Peaceful Misterton - probably just how we like it

Since it's a bit quiet in Misterton and nothing happening apart from the sewage problems and the railway splashing the cash about, I've gone on a nit picking expedition.

The parish council notice board  I saw has absolutely sod all on, you can find out when the County and District Councillors have their local surgeries, you can even see a notice on the forthcoming VI meeting.  As far as anything to do with the parish council there is nothing, no minutes no copies of the annual reports, something that most of us are interested in, given the current spending binge.  No wonder we aren't applying for Quality Accreditation, we  wouldn't pass at the first base.  Times have really changed in that department.  The clerk should get her butt out of the office and start visiting the notice boards and keeping them up to date, or is that the job of the chairman?

Also what's happening at the Co-op garden (forgotten its official name already), a bit of stringy crime ribbon around the stoney piece in the centre.  Is it falling down?  Or, worse still, has somebody tried to nick it.  Looks like a pea on a drum on that garden but would look very nice elsewhere I suspect.

Nail it down or lose it

Would you believe it, someone nicked the pump/generator carrying the you know what away on Station Road.  Rumours abound at who nicked it, local job?  Someone seen hanging round having a good look before it went.

And then there are the other two idiots, caught on camera on Newells Terrace.  A little taster of their fashion sense is going round the village, unfortunately I haven't got an original piece of film to show you but I would say their mothers would know them.  One dull pink top and bottom, the other pink bottom, grey top, with hoodies of course and the second with a little dash of style of a bit of brighter pink at the midriff.  Complete with the essential fashion accessory of a hacksaw, with black handle. If you recognise them I'm sure the police would love to know who they are

At Last - Make your Vote Count

Interestingly the wording on the notice, more or less tells us what we were told in 2010.  So in fact they have wasted even more money when this could have been all sorted by 2010.  Hopefully they will move their backsides and let every one in the village have a copy and give them chance to vote.

The Drains are Collapsing

It's hot and what you might call a glorious summer for a change.  To mark the occasion we have another sewage collapse and the smell of you know what down Station Street.  A possible reason for the collapse has been suggested as being due to railway traffic down Soss Lane, carting tons of stone in preparation for replacement of the railway bridges.  They have now closed Station Road where it veers off from Station Street to repair the collapse, which means any more loads of stone will have to go over the little canal bridge on Station Road, plus all that other heavy traffic that tries to navigate the bridge, which in the past has included Stobart trucks.  Another bridge collapse?

Anyway, if this tells us anything, it does tell us that our water and sewage pipes are not to 21st century standards and are all in need of major renovation before any further major house building takes place in Misterton. 

I seem to remember some halfwit at a village meeting stating quite categorically that this village was flat!  Flat my arse.  As it currently stands the developers for the Gravelholes proposed site  have not indicated how many houses they want on the land adjacent to the school, just publicising the bribes first to wet our appetite.  Can you imagine what will happen if these got built, a high point in the village, and water travelled down.  They argue that the pipes on new properties are larger nowadays, they probably are, but they join smaller older ones and this village's drainage is old.

I doubt it will get through, unless somebody falls asleep on watch.  Bassetlaw would be delighted if it went through, all they think of is  council tax, the more the merrier for them.  There are of course some people who think it would be a good idea and we are all entitled to our views.

Let's just hope it doesn't all end in tears.
 

Misterton Centre

I see from the July Minutes of the Parish Council that they are looking for alternative accommodation for when the lease runs out at the Misterton Centre.  I do hope they are not thinking of moving across the road to the Victoria Institute because it is unlikely that the Police will follow.  Like everyone else, the Police are cutting costs and if there are no other partners involved to save on costs, that is the last you will see of them in this village.  At least if they have a toilet to visit and a kitchen to make coffee etc., you will be able to get hold of them quickly if the need arises.  There is also the fact that to turn it into an office it would have to be sold first and regardless of whether it is sold to the Parish Council or not, the Trustees must obtain the best possible price.  When you've bought it, then you have to start and alter it.  The possibilities for spending money are endless on that building.

Unless the Parish Council have forgotten we are the most northerly outpost in Bassetlaw, forgotten usually, well until we pay our council tax.  So, getting a policeman out from Harworth to police our streets is important and with no incentive of a watering hole, sightings might be limited.

What are the alternatives, a space at the Social Club.  Is there any now? Buy the library and refurbish.  I suspect it would cost an absolute fortune, apart from the fact that a demolition job would be more appropriate, making it cost even more and chucking money at that would be another eternal black hole.  Anywhere else?

Would the Police or Bassetlaw participate and share costs in a new venture like they do now, very doubtful.  Rock the boat now and the partners will fall out.

They could of course shut it down altogether, save on costs, and make us travel to Retford when we have a problem with A1 Housing or Bassetlaw.  Now that would be massive mistake not to mention a total lack of policing in the village.  They might have forgotten all that trouble we had a few years ago but I haven't. 

P S  I do hope they don't go borrowing money because it wont be on our behalf, we're too busy keeping our debts low..