Pannal having gas pipes for Easter

New we hope gas  pipes being laid Main Street Rosedale and beyond. Having had Main Street and Woodcock Hill dug up on numerous occasions when there have been gas leaks and "patches" were put on at last it has been realized that patching will not do and gas will always find a way out. So we all hope this will be the end of the smell and leaks of gas. Yesterday I weas picking my friend up in Westminster Drive and sort of slaloming my way on Rosedale when a big black 4x4 came up behind me blaring his/her horn and trying to overtake me . I turned onto Westminster Drive and they were so close I just pulled in when I could and let them pass. What is the matter with people. There are so many angry stupid people around. 

Read a write up of the best places to live in and around Harrogate and Pannal and Burn Bridge were not mentioned!! When I have said to people 4000 houses are going to be built from the Squinting Cat towards the Otley Road they have said do you mean 400. No I don't I mean 4000. It is going to be awful 4000 houses together with the ones already build will be over 9000 people if we are only saying two people per house and it will be more than that and I will not even mention the cars. No North Yorkshire Council they will not be on bikes. It is appalling what is being allowed. Why do we have Councils why not let the Developers carry on running the country. 

I organised the second Memorial Lunch for Malcolm Neesam at The Club on Victoria Avenue and it was once again a success and is now going to be repeated ever year with the help of Fiona Movley the soon to be President of The Club and I believe the first Lady President. So congratulations Fiona. Malcolm was Harrogate's Historian and a very dear friend of over fifty two years. 

Like us all Tigs is fed up with the weather if it is not raining it is cold and windy. Is there any chance of the Easter Holiday being better I hope so. I wish you all a Happy Easter whatever the weather. OH for some warmth and being able to get out in our gardens.

ps It did upset me re the news about the Princess of Wales. I do pray all will be well as she is a very lovely person and she and William deserve a long and happy life with their children. 

A Sodden Pannal

 I have never known weather like this. Have lived in Pannal sixty years next year and never ever had this amount of rain. Also crocus were always out in my garden and on the Stray usually 9th March. Would they be out on Mother's Day that was always the thought. No they won't this year as in my garden they have been beautiful but it was the 9th February. Everyone I speak to is fed up. Golf Course more closed than open. Having to keep to tarmac/gritted paths as can't walk on the grass and other ways muddy. Tigs is even fed up. She comes in very wet as she is a long haired cat and just looks at me as if to say "what is this, look at the state I am in"

Then there is the very sad thought that Pannal will be overwhelmed by cars using the village as a short cut when those 4000 houses are built. Make no mistake about it they will come through Pannal to get to the A61 and beyond. The LANE it is named Whinney LANE not Road and not fit for the amount of traffic it will be taking nor are the surrounding roads.   I do not think North Yorkshire Council care about all of Harrogate.. At least from the dealings I have had with them they don't. I have never ever had a Tree Preservation Order refused. I put on the very first TPO Pannal No 1 1969 and then others in Harrogate but I have had a TPO requested for Pannal  refused by NYC. So lets just hope nothing happens to the two trees I have ASKED TO BE PROTECTED. Villagers are keeping an eye on them for me. I remember many years ago when the Jennyfield Estate came into being Harrogate Grammar School sent pupils round the houses asking where people had come from and it was overwhelmingly Bradford. Wonder where the residents will be from in the fields all round the Squinting Cat and beyond. Also remember being in our front garden and cars would stop and say where is the Squinting Cat? It was such a lovely country pub in those far off days. It was the first pub to serve carveries at lunch time a brain wave of Mr Young the landlord. Who remembers the little train that used to run round the garden and children could have a ride on it. The train driver being the owner after Mr Young. 

Oh dear cheer up Spring will soon be here and then hopefully a great summer meanwhile what is going to happen next week when new gas pipes are being laid. We have been

 promised road closures are we going to be able to get our cars out if needed? Who knows but we do need NEW pipes as the old ones keep fracturing and Main Street is forever being dug up. Certainly for the last seven years the pavements have been dug up and we all dread the traffic lights. 

It is great I do have a lot of people who read my rubbish and I am grateful. Feel free to make comments but only nice ones please. If I can help in any way, with queries, I will and I have not been stumped for an answer as yet.