Nigello

The council puts the bright yellow ones up often, but never removes them. Residents and local businesses, schools etc tape them to trees, posts, fences etc and never remove them. All of them look tatty after a while, but the people who put them up never think of that. So, if you do put up a notice saying 'happy birthday Marjorie' or 'baby yoga classes this Sunday', please take them down afterwards. Or, if you are like me, rip them down yourself. You can also post them back to the offender, like St John's and St Clement's school, whose tatty laminates for their Christmas fair of five or more weeks ago are still hanging around.

The Bridge was a bit off the wall but entertaining. A BBC 3 horror(ish) series called The Fades was good and referenced Mork and Mindy too! Parks and Recreation is a funny US series with a feel of The Office about it, but more slapstick and less mean.

Paving or tarmacking the whole of that stretch - from the barber's down to the new shop on the corner of Dunstan's Road - in a uniform way would be a big help and not that difficult. Of course, you'd have to stop the motorists who ride the pavement and park outside the shops (usually the betting shop and the launderette) otherwise it'd get damaged all over again. Anyone know whether driving over the pavement - which seems to the be a thin strip of paving that then gives way to the odd assortment of tarmac in front of various properties - is legal?

The white wall at the side of the property in question had large and ugly tagging on it the other day. I was about to report it to the council (which would then approach the owner and offer to remove it for them) but the day after I passed by and the graffiti had been painted over, so thanks to the owners for doing that.