11
February
This
morning I had decided on a run out to Brum for a photo shoot. Jan was due at
the dentist at 11.30 and wasn’t sure when she would get home. As it turns out,
her appointment was for yesterday, not today, so we are both going to Brum
tomorrow instead. I’m more than happy with that cos although I enjoy being out
my mesen I also like having Jan with for company and someone intelligent I can
talk to. Brum is a great place all round but I do seem to meet most if not all
the weirdoes that city has to offer.
Kile’s mum
has just called to ask if we can pick up Kile from school. She had posted a
note on Facebook early this morning saying she wasn’t at all well. The annoying
thing is that having seen it we didn’t offer to help her. However, if we had
gone out when Jan got back from the dentist then we wouldn’t be able to help
anyway. No doubt Jan will be some time before she gets back here now.
There is
to be a summit meeting between various heads of state in trying to reach a settlement
of the civil war in Ukraine. Will it achieve anything I wonder; but seeing as
Putin is supposed to attending, they probably won’t. I’ve said here before that
Putin is a very dangerous man to have running a country. He wants to see Russia
expanded to take in the whole of the old Soviet Union but with an elected
democracy with him as its head. These moves on Ukraine are just the start. If
he is allowed to get away with what he is doing then he will continue elsewhere
and make moves in other areas.
Does it
sound familiar? It should do, it happened in Germany during the 1930s and it
lead to the horrors of WW2. Do we want to see that again? When we consider that
nuclear weapons are now readily available in the arsenals of so many countries,
are their many who would want to see it happen again. I certainly don’t! It
would be dire for everyone and seeing that the UK now doesn’t have the armed
forces to have to deal with such a conflict, then any thinking person wouldn’t
it. So much for the Peace Dividend then!
Locally we
can know there’s an election coming up, just as we all do anyway. Dorktown
traffic is regularly held up along the A47, (or B4114 if you insist), as it
joins the A444 just off the town centre here (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5251157,-1.4701966,276m/data=!3m1!1e3.).
Again I’ve said on here that what the town needs is a proper ring road to take
all through traffic out of the town centre. Bet we don’t get it though.
Part of
the problem is that around 500 metres past where those two roads merge, the
road does become a dual carriageway for about the same distance. The left lane
is for out of town traffic and soon becomes a dual carriageway for a couple of
hundred metres before it come to a single lane again. Just after that point
there is a low bridge (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5274434,-1.4575125,276m/data=!3m1!1e3
), and here’s the street view … (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.52738,-1.458213,3a,75y,37.42h,81.53t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1slzpJcu-pDVCJc6a80pJCig!2e0
)
Now then,
this happened yesterday. http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Lorry-gets-wedged-rail-bridge-Nuneaton/story-26003141-detail/story.html That bridge can’t be seen from where the A444
goes off to the left. By the time you know there’s a problem you’re in the left
hand lane of another short dual carriageway and need to move over to go round
the circuit again to go off down the A444 so you get around that holdup.
Warwickshire planners are very clever aren’t they?
So, photo
time … Barclays Bank in the Market Place.
And today’s
funny …
IF YOU CAN READ THIS, I CAN SLAM ON MY BRAKES AND SUE YOU.
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