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Parents have been told to stop their children drawing with chalk on the pavement at a newbuild housing estate in Bishopbriggs – after it was dubbed an eyesore.
It’s comforting to know that the kids are playing outside. Let them have fun. The rain will soon wash the chalk away.
Gwyneth Cartmill Cordner
I’m delighted that kids want to play outside! If I was looking for a new home, I’d want to be where children are riding bikes and playing hopscotch.
Diane Hewlett That’s shocking. When we were all young children it was so good to play those games outside. We were all fit and had bikes. Kids today need to start having fun outside instead of playing inside with a computer.
Karen Toshack Chalk is erasable, childhood memories aren’t. It worries me that kids now sit at home interacting via online gaming, and not out socialising with other kids, enjoying vitamin D sun rays and engaging in interaction face-to-face with their friends. I fear the future: peely wally kids with social issues and physically unfit. Get them out chalking pavements and making memories.
Angela Darroch
I am 71 years old and when I was a wee boy the pavements were covered in chalk where the lassies played and no one complained. One wee rain shower and they are gone. Kids should be encouraged to play outside in good weather. It is a lot healthier than sitting glued to a mobile phone or laptop all day.
Patrick Hodgkiss
When the kids were little I put a swing in the garden for them. It tore up the lawn and left a really bad looking patch where they played. Now the kids have flown the nest the grass is long repaired, but I yearn for that torn up bit of lawn back. What’s a bit of chalk?
Gary Young And we wonder why kids are putting on weight – it’s because even simple things that actually wash away in the rain is now being stopped.
Alexandra Ferguson Spoilsports. No wonder kids have their noses stuck in phones.
Agnes Gibson There’s a simple solution to this, as it’s the property factors complaining. Tell the property factors to wind their necks in or at the next AGM initiate proceedings to find a new factor. Job done.
Karsten Moerman I live on a new-build estate, and I don’t feel we have enough kids running around! Kids make a neighbourhood desirable, chalk, bikes, scooters and all.
Kirst Xnicholson
Mary Stewart Really? People are dying every day because of the abomination of policies like austerity, Universal Credit and disability assessments imposed by May’s far-right party and all you can say is “the left goes too far”! I see you’ve got your priorities straight.
Angelo Greig
Who says that the “attacker” represented “the left” as opposed simply to decent human values currently being trodden on by Farage and the like? I’m not condoning the “attack” but Farage and others are perpetrating far worse so it pales by comparison. Are you blind to the hatred stirred up within and by the right? Jo Cox? The marches? The hate-filled placards? The aggression writ large on the faces of the participants? The attacks on immigrants?
Phil Vivian
Well done that man! Don’t worry Nigel, Aaron Banks will pay for the dry cleaning along with the monthly rent for your house in Chelsea and your personal driver and bodyguard – although he needs sacking by the looks of it.
Graham Kyzer
Nigel’s milkshakes bring all the racists to the yard . . .
Giovanna Tutta Panna
All you wonderful people that condone violence. I bet it would be a different story if someone did it to you and yours.
Brian Rudden Whether we like him or not he is entitled to his opinion and he is entitled to campaign in an election freely without being assaulted.
David Nelson Much as I dislike everything that Farage stands for, I absolutely condemn this act. It is nothing short of loutish and an attack on democracy. We can win the argument through engagement in debate, not through such stupidity.
Iain Lancastle