Car Accidents

It's been a bad week for car accidents around Hay.
On Monday, a lady was driving down to Abbey Dore to have lunch with her friend, in her gas powered car. As she came through Hay, the car began to belch smoke, and she got so alarmed that she stopped near to the Dulas bridge at the top of Cusop Dingle, and called the fire brigade. On the other side of the hedge from where she had parked is the accountant's offices - and they had to be evacuated in case the car exploded! "Poor souls," my informant said. "No coats, no bags, just straight out. They were outside for two hours and they couldn't even go for a coffee because their money was inside!"
The car didn't explode, but the heat of the fire was so intense it melted the tarmac under the car.
Fortunately, the lady from Abbey Dore turned up to get her friend home.

I took Islay across the bridge a couple of days after that, to find that one of the panels of railings had been banged into - some of the railings had sheared away at the bottom and were bent out. A temporary barrier has been erected until it can be mended.
I wonder if this would be a good time to think about painting the railings, which have looked a bit of a mess for a long time. I sometimes think it would be fun to get a painting day organised, when anyone could come along with their left over paint and transform the bridge in rainbow colours! Of course, it wouldn't be as easy as just slapping a bit of paint on - the rust would have to be rubbed down first.