Well that was a surprise!

[petercb]

Just wondered if any of you turned up on site to find things were not quite as you expected.

Last October went over to our wood to do some clearing to find Anglian Water on the Bridleway looking at a water main leak. The main is buried under one of our drainage ditches and runs right through the wood alongside a bridleway.

Wasn't exactly straightforward as somebody had uttered the magic words 'Badgers' so they wouldn't do anything until conservation expert had had a look. It wasn't a badger set only a litte scrape under the concrete. Culvert ran at 90 degrees under bridleway at this point, so they again paniced saying maybe Badgers in there so I pointed ou highly unlikely as the water was pouring through it. They didn't see the major Badger Set 20 yards or so away! Anyway after a couple of days humming and hawing they finally decided to repair it. In fairness they did a good job and left it tidy, they even decided to reinstall the scrape under the concrete.