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Friday, January 08, 2010

See me coming down the street with the winning post on my pillion seat

An email from Fred Anonymous, who claims to be snow-blind and suffering from cabin fever:

"I thought this would appeal to your sense of municipal responsibility.

"Like most everywhere, our council's getting a lot of flak about gritting the roads, or lack thereof. Unlike most everywhere, this happens even in the mildest of winters. You can always tell where the council boundaries are: whenever there's even the slightest flurry of snow neighbouring councils have roads in black or grey and we have them in white. And so it is right now, with every road and pavement ungritted.

"Except for one straight line, two feet wide, that starts at the entrance to the council offices where the directors and chief executive work and leads across the road, then across the square and across the road again to the town hall where the councillors do their business."

7 comments:

The Topiary Cow said...

When oh when is the British populace going to rise up against their rulers..er, politicians?

Cow unfortunately also reads the Daily Mail and it is indeed a daily meal of unappetizing corruption starting at the top.

Is Britain still a nice place to visit, for castles and such-like touristy stuff, or has the whole country just turned into Hell?

Just idly wondering, not that there is any money in the Topiary Purse for traveling at the moment...

Moo!

Pearl said...

I just don't understand people...

Pearl

St Jude said...

The gritting depot car park is always nice and clear!

Gadjo Dilo said...

How does the bloke who drives the gritting truck get to work in the moring??

Pat said...

the gritters obviously know who butters their bread.

Kevin Musgrove said...

Ms Cow: 'twas ever thus. And don't forget that the proprietor of the Daily Mail has his registered home in France so that he doesn't have to pay UK taxes. (allegedly - just in case the Carter-Ruck office is having a slack day)

Britain's still mostly nice to visit, honest.

Pearl: I'm worried that I might do.

St. Jude: not in Helminthdale! It took two days to dig the trucks out.

Gadjo: when there was a warning they used to take the lorry home. Now they don't. And the lorries get snowed into the depot...

Pat: we suspect lowly clerks were sent out into the blizzard to get the job done.

The Topiary Cow said...

Cow thanks Kevin for the reassurance since she does indeed want to visit the castles and palaces and such at some not-too-distant future...