There's a hole in my road...

I am not exactly sure what there is a shortage of... Man power, talent, tar mac or budget...

There appears to be an over abundance of contractors working for the local council in my area who can make holes. Some of the most fantastic holes you have ever seen. And with such speed that you would be astounded.

These holes can very easily become trenches - long, vast tranches the likes of which have not been seen since the Second World War. Beautiful tranches. And to their credit, as soon as they have placed the wire, or pipe or conduit in the hole or trench that they have made, these same people are very quick to refill it with the original gravel that it used to contain.

But there is one small ingredient missing... The tar mac to repair the hole completely and return the road surface to its original state.

There is such a marvellous trench on my commute to work, and for 3 weeks I have watched as every day hundreds of cars slow to walking pace to negotiate crossing this trench, and every day it gets a little deeper, as no one has yet closed it up and repaired the hole with tar mac.

Fortunately it has not rained yet - else we would have probably lost a lot more gravel than we already have...

It's strange - all it would take was a final step to repair the road, and for some reason it hasn't been or cannot be done.