Back again Pannal

 We in Main Street are loving this and I don't think. A cable company who shall be nameless broke a pipe. Filled the hole in and just outside my wall water started running down the road. I rang Yorkshire Water and they came out at 2am to listen to find out where the water was coming from. Couple of weeks passed and a gentleman came to my door and said does that leak belong to you or your neighbour. I said neither of us. He said I take my dog out very early in the morning and it was very frosty and I skidded on the ice that I did not know was there, luckly I did not fall down. I said I will report it again. I did and first of all they said they could not trace my original call. Then they found it so I told them about the gentleman and said if anyone does fall you could be sued as you know about the leak. Had a telephone call to say they would be at the top of Main Street on the 1st March.They were. Dug the pavement up found the leak repaired it. Then a couple of days ago another hole was dug further down the road I asked the workmen why and they said we are gas and water has run into the gas pipe so we are here to find where. This weekend barriers still there so presumably they will be back tomorrow, hopefully found and hopefully repaired, hole filled in and goodbye to utility companies. All our fingers are crossed. Further down Main Street broadband cables are being laid and it is an awful mess. Barriers are on top of the daffodils on Pannal Green that myself, my husband and youngest son planted all those years ago. So I doubt we shall be seeing them this year. I am cross and really hope the barriers are removed soon and the daffodils manage to survive. I have moved two barriers that were on the little garden on the patio by St Robert's Church and moved them further up as I planted the little garden and I look after it and the patio. 

These last couple of blogs have not been nice to write but I want to keep everyone in the picture re roadworks. 

On to another subject I have been asked by the Parish Council to write a history of Pannal from the Queen's Coronation every decade up to the present. What we did at the Coronation and how Pannal has changed over the these years. Happy to do so as there have been so many changes and the village that we live in is not the same. We who have lived here for many many years have seen the best of Pannal and also the best of Harrogate too. I do not want to live anywhere else but it is just different. 

Remember Ken Walker of Walkers Butcher and Veg shop (now a Hairdressers) I am still in touch with Ken who is 90. I am also in touch with Peter Scoulding whose Dad Les owned the long gone Newsagent's on Station Road now the Doctors Surgery. 

In the very strong winds part of my fence has become unattached and the cats are not all that happy about that as it is moving backward and forwards and they don't like it so when the wind dies down I shall do as they have requested and I shall get it repaired.