When the Old Gaol development began there was no longer room for the bins that some of the traders up Bridge Street used to park round the back of the Old Police Station. As a temporary measure those bins were moved to the front of the Old Police Station.

Two years on, those traders, without back entrances, are still in need of a better place to put those bins. I’m not sure they will be allowed back into the area designated for new restaurants in the Old Gaol.  Any ideas?

Anybody who has not been to Radley Lakes for the last couple of months – like me – will have missed some important developments. There is now a circular walk round both Thrupp Lake and Bullfield Lake. This picture of a sky blue lake in October is taken from the far side of Thrupp Lake – somewhere I have never been before. The circular walk is very well signed and about a mile long.

There are still signs of the attempt to destroy these lakes…

but other signs of hope for the future.

The Earth Trust has done wonders since taking over. Find out more at their Thrupp Lake Page.

This is the view that greeted me when I work up this morning as the sun rose behind East St Helen Street.

(The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west because the Earth spins toward the east.)