Rider is desolate to discover she’s just one of the faceless crowd. Having been accosted 3 times by the same salesperson – not a clue what he was flogging as gave the stock answer ‘no thank you’ and walked on by – Rider’s appearance is obviously totally forgettable. Might just as well put a bag [...]
Articulated lorry on single track road, smallish green car behind then Rider in Blue Streak. Built up area, 30mph limit. 300m to a mini-roundabout. Green car pulled out and overtook lorry – Rider almost covered her eyes in horror. If anyone had been coming the other way there would have been a head-on smash. One [...]
Rider shops at a Supermarket from time to time, usually with a list and focussed on what’s on it. After all the hard work of shoving a trolley round, packing it and unpacking it at the checkout and repacking it prior to unpacking into the car and facing packing away at home, what do you [...]
Don’t you envy the Pope his surety? Likewise all those ‘priests’ who set themselves up as the interpreters of God. Those men – and they are nearly always men – who are utterly convinced they know their place, and the place of women, in the great scheme of things. How very dare they! Rider is [...]
Picture a gorgeous summer day – village school sports day on the school field.. disabled older chap makes his way in his motorised buggy to an entrance he knows he can negotiate. This entrance is used by grass cutting chaps and is accessed from an estate road where residents park in the T shaped areas. [...]
Fell to talking with Him Indoors about the possible strike of Railway Signalmen – postponed until their Union gets the ballot done correctly. At the moment they work 3 x 12 hour shifts over 3 days so they get the other 4 days off. Without knowing all the ins and outs, it seems as if [...]
This is talked about in every Parish Council in the land on a regular basis. Irate residents who ‘want something done’ but won’t put pen to paper so owners can be reported and fined. Why can’t some smart person invent a dye to spray which would be drawn up the dog’s back legs/bum when it squatted [...]
Should be renamed ‘Rip Off Those Who Can Pay Tax’ in our neck of the woods. This year it will be just over £1600 on Rider’s modest property. In fact Piggynap is just querying her Tax as her ‘Band’ is different to others which are exactly the same – hopefully she’ll get a reduction. What [...]
It’s taken 4 weeks for Leeds Highways to refurbish the pavement in my short street. There have been 3/4 bad weather days in this time. The workman were on site a total of 4.5 hours a day on most days for 3 weeks – probably time between their home depot is counted as working. This week they have been [...]
On what felt like the first day of Spring – sunny, bright, not too cold, daffs poking up – had a walk. Past the entrance to a settlement pond taking run-off from the big road nearby. It might as well have been the entrance to a rubbish tip. Vehicles often park there – many of [...]
