{"id":47037,"date":"2017-03-07T21:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/decking-seemed-a-great-idea-in-the-90s-but-so-did-tony-blair-patrick-barkham\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:20:53","slug":"decking-seemed-a-great-idea-in-the-90s-but-so-did-tony-blair-patrick-barkham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/decking-seemed-a-great-idea-in-the-90s-but-so-did-tony-blair-patrick-barkham\/","title":{"rendered":"Decking seemed a great idea in the 90s. But so did Tony Blair | Patrick Barkham"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlan Titchmarsh regrets his role in popularising the wooden abominations \u2013 graves for generations of garden animals. But in decay there is an upsideDecking is like Tony Blair; widely embraced in the 1990s, now an embarrassing legacy of the bad old days. And neither look as splendid as they once did. Decking hasn\u2019t simply decayed into a mildewed death-trap, it\u2019s accused of being plundered from rainforests to smother gardens where butterflies, hedgehogs and songbirds once flourished. Related: Hardwood from illegal logging makes its way into UK stores Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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