Yorkshire Gold

Yorkshire gold – it must be something in the water.

Yorkshire Golds so Far

1. Alistair Brownlee – West Yorks Triathlon -
2. ANDREW TRIGGS-HODGE  Rowing – coxless four     Hebden
3. KATHERINE COPELAND   Rowing,   women’s lightweight double sculls     Stokesley
4. Jessica Ennis – Heptathlon, Sheffield
5. Ed Clancy – Team Pursuit

more to come.

• Yorkshire Olympic medal Table

With the extra rain this summer all the garden greenery has grown like triffids.
There is far more garden plant matter to turn into compost and heaps are full to over flowing, bulging at the seams or both. Still mixed waste reduces in volume very rapidly as the rotting starts and the heap compresses so the greedy boards wont last long..

Compost is Good for Gardens

Grass clippings are full of nitrogen but can tend to make your compost a bit soggy so mix them with drier brown stuff. If you have no brown compostables you can tear up some newsprint or cardboard to balance the compost mixture.
Compost need air and active bacteria to get hot and kill off seeds and pathogens. If you have space (and energy) turn the heap over every few weeks.
By autumn (8 weeks) the greedy boards will have gone and the compost will have a wooden cover to retain heat and keep out excessive rain.
You should not need a compost activator, bits of soil and worms will do the job. However Garrotta will add trace elements and get your heap going

The motto of Yorkshire Rotters is ‘Rotting to the Core’
Good compost helps fruit and veg grow for all the Yorkshire Greedy Guts.

Other Greedy Boards

‘We don’t need no steenkin’ greedy boards’ by pragmatic_pete,CC BY-NC 2.0
Oh yes you do! With a shovel that size no wonder you filled the skip double quick.

This vehicle was built in 1971 and we brought it from David Norton, who used it commercially. We put a body on the back from a Foden lorry, in a traditional shape. It features ‘greedy boards’, carries the Swingboats and Strikers. This vehicle also has blowers with flames and advertising signs which are lit up by halogens when the fair is open. On the road this ERF tows the Juvenile truck and is currently owned by Joby Carter.
Photo and description ‘Carter’s Steam Fair ERF Lorry’ by James F Clay, CC BY-NC 2.0

Skips by Alan Stanton CC BY-NC 2.0 A London version of demure ‘greedy boards’.

How many good buildings has Bradford got that it can allow this great 1930′s edifice to fall down around the politicians ears? For 12 years there has been deriliction in more ways than in architectural terms. The unique building has a place in old Bradfordians hearts under at least one of it’s various names the New Vic, Gaumont or the Odeon.

Following a great tradition of destruction there was Swan Arcade, Busbys, two Victorian Railway Stations, Kirkgate and Rawson Markets, Theatre Royal on Manningham Lane but emphasis is on the ‘was’.
I guess the ‘Penny Bank’ at North Parade / Manor Row is threatened and even the modern Building Society premises up Westgate will follow Provincial House, the City Centre police station and BHS Forster square.

Mills are virtually wiped out with an occasional white elephant housing conversion scheme or arsonists testing ground.

Do not get me started on the ‘Conditioning House’ on Canal Road. I dare you to look at the condition that build is now in!

Meanwhile the great vision from our political elite is a moat around City Hall (sorry I mean a Park with a Mirror Pool). Not to mention the hole in the City Centre designed as Forster House by John Paulson. Come back Paulson even you can’t do as badly!

Returning to the Odeon there is a full and interesting history by Colin Sutton ‘Bradford – New Victoria/Gaumont/Odeon’
It is not too late ‘Save our Heritage Buildings’.
The Architects journal says ‘….utterly deplorable act of architectural vandalism.’
Writting in the Telegraph and Argus about asbestos at the Odeon, Uther Pendragon says ‘As usual just one more reason to sweep away Bradford’s heritage in the headlong pursuit of modernisation. As usual destroy and replace with concrete and glass soulless buildings with a limited lifespan that will be declared “not fit for purpose” within a generation’
It is 12 years since the Odeon closed The story of how she came to be hidden away like a bad ghost is riddled with almost unbelievable twists’ the Odeon rescue group

Little Germany Special

A lot of investment in Little Germany was to be praised. It is the commercial community who need to step up to the plate to reinvigorate this zone. We can’t go on blaming the politicians despite their weedy performance.

You will not grow roses like these but you can do even better with rose tips from God’s own county.

We know it will be a white rose for most of our regular readers. For those who enjoy gardening then the rose opens up a whole avenue of colourful floral beauty and scent.

Rose Scent Tips

This rose was full of scent as white and single roses often are. It was growing in a hedgerow planted around gravel pits at Pool in Wharfedale.
Roses with hairy thorns and bourbon roses are also usually well scented.
The best scent comes at a price from David Austin Old Fashioned English Rose collection.
Climbing roses bring the flowers up close so you do not need to bend to get the fragrance.

Coloured Rose Tips

Yes there are some other coloured roses but white floats the Yorkshire boat. See Thompson Morgan for a selection of  Roses
Aim for distinctive colours rather than wishy-washy shades.
Roses have the ability to be Shock and Awe plants and colour is a key feature so you do not want one that fades into the back ground.

Photo Credits
Rose by clouserw CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 From The Uncommon Rose farm
Rose logo bt sodacans CC attribution 3.5

A white rose finale for God’s Own County.