Spoonerism On The Cycle Path

Sometimes when I get excited, I get my mucking fords wuddled.

Like today - I understand that they used to run simple handicraft production in asylums. Yes, they had psychopaths in their workshops. Yet this roofer seems to have made a workshop on the cyclepath:

Apparently, if he’d used his customer’s driveway, he’d have been “in the way”. Whereas here, he’s plainly inconveniencing no-one.

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3 Responses to “ Spoonerism On The Cycle Path ”

  1. mike on July 5, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    He seems to be laying a nice smooth surface to ride over

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  2. Tom on July 6, 2011 at 9:40 am

    I’ve often wondered about this bit of road. Its double yellow lines but over the years a convention appears to have developed whereby the residents park their excess motor vehicles straddling the strip of grass between the pavement and the cycle path. They do at least normally leave the cycle path clear. Possibly the wardens do ticket them if they park in the cycle path?

  3. John the Monkey on July 7, 2011 at 10:33 am

    IIRC, the council’s ability to enforce parking restrictions ends at the boundary of the property, at which point it becomes the owner’s responsibility. (In Manchester, some of our pavements have this property line marked on them).

    I’d be surprised if the verge wasn’t council property though. Where I lived before, they “hardened” them by putting in short wooden posts to stop motorists parking on them & turning them into unsightly mudbaths. My multi car neighbours (including a family with a car each AND a couple of taxis) were unimpressed at this removal of their free parking facilities, and had “accidentally” damaged one of the posts within a week.