Fowl water, HS2, and new writing getting done

25 February 2013

Severn Trent Water is the local water company around here.  They have a less than glowing reputation when it come to fixing problems they know are their responsible for.  Three times last year they were supposed to have made repairs to a sewer drain that kept overflowing.  Each time they cleaned up the area effected, including the back garden of an 82 year old lady.  However, it has happened again and the lady has been trying to get them to clean up her garden for the fourth time.  Some wezuck told her she had to arrange for her insurance company to get it done.  Severn Trent are now saying it was a mix-up in communication and they will be out ASAP to clean up the garden yet again.   

But surely if they had done the job properly in the first place then they would have to keep going back to it.  It's not just our Muppet Person who commute in to Planet Earth from Mars and Venus it seems.

The HS2 plans still rumble on.  The News has a story about contracts having been awarded for the second stage of the project from Brum to Manchester and Leeds.  But why are they being awarded just now?  I thought that the second stage plans were only proposed plans, not actual plans.  Call me cynical if you like but I have feeling that having awarded the contracts the government will then have the excuse that to cancel would cost more in penalty charges than building the line anyway so we might has well build it.  Bloody Muppets - they must think we are all stupid!

Yesterday I got around 2000 words of the new Fred Cooper novel done.  It was a relief to get some more done after trying for so long.  I'll soon have the proofing of Web of Hate done and get it uploaded ready for release.  That will be #4 - #5 won't be long!

Jan and I are planning to get out later today for a ride around the garden centres looking at bird feeder stands.  Of course we made that plan yesterday and true to form today we have a fine misty drizzle.  Great enit?

So photo time ... 

Buck House ... ... ...

And a funny ...

I phoned the local gym and I asked if they could teach me how to do the splits. He said, 'How flexible are you?' I said, 'I can't make Tuesdays or Thursdays.'