Trying To Be Objective !!!

Oh boy I really wish I was a clever writer that could make my points without getting emotional. I would love to be able to write this post and be totally objective. However I am finding it increasingly difficult.

Living in our neck of the woods is becoming much like living in a battle zone with various authorities.

We are a little 1 ½ mile area sandwiched between Tanworth In Arden and Earlswood with sporadic houses tucked in between fields. We were once a pleasant and quiet place to live. Of course home is still home and I love it dearly however the surrounding infrastructures, including

a)    Roads

b)    Speeds

c)     Potholes

d)    Noise

e)    Crime

f)      Planning

Is slowly making life unpleasant. I suppose it isn’t just one thing by its self it is the accumulation of all things and it really is just mounting up.

We have recently endured tipper Lorries tipping between the hours of 11:30 pm and 12 am. Why they are tipping at that time in the evening/morning I don’t know. Have I reported it – well no I haven’t as I am starting to feel like I am reporting things for the sake of reporting them.

We are battling with drivers that drive into someone’s hedge ruining it and not stopping to apologise. Its not a little bit of damage it is a lot of damage and it is a good job there was a fence behind the hedge.

We have local Business putting up signs willy nilly without what appears to be any type of  the permission, making our bit of the countryside look like something from Blackpool not that there is anything wrong with Blackpool  just the blackboards don’t belong in the countryside net alone on a grass verge close to a 60 mph road.

We have potholes one could disappear down if not careful.

We have a stupid speed limit on dangerous lanes. Which is really confusing because the road has SLOW written all over it, at various intervals. Yes it is due to be lowered to 50 mph however it still doesn’t make sense.

We are now a rat run for all traffic travelling to and from a junction of the M42 and are unable to walk up or down the lanes safely. The rush hour traffic is just that but it lasts most the day without much let up.

We have had Police helicopters hovering over a house that has been burgled not once but twice in the last few months not including the attempted theft of a metal gate left in the middle of the road and another house with its car and some contents of the house stolen.

It really is continuous and one thing after another.

    As some of us try to pick up the gauntlet and try to get the things that are wrong put right I sit here and wonder if its worth the hassle with the continual disappointment that all the things are wrong are allowed to be wrong in the first place and we are left having to fight to try and get things put right. No one appears to be accountable or responsible for anything.

Surely taking pride in where we live and its surrounding area wanting to protect it for future generations ourselves and our visitors isn’t so bad.

I actually don’t know what to do about all of this or how to approach it Political Correctness doesn’t appear to work, brut forcefulness of questions doesn’t appear to work, all I get when I ask questions which ever way is anything but answers or they are answers that have nothing to do with my questions which sends me off on a different tangent.


Memo to ones self I must calm down and remain focused on one thing at a time, which is really difficult when there is so much wrong in our small 1 ½ mile area