we have the most useless county council in the land!
I think there will be a few who would also claim that
Reading Borough Council are pretty mind blowingly useless most of the time. There is another side to all this whinging about council under-funding and staff costs are a big part of it. We rent business premises from them and its laughable. We switched units, both the people in the department were on holiday at the same time, so no-one would deal with it
I also got 'out of office' notifications from emails sent saying 'I'm working from home, so am not reading my work emails'
I did ring the main office and eventually got through to someone fairly high up who squirmed about as I asked how anyone could achieve that particular feat. Anyway he sorted it for me, so it was worth kicking up a fuss
If your bloke in charge of roads has that as his job, then he needs to get on with it. His wages are paid by householders like you and you are entitled to value for money. He is there to help you, so don't let up until he earns his keep.
Anyway back to chit chat. Its a bit overcast and dull here, but dry. I'm contemplating a plot visit and a garden pottering session, but haven't got going yet. I'm tired from busting a gut doing my 2 jobs this week for considerably less than £100k a year