Saturday, 19 January 2008

More on the Hole....

... and the plastic recycling hut.

The hole that opened up at the bottom of Chancery Lane was duly labelled "Collapse" in red spray paint by a council employee, and a day or so after that, some men came to dig out the hole to reveal a big pipe that needed to be replaced. That's now been done, and the hole has been filled up again, but the road is still closed - it still needs to have tarmac put down on top.

Down in the car park, the new plastic recycling 'pod' has arrived - gleaming metal rather than the wooden hut that stood there before. So rather harder to vandalise.

Meanwhile, the Catholic church on Belmont has a new approach to their parking problems. There are about three spaces for cars outside St Joseph's, and often they are used by people who don't belong to the church, which means that the people who need to park there have to find somewhere else.
And the answer to this is - Catholic traffic cones! They've got a set of traffic cones which have been painted in black and white stripes, with a little white cross on each one. They almost look like little (headless) priests - hopefully, they'll do the job.

The river is up by 3 metres. There has already been flooding up at Glasbury Common. And it's still raining.

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