Council and lack of grit and salt again ???

Grit you're teeth and bear it, like we did in the 40's

How come the elderly are struggling round. Surely it's easier for them if anything, they can just take a short run-up and skid everywhere. They're just moaning because they enjoy moaning imo.

I am thinking of the elderly m8, the amount of them struggling about is terrible and IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY. :(

Council should buy them all a set of skis.

My wife's father slipped on ice on Monday and broke his hip.Not a topic of fun,guys.

iamajambo 23 Dec 16:35


My wife's father slipped on ice on Monday and broke his hip.Not a topic of fun,guys

Totally agree m8.

larrence - the rumoured reason why they wont clear the paths is even worse.

if the council clear the paths and u subsequently fall over, then, legally, the council is liable for not doing the job properly and u can sue them.

if they dont clear the paths and u fall over, then u cant sue anybody, as its an act of god.

it also saves them a feck load of money.

it so fecking scandalous a reason that its almost definitely true.

He's being given a hip replacement this afternoon.Doctors said it would be an improvement on the current one,pre-breakage that is.

My daughter slipped over yesterday, and broke her wrist..
It was in a Tesco car park..
3 people have broken arms, and at least 10 small prangs in cars..

And yes all because they are scared to clear the car park!!

wolsey end 23 Dec 16:43


larrence - the rumoured reason why they wont clear the paths is even worse.

if the council clear the paths and u subsequently fall over, then, legally, the council is liable for not doing the job properly and u can sue them.

if they dont clear the paths and u fall over, then u cant sue anybody, as its an act of god.

it also saves them a feck load of money.

it so fecking scandalous a reason that its almost definitely true

ffs m8 , what a complete and utter farce, incredible i am normally very placid but stuff like this makes me seethe. even at christmas :(

it is quite amazing how everything in life seems to eventually boil down to money and how much it may cost someone, always :(

iamajambo 23 Dec 16:44


He's being given a hip replacement this afternoon.Doctors said it would be an improvement on the current one,pre-breakage that is.




eastwood 23 23 Dec 16:45


My daughter slipped over yesterday, and broke her wrist..
It was in a Tesco car park..
3 people have broken arms, and at least 10 small prangs in cars..

And yes all because they are scared to clear the car park!!



Sorry to hear about family injuries sustained, hope they recover quickly, not nice, when they could help to prevent it. :(

I went out earlier, if I were a greyhound then my racecard comments would read like this:

Msd brk, EP, stmbl & bdly chk3, faded

I soon went back indoors

lol like it check

my greyhound comments would read :-

slipped coming out of traps , decided to do the moonwalk and go back in the trap and have a kip ;)

Waiting at a bus stop this morning beside the entrance to a pub(Ember Inns) I was wondering why they hadn't cleared the ice from their forecourt,a not very large area.Perhaps 'wolsey end' has provided the answer,though I'm not convinced.

In my youth,in a village in Scotland prone to snow,people would clear the snow from the pavement along the length of their house.Nowadays,I live in the south east but have maintained that tradition.Does that mean that I might be sued if someone falls on my cleared area???

I seem to recall last feb that a bloke was warned by the council because he went to clear the pavement

if there's blame there's a claim

'it is quite amazing how everything in life seems to eventually boil down to money and how much it may cost someone, always'


You're up for paying more taxes then, swindon?!

Was passing through the town centre earlier today and one of the main shopping pavements was just a sheet of ice, not a speck of salt in sight. It's a **ing disgrace, bet loads of people have gone on their arses on that.

More snow coming down now to nicely conceal that 3 day old compacted ice.

Wolsey End - that info is wrong mate - council's can be sued when they haven't gritted highways, as can shops etc who fail to grit their car-parks.

Google Occupiers' Liabilty Act 1957 for more info.

occupiers liability act 1957 relates to visitors to a premises and the occupiers related liability for any injury sustained - you'd do well to stretch the definition of premises under the Act to the streets. while the Act itself helpfully does not define 'premises', common law has created plenty of examples but again, think you will struggle to classify the average street as being subject to the Act. doesnt mean you cant get them under other legislation mind...

Come on councils wave your magic wands and make the nasty weather go away.
P.S. Without increasing the council tax to pay for it of course.

shocking winter is this, the worse 2 that come to mind though are mike and bernie

Jeff Winter was worse imo

a lot of councils have done their b** investing in icelandic banks and cant afford salt.

Devon have laid of 80 highways staff.
Its going to be a nighmare here

wolsey end 23 Dec 16:43


larrence - the rumoured reason why they wont clear the paths is even worse.

if the council clear the paths and u subsequently fall over, then, legally, the council is liable for not doing the job properly and u can sue them.

if they dont clear the paths and u fall over, then u cant sue anybody, as its an act of god.

it also saves them a feck load of money.

it so fecking scandalous a reason that its almost definitely true

Utter tripe, from start to finish. Sorry.

Torrential rain now, will be even worse in the morning. :(

C'mon chaps, lets see a little backbone. Good Lord, you'd think a little snow was a plague of frogs!

orioles 23 Dec 21:47


C'mon chaps, lets see a little backbone. Good Lord, you'd think a little snow was a plague of frogs!

I am not thinking of myself m8, its the thought of seeing pensioners struggling around WHEN THE GRIT should be down SIMPLE :(

Pensioners shouldn't have to be strugglin about - that's what family, friends and neighbours are there for.

larrence - I genuinely feel very sorry for you but you surely know that our deluded Scottish Prime Minister does not care at all (to put it politely) about the plight of his own citizens and prefers to throw away millions of pounds of our taxpayers' money at climate change sympathisers and, more worringly, aid to African dictatorships who care more about filling their boots in offshore bank accounts and duty free imported German cars than the poverty of the citizens of their own countries.

Yeah but some pensioners have no one.
i helped 3 old ladys today with trolleys - they could hardly stand, cause of the ice rink, i think it is not right,totally wrong and sadly sums up this country. :(

You have**ed my conshunce. I know an old lady who lives alone - I shall knock her up tomorrow and see if she wants owt - yeah AND I'm a nasty Tory see!

Look, in all seriousness, the amount of roads in this country, it is impossible to keep everywhere gritted all the time. The best is for main roads to be gritted.

Its the TOWN CENTRE where i live is like an ice rink , i don't expect all roads to be done. Pensioners going shopping for rations and need to wear ice skates not on :(

First rule of driving in frozen conditions is to stick to the main roads, they probably over salt the main roads as that is where they will get slaughtered if their is a problem.

eve sonko m8, its not the roads that are a problem, its the path's, i had walking boots on and was still sliding. Happy xmas m8 and all the best for 2010.

& you lawro.

The paths look horrid, seen many old people struggling on them. You would think it would take only one guy on a scarab to clear the paths in most small towns.....

When i were a lad....

There used to be grit in the yellow bins and all the families who lived on our road would come out and chuck grit on the pavements and clear their drives and paths with spades / snow shovelers. There was a good community spirit and snowball fights etc.

Nowadays it seems as if people don't have that sense of community and think it is someone elses job to grit the paths so noone bothers and it stays icy and dangerous.

Why should they grit the path anyway? They are likely very important people in their own minds and it is not fitting for them to perform such menial tasks. If they went outside of their house or car they might experience mild discomfort for 10 mins when their body temperature drops by 1°C and they could burn off as many as 100 Calories!

It is the same with litter everyone just walks past it and leaves it there despite there being bins nearby to put it and keep the area clean and tidy.

In short people don't care much about the areas they live anymore. Bahh humbug, good night.

What I find hard to believe is the amount of old ladys I see struggling to get down the road in this weather ,where the fooook are their families ,they should be ashamed of themselfs ..

Clearing the roads could be achieved in a couple of days, regardless of the amount of snow falling/temperatures. The solution is to spend more money, which few councils are prepared to sanction. Now if you said that the Queen or Prince Charles was visiting there wouldn't be a road within twenty f00kin miles that hadn't been cleared and gritted. Gawd bless 'er.