There’s nothing like the crunch of the steel tracks of the council’s 10 tonne backhoe excavator on the road you personally paid for to wake you up in the morning.
As soon as we’ve worked out the source of the thunderous clamour, we race outside to inspect the damage. The caterpillar tracks have scraped a layer from the concrete all the way up the hill.
We console ourselves that maybe it will make the road less slippery in the height of winter. But really, we know this road isn’t going to last very long at all. Soon, we’ll be back where we started.
Last modified: 21 September 2024
