12 December (Part 2) - When in a hole; change the subject
Commenting
on politics will be rapidly losing me the few Council friends I have although it
has pushed the number of Twitter followers to an all time high.
This evening I will take refuge metaphorically in Greenwich, but only just.
I think it was on 15th November that the bottom end of Knee Hill close to the
old Post Office building cracked and partially subsided. It was so bad that FM Conway’s
men rushed to patch it up before a motor cyclist went over his handlebars.
Within a day or two (Photo 1) it had subsided again.
I wouldn’t mind betting that Bexley and Greenwich Councils then argued over who
should patch it up but it was fairly obviously a foot or two across the boundary and in Greenwich.
Today only a day short of four weeks later Greenwich Council came along to fix it. It looked
like they meant business; barriers and spades and temporary traffic lights.
Photo 2 was taken at 12:32 today.
I don’t know when the contractors packed up and went home but three hours and 56
minutes later the repaired hole was subsiding nicely all over again.