Lets not talk about the weather .....


June after such a hot start turned out to be the wettest June for 50 years. I think that I may have developed gills. Work has moved offices as the transport system in Greater Manchester goes to Hell.

1. The Tram replacement buses. Anyone travelling on these buses into Manchester on an evening can see the best arguement one can ever have for a congestion charge. The bus gets caught up with lots of single user little boxes.

2. Demolition and restructure of Belmont Bridge

This needed to be demolished and rebuilt so that the bridge could take heavier EU lorries. Naturally the EU sceptics had a field day with this. But they are too stupid and shortsighted to ignore the fact that the lorries will come and if you ban them then our companies will lose the business.
The knock on effect has seen more traffic than ususal and we do get a fair bit using our little road as a cut through. We intend to bring this to the notice of the Council and see how far we get.

Probably not that far but who knows.

Moving on to a lighter note the Tri Nations approaches its conclusion with Australia facing up to New Zealand in two weeks in what should be the decisive game. However Australia's win over New Zealand and their failure to beat a weak Bokke team by only 8 points will give good heart to the teams of France, Argentina, Ireland, England and Wales assuming the latter two do not fall foul of Samoa and Fiji.

As for TV Dr who finished with Mr Saxon (Master No 6), where that leaves the actor who preceded Eric Roberts, being defeated and dying to obtain his final victory of the Doctor. Where the laugh from the funeral pyre and the woman with red nails picking up the ring will lead us who knows.

For two more weeks we have Heroes and then the run of series 1 starts on BBC2.

We also have series 2 of Rome being shown fairly quickly 2 episodes a week will get through 10 epsiodes very quickly. The show desrves better.