Newton Abbot bus station has a livestock market right next to it. Every Wednesday the sound of sheep in their pens being sold is heard during the day. However I was there at 20:05 this evening and I could hear the poor sheep baring away to themselves as I waited my time to go. The market is usually clear by mid afternoon. My first though was some farmer had come to market and bough some sheep and had then gone to the pub to celebrate and had driven home forgetting his sheep. Then this evening when I got home there was and item on the news about a new outbreak of Foot and Mouth and all movement of animals had been stopped. Not something our farmers needed the have land on their plates so soon after the last outbreak.
An other little thing from Newton today is about the up coming road works due to take 11 weeks. Today someone had been round with little cans of spray paint marking the road out so the contractors know where to dig and where to plant. Lets hope they get it right this time. Also the road is to be closed completely on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. As it is the only way out of the bus station it means the bus station will be closed. I did ask what would be put in place as one or two passengers have asked where they will catch the bus but so far information is thin on the ground. All will be reveled, probably Saturday lunch time. Maybe we will all drive into the bus station, do a three point turn, (though with a 34 foot long bus it could be a 23 point turn) and out again. Could be fun.
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We are going to drive through the bus station and exit through the livestock market car park, so if all the cats and dogs in Torbay get Foot and Mouth YOU know who to blame.
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