Thursday November 25, 2004

Mud on the road

I must be in a very grumpy mood this week. This is the second time I have written a weblog under my grumpy old man section. Like yesterdays this one relates to the UK roads.

On my drive into work I sometimes comes across a sign usually hand painted on a piece of wood saying "mud on the road". A trail of mud then usually appears which eventually peeters out after the vehicle responsible has shed its unwanted cargo.

I just wonder if there is any reason this has to happen ? I appreciate farm vehicles have a job to do and are not the easiest to clean on a muddy field but I think an attempt to get the worst of it off before going on the road would be appreciated by us all. Cheshire council are very optimistic here but maybe so as they would be able to find out the owner of the field where the mud on the road starts I guess.

The other road related grump I want to get off my chest is fly tipping . Again I see a a lot of this in my area. I am just amazed by people who clearly are prepared to put rubbish in their car drive it away from their house but then within a mile or so of their local "amenity site" stop their car and throw their rubbish onto the side of the road.

On a more postive note I have to say I think the UK has the best countryside going in the world. Maybe not the most spectacular but for a little island not bad at all. When I used to fly a lot for work I was always cheered by the patchwork quilt of fields you saw as we approached Heathrow . In fact approaching from the US you usually fly down the spine of the UK mainland starting at Scotland heading south seeing the range of countryside the UK has to offer.