The Roads Are Paved With Talc

This little roadworks has been here for months and months and I've really enjoyed it being here.  It's nowhere near the house so I've heard no noise and it's kept this road lovely and quiet.  This has been helped by the fact that there doesn't seem to be any urgency to actually finishing the project.  Most days I walk by and there is no one there - no doubt the chaps are urgently required to block another road somewhere.

You may think that an odd comment but the school holidays are when they try to "repair" things - there are roadworks everywhere*.  This is another reason why buses** just can't run on time.

It was a day.  Fixing things and analysing things and trying to make sense of emails from people who seem to write a form of German I've not learned.

*except on the streets that really need them. 
** the ones I travel on