Is this article for real?
Simon Wycombe ● 1501d21 Comments
a welcome twist to the OP.
Simon Wycombe ● 1461d
I can confirm that the Blondin Park Community Pavilion has opened its doors to the public this week. Open 7 days a week with no firm hours yet but likely to be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Café and toilets and a space to hire. All fundraising done by the local community - a real asset to the area and you will not see a rat in sight!
Linda Massey ● 1462d
Maytrees Gardens?yes, at least they are real,not a figment nor in their 100's!
Simon Wycombe ● 1463d
No idea but theres a lot of rats to be seen alongside the embankment on the Tube particularly just after South Ealing Station heading east. A lot at night running about near the little park opposite the station too.It was bad a few months ago and reported but some of these vermin are rather large and still about.
Raymond Havelock ● 1463d
Has this been put to bed now? Was it all made up?
No-one seems to have got to the bottom of it.Not a good thing to have hanging over a particular good park,in the area.
Simon Wycombe ● 1485d
I hope there's a reversal to this tale of woe...because Mr Blondin was a STAR!
Jim Lawes ● 1489d
Perhaps you're right.
Simon Wycombe ● 1493d
On underground stations deep level when a train comes they run along the middle of the tracks.
Nicholas Beard ● 1494d
Instagrammers and suchlike do it all the time of course.ANYTHING for your five seconds of fame .......
Rosco White ● 1496d
'Susan' may not exist but the person in the photo', well and truly does.Don't understand why she would put her photo on show if it's all a scam.Seems very sad that someone would go those lengths to damage the reputation of one of the area's best open spaces.
Simon Wycombe ● 1496d
Yes, has clickbait all over it.There is so much rubbish 'journalism' about. I despair for friends who are proper journos as an intern with a laptop is now just as valued as a time served pro, i.e. not at all.
N V Brooks ● 1498d
It's total bull. The story was plagiarised from the one a friend of mine wrote about an incident of his in Deans Gardens. Susan does not exist. For one thing if you were going to supply a photo of yourself to a national newspaper, wouldn't you try to make it look as nice as possible? It's not a natural pose but more like a photoshop.
Ben Owen ● 1498d
You will see them in numbers by the underground tracks, all weathers all year.
N V Brooks ● 1499d
No, I've never seen any in Blondin Park - or armies of them anywhere. When there are changes like building works or lots of rain which disturbs and changes their usual runs you are more likely to see them.
Philippa Bond ● 1499d
There has always been a rat and mouse problems on or near the underground. Very little predation gives them free rein. You only have to look between the tracks to see swarms of vermin.
N V Brooks ● 1500d
Have you seen "hundreds" of them all mobbed up and attacking random passer by's???
Colin Goodman ● 1500d
I've seen rats near Mayfields Rest Garden where they seem to come up from beside the train tracks to the flower beds where people dump their half eaten takeaways despite the fact that there is a nearby bin.
Philippa Bond ● 1500d
Never seen in Blondin but I have seen rats in the park by the bus stop at Northfields Station.
Pat Kingham ● 1500d
Well it got your attention and mineJob done
All sounds a bit strange. But she is named and there's a photo. Why so much open BS with your name all over it?Nowt so Q as F, as they say.
Simon Wycombe ● 1500d
I know what I smell... the smell you'd expect if it was "hundreds" of bulls on the sports pitches.As I understanad the young lady initially said it was in Deans Gardens and then she was mistaken and it was actually Blondin Park. I've used Blondin on a near on daily basis for about 12 years now and never seen a single rodent. Now it appears they are fully mobbed up and a co-ordinated steaming gang. Always love the "imagine if it was a small child..." line. Yes imagine if it was, they could've been rat-napped and carried away to the narnia entrance hidden away in the nature area bushes.
Colin Goodman ● 1501d