The extension

The school at the bottom of our road occupies a large, if green belt, site and it did not seem unreasonable that it should be made a bit bigger to accommodate the wave of small children about to arrive at their front gates, although it is a pity that they could not find some way to make use of some of the large site in question to better deal with all the traffic arising morning and afternoon.

But I think I would be a bit alarmed if I lived in one of the houses at the bottom of the road and to regularly wake up in the morning to find a large crane towering over the back garden. The telephone, as is it's way, does not give much sense of the size of the thing, but some idea can be deduced by comparison with the nearby mature trees.

Is the school quite sure that they are only adding a few single storey classrooms?

On round the Horton Clockwise, the first time for a few days, to find that the new baker, Coughlans, at Horton Retail, had been open for 10 days. In to find a busy shop, with at least four young assistants and a large supply of, inter alia, sugary looking cakes. The place describes itself as an artisan baker and does indeed sell quite a range of bread, although rather more space was given to cake and it was not clear how much baking took place on the spot. I took an experimental small white bloomer which, despite being fresh enough, looked and smelt very much like the offer from Mr Sainsbury. I shall report further in due course, but in the meantime read all about it at http://www.coughlans.com/ where it seems that they are a well established chain in the south east London area. Are they starting a push to the west?

Further round I find that trolley 15a (see reference 1) is still there. Been nearly three weeks now and I have still done nothing about it; the new hobby is slipping badly. So long indeed that the trolley has been joined by a rather stressed looking office chair.

Reference 1: http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/trolley-15a.html.

PS: I might add that it is also a pity that the school was built (in the sixties or seventies I would think) to such an economy standard. Not a patch to look at on the hundred year old, red brick school at Pound Lane, a few hundred yards the other way. Proper pointy roof with real slates and with expensive & tasteful extensions in the same red brick as the original..