Gritting Priorities
It was interesting to hear on Radio 5 last night from Alistair Kight of GRITIT and the fact that people are stealing salt supplies. He was also very critical of local and national government, who only had very inadequate supplies and have thus added to the chaos.
He has a point.
Surely, we should have enough supplies to keep all the main and most of the secondary roads open for a month. Where I live I’ve never seen a gritter at all on the fairly steep up and down, that leads to the main road. Surely, it should have been done at least once, as the road leads to some elderly and seriously ill people.
But then we vote Conservative in this area, so there are no votes for Prudence in giving my council enough money to provide adequate services.
I was in London yesterday and they were gritting the paths of Regents Park.
Gritting in Regents Park
So at least we have our priorities right!
Roof Details at St. Pancras
After the success of the post on Roof Trusses, here are a few details of the roof at St. Pancras.
It really is the most spectacular example of Victorian engineering. Apparently, the blue colour is original, but the steam trains soon put paid to that!
John Betjeman at St. Pancras
There is also a charming status of John Betjeman, who did much to save the station from demolition in the 1960s.
John Betjeman
The Anonymous Widower 