The Streets

The pavements are in the worst possible state you can imagine, it resembles a building site sometimes. If the tiles are missing, buckled or uneven then you are lucky. Most tiles have been stolen, no doubt to tile someone´s own house, nicked for cash or just vandalised. Sometimes just there in the middle of the path is a bloody great hole a few feet deep. Not really good fun to navigate with a pram.

If that does not get you between each pathway and the road is an open trench that takes the water away and supplies the tree roots. This also can be a few feet deep and if it’s been raining heavy can contain a fast flow of water that you would most certainly perish if you fell in to it. All this of course is normal and just outside.

Here the house owners are responsible for their own pavement and some bastard has nicked half of ours! We also have two trees that are buckling up the floor.

We have a really nice house but I guess we won´t be winning the best kept pavement award after all. Just like everyone else.