Well at least their catching up

In what must rate as one of the biggest “d’oh” moments of the day workers from a council in Scotland painted a yellow zig-zag “ School keep clear sign” on the road outside of a nursery that has been closed for ten years. That’s right ten years, the school was even boarded up!
The council without a trace of irony said that “ Staff have been instructed to check orders for all outstanding works to ensure they are still required” Which begs the question if they have a outstanding order for work outside a nursery that shut ten years ago just how far behind is this council in getting work orders completed?

However this wasn’t the only “d’oh” moment committed today by part of the government. Obviously taking a page out of the advice on Swine Flu, where we were advised to set up a network of ‘flu friends’ to help you if you got ill with flu, the government issued new advice regarding heatwaves. According to the weathermen there is a chance that we will get a long heat wave this summer and there advice is to make sure we can all deal with the heat wave is for everybody to set up a network of ”Fair-weather friends”.

Who ever wrote this little gem of advice and probably got paid a whole lot of money for it had probably had never checked to see if the phrase was already used. As it is! According to the dictionary a fair weather friend is;

A friend who supports others only when it is easy and convenient to do so: “I thought Gene would always stick by me, but when I got into trouble, he turned out to be a fair-weather friend.”

So if you wanted to follow the advice from the government exactly we all need to get a group of friends who will only support us when it is easy and convenient to do so which I could be wrong but I don't think you could describe a heatwave as easy or convenient!