The recent Burntwood Wakes have been declared a success following a great weekend of music, fun and activities for all the family. Councillor Jon Bon Jovi (Monster Raving) said of the event…
“Umm.. Sun ! Sun in sky! Warm! People smiling!”
TheBurntwoodBlog spoke to Janet Tweed after attending the Wakes with her children. She told us…
“Yellow thing in sky! People smiling!”
Organisers of the event were also happy with the weather and the huge turn-out …
“Thank s**t it didn’t rain!”, they said.
After several days of doing stuff, the council have now re-opened the main road through Burntwood. We spoke to several “Boy Racers” in the area with one saying..
“Thank god for that, I kept getting diverted over speed-bumps on the Church Road and it totally ruined the bucket-exhaust on my 1.2 Peugeot 106. Now at least I can get a good run-up to fly up the hill at 60mph before braking heavily at the speed cameras.”
Other residents complained that the diversion made them realise that there were actually other routes to get from Lichfield to Cannock, such as via the new by-pass or down the A5. We spoke to a mum taking her child to school during the disruption..
“I got tired of not being able to drive my son the 300 yards to school without disruption, so I had to buy a BMW X5 to get over the humps that the council created while resurfacing the road, it’s disgraceful.”
After reading the local papers (which, given time you’ll learn I do a lot.. for material…) I’ve come to the conclusion that pretty much all (but mostly the Burntwood Post) have to follow a quota of stories. This quota MUST involve the following..
1) UFO Sighting of some description
2) Another story, saying that yet again, the UFO’s are in fact floating Chinese Lanterns
3) Story involving “the mystery beast” on the Chase
Each week stories involving these must be published without fail. Examples this week..
Sheesh, you wouldn’t want to marry her would you? Look at the face on that. Moody cow.
Burntwood, August 2009. All is calm (all is bright?) The world is a good place.
Then…
Lichfield Council change the bin collections.
Uh-oh.
This week a tiny letter appeared detailing a new blue wheelie bin. The green boxes are going, so too are the weekly collections apparently. It can only mean letter-writing, complaints, confusion and anger as people struggle to find a new home for their blue bin.
What to do ? There was a time when Brits used to put cars in their garages. Now there’s no room – we’ll have three wheelie-bins taking up as much space as a sofa. I feel sorry for those newly-built estates, where three-storey high houses and a stict “no parking on streets” rule applies. Where do all these bins live?
Green, black and blue. Where are you?
Aliens? Yes, aliens. According to Government documents they landed here in 1995. Two lads saw a UFO land with a “lemon shaped head” asking them to “come with us”. They ran off to police and reported it. It’s front page news in this weeks Mercury newspaper.
Our opinion? Too many lemon bon-bons!
Something is happening. Yes, this is for Burntwood in the UK. Y’know – WS7. Keep an eye out..
