Yawn Yawn, Wakey WAKEY...!! 2014 part 2...

Sounds like me!

 

Good morning its 1.15am and and a little restless tonight ,thought I would do some night flying I must be getting excited about Christmas anyway just thought I would report in to see if anyone else was about,

 

Good morning all my friends hope you are all Ok and feeling fine,have a great day and please take care



Good morning Moyra hope you are feeling better to day

Well I have never taken much notice of what they call time and clocks enjoy your day my friend

 

Aloha everyone,

Woo, I was up and about but not able to play on the computer. My office is right next to the bedroom and the door is glass. So if I put the light on in the office it may wake Mrs Shiney

I've still got the lurgy but I'm hoping it will start to get better today. I need to turn the tap off in my head and throw out the cough gremlin that has been bashing away at the inside of my ribs.

I had to go out to the bridge club last night. I wouldn't have gone but there was a possible problem at the village hall that only I could sort out. The village school is next door to the hall and they were having a nativity play in the evening. There's an ongoing problem (been going on for years) with the parents using the hall car park when taking kids to school and picking them up.

The car park is private property and for the use of hirers. The constant use of 4x4's manoeuvring in the car park meant that the hall had to spend £17,000 on repairing the surface. They also put in a car park barrier (another few thousand) that is timed to close twice a day for the school run.

To try and explain, most of the pupils (but not all) live in the village. The poor little darlings can't walk to school on their own and the parents are too lazy to walk with them . The village car park is just under three hundred yards from the school but that's too far for mum to walk!

I had a major problem for my Tuesday afternoon club. Apparently the school were having their Christmas Carols at lunchtime, which is not the time the barrier is closed. So when my club members turned up at 1.30 the car park was almost full. We need approx. 40 car parking spaces for my members and the average age of the members is about 80 (one is 96) and a number of them are walking impaired. So I had no choice but to get them to park, blocking the school cars! It didn't do me any good standing out there for half an hour in the cold and directing the traffic .

So I was expecting the same problem for my evening club last night. The school head teacher is supposed to notify the village hall management when they have an event on so that the barrier can be closed, but they didn't do so. I phoned the school yesterday morning and found out that they had the Nativity in the evening. So I had to go out in the cold in the afternoon to over-ride the barrier timing mechanism and lock it down (fortunately I have a key to the system as I'm on the management executive).

It's not quite that simple as the road through the middle of the car park is the access to some dwellings at the far end. So I had to, then, go and notify the residents so that they could take their 'zappers' if they go out. The 'zappers' raise the barrier for a car to enter and the barrier comes down automatically after they've gone through.

I then had to go up there earlier than normal in the evening to control entry for our members - and turn away the parents. Some of them were quite abusive although the school had printed on their tickets that they mustn't use the car park. I wasn't quite as polite as I would normally have been as I wasn't feeling very well. One parent said she was going to leave her car blocking the entrance. So I asked her which police pound she would prefer to pick it up from as she would be blocking the emergency access for the dwellings at the end.

Phew!!! I've now got that off my chest

Moyra and Eve, I hope you're getting better

Ziggy, has the wind helped to produce power for you or do you have to lock it if the wind gets too strong?

Have a great day

Aloha!

 

Zigs, our village car park is free. The only rule is no overnight parking.

Loli, they've had to double yellow line the road by our doctor's surgery because it's only 150 yds from the school. Some parents were parking their cars on the road and blocking access to the doctor's car park!

I think someone should invent a form of radar that zaps mobile phones if they're inside a car and close to the driver's ear. It should disable it for six hours.

 

Good afternoon my friends while I went for a country walk this morning Mrs Woo had been busy