Entries tagged with medway

Sitting at the computer at 11:30PM, {dull thud}

That wasn't loud enough to be a car crash, was it? I suppose I'd better look.just in case.

So I stick my head out of the back bedroom window, just as my neighbour comes out of his house to look over his fence. (We back onto the main road, so there's no direct access - it's about a 3m drop if you go over the fence).

Cars are going up and down the road, so I initially thought it was nothing, but then he peers down the hill and shouts for me to dial 999 as there's a car hit the wall (and the walls are earth-backed, so the cars always lose).

By the time I'd gotten off the phone and gone around myself the police were already there, three of them in a traffic car. There was also a very bent hatchback sitting in the entrance to the estate with its front sitting a couple of feet away.

My neighbour filled me in with what he heard from the people who live on the corner. There had been two cars, one ended up on our side of the road, the other opposite. As people started to come out, the other driver drove off, and then the driver on our side did a runner. So it's safe to assume something dodgy about both of them.

1:30AM last Saturday morning, exactly the same thing, except directly opposite my neighbour's wall (he didn't know until I mentioned it to him tonight), only difference was the driver on our side didn't do a runner.

That makes at least three in the last 6 months, and reliably two a year ever since I moved here. This is presumably why my insurance renewal was so extortionately high.

The Coronavirus stats for Sunday showed that there are now two coronavirus cases in Medway*. So I poked around on the web and quickly found that St John Fisher Comprehensive School is closed for deep cleaning as both cases are associated with it in some way. And checking again, I see one of them is now confirmed as a pupil, so I'd guess the other is a parent. They're linked to the initial case in Kent (which now has four cases), so we know this strain came in via Italy.

I can't quite see St John Fisher from here, there's a couple of streets of houses in the way, but as the crow flies it's a quarter of a mile away. That's rather closer than I'd like.

And apparently this morning someone turned up at the GPs surgery in Boots the Chemist in the local shopping centre (half a mile away) with symptoms - despite repeated messages not to go to your doctor, but to phone 111 - so that's now closed as well.

* For the non-Brits, the UK stats are being broken down at local authority level, that's mostly counties, but unitary authorities are independent of counties, and Medway is one, so we're one of the few places to know exactly which town they're talking about.

Seriously? Twice in a week?

Well, that's too close for comfort...