Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 953776)

I don’t see what all this fuss is about exhuming the contents of a few ancient coffins. We have always has Charnel House and Ossuaries in this country where human remains have been placed after graveyards are full to capacity or a new development needs to go over the top. In fact, given the overall grim ambiance of the place, I’m quite sure Ossy was named after the latter.

The only thing that concerns me is that this is not the only announcement this week about the redevelopment of Accy town centre; we have also had news about the Arcade being tarted up. In both schemes, money is reliant on national lottery funding. It seems to me that given the record of previous local grandiose plans that have come to nowt, the council would have been far better advised to say nothing until all the money is in place and then make public the go-ahead.

Maybe then some of those old bones that are dug up could be used to go on display in the Arcade. It would make the town centre one hell of a tourist attraction..A few skulls over the Church Street entrance and leg and arms over each shop window.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 953779)

Yup.

More sensationalist headlines, and sloppy reporting, re: the Arcade.

Which only becomes apparent, when you read further into the Observer, and realise this isn't news, just spin, with no finance in place, and it all being reliant on securing Lottery funding.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 953731)

yep,but sheep crapping all oer the graves don't seem very respectful to me either,so like i said, jurys out wi me.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 953790)

crap is biodegradable, tarmac takes a bit longer to break down

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 953798)

Dogs unless Guide Dogs should be banned from all cemmys in my view.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 953794)

Sheep are fine - they keep down the grass. It's the idiots who walk their dogs in cemetries who I object to, because dogs just p£ss and £hit all over the gravestones - and I'm not talking about those that have been dead for a couple of centuries, but those that have been dead for a couple of months.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 953800)

not sure how they do it on headstones (gravestones), :dogrun:

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 953776)

I don’t see what all this fuss is about exhuming the contents of a few ancient coffins...
Maybe then some of those old bones that are dug up could be used to go on display in the Arcade. It would make the town centre one hell of a tourist attraction..A few skulls over the Church Street entrance and leg and arms over each shop window.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 953794)

Sheep are fine - they keep down the grass. It's the idiots who walk their dogs in cemetries who I object to, because dogs just p£ss and £hit all over the gravestones - and I'm not talking about those that have been dead for a couple of centuries, but those that have been dead for a couple of months.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 953804)

Err....they stand alongside,and let loose with a stream of yellow liquid. However, if they're lad dogs from lift a leg up Church (where they are very clever), they stand on their two back legs, sieze the instrument that lies between the said legs with their front paws and do it that way.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 953781)

Its probably been supplied by people who wish to deflect the focus on other things i reckon.;):rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 953788)

That was my thought on the subject too Cashy....we must re-start our anti cynical pills.
Can you lend me some of yours? I seem to have run out of them.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 953892)

Surely there aren't people who would do that are there cashy:rolleyes::rolleyes:;)