Road Works and other stuff

 
Well appears the road closures are due to resurfacing on the road to Gainsborough, at the piece just out of the village, which at the moment is a bit of a dogs breakfast.  From memory it wasn't that bad, in fact there are roads in the area far worse that this was but there you go, the powers to be say it wants doing and it is done.  Maybe there is a Tour de Notts coming?

Of course there is that other piece of breaking news, you can  film the parish council in action.  Hopefully it might increase the number of residents who turn up for meetings from the usual 3.  It also might stop the bickering although one would hope they have turned over a new leaf since the shenanigans prior to the last election.   Now I know there is nothing new in parish councillors falling out, par for the course I suppose, but when malice creeps in then that is plain loutish behaviour.

It might make a nice little project for junior film makers, watch democracy in action.  Lets hope no spicy meetings find their way onto YouTube to give us some mirth.

If you keep an eye on the Bassetlaw website, you can see that there have been some objections to the planning application for Station Road.  In fact, it would appear that there has been a bit of land grabbing in action.  Personally I think that replacing three houses where there was an attached one is over the top, in fact two is too many.  It's alright building in your garden if it doesn't affect the natives but if it blocks their view, makes the area unattractive then you are asking for trouble.  If they want to build make em do it on the square footage as the piece being dropped.

Finally of course it is the election on Thursday with our two contenders.  What I like about this, is that not so long ago the parish council had trouble recruiting residents to join.  In fact I seem to remember at one point there were at least five vacancies on offer with no takers.  Let's hope it is not too low a vote count.