Banging on

Back on 25th November I was banging on a bit about the skateboard park refurb. in Long Grove Park and all that hard earned taxpayer money being spent on it.

Today, in a pause between the showers, we thought it time for an inspection. And yes, the turfs on the new banks had slipped down a bit, although all the rain seemed to have helped push the grass up. All looking bright & bushy tailed and it looks as if the gaps will be hidden before too long.

But more important, we climbed up onto the thing to be rather impressed. No-one using it, but it looked, to the senior eye, like the cat's whiskers of the skateboard park world, with no movement to be seen after all the rain and with the top edges nicely finished off with some kind of tubing to stop the edges being chipped off, a skateboard park version of the spiky metal strips used to protect the corners of domestic plaster. Not sure how the drains worked, but they clearly did as the thing had not converted itself into a swimming pool. Not sure either that I would have had the nerve to use the thing in the way intended when I was of the right age - but very sure that I do not have now!

We shall be back to see how much use the thing gets - and to make sure that someone finishes tidying up the surrounds a bit. Maybe a few decorative plants. Maybe to the extent of giving the presently rough bits of ground around a bit of a rake in time for it all to grass over nicely in the spring. Did the council sign the thing off without getting the contractor to tidy up properly?