Outside my house is a new yellow box full of grit.  Ironically there’s not been much call to use it yet, but hopefully this will make Belstead Avenue into less of a skating rink, which has been due to a change in policy to encourage grit bins.  I’ve also got the County Councillor to push for a grit bin in Brecon Close and I’m pushing for one in Maidenhall Green, outside the Stoke Green Baptist Church to cover the pavement.

If your street does not have the gritter visiting it, then get in touch with me about the grit bins.  We can’t rely on the greenhouse effect to clear our roads.  Unless we’re the Met Office.

Ben Gummer and Chris Mole faced off against each other in Maidenhall Green. Not as exciting as it sounds.

Ben Gummer and his team were out of their car in Halifax Road at 6pm to join up with a couple of local activists. They saw Chris Mole and a load of Labour councillors including David Ellesmere, leader of the Labour group starting to shuffle canvass cards.

If you canvass you know that you don’t want to be second on the same day, so the Tories fanned around Maidenhall Green and Conway Close.

Labour were stuck and so the MP and councillors ended up leafleting the Maidenhall Estate. That’s probably messed up their delivery schedule as well.

Although I think that Labour got the better part of the deal, as the canvassing was supposedly awful, for Labour with their voters going everywhere.

Which goes to prove, both sides are fighting over Bridge. If you get a mixed Labour/Tory contingent at the next council elections – which you can only get by voting Conservative – then the politicians won’t just be fighting over you but working their guts out for you.

The Halifax bend, where Halifax Road goes into Maidenhall Green is getting to be too dangerous.  It desperately needs traffic calming and there will be a horrific accident soon if nothing is done about it.

Another photo of Bridge, this time it’s the Stoke Green Baptist church, where Maidenhall Hall approach  meets Halifax Road:

One thing that is fascinating about this congregation is that they are one of the oldest non-conformist cogregations in Ipswich, but unlike the Unitarians in St Nicholas street it doesn’t get on the tourist trail.