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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Sandy Lane on October 11, 2018, 12:54:46 pm

Title: Article in the Guardian
Post by: Sandy Lane on October 11, 2018, 12:54:46 pm: Interesting article in the Guardian about Donny. Amazon coming in has changed the landscape for retailers here in the US as well, but glad to see that Donny has a plan to reinvent itself.

I only have seen the downtown area once when RTR picked us up for a match and we drive through the downtown area. I had remembered reading the disparaging comments on here about Donny, but thought they were very hard on it.

Anyway, glad there is a plan in place to create a new atmosphere there rather than letting store fronts close up with nothing replacing them, and it sounds like it should be lovely.

I am wary however that one day Amazon will rule the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/11/amazon-v-the-high-street-how-doncaster-is-fighting-back
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: roversontheup on October 11, 2018, 05:17:56 pm: Yes I read it earlier today. Really interesting read and I know understand more about the direction of the town and it’s major development projects.
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: roversdude on October 17, 2018, 08:49:55 pm: Has that lagoon at the Amazon junction just to A1 side always been there (obviously not always) or has something been moved to allow it to be seen better
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: jonnydog on October 17, 2018, 09:21:52 pm: I read this article in the Guardian, too!

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/oct/15/fendi-750-pound-vulva-scarf-makes-wearers-look-like-theyre-being-born?CMP=share_btn_link
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: RedJ on October 17, 2018, 09:24:05 pm: Quote from: jonnydog on October 17, 2018, 09:21:52 pm
I read this article in the Guardian, too!

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/oct/15/fendi-750-pound-vulva-scarf-makes-wearers-look-like-theyre-being-born?CMP=share_btn_link

The only thing that surprises me is Nudga hadn't beaten you to this. :laugh:
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on October 17, 2018, 09:55:37 pm: Quote from: jonnydog on October 17, 2018, 09:21:52 pm
I read this article in the Guardian, too!

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2018/oct/15/fendi-750-pound-vulva-scarf-makes-wearers-look-like-theyre-being-born?CMP=share_btn_link

I bet you look a right Kitson in that.
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on October 17, 2018, 10:42:07 pm: Quote from: roversdude on October 17, 2018, 08:49:55 pm
Has that lagoon at the Amazon junction just to A1 side always been there (obviously not always) or has something been moved to allow it to be seen better

Man made all of that. It was just fields before.
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: roversdude on October 18, 2018, 05:35:01 am: Cheers BFYP is it recent or have I had my eyes closed
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: Donnywolf on October 18, 2018, 06:52:17 am: It has been there almost in sync with the Amazon Warehouse. They started excavating and I thought "Settlement Pond" but they kept on going. (May have been Sand / Gravel selling opportunity)

Then they stopped - retired - and let the huge hole gradually fill. I watched it rise for the last half of last Season and rise it has. Still watching the outfall pipes (when I am not driving) to see if it has stopped rising - and I thnk it has.
Needs Pirahnas in now - well it is in the Amazon :coat:
Title: Re: Article in the Guardian
Post by: roversdude on October 20, 2018, 12:02:19 pm: Get yet coat wolf there’s tumbleweed blowing about