You would think in this day and age that in a Cotswold village a consistent electricity supply would be a matter of course. But Amberley is on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, owned by the National Trust. Electricity comes to the northwest of the village via an overhead line through woodland – and the trees […]

I was horrified to hear that a tree had been cut down on the bank by the cycle track that links Stroud with Nailsworth and Stonehouse. The wood and leaf buds are clearly healthy, which bears out the report that the damage was done by a resident whose garden it overshadowed. The cycle track is […]

… where I was re-enthused about ‘mycouncillor’, ALDC’s blog platform. I have plans for making my corner of the site a little more interesting visually, and then hope to post a couple of times a week. The next three months promise to be action-packed, with the county council and European parliamentary elections on Thursday 4 […]

For a change, I’m making a difference to my parish ward, rather than my district ward. (Put together they constitute the whole parish of Rodborough, but my parish ward is actually represented by different district and county councillors.) Some time ago, we noticed two metal legs – the sort that keep road names up – […]