Essential Public Works

Outside The Miners Arms they’re digging up the street again for ‘essential public works’. Last week they were installing piping for moonshine on tap, the month before cable radio so people could listen to the BBC Light Programme in areas with poor signal. Then they dug it all up again in to install cable TV, though that new fangled television has to to get to this forgotten part of The Forest of Dean, and likely never will. And anyway, nobody has a television around these parts. And finally this week they’re just finishing after digging everything up again to try to find Barry Bullhead’s expensive watch he got and lost as a backhander for some dodgy job he got a big fat brown envelope for. They didn’t find the watch btw. Some cat called Bob snagged it apparently. Such a clever cat 🐾 ~~~⏱️~~~The barriers are painted cocktail sticks should anyone give a miniature fu…