31 July - Thames Water. Enemy of the people
Abbey
Road in Belvdere has been closed all week, thousands of residents deprived of
bus services all the way from New Road in Abbey Wood to the Asda store a mile
and a bit to the east.
And whose fault is that? Thames Water of course. The
most incompetent utility in all of history.
As you would expect they
cannot even do the job properly. The entire mile is festooned with Road Closed
and Diversion signs which are simply wrong. Buses may choose to use New Road but
most traffic need not. The sign shown is opposite Shortlands Close. Anyone with
any sense, which obviously excludes everyone associated with Thames Water,
will know that the sign should be ignored. Turn left and immediately right into
Kingswood Avenue, then left into St. Augustine’s Road and emerge a few yards
beyond the unnecessary obstruction.
Unnecessary because just like
last week’s closure of
Brampton Road, the digging was on only one side of the road.
One carriageway was passable.
Almost needless to say, no one was at work and an uncaring Bexley Council should be ashamed of themselves too. Do they
never supervise the disruption thay authorise? It’s time for change in May 2026.
Thames Water is still
refusing to speak to me about having
no stopcock on the footpath outside and hence no meter. If any window cleaner
wishes to fill his tanks; feel free to help yourself. There is an easily accessible tap.
Note: I have not yet found a totally satisfactory
replacement for
Photoshop. I considered returning to it as the free Irfanview is not in the
same league but Adobe had increased the price again. I missed the ability to
crop an image to a specified size in one simple drag operation. As from today I
have found an inexpensive program which can do it in a two stage operation.
Adobe can take a jump,