What's upsetting me today? Well, since you ask it is the strong possibility of a new high speed railway line being built between London and Birmingham that will pass about a quarter of a mile from this very spot.
Trains are planned to travel at 200+mph and much of the track in the immediate area will be on a flyover or embankment. Very little can be done about noise abatement in these circumstances and trains will pass about every 4.2 minutes. Journey times will be reduced by about twenty minutes. Couldn't people just get up a little earlier?
Apart from anything else, the whole pointless caper will cost about £30 billion. Has nobody told the sanctimonious Transport Minister, Lord Adonis, that the country is stony broke?
We haven't had a Peasants' Revolt here since 1381 so I think it is about time for another.
Carruthers. (Off to sharpen his pitch fork)
