Let there be light . . .

. . . or not!

This was going on just outside our house this morning. The light had gone out and men came along and fixed it. As those who remember this will be able to imagine, it caused a traffic jam and numerous times the platform had to be lowered, and the van moved out of the way, to let vehicles past.

Anyway, besides proving once again that actually things do happen on our street, the point here is - it is unlikely that this will happen again.

No more maintenance will be carried out on the street lights in our village. Apparently, it's all to do with who owns the poles and who owns the lights and whose responsibility it is to keep the said poles and lights safe.

The crucial issue is that our street lights are deemed to fail on one of the six criteria used to decide whether street lights will continue to be maintained - none of our lights are on a footway. Now what is a footway? According to the council, this is a 'way on foot adjacent to the carriageway'. I ask you this question. We do not have pavements, so residents have to make their own arrangements and walk on the grass verge or the side of the road. Are these not 'ways on foot adjacent to the carriageway'?

A meeting has been held, questionnaires have been sent out, the debate continues. But at the end of the day it is likely that after April 1st we will no longer see a man fixing a light. So it had to be captured for history!


And yes I know I should have gone out into the road and taken the picture, so the tree wasn't in the way, but I didn't . . . so the tree is in the way!


With reference to yesterday's blip. Spring this year is late and that's official. So it is not just our imagination. Apparently Spring and Summer could come together - that should be worth seeing!!