Michael Innerdale, general manager for the Peak District National Trust, said: 'We feel the work carried out by the county council has improved the condition of the stepping stones, making them more accessible for our visitors.Whereupon, if we haven't wised up and shot all health & safety staff and local government leeches, you'll no doubt do it all again...
'Derbyshire limestone has been used to repair the stones and in time the stones will weather in appearance.'
H/T rogthornhill of NeueArbeit Macht Frei on Twitter this morning
'Derbyshire limestone has been used to repair the stones'
ReplyDeleteNot in between the stones and the new tops, it hasn't - the mortaring job makes them look like badly-filled Gipsy Creams*.
*Now re-named Romany Creams (FFS!)and only available in South Africa.
If they were that worried about it, they could have put a new stepping stone bridge further up or down stream.
ReplyDeleteParadoxically the 'bodged bridge' is likely to become a landmark in it's own right.
Curious people from far and wide will come to see how crap it is. Sooner or later it will have it's own face-book page.
H & S officers could replace the stones 24/7 on a rota basis. The word verification agrees = meledge.
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Doesn't making them higher make them MORE dangerous?
ReplyDeleteJust saying...
"...the mortaring job makes them look like badly-filled Gipsy Creams*."
ReplyDeleteYes, not the best job I've ever seen of an 'invisible' repair!
"Paradoxically the 'bodged bridge' is likely to become a landmark in it's own right.
Curious people from far and wide will come to see how crap it is."
Heh! It could become quite the tourist attraction for all the wrong reasons.
"Doesn't making them higher make them MORE dangerous?"
I foresee a rash of compo claims in this bridge's future...