The water board are replacing the pipes all along our top road. The notice in the local paper say that this may go on until 3rd of March! Fortunately we have another route out of our farm but there are all kinds of things that haven't really been considered. We had to phone the council about the refuse collection, no-one had informed them and there is no way we can wait until March to get the bins emptied! They are going to arrange to send a smaller truck which will be able to get through. I also spoke to the postman and he hadn't been told what was going on either, but wasn't able to make his deliveries to the houses whose only access is on that road.
This is the view from one of our upstairs windows, looking up our road towards the activity of the water board.
And now we wait to see whether it is going to snow and if so, how bad it is likely to be. It's not a lot of fun having snow out in the countryside as travel becomes very difficult. It could also delay the work on the road and continue the disruption for even longer.
