Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

The utter madness in this country is neverending. What a pathetic bunch that council is - like a load of petulant 4 yr olds. They should be hanging their heads in shame

Parish council quits over backlash after claims man’s voluntary clear-up was ‘criminal damage’

 

The before picture clearly showed that the overgrown verges made the pavement unsafe for pedestrians… the lad did an excellent job.

 

Just show's the parish conncil weren't doing they jobs, good of the man to do a nice job on cleaning the pavement we need more of this

 

It tells you plenty when the first comment [when the lad posted the before and after pix on his social media] was from one of those councillors.
As the mother of children on the autistic spectrum, I know how devastating that kind of thing can be. It's ignorant, thoughtless and totally unacceptable, even without that being in the mix.
It makes my blood boil.

I also agree with you totally @Fat Controller about the whole 'rewilding, we must think of nature in every instance' etc. All situations need a balanced approach.
We have loads of similar areas round here - a pavement on one side of the road, next to fields etc, and the other side is just grass verge, often next to farmland, but sometimes golf courses or houses/schools etc or other buildings. It would be extremely dangerous if those pavements were allowed to be overgrown.
We also have the opposite problem in that they come out and strim verges which are no problem or hindrance to anyone, and could easily be left.
They want folk to stop driving and walk more. Aye, very good if they have to negotiate all sorts of hazards in front of them, and step off the pavement onto a busy road instead.
No common sense at all.

 

I reported 3 big potholes, 3 got filled in but it took them 3 days to do it, yes 1 a day, and now they're talking about crime people doing some of the potholes to repay the community back so douable the people + vehicles to fill a pothole which 2 people could do in 1 day or even just a morning

 

This incident has happened not to far away from where I live, less than 20 miles away. How they have went about it and replied on the lads social page is out of order.

As a parish councillor, we pay to get the hedges trimmed by local farmers, when they can do this depends on how busy they are at this time of year. We had the dykes have a low trim last Friday and I know the clerk was out picking dog poo over the weekend. But there is guidelines, there could be even be a legislation about how far and high you can cut back in to a hedge this time of year, beginning of March to the end of July, I think, due to birds nesting and pollination.

As you can see by the image below, it is a low cut with the hedge mainly being untouched. Even on our own drive, we have had the strimmer on the grass, but the hedge will not get cut back till August/September.

We have even had benches placed within our parish due to the aging population that now lives here. They have all be told we depend on volunteers strimming round the benches and to look after the planters, all the councillors do have full time jobs. Most of the time it has worked in the past, the problem we experience now, no one turns up and I mean no one to the meetings. If this has happened at this parish council then the locals should attend and raise their concerns, but I don't know if this is the case.

How they have went about it, reporting the lad to the police is bang out of order, all it needs is communication by all parties.

 

I went to one of our council meeting to rise things in our settlement, it was so nooty i never went back there again, all was about their village and nowt more, so i use fix my street to report things and if nowt is done keep reporting the same over and over

 

I thought I might watch the England game tonight, so it started at 7pm, and just a load of dead beats waffling about what they should be doing and what went wrong 20 yrs ago for heaven sake sack this bunch of overpaid morons from yesteryear and show the game.

It doesn't kick off until 8 pm apparently, so an hour of waffle.

 

And after the waffle came this utterly dire performance by England. I thought they couldn't be any worse than the previous 2 games - I was very, very wrong.

 

Just wasted two hours of my life, they are diabolical.