25 February (Part 4) - One oak. Few blokes
A New Road
resident who must have wondered where the sound of labouring diesel engines had
gone this morning kindly sent me these photos of the lack of progress achieved in the three hours since
I climbed the wooded hill.
He suspects that Bexley doesn’t have an in-house tree surgeon. As it hasn’t got
so much as an in-house dustman or Registrar or park gardener or traffic warden
he will not be wrong. Always ready to help he suggests
https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/tree-surgeons-near-me.
It’s not been easy to find out what the SL3 has been doing today and TfL’s
website is no more useful than the Mayor himself. Dependent on where you look TfL has
given up on running the SL3 to Thamesmead but is not stopping at the Florence Road stop
which suggests it is, but on diversion.
Yesterday the one I was on really didn’t like the climb up New Road and Wikipedia says my
little car has very nearly twice as much power as a new Routemaster (Boris Bus). At 37 feet long it is
ten feet longer than an old RM so no wonder
that it kept mounting the kerb on corners. One day someone with more sense than
the average politician will take the kinks out of Knee Hill and make it a couple
of feet wider. The impact on the woodland would be minimal. It is not as though
there is a shortage of woodland around here.