Spring, Pannal and traffic

These blogs are few and far between as I have been writing a book on a Scottish childhood. Two wee lassies me and my friend Terry. We have known each other since our mothers used to push us in our prams round Alexandra Park in Glasgow. It is at the printers now and hope it will be published soon.

Spring has sprung, the grass has rise, I wonder where the burdie is. Anyone remember that? The daffs are out on Pannal Green. I don't think quite so many as when I first planted them as Harrogate Borough Council dug a b---- great hole just where there was a number of daffs. My little garden by the notice board is doing well despite the fag ends and sweet wrappers that I clear up. Talking of sweet wrappers I rang Pannal Primary School to ask Jane (Head teacher) if she could announce at assembly for the children to put their wrappers in their pockets until they get home and not throw them in our gardens. Seems to be working as we are not clearing up so many. Do you remember when we were children saying Mum what do we do with this wrapper and Mum saying put it in your pocket until you get home. We taught our children that but God knows what they are told nowadays.

Have we seen the best of Pannal?  Answer yes. I of course remember it with no Crimple Meadows, no Rosedale, Rosedale Close or Woodcock Close. No Pannal Green or Clarke Beck Close. Farm, farmlands and fields that's what it was. I wonder if I am cursed or praised for asking the council in the 1970s when Crimple Meadows was in the planning stage to not make a through road to Burn Bridge as they had separate identities and should not be joined up.

Traffic - a great number of people are as fed up as I am with a speeding traffic and b using Pannal as a rat run. It will only get worse with houses on the Dunlop site and Police Training College and more to come on the western side.. Hence my question in the third para?