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Herts County Council Highways Update on the COVID 19 Impact from Cllr Stephen Giles-Medhurst.

I am grateful for the following bulletin from my colleague, County Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst, Leader of the Lib Dem group on Herts County Council. HCC Highways are continuing to monitor and adapt to the current situation and are keeping the highway safe and operational while working to government safe working guidelines, including those relating to construction works. This essential work enables emergency services to get around the county, food to be delivered and key and essential workers to get to their places of work. A number of their staff have suffered abuse from the public in recent days so please be as supportive of them as possible. If you have any issues over any works or want more information about this posting, please email on sgm@cix.co.uk or on nickholl1945@btinternet.com CATEGORY 1 REPAIRS (Pot holes, trip hazards, street lighting outages etc.) HCC Highways will try to work to normal intervention levels and repair timeframes during this period. However, given the impacts of covi

31 Mar 2020
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Spinach Regrowth

Hardly the green shoots of recovery, but a cheering sight just the same!

After some time of being neglected I was pleased to discover last week that the greenhouse has all the time been living up to its name, unnoticed. These are the remains of the self-sown spinach after rest was picked and cooked last week. That produced 8 portions to go with our home cooking - and what you can see will provide at least another 2. Then the greenhouse will be cleaned, the beds cleared out and replaced with a mix of fresh ericaceous compost mixed with richer material from our own compost bin - ready for tomatoes once the seedlings have grown. This years spinach and chard will be going straight into the garden in a muntjac-proof enclosure - and a second patch of garden is being fettled up ready for the seed potatoes we bought just before lockdown. I know not everyone has the space to grown vegetables, but if you can, you'll find it good, healthy exercise and very satisfying.

30 Mar 2020
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21 Mar 2020
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