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Remeber RAMP? Well, it only took six weeks but the men from the Council finally fixed the road. This is actually an interim shot and they’ve now covered it in a fine top coat which makes it a lot smoother. Nice job, chaps!
However, the red and white signs proclaiming “RAMP” remain and prompted me to wonder if this wasn’t perhaps the name of a new, and as yet uninhabited, micro-hamlet and we’d simply missed the planning notice in the local paper. Don’t laugh, it could happen!
Imagine…a terrible homage to the “new town” where the full folly of Le Courbusier arrives at its (il)logical conclusion. All road…and no people! Welcome to Ramp (population: zero…but aren’t the streets clean?)
Then I pulled myself together and remembered that I wanted to repost this old composite snap of happier times on the nicer bits of road around here…
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Ramp!
Alas, our wonderful late summer weather has washed out part of the road that connects us to everything eastward. To alert the unwary traveller, those fine fellows from the Council have seen fit to place a sign either side of the problem; a single-syllable warning that does nothing to diminish the impending catastrophe…
Ramp?
Given that this is a branch of the Kingdom Cycle Route, perhaps the words DISMOUNT, BRIDGE OUT! or simply AAAAAAAAAAARGH! would have been more pertinent…
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