Cardiff 2010
Last post 22-04-2010 10:30 PM by bogweevil. 8 replies.
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20/04/2010 12:11 PM
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- Lemsip
- fourwinds
- 19 Apr 2010
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This was my first RHS show not only in Cardiff but in the entire country though I did attend a large Festival show in Stoke on Trent in the eighties with lots of sizeable show gardens. It was very crowded even at 11 am when I arrived. I hadn't got a ticket in advance due to rheumatism and dizzy spells earlier in the week was not sure if I would be able to come. When I arrived I saw a long queue to buy tickets on the door but it moved quickly thanks to tickets sellers moving amongst the front of the queue for visitors with cash. Since I had cash was able to get in quicker than paying with debit or credit card. The show gardens were quite impressive but rather small. I loved the glass/perspex rotunda near the entrance. Went straight through one floral hall. However I do have one complaint about seat hoggers. I was quite peckish when I arrived so went to the food market to buy ice cream and a pastry but found nowhere to seat as I have explained in another thread. Also I did not appreciate being snapped at for merely asking as if I'm supposed to be a mind reader. Managed also to buy some precision gardening tools which will make fiddly jobs easier which I couldn't find in the shops and a desk top worm bin.
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22/04/2010 12:40 PM
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I don't know Lemsip, comments such as 'asking as if I'm supposed to be a mind reader' tend not, in my vast experience of putting people's backs up, to be taken in the constructive spirit I am sure you intended . I expect there are better alternative phrases that members of this forum will be much better placed than I to suggest.
Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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22/04/2010 01:08 PM
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- Lemsip
- fourwinds
- 19 Apr 2010
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I never said that to anybody but almost felt like saying it. I just didn't bother to say OK or smile and just walked away. What is this attitude where once people are plonked down in a seat in the open air it therefore becomes their chair as in "this is MY chair, I baggsied it first and you can pee off" as if they are still in primary school even when there are people standing there with a hot drink and meal waiting for a chance to sit. You wouldn't get away with sitting for hours in an indoor restaurant or cafe as the manager would soon turf you out especially when there are customers waiting to be seated and at busy lunchtimes you only sit as long as it takes you to finish your meal. I think it's because British people don't know how to do open air cafes as they do on the continent. These are not public seats owned by the local council and you should treat an outdoor space outside a cafe as part of the cafe and not seats for the public. The tables and chairs are owned by the cafe who have permission to have this space on the pavement and are probably paying the council for it as well. You wouldn't bring your own sandwiches and flask of tea and just plonk yourself at a table in an open air cafe so why outstay your welcome either. As for this saving seats for my friends and relatives isn't it a bit school canteen? Everybody should go up and get their food/drink and then find a table together especially if there is a long queue. In the ten minutes you're saving a seat someone could have sat down and had a cup of tea or quick bite to eat and gone.
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22/04/2010 04:12 PM
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Is this not a question of etiquette? Is it not normal and accepted practice for people to occupy a table and 'hold' it for their friends, fending off enquires in a graceful manner? If one thinks someone is taking liberties, does one not say 'come off it mate, this is a bit much'? The Bogweevil has no social graces, he sees no point, but others must be able to comment on this?
Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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22/04/2010 04:29 PM
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- Lemsip
- fourwinds
- 19 Apr 2010
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Not if there is a long queue for a coffee stall and they are over ten minutes in that queue. Maybe OK at a motorway service station if it isn't too crowded. I was at a Mardi Gras years ago and a whole family was hogging a table by a tea stall all afternoon and it was only partly occupied it as they reserved it while half of them in turn went off to enjoy the show as they just wanted their little spot to come back to. Now that is really bad manners so next time they should have paid extra to have a place in the VIP area with reserved seating. There are many rude families and groups of friends who think they should have a whole table to themselves when there are spare seats at that table and no completely vacant tables and it's because we've become too Americanised lately.
Just wanting to park your bum for a few minutes on a crowded table while you have a cuppa while on your own or in a pair is by far the lesser of the two evils. Is that a hint that I don't have social graces. Besides this is a thread I started and I'm not necessarily looking for answers from other forumites because I'm just having a rant and warning others to be less selfish. I do know what to say.
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22/04/2010 04:46 PM
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- Lemsip
- fourwinds
- 19 Apr 2010
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Comment all you like but it's not really your place to ask for comments from other forum members to my post especially as I started the thread. They may of course make comments but not because of prompting from you.
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22/04/2010 10:12 PM
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I think all is becoming clear. Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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22/04/2010 10:26 PM
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- Lemsip
- fourwinds
- 19 Apr 2010
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I actually find that quite patronising. Let's get a few things clear. This was my first flower show for many years now. The only problems I did have at the Cardiff show was finding a seat when I had a coffee in hand so don't assume I had problems all day. Everything else worked out fine .And yes there was a reason for my attitude; having had dizzy spells a few days earlier that left me bedridden for two days and having rheumatoid arthritis.
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22/04/2010 10:30 PM
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All clear now. Thanks. Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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