and it'll rain for 40 days and 40 nights....

Sometimes you can’t make it up. Bolsover Council have decided that the best name for their new posh pad in Clowne is the “Arc”. Unfortunately they haven’t quite got the spelling right but it’s a wonderful metaphor. Whilst the historic Sherwood lodge and green is buried under tons of tarmac and car exhausts the Labour Councillors batten down the hatches of their shiny new vessel in Clowne. Just like the original ark it’s even got three floors, but there seems some doubt whether it will have room for all God’s creatures. We hear that the Housing team may be left at the Riverside and that Environmental Health will be desk-sharing. At least residents will be relieved to hear that Labour Councillors will have their own office and won’t have to breathe the same air as Councillors from other parties. See even a recession has a silver lining.

Meanwhile as the Executive choose their flock wallpaper (that’s a joke by the way) they wave a cheerie Xmas goodbye to the hard-working staff in the cafe at Sherwood Lodge and residents are just waking up to find out that their Community Houses will be closed. The public toilets went last year, along with Saturday openings of the Contact centres, so what will come next year? I’d like to think that with the most savage benefit cuts the country has ever seen kicking in from April Councillors will start thinking whether they deserve a basic allowance that’s over £2,700 a year more than any other District Council in the country. Oh look I just saw another pig fly.