Alight at Lewisham
Oct. 13th, 2005 03:06 pmSo, I stay at home today, write the newsletter, lose $170 or thereabouts, as can happen, have a nap, and decide to go into Lewisham to collect my shoes. And what do I see as I leave the house? A whole new row of street lights. Not lighting the road, but lighting the pavement, up the hill towards the heath. That's a pretty good morning's work, I reckon, when you think that it took them a week to move a couple of lights about three feet at the zebra crossing only fifty yards or so away on the main road.
I should explain here that the pavement going up the hill is rather wide and is about 10 feet above the road, with the lights illuminating the road somewhat shielded by trees, so these new lights do serve a useful purpose. It's just a little puzzling that no-one told us that they were going to be installed.
Meanwhile the building work out back continues apace. Impossible to work out what is going on in their heads, what with wide deep trenches (like, 50 feet wide) being dug, while the earth being excavated is, in part, being piled up on an island in the middle, so I've got something like Close Encounters of the Third Kind or a Native American monument as my back-window view. Disturbing.
I should explain here that the pavement going up the hill is rather wide and is about 10 feet above the road, with the lights illuminating the road somewhat shielded by trees, so these new lights do serve a useful purpose. It's just a little puzzling that no-one told us that they were going to be installed.
Meanwhile the building work out back continues apace. Impossible to work out what is going on in their heads, what with wide deep trenches (like, 50 feet wide) being dug, while the earth being excavated is, in part, being piled up on an island in the middle, so I've got something like Close Encounters of the Third Kind or a Native American monument as my back-window view. Disturbing.