This may be the big smoke but it is also the big wet. My nemisis Mr Fish knows that Huttonian is here. Chances of injury are high as Londoners in the rain walk head down gabbling into invisible cell phones with their umbrellas at the constant charge position regardless of other's limb or life. It will be good to be back in Hutton where the chances of a person to person collision are remote even down town.
There was a mysterious message from a well placed(if sometimes slightly muddled) source before our descent to the capital to the effect that the Local PLan Team were considering inserting a new provision making Village boundaries either fixed or fuzzy-the latter provision to allow 'flexibility' for develment. Apparently the Community Council can determine what is the rule for their area. The implications for Paxton especially are very significant in the face of the Laird's offer of land for social housing. And I would be very surprised if the generally impotent Community Council will be given such far reaching decision making powers. A decision which could have multi-million pounds consequences.
Back tomorrow GNER permitting. It was dead on time going South so the omens for a prompt return are not propitious.
