Yawn Yawn, wakey wakey !! 2015 mk 2

I've had trouble getting on here for the last half hour. It said that the site was down!

Wide awake and raring to go.

 

Good morning all my friends have a jolly good day and take care

 

Morning @wiseowl , I hope all the family are well.

 

Aloha everyone,

It was such a mild day yesterday and no wind so I started off by cutting Mrs Shiney's hair out in the garden. The birds quite often take the hair for nesting

Then I had another big bonfire. When I started there was a slight wind that took the smoke across the field. Once it got going properly the wind turned round and started blowing the smoke towards the neighbour that nobody likes. He came out ready to complain, looked over the fence - and then the wind turned round again!

This morning I may have a bit of bother at the village hall. It's bridge club this afternoon and we usually get about 80 people turning up and we fill the whole of the car park (hirers pay for the use of the car park in their hiring charge). It's a private car park for use by the hirers but, over the years, we have had trouble with the 'school run'.

The school know that the parents are not allowed to use the car park but never do anything about it. A few years ago the big 4 x 4's that the mums drove did so much damage to the car park that it cost £17,000 for it to be repaired. That was without the additional cost of repair to the wood cladding of the hall where they caused damage by awful manoeuvring (caught on CCTV). Their bad manoeuvring also caused a number of accidents to the school children - one of our friends had her son's leg broken by a car.

So the hall put in an electric barrier that closes just before the time of the school run. Today we have a problem because the school are having their Christmas concert that starts before our bridge club and before the timing of the barrier closing. So I'm having to go up there at 11 a.m. to lock the barrier down (turn off the time clock).

Although private, the road through the middle of the car park is the access for a couple of bungalows at the end. The residents (they have zappers for opening the barrier) also get problems from the school when there are events on there as parents just leave their cars haphazardly in the car park and block access - just like someone parking on your driveway! This is illegal as the road through the car park is a permitted public access for emergency vehicles. One of the residents is quite ill and disabled and ambulances have to come for her fairly often.

This may sound a bit bad to restrict the parents for a Christmas concert but the school could easily open its two playgrounds for the cars (the teachers usually park in one of them during term time). Also, my bridge members are fairly old (about 40 of them are over 80) and quite a few would have trouble walking from the village car park.

The parents don't want to walk their little darlings to school (60% are villagers) and wouldn't dream of parking in the village car park 300yds away!

The concert is having three performances (or three different groups doing different performances ) today and tomorrow. So tomorrow I shall close the barrier again and keep it closed until the evening when I have my club again. The afternoon hirer will be given the code for the keypad on the barrier so he can let his people in and out. He runs two Karate classes for children through late afternoon and early evening. I don't think the parents will intimidate him . They sometimes try it with me but I'm difficult to intimidate (I write down their reg. No. and threaten to call the police).

The reluctance of parents to walk the kids, even if it's just from the car park, has created other problems as they park in the residential area round the corner - and block the doctors' surgery car park. The council have had to put down yellow lines! It wouldn't be too bad if the mums didn't stop and natter for up to an hour!

Phew!! Got that off my chest

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning @shiney we are mighty fine thank you my friend,please give my regards to H and enjoy your day

@moyra I've been suffering ever since someone smacked me on the behind to make me cry when I came in to the world

 

Good morning @shiney @moyra @CanadianLori @Zigs @Beckie76 @liliana and allmy other friends hope you are all OK,have a good day