13/365 - The Great British Social Disease ....

Is Apathy - and I'm going to have a moan - a long one - lol.  Some time in the night (and it wasn't there at 1.15am 'cos I looked) another 2" of snow fell  and the weather this morning was atrocious.  So much for new found confidence in driving yesterday.  After much pacing about, many telephone calls with my work colleague about how we are moving to somewhere warm and the now standard bowl of porridge, I set to with my shovel - again.  Kind taxi driver along the road retrieved my car from the pub car park round the corner, so I started by cleraring the snow away around the car and just kept right on shovelling (you find yourself getting into a rhythm - lol)

I cleared the whole width of the road outside my house and my neighbours (the heroine one who walked to work that day last week).  Despite getting very warm and just a tad out of breath the job was done in 45 minutes.  It was quite easy, once you got the shovel underneath it, it just lifted off in chunks.  Here's my pile of compacted ice ....

So why Apathy - if everyone came out and did the same outside their house, the road would be clear in no time.  But no - they just stay inside with the expectation that the local authority or someone else will come and do it for them.  This will not be the case.  One side of the road is lined with the houses and the other side is a slope, with additional parking places and this time of year gets very little sun.  It hasn't been clear really since the last lot before Christmas, but all everyone does is moan.

Now - there is talk about why the dustmen haven't been - well they won't be coming.  The entrance to the road is on a bend and two very inconsiderate people park their cars right on the bend (serves them right if someone slides into them I say).  The dustcart hasn't got a hope in hell.

Everyone likes to see children playing and having fun - but two teenage girls (dressed totally inappropriately.  Speaking of which did anyone see the pictures of the girls out clubbing in Newcastle in the Daily Mail yesterday - positively ridiculous) and a large tyre creating bob-sleigh runs on the additional parking places on the slope are just plain stupid - as are their parents for letting them do this.
People need to shut up and get on with it ....

Still - at least we aren't in Port-au-Prince ......