I don't like the neighbours opposite so I appreciate all the good ideas in this thread :)Now I just need to work out how to string the lights to spell out 'recycle you lazy b***ards'
Where there's a will there's a way, w.edges
I loathe the blue ones - sorry, r'girl. I'm not a fan of blue in general as a colour, but I think it's the piercing blue that these lights seem to be, that is the problem. I can understand folk thinking it's an accident.
I have a new curmudgeonly moan today. They're digging up bits of my road and the one which feeds into it, and it's like a slalom trying to negotiate a way round the cones at all the dug out ramps. I saw someone earlier having to drive up and along the pavement because it was the only way he could get along it to the next side road. The entire width of the road was holes and cones. I'm tempted to go out and take a photo and send it to the powers that be with a caption saying 'Seriously?'
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The middle of our village is being dug up at the mo, we assume for fibre optic cables but who knows? By day, traffic has to do a diversion round the back of the new council offices and the church but there's a set of lights as there's only room for one way traffic. For those who get impatient and decide to risk that nothing is coming, they've put a timer on the lights which counts down the seconds till they change to flashing amber - "proceed with care". Seems eminently sensible to me.
Lots of blue and white flashing council erected lights in villages and small towns round here. Dunno if that's France or just the Vendée but I always think the blue looks cold.
Minor grump here - this new-to-me PC seesm to have decided I need to use Yahoo rather than Google. How does that happen?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Obelixx, Fairygirl, I’m afraid you’re still amateurs in the digging up the road stakes. Severn Trent, or more precisely their contractors Amey, arrived in the village in mid September to replace the water mains and it’s still not finished. There are three roads into/out of the village and three or four minor side roads. Almost randomly it seems the roads have been blocked off, great ditches dug, diversions in place and mud everywhere. The other day driving to hospital for an appointment it was impossible to leave the village. Two roads were completely blocked and the third had a digger truck loading ballast. Stress factor 10 for the ten minutes we were waiting.
That said, Amey have been very accommodating making sure, for example, that the ‘bridge’ over the ditch near our front door was very securely tarmaced in place so as not to be a trip hazard for my partially sighted wife. All in all, then, I suppose this is a bit of a feeble moan. Just as is the fact the engineer came today to install our ‘smart’ electricity meter but then found he couldn’t do it because we have a night storage heater in the conservatory. He couldn’t move on to his next job because they were out until 2.00 pm so we sat at the dining table drinking coffee, eating mince pies and talking about football. There are worse ways to spend a Tuesday morning.
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Where there's a will there's a way, w.edges
I loathe the blue ones - sorry, r'girl.
I'm not a fan of blue in general as a colour, but I think it's the piercing blue that these lights seem to be, that is the problem. I can understand folk thinking it's an accident.
I have a new curmudgeonly moan today. They're digging up bits of my road and the one which feeds into it, and it's like a slalom trying to negotiate a way round the cones at all the dug out ramps. I saw someone earlier having to drive up and along the pavement because it was the only way he could get along it to the next side road. The entire width of the road was holes and cones.
I'm tempted to go out and take a photo and send it to the powers that be with a caption saying 'Seriously?'
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lots of blue and white flashing council erected lights in villages and small towns round here. Dunno if that's France or just the Vendée but I always think the blue looks cold.
Minor grump here - this new-to-me PC seesm to have decided I need to use Yahoo rather than Google. How does that happen?
That said, Amey have been very accommodating making sure, for example, that the ‘bridge’ over the ditch near our front door was very securely tarmaced in place so as not to be a trip hazard for my partially sighted wife. All in all, then, I suppose this is a bit of a feeble moan. Just as is the fact the engineer came today to install our ‘smart’ electricity meter but then found he couldn’t do it because we have a night storage heater in the conservatory. He couldn’t move on to his next job because they were out until 2.00 pm so we sat at the dining table drinking coffee, eating mince pies and talking about football. There are worse ways to spend a Tuesday morning.