Queen's Road (should it be renamed King's Road?) Is one of the main roads in the village. In summer the foliage overhangs the pavement (or sidewalk if you are in North America). If nothing is done to cut this back it makes using the pavement virtually impossible.
I walked that way on Wednesday and only had two options. I could either fight my way through the greenery or walk into the road. It certainly would have been an impossibility to get a child's buggy or a wheelchair down there.
I understand cutting back is the responsibility of the householder whose land the foliage is on. So if you happen to be reading this please cut it back before someone has an accident.
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"You are looking very thoughtful what's up," asked a fellow old fart at our latest lunch at the Queen's Head. Now the Queen's Head definitely won't be changing its name to the King's Head because we already have one of those although it's currently shut. The lease of both pubs is for sale.
So why was I looking thoughtful? Well it's all the fault of This Morning.
I have mentioned the situation with presenter Phillip Schofield before, but this time it was his co presenter Holly Willoughby who was taking up my thoughts.
She appeared on the show some days ago to tell us that she could understand it if we had been concerned at what had gone on and were having problems processing it.
Of course most of us aren't the slightest bit interested in all this. You can tell I'm not interested by the fact that I keep writing about it.
So I just told the old fart that there were certain things that I was trying to process. We did talk about who would make a good new host to work alongside Holly Willoughby and somebody suggested anyone with the first name Ivy so they would become Holly and Ivy.
I was much more sensible and at least came up with somebody who could soon be available. My suggestion was Boris Johnson so that the new presenting team could be known as Holly Johnson.
I feel the need to explain that one. Holly Johnson was lead singer in a Liverpool group called Frankie Goes To Hollywood. They had multi number ones which included The Power of Love. That title is always a good quiz question as in: "Name the three artists who have all had hits with different songs but all entitled The Power of Love."
A number of years ago I went on the Magical Mystery Tour in Liverpool for the fourth time. This is a tour of sites in Liverpool associated with the Beatles. It's always the same tour but I seem to be drawn to it every time I'm in that city.
The guides are usually pretty knowledgeable about Liverpool and the Beatles and some have links with the band. On the last of the four visits, the guide introduced himself as Jay.
"You might have heard of my brother, Holly Johnson who was in Frankie Goes to Hollywood," he said.
Most of those on the tour appeared to be either Chinese or Japanese and didn't seem at all impressed. I was very impressed.
Oh before I go I had better give you the answer to the quiz. The three versions of The Power of Love were by Frankie Goes To Hollywood (if you want to check them out have a listen to the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome), Jennifer Rush and Huey Lewis and the News. Now you know.
One thing I've never bothered to find out until now is where the name Frankie Goes to Hollywood comes from. Apparently it was from an advert for a film starring Frank Sinatra. That's a pretty obscure way to pick a name. If I did a similar thing with my group it might be called Slimming World.
I've also included a screen grab from the television coverage of the arrest of a protestor at the Derby which I have mentioned in previous blogs. You can see how close we were to it all as you can make us out in the background.