With all the excursions in foreign parts our own dear village hall has been rather neglected by the Blog Monitoring Sub-Committee but not by the builders. Progress is not spectacular as the focus of activity has moved indoors and it is hard to see what is going on in day to day terms but we are still promised a completion in June. But this is not the only building activity in the area-down the lane to Hutton Mill a spanking new house has been shooting up at a fair rate of knots. It started well after the Village Hall and has seemed to have erected itself uncanningly spontaneously as I have yet to see a workman on site although evidently there was an electrician around as his van was parked outside. No sign of him in the house however and he may well have been the man I saw fishing. The final image indicates one aspect of this new development; fishing together with a pheasantery and a Guinea Fowlery-quite a little industrial complex. Good for the investors but I do slightly worry about possible future effects on the Whiteadder which is classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Once 'a recognised building block' is in position it is only too easy to get planning permission for other buildings alongside or around it.

Unless of course the river sweeps them all away-as happened in 1948. The river was high yesterday (click on image) and it would only take two medium icebergs to melt in the Whiteadder Reservoir an Bob's your Great Uncle.

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