1st post

Well, I'm not expecting anyone to read this, it's more for my own entertainment and records.

I decided to start this blog, because, at least once a week, I am amazing and dumbfounded by something utterly ridiculous happening in the world, be this the governments crazy ideas on spending, the local Vale Royal Council and their goings on, or the world in general. I'm always moaning to myself about these things, so I decided it was time to start writing things down, even if it's just to show my kids in 10/20/30 years time.

I'm going to start with something that happened last week. Looking out of the window I saw a council looking man messing around with sign posts outside. He proceded to measure various bits of the sign, height, distance from road, width of sign e.t.c. I guess the reason for this was because Vale Royal council have a 100 page book on the correct positioning of a road traffic sign to stop them from being sued.

Surely this is ridiculous? Do signs normally move from when they are first put in the ground? I bet the guy was on at least £10 per hour for what he was doing, like everyone else on a council wage, they get paid ridiculous amounts of money for not doing very much.

To top it off, when I went to work later on, the guy had made his way from Little Leigh (outside my house), to Winnington just outside Northwich, he was still measuring sign posts, taking photos and documenting the whole thing in his notebook. As I was waiting at the lights, he proceded to take a "redness" colour chart out of his pocket and measure the "redness" of the 30mph on Winnington bridge!!!!!!

I later found out that drivers can actually get away with speeding offences if the speed limit warning sign was not "red" enough.

Madness, enough said.