OUT IN THE FIELD: A trip to Nando’s and an update on the chilly Beacon
Talking of moaning and groaning and complaining about things, there are two pieces of good news to report this week. That noisy manhole cover just as you come off the Bird’s Eye/big Tesco roundabout towards St Anthony’s has finally been fixed and doesn’t clang loudly when you drive over it. And when I nipped to the Beacon the other day for a cuppa in Shades, I noticed it was distinctively warmer thanks to some rather nice heat being blown out from above. And the men manning the Sky pop-up shop by Greggs didn’t have quite so many layers on as they did the other week when the wind and cold air first started blowing through the mall.
Like many other drivers on Tuesday morning, I was a tad frustrated that less than a year after traffic lights at the corner of Seaside, Whitley Road and Beamsley Road caused major chaos and long delays, they are back again. I was quite prepared to give East Sussex Highways a bit of a kick in the shins on behalf of all those motorists who suffered the lengthy delays and couldn’t fathom out why whatever work is being done this time wasn’t done the time before. I was reliably informed the latest works are “safety audit adjustments following the works last year”. So, now we know.