Well the first week of full campaigning was largely taken up with preparing my leaflets for the printers and tidying various loose ends at work as I will be on leave for most of May in order that I can focus on the campaign!
The first batch arrived in time for a weekend delivery of certain areas, and the main bundle should be arriving soon... Having walked from Borden to Hartlip and back, my feet are already starting to feel sore, and a downpour en route with no pub in sight and only the speeding traffic for company along much of the way left me humming that annoying song 'Always Look On the Bright Side of Life'!
Unsurprisingly, given the weather, I didn't get to meet as many people along the way as I usually do, but there were still a couple of good chats during the brighter periods, and blunt 'I ain't voting for you lot' type comments can still be counted on the fingers of one hand!
What did bring a wry smile to my face was the recent activity that our roads have seen with nice new yellow lines being repainted. It's a shame then, that Kent County Council didn't think to put up warning notices or cones before the road painting was due to be done with the result that in some areas - such as Wises Lane - the yellow lines had to stop abruptly because cars were parked over the area the lines were due to go!
The next three days are all work days, including a Regional Health and Safety meeting in Guildford - I'm a PCS Regional Health and Safety Representative and these are useful meetings as we set standards for the whole of the South East from the Isle of Wight to Milton Keynes and across Kent. I just wish Health and safety had a better press - it's not about stopping kids playing conkers - it's about measuring risks and suggesting means that might lessen those risks if the risks are deemed too high. So often the people responsible for managing the risks take the easy option of banning an activity rather than just taking the measures that will enable the activity to go ahead, but without unacceptable risk. Still, that's probably a blog for another day!
UPDATE:
After I returned from the evening session of leafletting I was amzed to see that Kent Highways had returned to finish the job they couldn't complete the other day.
However - as they still hadn't bothered to set up cones or warn anyone - unsurprisingly there will still cars parked there again. So now we have bits of yellow lines in the gaps where the cars weren't parked!
No wonder KCC's Highways Dept costs a fortune and achieves very little - I assume a third trip will now be required - will they notify people in advance this time? Or join up some of the lines where they can? Oh that's going to look lovely when they finish isn't it!
What an incompetent, expensive, messy looking farce KCC can make of painting a few yellow lines!
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