{"id":2929,"date":"2023-07-01T01:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturda-variety\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T01:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:29:02","slug":"saturda-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/saturda-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturda Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Open Letter To First Great Western<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n This covers a wide range of services that offer excellent opportunities to enjoy the Snowdon area.<\/p>\n And as a special bonus, you can have the information twice; once in English and once in Welsh on the back.of the same leaflet. Or on the front if you are Welsh speaking.<\/p>\n Good innit – and it encourages visitors to use he bus!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n And you can get key tourist routes TWICE via a second leaflet!<\/p>\n If course, there is no mention of the Island Line in it, operated by another First Rail company, but you may not have heard of South Western Railway.<\/p><\/div>\n … they break up the roads because they are carrying those chunky and environmentally damaging batteries.<\/p><\/div>\n And we all know how environmentally costly it is to make Hydrogen and transport it.<\/p>\n Saving The Planet (3) Cheap Trams?<\/span><\/p>\n Twaddle, TfL.<\/p><\/div>\n The company is offering to build a tram at no cost to the taxpayer.<\/p><\/div>\n Saving The Planet (4) – Express Busway?<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n To build on this stunning success (Ahem?), Kent is constructing another one. Details are sketchy on-line, but a new bus only road is being build from B & Q at Whitfield …<\/p>\n … then across the A2 …<\/p>\n … and on to ordinary roads in Dover. At the edge of the town, the new busway will serve a housing development on the site of the former Connaught Barracks.<\/p>\n There is some disquiet locally that this new road will take buses from Whitfield to the traffic jams of Dover slightly faster but at significant expense. “Why,” asks a local blogger, “is money beng spent on this waste-of-space when bus companies are reducing services all over the place.”<\/p><\/div>\n fbb awaits the timetable with interest.<\/p>\n Cross-Patch About Thatch<\/span><\/p>\n It is very rare indeed for thatch to look like the above. Apart from a few regional examples, when you look at thatch you look at the end<\/span> of the straw or reed, and NOT its length<\/span>.<\/p>\n So fbb was anxious that his new old cottage had good, accurate thatch. So off the old bodger staggered to Bradfords yard, almost next door to fbb mansions.\u00a0<\/p>\n … and fbb only needed one of the five sheets.<\/p><\/div>\n The process was surprisingly effective, so work continued on the original cottage.<\/p>\n