28 February - Trivial Pursuits
Since breaking the blog into monthly chunks it hasn’t seemed worth reporting anything significant
on the last day of the month, by next day it gets hidden away, so I shall let
today go marked only by items of near trivia. I sent an email early this morning to
my favourite council department about a fast developing pothole at a bus stop.
It appeared from nowhere only two weeks ago but was already a sizeable cavity.
It was fixed by early afternoon. Trivial it may be but some potholes live on for years.
More trivia can be found in a
News Shopper comment column. A number of people were giving their opinion of
councillor Craske; “Boris is preserving the budget of the borough’s most
incompetent cabinet member and allowing schemes which, if they follow the same
path as their predecessors, will be characterised by cringingly high levels of
inefficiency wrought by a complete absence of common sense and lack of
willingness to answer constituent’s scrutiny“. And ‘John of Sidcup’ rode to
Craske’s rescue addressing the writer as Malcolm, i.e. he probably thought it was
me. John of Sidcup emailed me eleven months
ago in support of Craske and accusing me of something I hadn’t done. When
pressed he couldn’t come up with any evidence and then buried his head in the
sand. Hey! Maybe it was Craske, it’s the same M.O.
The on-line exchange on the News Shopper site proves that I am not alone in
thinking that Craske is a disaster for Bexley and it probably means John H. of
Sidcup is still reading this site; if he wasn’t I’m sure he would have
forgotten all about me by now. Hello John, how’s it going? You remain the only
person who has ever sent me a pro-council comment.
It has been suggested that changing the blog’s default text size yesterday was a
mistake because only a small minority of readers had thought it a problem so the
default is back to the smaller text size today. If you reset the size yesterday the
blog pages may corrupt (dependent on your chosen setting) because of no longer
matching file names. Please go back to the ‘Configure’ page and reselect
your choice from the corrupted page. That should fix it. No more code fiddling, I promise.
This evening I shall attend the cuts meeting at the Civic Centre. Rumour has it
that protesters might be there so I shall be leaving early to ensure a good position.
There is unlikely to be a write-up here around midnight as with previous
meetings because a group of us are going to a ‘council-of-war’ afterwards.