The
tasteless
undertaker’s premises provoked a few comments, none favourable. A lady from
Beckenham said she had employed Uden’s a few years ago when her mother died but
there is no way she would have done if their premises there had been festooned
with notices and traffic cones. In her opinion it looks as though an old family
business has been taken over by a glitzy American outfit.
Ordinarily that would be nothing to do with me but that ‘Working with Bexley council’
logo is intriguing. What is that all about? Are they employed to bury Bexley council’s
dirty secrets perhaps?
Another reader sent me the rather startllng photograph. Maybe one receptacle could be
labelled Cremations and the other Burials and Uden & Sons could provide the first
24/7 DIY body disposal service.
The feature on dropped kerbs
provoked comment too, a bit along the lines of ‘what is newsworthy about that?
Bexley council does that sort of thing every day’. My own driveway is at the end of
a cul-de-sac so I drive straight into it, the only problem
being it is steep enough to scrape the underside of a car if approached at more than
a snail’s pace. I don’t have to think about turning sharply on a possibly busy road.
It has been claimed that Bexley council is reluctant to allow dropped kerbs
wider than the drive entrance and that they are oblivious to the fact that the
rear wheels will describe a different arc to the front and therefore tend to hit
the full height kerb. Actually I’m not sure that Bexley council’s ignorance of steering
geometry is news either. Isn’t it a fact that within the past two years they
have designed and built two roundabouts that weren’t negotiable by buses and
lorries? Who can forget the
Ruxley Corner and
Wickham Lane
Peter Craske authorised fiascos?