Mostly what it did today was rain. Steady, wet, dreary rain. Aren't you glad you didn't decide to have a few days by the seaside here in Glorious Devon? To make it worse you could have decided to have those few days in Kingswear a few miles down the road towards Brixham. Kingswear is a pretty village on the side of the River Dart. On the other side is Dartmouth which has claims to fame through a brief association with the Pilgrim Fathers, The Royal Naval College and by it's position on The Oneiden Line. (A TV Show). Dartmouth is the larger and has better road links with the outside world. We run bus services, the 22 and the 120 to Kingswear but not for the last few days. No, no; we haven't fallen out with the good people of that village, just part of a wall that was holding up some one's garden. It's now fallen down and is blocking the road. That happened on New Year's Eve and a coupe of strong men with shovels could have opened the road except for the fact that a structural engineer has to earn his money by turning up, having a look then looking thoughtful, worried and concerned, scratch some part of his body we don't mention here before giving the go ahead for work to be done. Or maybe saying the whole village will have to come down. The Council say they can not touch anything as it was a private wall and garden that fell down. I wonder what they would say if Rock Walk fell down. (You heard it first here folks.) So the road is blocked and our buses are having to do a turn in the road 3/4 mile before the village and to do this need some behind to make sure they don't run of the road. At night it is pretty damn dark up on the road where they turn. So some poor sod has to sit there all evening waiting for a bus to arrive so he can assist in the turning round of said bus. Sooner him than me. Road might be open in time for Easter. If we are lucky!
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