the Crib near the co-op. My brother recently started going out on his baby reins when we go to the shops rather than in his pram, and like all toddlers venturing outside for the first time he's into everything, and he wants to look in the crib every time we go to the co-op.

The problem is that the window is way too high, and he has to be lifted to see into the little shed to see the display. If he was in his pram it would be too much hassle to bother at all as we'd have to get him out and he'd kick up a fuss if we tried to put him back in.
How can the little ones enjoy a traditional aspect of xmas if they make things this way? Whoever decided to put it in a shed with the window that high clearly wasn't really considering visibility were they?!

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With your parenting skills you should know how to deal with that :rolleyes:

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Need I mention the people complaining about 'buggy bays' on the bus? Surely with their high and mighty parenting skills they should be able to deal with that too :rolleyes:

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Nah blazey dont get confused, the bus is something we havent go control of but putting the child back in the pram we do, honest little young lady you need to learn a lot

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Glass below waist height would have to be toughened glass.
It is probably the way it is for safety/economy reasons

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Well my brother tries to tiptoe to see into the window but at the height he can manage to get to without being lifted he'd only just manage to see the back of the shed, he wouldnt be able to see the ornaments at the bottom.

As for getting him back into the pram, I should point out that I am not the one left with putting him back into the pram every time he wants to look, my mum is seen as its her who normally takes him out during the week, and she has the same difficulties putting him back into the pram when he wants to walk, and I'm pretty sure my mother does just as good a job at parenting as everyone else on this forum.

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im sure she does so learn from her , it will come handy for when u have ur own

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The one in accrington goes down to the floor. If the council can provide one thing for one area and not another then its a poor do!

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I noticed that this morning, not only is the window way too high, its tiny. Walking past from a distance i thought it was just a shed, surely they could put something on the back wall to stop it looking so plain from a distance.

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No matter re. the sniping comments, think this is a constructive and valid point Blazey ..E-mail Councillor Britcliffe or Graham Jones (who intends to go on the Lights' committee next year) .. sure has been an oversight and will be taken on board.

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well if the hanging baskets are anything to go by then ossy should think itself lucky they even got a crib..
look how high they were and they still got destroyed ..

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gotta say, i'm with blazey on this one,n if that dont suit some.:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:

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OH AND FOR THE RECORD THAT AINT A STAB AT THE FOLKS IN OSSY .... IM AN OSSY LASS MYSELF .. ITS FOR THE MINDLESS CHAVS THAT DONT DESERVE OWT NICE..
I remember the crib used to be one big window and very festive . shame things have to change in such a way..

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Well I have to say that the location isn't the best anyway if we take into account that its the local 'hang out' area for the chavs in particular other than the rhyddings street memorial, but there isn't anywhere else particularly suitable for it that comes to mind.

I dont want to come across as a highly religious person, because I'm not particularly, but I think its sad that one of first symbols of a religion that children can appreciate is not given the visibility it deserves, nor are they given a chance to appreciate it properly.

Chavs might not appreciate flowers and hanging baskets, but I have never witnessed the naticity display being vandalised or neglected, not even a scribble of graffiti on it.

If the glass is an issue, fine, but I wouldve thought that could be solved by shatter proof plastic, or even a slightly raised bench fixed to the floor for the little ones to stand one, and the display inside raised by putting it on a table or something, but to put the window so high up and the display so low down is just a bit too thoughtless in my opinion, and needless to say, a pointless display. Who thinks up of a display that you cant see from a distance, that if you're a child you have to be lifted up to look down on it?