Local residents will have noted that the Upper Richmond Road sprung a leak last week opposite Robert Dyas. You may have wondered which would arrive first: an icy road or Thames Water to shut the cock off.
On Saturday the barriers were erected, the leak stopped and the road reduced to one lane.
On Monday the hole was dug.
On Tuesday afternoon the hole remained and there was no sign of anyone in the hole.
On Thursday FINISHED! A day early!
So we had the usual lack of coordination between diggers and pipe menders, and probably next the road repairers. To be finished on 19 December?
Wholly different of course but the last couplet is somehow reminiscent!
‘Twas on a Monday morning
The gas man came to call
The gas tap wouldn’t turn, I wasn’t getting gas at all
He tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main
And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
‘Twas on a Tuesday morning
The carpenter came round
He hammered and he chiselled and he said:
“Look what I’ve found!
Your joists are full of dry-rot
But I’ll put them all to rights.”
Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
‘Twas on a Wednesday morning
The electrician came
He called me “Mr Sanderson”, which isn’t quite me name
He couldn’t reach the fuse box without standing on the bin
And his foot went through a window so I called a glazier in
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
‘Twas on the Thursday morning
The glazier came along
With his blowtorch and his putty and his merry glazier’s song
He put another pane in
It took no time at all
But I had to get a painter in to come and paint the wall
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
‘Twas on a Friday morning
The painter made a start
With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part
Every nook and every cranny
But I found when he was gone
He’d painted over the gas tap and I couldn’t turn it on!
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do!
On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all
So ’twas on a Monday morning that the gas man came to call!
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Hi Richard
I was the one who called Thames Water to tell them of this leak over a week ago âlthough there may have been others reporting it too.
Their response was limp and pathetic. I got a call and further emails that they’d be out to inspect it at an ungodly hour over the weekend.
What is further pathetic ând unprofessional, lacking public communication and cooperation perhaps, no update re information regarding progress and when it will be fixed.
Hey-ho
Kind regards,
Paul
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The onsite notice does now say Finish 19 December.
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Love the poem Please note my new gma
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Shouldn’t there have been reference to Flanders and Swann?Sent from my iPhone
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Quite so. First prize Susie for recognition.
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