Go Walthamstow!

Completely off topic (apologies) but every skip I've hired only costs a one off fee, and it's uplifted only when it's full.

Perhaps Walthamstow skips are more upmarket than our local ones?!

All sorts of classical music is played at Walthamstow Bus Station - not just Ode to Joy. I really don't think any political significance is intended. Perhaps, in my ignorance, I'm unrepresentative of the general population but I wasn't even aware of the connection between this piece of music and the EU.

I quite like some of the stuff they play but some of it I find a bit boring - I must be one of the disruptive types that they're trying to discourage!

There is a lot of renovation and rebuilding work being done on private houses in Walthamstow. Some people prefer to dump all the rubbish in their front gardens and only order a skip when they know there is enough to fill a skip in one go. It's cheaper than hiring a skip for an unspecified length of time as I believe hirers pay by the week - but I agree it is very unsightly.

I absolutely agree with you GrannyGravy.

Ode to joy was around long before the EU, a beautiful piece of music that should not be "sullied" due to the EUs "adoption" of it.

Classical music is a balm for the soul.

(On the subject of pearls, I never wear mine when riding) ?

As you like Maw.

I'm with you maddyone - and I'm a remainer (if that makes a difference). There are no high horses or pearls in my immediate vicinity so that can be put to one side, but like you I feel uncomfortable about someone making a political point using music especially at a time when feelings are running high.

Of course, it could simply be coincidence that it was being played - I hope so.

Connection? I suppose so, which is that it chimed with me after watching the omnishambles that was the HoC the night before. It restored a faith in (somebody’s )human nature and I felt cocked a snook at somebody somewhere.
You seem to equate that with brainwashing or something equally inappropriate., I preferred to smile.
But to use a phrase coined in Michael Dobson’s “ House of Cards” - “you may think that, I could not possibly comment.”

crystaltipps yes, the fabrics and the Indian spices!

Don’t be ridiculous Maw, the connection must be there, you made it!

I’m all for a bit of good music in public spaces. Our local station has a piano for people to play. It’s lovely when someone’s plays it well. At Christmas we had someone playing carols and commuters singing along. That’s got to be good surely? It’s also fun when you go to the Festival Hall on the Southbank and go up in their “singing lift “. Love Walthamstow market for the fabric stalls.

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And your PC non- controversial playlist? To lift the spirits but not “brainwash” ?
Are you denying that music -possibly all music- affects the senses in a unique non- verbal way?

You made the observation Maw, so you obviously connected the two points. You can be as sarcastic as you like, I stand by my point. I do not want to be subtly brainwashed. Perhaps you don’t mind.

Maybe they should play something like "Onward Christian Soldiers" in the current climate! That's what the majority of us are doing in all this mess.

I am surprised it is as little as £400k Ann
Most little two up, two down are over £500k these days and upwards of 6-7 if they have any sort of loft conversion. ??
Maddyone calm down - no I did not coin the term “pearl clutching” and don’t in fact feel the need to use it. But the observation Public services need to concentrate on providing good service not making political points implied that these are somehow mutually exclusive.
I chose to react the way I did, but perhaps you might like to compile a PC playlist which could not possibly be open to your sort of criticism?

Sorry to divert your thread Maw as you were now.

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Sad to see, isn’t it?

I found it on street view.
The front garden is full to the brim with bags of rubbish.
They will be turning in their graves.

Same as the house I went to live in Ann on Billet Rd.
No doubt worth the same or more.

Yes I have googled and it is Forest View Road.
Zoopla shows the house as being valued at over £400,000 ,wow.
It wasn’t a big house at all, 2 reception, one behind the other,a tiny corridor kitchen ,no loo downstairs and a narrow back garden.
I can’t think how it could be extended much , being terraced.

Thanks Pitt ? I will look it up and see it on street view.

There's so many roads with "Forest" in their name round these parts annsixty because Epping Forest is spread so wide with rows of houses in between. If you go on street view you could probably find the one you're looking for. I think I read somewhere that the forest is the largest green space in London, (Queen Elizabeth 1 hunting ground).

Google shows Forest View Road E17 off the A406.
I was born in WalFamstow although we never lived there.

lemongrove my memory may have played tricks on me but 33 Forest View Road is what comes into my mind when I think of Aunt Ellen and Uncle Jim.
As to where it was ,it is 49 years since we visited, we took my S to visit when he was a baby, he’s 50 next year.
I can’t ask anyone either, I am the last surviving family member.?

They play classical music in the public toilets in Winchester!!!! I wondered if was to keep the youngsters from congregating there.

Where exactly did I say I was worried about municipal money being spent Maw?
What I said was I don’t want a political message being played, as the OP suggested. I don’t want to live in a Communist type country where subtle brainwashing is happening, and where classical music is the conveyor of the ‘correct’ message. Fine for you if you don’t mind, but we’re all entitled to our own opinions without being ridiculed with remarks such as ‘pearl clutching,’ one I’ve seen you use a few times as a subtle put down. I’d suggest you get off your high horse.