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Subject: [Leica] Friday Follies
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:42:24 +0000
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The first one, Don. Always glad to see sanity around green spaces prevail.

I'm (along with others) trying to win a battle here in Monkstown, Co. 
Dublin against Bob Faith's Greystar who want to "enhance" our 
Georgian/Victorian village with tower blocks in the last remaining 
original Georgian gardens in south county Dublin. It's interesting when 
you look at their record...

They say about themselves "Greystar is the global leader in rental 
housing" but a bit of digging and....
Berkeley balcony collapse
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42068198
Dallas crane collapse
https://news.yahoo.com/jury-awards-860m-damages-against-001521850.html

Douglas


On 24/11/2023 11:00, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Greetings to all.  This week is fairly random.  We had a brief period of
> City Council insanity trying to commercialize the most used open space near
> downtown.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Save+Zilker+Park.jpg.html
>
> Random chalk art while walking north toward the lake:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/chalk+pear.jpg.html
>
> Last, a bit of advertising on a selfie landmark:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Barbie.jpg.html
>
> All the best.


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