Monthly Archives: October 2010

Birds of a feather

Tales from the qual face | By Miner Bird at 10:06 am on 28 October 2010

Great excitement at the CPCAB offices this morning. I could hear the rumpus even before I switched off my engine.  It was one of those mornings where the cloud cover somehow turns the great outdoors into a sort of invisible cathedral and the noise was echoing round.  It seemed to come from the back garden [...]

Hold-ups in Qualsborough

Tales from the qual face | By Miner Bird at 2:44 pm on 20 October 2010

It’s about 9 miles from my house to the CPCAB offices in Qualsborough, along roads of varying widths but almost every inch of them edged with green. All very blissful and bucolic, you’d think, except that the local powers-that-be seem to have a liking for blocking off tiny sections of it on a regular basis. [...]