Me and my big mouth...

At last night's area forum, I wrote out a lot of stuff on local problems I thought needed looking into. I discussed it all with my local councillor, and she promised to follow up on it all - most of it was stuff we discussed just before and just after her election, so there were no surprises there.

But as a special needs teacher in the Borough, I am concerned about the Council's plans for reform in that education sector. I told her about the consultation document I had filled in, and how I have done most of the things that there are now, and most of the things that they are proposing. Suddenly I was on the spot to provide the information to the councillors, and of course I hadn't kept a photocopy. So when I've finished posting here, I've got to go and recreate it in an email for them.

I also found out that the local police use their sirens at dead of night because they think they are exempt from the rules governing the sounding of horns at night. I tried telling them that their lights performed the nighttime function that their sirens perform in the daytime, but the officer insisted he was right. I insisted he check and let me know. I'm sure he wouldn't lie...