From Country Lane to Town Road

Our house is on the edge of the town. The road is used as a bit of a rat run, and there are some houses and some fields on one side, with an estate of houses and flats on the other. It has been a dangerous road to walk along, as there were no pavements and a rather variable quality of verge. Recently, the diggers came in, followed by the workmen and the red and white tape. This was the result! You can see I took the photos while the weather was still good here.

This is the field side - a deep ditch like this used to run on the other side of the road too, but it has now been channelled into a large drain with a wide pavement on top.

I feel we've gained a lot more than we've lost. We never really were on a country lane - just a town road without the advantages of urbanisation! Now we have a smart pavement which makes the road much safer - Son 1 will be able to take Raja for a walk all winter, even when it is dark when he gets out of school.

Thanks for all your comments on my last post. A can of worms has been opened by Amy, Sarah and now by me, I think! I personally don't want to Blog the Grot (hey, that would be a title for the party you were talking about, folks), but I want people to know it is there - it would be so hysterically false if people thought the pretty things and good boy-behaviour I post about are the only side of life here in our home. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses in their lives, things they want to share and things they want to forget! We need to remember that whenever we read a pretty blog.
Laura, who has a stunningly beautiful yet strikingly human blog over at 52 Flea, summed it up when she left this comment yesterday: 'I think it is amazing that we can find any time at all to be creative and blog about it as well! So, hats off to you and to all of us....we're pretty darn awesome! We're real women!'

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Thanks, Laura - and all you other awesome people out there!