What You Say#154
Irresponsible dog owners should be fined
I am angry at the irresponsible dog owners who don’t pick up after their dogs.
Today I slipped on dog poo outside Lawrences on Bridge Street. I was lucky I didn’t fall. Whoever let their dog do this has known and should be fined.
I don’t blame the dog, I blame the owners. If you can’t pick up after your dog, then you shouldn’t have one.
Mary Henry
Amble
Amble’s repair café: what a great idea
Thank you so much to all involved with the first Dry Water Arts Centre repair cafe on weekend of 19 July.
What a great idea! We managed to salvage an item costing over £400, which was previously destined for the skip.
It was great to see so many varied items being repaired: teddy bears, kettles, toasters and ceramics.
I think the repairers enjoyed it as much as anyone else!
Repair Cafes are becoming very popular across the country, as people look to reduce waste, cut costs, and stop throwing perfectly good things out.
This is just such a perfect idea for the community in Amble, and I very much hope it will be repeated.
Thank you – Chris D
via email
Ed: another repair cafe will take place at Dry Water Arts on 22 Nov.
Harbour commissioners should not have to pay
An open letter to Cllr Pauline Davidson
Dear Pauline,
Please could you explore potential funding from NCC to remove the highly offensive and ugly graffiti from the little shore breakwater.
Amble is proud to call itself the Friendliest Port. CRAG is applying for bathing water status for Little Shore and the appearance of this graffiti is utterly counter productive to making Amble a welcoming place.
Many (if not most) of us in Northumberland have friends, relatives and colleagues who are mixed race, Black, foreign born. We also readily welcome refugees from places such as Ukraine.
The ‘small boats’ campaign is symbolic of wider frustrations in society but that’s not an excuse to offend local people who are trying to bring up their children to respect other people, oppose racism and live in a peaceful society.
It is not fair that the harbour commissioners should have to pay for removing this graffiti – please could you investigate NCC funding options.
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Thanks to Pat Keen who shared this photo of Cross Street School from 1904. Her Great Aunt Bessie is pictured third row, second left.
Mary absolutely loves animals and birds, Amble’s very own Dr Dolittle. Hope she is alright. This dog mess problem has to be addressed.
Regarding the message on the Pier, in what way exactly is it the R word, how is it offensive to foreign born living here or foreign friends who visit? Do they like what is happening to the UK? The whole world feels sorry for Britain, the country they looked up to once. In what way is this graffiti unwelcoming to Ukraine refugees who I don’t think have used this mode of transport?
The writing in the wall is called freedom of expression, freedom of speech.
On the contrary, we cannot use the pier graffiti as an excuse that it is a bad example for kids here in Amble who we are bringing up to respect those around them. Also bad for tourism. Are all those of us who oppose thousands entering the country every month, the r word? If this is what kids are taught at home and in school, it is misguiding them deliberately.
I do not like graffiti. However some get away with it like Banksy. Nothing has been done to bring this enigma to book, defacing public or private property. No clue if there is any cctv footage, any witnesses, The city sleeps soundly. What or who is Banksy, a man, a woman, a Company, a bird. When it suits, it is art for art’s sake. Otherwise it is ugly and offensive and has to be obliterated at all costs.
Two tier pier.