Concrete cycle track looking old but clean, down centre of A24
Oddly enough, the centrally-placed south-bound cycle path has recently been scraped and sided after years of dereliction, and now looks as good as new. But will anyone use it given the startling off-side entrance at Givons Grove roundabout, and the hatched inside-lane alternative?
10.10.2025 06:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Presumably a formality: the presentation will have been βdecidedβ by the PCC?
10.10.2025 06:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It seems that if you board at the P&R, itβs free. But board earlier or later, and you pay. Bizarre!
07.10.2025 20:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fascinating thanks. Do these temporalities have real value β and does this mean that during the vacancy, the revenues go to the Crown vice the Church?
07.10.2025 20:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yes, thatβs probably universal in Europe.
But βofficialβ free station-wifi can often be good in the UK (and Network Rail station-wifi usually excellent).
15.09.2025 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Compelling throughout thank you!
Should we infer from your run-in with your mobile-network operator that you werenβt testing European rail wifi-connectivity?
15.09.2025 20:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
As my geography lecturer used to say, we can grow bananas on Ben Nevis if we want to. Itβs a question of resources.
06.09.2025 07:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Why build anything to a specified standard if it's not going to be maintained to that standard?
08.08.2025 21:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
<Especially> those.
08.08.2025 17:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe period goes outside the quotes.β Always?
03.08.2025 21:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Donβt forget Shirley Porter, who paid a Β£12m surcharge for her councilβs targeted sales policy.
03.08.2025 21:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Photo of purple emperor butterfly perched on bare earth, wings outstretched, showing purple-blue sheen with white markings
We saw this fluttering around on a walk across Princes Coverts (nr Malden Rushett) today, and to our surprise, it landed nearby. It looks like a purple emperor, which would be a first, but arenβt they supposed to inhabit the tree canopy, not sit on the ground?
22.06.2025 17:15 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Careless driving etc must be proven, and might not be prosecuted if, eg, pedestrian steps out without looking. But on a zebra, thereβs strict liability: you must be prepared to stop.
As I said: you have cleared this with legal, havenβt you?
14.06.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Is that wise? Pedestrians may justifiably assume that they have absolute priority. Yet drivers may not have the same strict liability (as they do on compliant zebras), and so be subject to neither civil nor criminal sanction.
12.06.2025 16:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
βEfficiency savingsβ? They, and you, are using the Toriesβ language, still trying to brainwash the public into believing that cuts in spending donβt lead to cuts in services. They do.
11.06.2025 21:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No motorist must ever be inconvenienced unless unavoidable. NMUs? Sorry, didnβt hear you.
06.06.2025 06:31 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Welcome to Surrey. I wonder if the council can show us any roads where encroachment has been permitted across three-quarters of the widthβ¦or even half?
05.06.2025 07:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The 1702 Order really is a delight. If only all meeting minutes were modelled on its form.
28.05.2025 20:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
An Act to make new provision for public access to the countryside; to amend the law relating to public rights of way; to enable traffic regulation orders to be made for the purpose of conserving an ar...
That could easily be done by secondary legislation removing the camping restriction in CROW: Sch.2,para.3: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/3.... But it would still be illegal (criminal) to camp on βurbanβ commons including many in the Lake District: that would require a primary-legislation change.
25.05.2025 07:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Wild about camping β PannageMan
Wild camping <is> lawful on Dartmoor: Supreme Court has the final word. S.10 of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 does confer a right to wild camp, subject to compliance with byelaws and restrictions. Blog on judgment: Wild about camping pannageman.craddocks.co.uk/2025/05/21/w...
21.05.2025 09:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What happens when a passenger leaves behind vomit, beer cans or a wallet. Does the next passenger get to sort it out?
19.05.2025 13:01 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
But who maintains? You buy a house at the end of a publicly-maintained country laneβand then the obligation of public repair is abolished?
13.05.2025 17:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It would politically be tough to extinguish or downgrade country lanes because almost invariably someone uses them as a sole means of access to a house or other premises and is entitled to have the highway maintained as such.
13.05.2025 11:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The jug is washed? Gosh, your office is basking in the lap of luxury. Reform will soon sort out the likes of you.
03.05.2025 11:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A jug lined with years of limescale rings, for there is no-one with the role, time or inclination to clean them, and no money for new ones.
03.05.2025 09:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If councillors or officers are going to βscrutinizeβ¦down to the last biscuitβ, theyβll be missing the bigger picture. But I do hope that, at their next four-hour planning committee marathon meeting, thereβs nothing but a jug of water for members.
03.05.2025 08:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Needs watering?
29.04.2025 21:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Waymarked post in foreground, hedged boundary recedes into distance, cropped fields either side.
Location map for the confirmed-order way β to the west of Staple, Kent.
Restricted byway order confirmed for Twitham Lane near Staple in east Kent, reuniting for horse riders Woodshole Lane (RB EE269A) and bridleway EE28 with Staple Rd for first time in post-war era. The order takes the byway to the right of the hedge in photo. More: www.craddocks.co.uk/apps/twitham...
29.04.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Maybe we should pay the Prime Minister a salary commensurate with the responsibility, and put an end to tiresome stories about public servants who get paid more.
28.04.2025 20:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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