Gossamer morning.

 

Gossamer cobwebs on the hedge at Lynsore Bottom

Renewing the carpet in Tenterden High Street

 The carpet of Tenterden High Street was renewed over two nights.

The operations were spectacular.

This machine is using a 360° laser level and laying the new carpet.

The equipment employed was almost balletic in its movements. Here the excavator is digging up a cast iron drain cover.

 

 Periodically this street sweeper would surge from a side road and scoop up all the millings.

 

The hot non-skid surface is being spread before the pedestrian crossing.

The entire operation was achieved in two nights – a tremendous feat of organisation to assemble and employ the range of equipment and remove it so quickly afterwards so as to cause the least inconvenience to the residents and road users.

A bridge at Bridge

The village of Bridge lies just to the east of Canterbury and probably derives its name from the fact that the high street provides the crossing point of the River Nailbourne for the A2, the main London to Dover road.

 But Bridge has another bridge, It carried the Elham Valley Railway over Pett Bottom Road which I cycle along most mornings. The railway no longer exists but the bridge remains.   

 If you think that calling a village with a bridge, 'Bridge' suggests a lack of imagination, I would point out that there is a 'River' near Dover and elsewhere it Kent there is a 'Ford' and two villages called 'High Street'.

BT - Always there to help

 

I shall not bore you with my struggles with BT and the 'Digital Voice' which they have imposed on my telephone (for customer convenience). Suffice it to say that they have replaced my telephones with gadgets which are too small to hold and which I cannot hear. They stop working if there is a power cut – I mean, it's unlikely that you are going to want to telephone anybody if the power goes down, isn't it? And they randomly filter my callers by cutting them off before my telephone has even rung but if I need help, BT are there for me. (see above) Of course, if my telephone is not working then I will want to email them, won't I?

Read the last line of the helpful email.

Happy Christmas

 

Just what I would expect to find in the middle of the countryside.

And even hotter today.

 

 

21°C at 05.30 at Upper Hardres

15.8°C in cold air pocket below Stelling Minnis at 06.35

It's going to be hot today.