According to a link in the excellent wiki:Can those more versed in Saltening lore tell me if I imagined it/dreamed it, or did a company post somewhere that they'd removed "contaminated" top soil from her allotment but when tested there was no salt. I was sure I'd read it here but I woke up this morning and asked my husband why Ken Clarke had led a riot on a council estate, only to be told I must have dreamed it so....
As well as the Harlow council testing that @ChastityDingle has mentioned, there was also a claim by one of Carly's attack dogs (Donna maybe) that a company had come in with a digger and removed a serious slice off the topsoil, and then helped to spread new topsoil in its place. However they didn't know what to do with the "contaminated" salty soil that was removed, so it was just moved to a different part of the site. So presumably is still there, in a pile.Can those more versed in Saltening lore tell me if I imagined it/dreamed it, or did a company post somewhere that they'd removed "contaminated" top soil from her allotment but when tested there was no salt. I was sure I'd read it here but I woke up this morning and asked my husband why Ken Clarke had led a riot on a council estate, only to be told I must have dreamed it so....
According to a link in the excellent wiki:
Harlow Council issue detailed statement over Carly Burd and the Fold Croft allotment - Your Harlow
HARLOW Council has issued a statement detailing their role in trying to help local resident Carly Burd develop an allotment in the Fold Croft area of Harlow.www.yourharlow.com
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These two together do rather give me the mental image of Harlow Council pootling along at the end of April and taking a sample of the by then replaced soil to test and being astonished when there was no salt in it - which may explain why this big discrepancy wasn’t highlighted more earlier - classic local council testing the wrong bloody soil.I found this tweet about the soil being replaced. It sounds like a local garden centre helped, as well as a digger hire company
What jumps out from that clip and especially the drone footage is just how many people industrially put their backs into helping with the site (I realise that they mentioned some of them were from the local garden centre and presumably the boss told them to go) and how it was all beautifully prepared with new soil ready for several amazing and productive growing seasons.I found this tweet about the soil being replaced. It sounds like a local garden centre helped, as well as a digger hire company
I don’t think they had to but it would be total local council behaviour to decide to, get there once the soil has been replaced and instead of going “Ok, too late we can’t test as it would be a waste of time and money” just taking some of whatever is there and testing anyway.I mean, it’s not really for the Council to drop everything and race there to test for salt because C****’s cried all over ITV and TikTok. She could have taken a sample herself.
We’ll never get to the bottom of the saltening, unfortunately due to her weasel behaviour there will always be a question mark as to whether she did it herself.
I see elder Colin has managed to run his charity allotment without any salt attacks, or indeed any TV crews or local award nominations. Amateur.
It’s all a red herring anyway. Council say no salt, Carly will say it was new soil.yeah the lack of clarity around when the testing happened is annoying. Why not just say it was tested on X date?
THIS is the important thing to remember.It’s all a red herring anyway. Council say no salt, Carly will say it was new soil.
where‘s the £180k though?
None of the money was spent on any allotment. When she tried to create a fig leaf for her grift with giant novelty cheques all the real allotment projects in the town turned her down.The date of testing the soil isn't particularly relevant.
The crucial point is that the money donated wasn't even needed in the end. Volunteers donated their time and labour to repair the allotment and businesses donated materials. As far as I can tell, not a penny of the £250k was used in the clean up.
And after all that, C**** decided to abandon the allotment, handed out some attention seeking comedy cheques, refused to explain what's going to happen with the remaining £160k, then promptly disappeared.
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There's a cafe in Newcastle that does this, and it is absolutely lovely - not sponsored, not an ad, just a genuinely good ideaAt work, I just processed a catering order with a company that use surplus food
I honked, imagining a buffet table that is just a pile of loaves of bread, with a few stale croissants for the lucky ones who dig deep enough.
(I'm sure it's a lovely reputable company and the buffet will be excellent)
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