31 December (Part 1) - Not all bad
Early on in the little Twitter debate to which there was
a reference yesterday three named Councillors
and the Mayor came in for a certain amount of criticism and I was somehow drawn in to saying that James Hunt was “one of the good guys”
which inevitably drew responses along the lines of just how bad are the others.
In my opinion three of the four named
are among the best of Bexley’s Councillors, always willing to help when they can.
One even shook my hand - remember when that was a thing? - in public in the bad
old days of 2011 and 2012. A time when other Councillors were lying to the
police in the hope that inquisitive residents might end up in jail. (One did for 24 hours.)
Contrary to what some would like to believe I am on reasonably good terms with several
Councillors, there were two calls on Christmas Eve.
Seasons Greetings of course but one is always interested in my well being cooped up with, for the most part, just four walls and a computer for company
and calls often.
He is a genuinely nice and very modest Conservative and ‘he’ is the only identification clue there will ever be.
A week
ago he was pulling my leg that there have been no blocked drive pictures
recently so this one, taken last night, is specially for him.
Murphy’s Law obviously but I have not been completely blocked in
since
registering my dropped kerb with Bexley Council. Frequently a bit awkward but no complete block.
The problem arises because there are two single dropped kerbs,
mine to the left on the satellite view and another occupying the top left corner. There’s a double one
going around the bottom left corner all at the end of an area designated as a turning circle on the original 1986 plans.
Cars can park end on opposite my dropped kerb just one drive width away. Long vehicles hem me in and
any vehicle at all prevents acceptance of a delivery vehicle for example.
A near neighbour is occasionally affected but not usually as badly - until last night that is.
RK10 WMV was blocking his double drive all evening. Goodness knows why as there
was no shortage of nearby parking space. It is not a car I have seen here before
so probably it was not driven by someone’s support bubble so the driver would be
breaking Tier 4 visiting rules too. Some people just don’t care.