Those of you following the progress of the Road Rat may remember me telling you that I had to get the car back to Wales from the North East due to my mother moving house and subsequently having nowhere to keep the car.

Well, when I knew this was happening I applied to my local council for a garage and after eight weeks waiting I was told one had become available. This was great timing as it was just before I last travelled up north to get the car. The council told me I'd have the paperwork to sign within a week. "Great!" I thought. "That means it'll be waiting for me when I get back to Wales."

Yeah right. The car has been parked on the trailer outside my house for five weeks now and there is still no sign of the paperwork. Every time I phone them up I just get fobbed off by lazy, useless tw@ts. I've now written to my local MP to try and get something done and also suggested an efficiency review of the department concerned. It's unbelievable.

Anyway, I decided to do some work on it today, despite everything. It's a bit awkward with it being on the trailer but you just have to be careful.

I noticed that the boot was filling up with water when it rained so I decided to take out the wooden floor I made for it and drill some drain holes. However, when I lifted the floor a load of paint came away with it so I had to peel off all the loose paint as well. Then paint it again before I put it back together.

Here it is on the trailer outside my house, where it shouldn't be by now but it is because the local council employ lazy, useless people.



And here we have the boot floor removed.



This is the floor.



This is the boot with the drain holes drilled and freshly painted.



And I also decided to repaint the wooden floor while I was at it.



And here it is all back together again.

Poor bugger I'm a Local Government Planning Enforcement Officer and have been area office 35+ years what a crap service you have had I alway deriver if I say I will do something by a given time I do. Peees me of when other officers I work with don't ring member of public back.

Sorry to hear about the crap service you have had, contact department head, and leader of your council with the problems you are haveing being no fault of your own. You could also ask for a complaints application form to be sent or collect it your self.

Best of luck
You are at thend of the paying the council for a service!!!!!!!!!!!

Bridgend County Borough Council are hopeless. Every time I've needed to phone them for something and been unable to get anywhere because the person I need to speak to is "out of the office" or "in a meeting" and been promised a call back it has NEVER EVER happened. They may as well employ monkeys to answer the phones. They'd be cheaper and better at the job.

I've sent the head of the department a copy of the letter I sent to the local MP. If that doesn't get me anywhere I will instigate whatever formal grievance procedure they operate. I'm really not surprised that the public sector is such a huge drain on everyone else. You come up against this bungling inefficiency in almost every area of local government these days. It wouldn't be tolerated by private sector employers because it would lose them money. Unfortunately the public sector still thinks there's a bottomless reservior of free money in taxpayers pockets which they can use to keep useless idiots in a job.

Another tiny step in the right direction.

Today by chance I found a jubilee clip that would fit the petrol tank filler pipe so I fitted it.

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Another tiny step in the right direction.

Today by chance I found a jubilee clip that would fit the petrol tank filler pipe so I fitted it.

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Yay :slayer: