LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

I think it's allowed to drive an untaxed car to have an mot test, providing the mot has been booked.

 

I've mentioned this before but it's a continuing saga. So I shall start at the beginning.

We live in a country area and are on a winding country road, not single track, that used to be an A road . They declassified it 50 years ago. The road is two miles long, very few houses on it and three street lights. We are on the most densely populated part with 13 houses in a half mile stretch and we have the three lights.

In the past, when a light stopped working we just phoned the parish council and it got fixed. Just before Covid one light stopped working so I phoned as usual. I chased them two weeks later by email and they replied saying it's not on their books so it must belong to the District Council or the County. I told them that they had always fixed it during the nearly half a century I have lived here. They still denied responsibility so I contacted the other two councils and they also denied responsibility. After a number of months of emails backwards and forwards they stopped replying. It became much more difficult to try and phone because they were all 'working from home' by then.

Fast forward:- a few months ago, after still getting nowhere I went onto a website called 'Fix My Street' and put in all the details. A month later the site said they had sent the info to their contacts in the local councils. Two weeks later I got a message from the site asking whether it had been resolved - which it hadn't - so I think they contacted the councils again. Some weeks later I got a message that the lights would be fixed (another light had gone by then) and I waited with bated breath - not!

Five weeks ago a workman came to look at the lights and we had a nice chat over a cuppa. He was contracted by the parish council to assess the problem and tell them what needed doing. Two weeks later he came back to change all three lights to LED (had to change the whole of the top of the old concrete lamp posts). After that two of the lights worked but not the one near our house and he told me it was a problem with the electrics and the electricity company needed to come out.

Last week the electricity company came along in four large vehicles. One carried traffic lights and cones and barriers. He put those out cutting the road down to a single lane - hence the lights. I went out after I saw he had gone and found he had put one barrier and two cones across my driveway . So I politely pointed this out to the foreman of the other workers (why they needed four men to wire one lamppost was beyond me) and he had a few spicy words about the man who put them there and moved them, and some others.

They dug out the ground around the lamppost and he said it should only take a few hours. By the evening they packed up and said there was a little more problem than they thought. That was on Friday and we haven't seen anyone since!

 

Hope they're not using Evri... Evri delivery probe after sackfuls of parcels dumped

 

I would wait to see what the plant looks like, it seems unfair on businesses at the moment who are at the mercy of the striking delivery services. We are waiting for a delivery, not plants, and feel that we need to make allowances at the moment.