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- Susan Harwood
- It's one of those odd things . . . I live in my little house by the sea and listen to the radio and reckon I know best about more-or-less everything . . . as I keep telling the news-casters, the policiticians and all the experts interviewed there. I shout quite loud - but I'm beginning to suspect they can't hear! Sometimes, I write to my MP . . . but there's always more to say. So, here it is!
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5 comments:
Hear, hear. But ours isn't. It's not big enough for anyone to eat in except standing. It's one of the few things I regret about our house, that and the small concrete back yard, but I have learnt to accept that I can't have everything all at the same time.
I'jm in a similar position to Gareth, perhaps.
Because we have always rented as we moved around, we sometimes have to 'take the good with the bad'.
In our present house our round-top table took up all the available floor space in the kitchen. We don't have a separate dinig room here; it's one of the original houses in Kawerau, circa 1954.
So, sadly, we got rid of the table. We now have what are affectionately known as t/v meals. In other words, the equivalent of trays on our laps!
Gareth . . .
The only way we could make space for a table in our kitchen was to take off the door between it and our living room . . . so we did!
There's not much we can do about the design of the houses we are already living in . . . but I wish I knew how we could influence the way new homes are to be built!
Susan
David . . .
Lots of houses in England have no space for a table.
The government is encouraging a massive expansion in the number of new homes being built.
The government is also concerned about the amount of 'anti-social' behaviour amongst young people.
'Experts' on the Radio etc. say one of the reasons some children behave badly is because families don't sit around a table to eat.
This, so the theory goes, leads to anti-social, even violent, behaviour in the streets.
It seems a bit rough, to me, that the ills of society should be blamed on parents for allowing children to 'eat on the hoof' or while watching television, if the little houses the government is encouraging builders to build are too small for the tables they are expected to sit at!
Susan
This is interesting on a couple of levels. One , my husband is a kitchen designer and sometimes has to make a kitchen in a broom cupboard.
Two , i think families should be able to sit around a table and eat. If children do not learn good manners and converse with other family members they may strugle later on.
In my home we had the kitchen fitted by the council and we were aloud to chose the design to suit us. All my neighbours put cupboards and work top all the way around i was the only one that sacrificed (much needed) cupboard space so i could fit the folding table in. This still only lets three of my children eat in the kitchen at the table.
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