Pick any sentence from Kate's book.

[mercury]

Thank you GU you beat me to it, i was held up wondering why wide to cast the context for davel lol

she even seems to be intimating there was no balcony there

[Mr Gray]

That was a strange statement;

Though I envied David and Fiona their sea view, being on the ground floor meant we didn’t have to worry about the children’s safety on a balcony. [Madeleine]

Had she noticed the drop? The steps? Clearly not, or she wouldn't have left the children unattended with the patio doors unlocked. Did they play out there unsupervised that week being as there was nothing to worry about? I can honestly say I get the impression she knew nothing about guarding small children. Hand on heart, I don't get it.

so thhey were on the ground floor

[mercury]

so thhey were on the ground floor

Ys on the ground floor of a block each wit h a balcony which any kid could fall off from, so katey misleading the reader im afraid davel
Get over it
await the apologists apology for this one lol
Alfie firsdt seeing as its his thread
 

[G-Unit]

so thhey were on the ground floor

Only insofar as there was no-one below them. Ground floors don't often involve climbing up so many steps as they had at the back.

[Alfie]

Only insofar as there was no-one below them. Ground floors don't often involve climbing up so many steps as they had at the back.

A child tumbling down stairs is probably not quite as dangerous as a child falling from a first floor balcony.

[misty]

Only insofar as there was no-one below them. Ground floors don't often involve climbing up so many steps as they had at the back.

There were no steps to the front door.  Many properties have steps leading either up or down from the back door into the garden. 5A just had more than average.

[mercury]

A child tumbling down stairs is probably not quite as dangerous as a child falling from a first floor balcony.

Wishful claptrap

[mercury]

There were no steps to the front door.  Many properties have steps leading either up or down from the back door into the garden. 5A just had more than average.

Youre sounding like an apologist again misty, no one said there were steps to the front door

There were many steep steps to the back, but of n import, what we ARE talking about, is kate saying she was not worried about her kids falling off a balcony cos she was on the ground floor....as if there was n balcony which there was, ......which is a schizophrenic statement, keep to the point pls

[mercury]

So kate says she felt it was totally safe for her kids to be left alone with an open door and a 4 at least foor drop from the accesible balcony  if they got up and wonderd, ok then, you apologists can crow as much as you like, its just not reality for 99 per cent of normal people who are in charge of toddlers, apologise at will, will never change a thing, ever,

[misty]

So kate says she felt it was totally safe for her kids to be left alone with an open door and a 4 at least foor drop from the accesible balcony  if they got up and wonderd, ok then, you apologists can crow as much as you like, its just not reality for 99 per cent of normal people who are in charge of toddlers, apologise at will, will never change a thing, ever,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony
A balcony (from Italian: balcone, scaffold; cf. Old High German balcho, beam, balk; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant پالكانه pālkāneh;[1]) is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
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5A did not have a balcony. Balconies are cantilevered.

[mercury]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony
A balcony (from Italian: balcone, scaffold; cf. Old High German balcho, beam, balk; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant پالكانه pālkāneh;[1]) is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
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5A did not have a balcony. Balconies are cantilevered.

Course it didnt you and kate are right, it was figment of everyones imagnation, oh well, glad that ones cleared up, there WAS N BALCONY IN 5_A

Thanks misty

Nite now

[G-Unit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony
A balcony (from Italian: balcone, scaffold; cf. Old High German balcho, beam, balk; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant پالكانه pālkāneh;[1]) is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
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5A did not have a balcony. Balconies are cantilevered.

A truly wonderful piece of diversionary semantics; well done!

Whatever you care to call it most parents would have taken one look and resolved to keep a close eye on any children under 4 years of age using it. The dangers are undeniable and obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense.

[Alfie]

A truly wonderful piece of diversionary semantics; well done!

Whatever you care to call it most parents would have taken one look and resolved to keep a close eye on any children under 4 years of age using it. The dangers are undeniable and obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense.

Sorry, but did Kate resolve NOT to keep an eye on her children whilst they were using the patio / balcony  or whatever you want to call it?  Why did a supposedly family-friendly resort have all these child death traps all over the place?  Makes you wonder just how many kids came to a sticky end from that balcony and that apartment?

[G-Unit]

Sorry, but did Kate resolve NOT to keep an eye on her children whilst they were using the patio / balcony  or whatever you want to call it?  Why did a supposedly family-friendly resort have all these child death traps all over the place?  Makes you wonder just how many kids came to a sticky end from that balcony and that apartment?

It's not something that can be lauded as safer than the ones upstairs, which is what she said. I expect most parents guarded their children at all times, hence the lack of reported accidents.

[Alfie]

It's not something that can be lauded as safer than the ones upstairs, which is what she said. I expect most parents guarded their children at all times, hence the lack of reported accidents.

So is it your opinion that a drop from the Apartment 5A patio onto stairs below is equally as dangerous as a fall from a first floor balcony?  Upon what do you base your assumption that most parents guarded their children at all times?  The lack of fatalities?