Fingers crossed ... The Boston Bypass Independents' blog is nothing if not amusing. Pages appear and vanish like leaves on the trees between spring and autumn. The latest was the faux apology to Councillor Anne Dorrian, whose writer thought it hilarious to repeat the link to the dating site that she had complained of. The page lurked online for a few days making light of pornography as entertainment and then abruptly vanished. Presumably someone somewhere among the Bostoninnies decided to demonstrate a modicum of commonsense and basic courtesy for once. Let's hope that it's the start of a trend.
Seeing red ... News that drivers who jump red lights in Lincoln have paid fines totalling more than £50,000 over a five-year period, makes us think of the potential income for Boston, where ignoring the traffic lights is a way of life for local drivers. We noted with interest that the Superintendent in charge of Lincolnshire Police's operations support department was quoted as saying that the force would "always" bring red light violators to book in the interests of safety. We wish he could be persuaded to pay a visit to Boston, where the offence is endemic and the risk of a serious accident increasing daily.
Cabinet pudding ... We wonder whether the Mayor was behind the idea to recall the role of the Guildhall as a "British Restaurant" during the Second World War, as we recall him mentioning some while ago the fact that he used to dine there as a schoolboy. For those not in the know - as the borough website doesn't take the trouble to explain - British Restaurants were communal kitchens created to ensure communities and people who had run out of rationing coupons were still able to eat. The Guildhall event is part of the Heritage Open Days being staged on the weekend of September 9-11 the theme of which is "Lincolnshire at War." On the Friday there will be a "reminiscence session," which we are sure the Mayor will attend to share a cup of tea and a slice of cake with his contemporaries. We wonder whether the price will be no more than the maximum 9d (4p) that was charged in those days!The end is not nigh ... We couldn't conceal our delight when we saw the headline on the letters page in the Target headed "Roadworks nearing end." But our joy quickly turned to angst. Signed by the Beloved Leader, Richard "Papa Dick" Austin, it went on to tell regular users of the A16 Spalding Road northbound that the roadworks are expected to be "substantially complete by the end of September." Can this man get nothing right?
Lesson to be learned ... Still with the local papers, we note that the to-ing and fro-ing about the PRSA debt write off is now being conducted in the letters pages after attempts to discuss it in the council chamber ended in chaos. Surely there are lessons to be learned here for a council that persists in boasting about its openness and transparency. If they had got it right in the first place, none of the unseemly rows that have developed would have been necessary.
Tome it may concern ... Lincolnshire County Council's threat to terminate mobile library services where fewer than three people use it is really rather silly. The argument is "use it or lose it" - but people either want to borrow a book or they don't, and the concept that we should all queue up to take one out for the sake of it it just plain daft. We also question whether the county council would have the nerve to apply similar rules to rural bus services, which are notoriously underused in some areas. We bet they wouldn't.
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