21 January - Council neglect leads to vandalism
Various jobs are taking far too long; the fibre installation will probably take only another day but I stupidly started
another project. Updating my 15 year old AV system to make it ‘Smart’. Wires
everywhere right now and hence no time for blogging beyond the trivial.
But is it trivial when it eventually costs taxpayers money?
The
big paper bin was emptied again today and once again
shoved back to
front against a wall so that the opening is out of reach. You won’t want
to see another photo of that but maybe a closer view will be in order.
I don’t know who it is who abuses
our
eight month old bin but it has been vandalised. Frustration with no
access to the proper opening has led to the lock being ripped out and in the
process the hinges bent so that the main lid no longer closes properly.
That will cost money if it is ever fixed and is the direct result of
CountryStyle proving to be a worse operator than Serco. Or maybe I should say
that it is down to Councillors who negligently fail to let CountryStyle know how careless their staff can be.
The things people do to other people’s property never ceases to amaze me. A
rented house and a rented flat, both closer to me than the bins were vacated
recently. The house took four weeks to become habitable again and the flat still
isn’t. Wrecked, so I heard, and work continues.
I knew both occupants by name and they seemed to be pleasant enough people but
apparently they didn’t follow what used to be traditional British standards. There is
a common factor but I don’t want to be in Clive Mardiner’s bad books again.