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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
 

Road Flasher


Rhoda Hogg has just passed me the following update on the section of the B6437 south of the junction with the B6421:

Drivers who have been perturbed by the absence of road markings along this stretch of road will be reassured to know that the light gouging accomplished a few days ago by a heavy agricultural vehicle is down the middle of where the lines should be if SBC weren’t short of paint.

Visitors to the Borders are astonished at the lack of traffic once you leave the A1. I once drove from Hutton to Kelso mid-morning and saw three other cars. If it wasn't for the tractors and the occasional oil tanker and the passing through White Van man you could plough up some of the B roads and no one would notice-the B6461 always excepted as it carries a lot of the commuter traffic to Berwick with a peak time density of nearly 20 cars an hour. When the wife and I did an informal traffic survey with regard to the Fishwick By pass we waited notebook in hand for two hours at notorious Dead Man's Corner. We even walked up and down the road, risking life and limb. In that time we saw two vehicles; well actually one vehicle heading towards the new development at 'The Close' and then coming back again. On a second visit we had the same success but it may have been a different vehicle. With major Lairds/Landowners/Farmers heavily involved Planning Permission was granted despite (because of?) the objection of the Community Council.Another notch in Big Jim's McBowie Knife.

Despite the apparent urgent need for the bypass (and the building programme to pay for it)not a sod has been cut.

Well done the credit crunch.

(The image is, so we are informed, of Donald Trump, seemingly relieved that his application to build 123 Mc Mansions and two championship golf courses in the Fishwick Area in partnership with the newly founded Kelso and Landski Bank has been rejected by the Berwickshire Area Committee)

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Comments:
What on earth are the chances? Have posted my blog this morning with a picture of... Donald Trump! Surely we're not tapping into some weird Trump zeitgeist? What a horrible thought. *shudders*
 
Horrible Thought indeed but cheered by the thought that with the collapse of many of his overseas projects we are now talking Last Trump saloon. I doubt if any of his grotesqueries will grace the Scottish dunes or anywhere else. He looks a little less cheerful in your pic. Good
 
Someone should shoot that guy's stylist. That toupee makes him look like his head is being interfered with by a rodent or maybe someone just though it a convenient site to dump their roadkill. Makes Paul Daniels' one look almost natural.
 
Why stop at the stylist?
 
No, just the stylists because without people like that then ropy old guys who want to rule the world would not think that they had hair and were therefore magnetically attractive to women (hoho) and have their own way/ruin everyone else's life with their lousy taste.
 
A taxi driver from Duns tells of the time he went to a call to take 2 women to Duns Castle and it Turned out to be Britt Ekland and Ivana Trump. One is left to consider whether it is rarer to see either of those ladies around Duns or see a taxi.
 
Rarer still for either lady to be in a taxi at all. What happened to the chauffeur and the Roller one wonders
 
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