Well it’s official!
Babergh has the happiest residents in the United Kingdom.
According to a survey
published yesterday by National Statistics, not only is Suffolk the place in
the East of England where people were most ‘satisfied’ with their lot in
2013/14, but the South Suffolk area scored 8.2 for the happiness of its residents….the
highest in the country.
As I had a relatively quiet day yesterday I decided that I
would try to test this out. I called in
to the South Suffolk Conservative Association offices to see how happy the
Agent, Peter Burgoyne and the lovely Fenella were feeling. Unfortunately, they
were both a little glum since they were having problems finding a venue for our
forthcoming dinner with Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth. Additionally, Peter was somewhat unimpressed,
as indeed am I, by the fact that Babergh has decided that 5 30 p.m. on a Friday
afternoon (today) is a good time to have a full council meeting. Discouraged somewhat I left and drove home.
Here I found my husband Nick decidedly unhappy. Contractors had just, without warning, closed
the road and turned off the electricity supply to re-furbish the electrical
wiring along Newmans Green. No power is
expected until 4 p.m. at the earliest.
Rendle the Lurcher was not very happy either, since he doesn’t like the
noises that the burglar alarm makes when the power is down, and is even less
happy that the burglar alarm has a tendency to go off when the battery runs flat. He spent most of yesterday lurking down the
garden with a very hang dog expression.
Then I turned to the latest edition of the Suffolk Free
Press, and what do I find? Nothing but
tales of local misery, and complaints about the council. Until then I had been
feeling pretty chipper, quite looking forward to a few hours when, in the absence of electricity and an internet connection, I did not have
to check my e mails. Having dipped into the local newspaper however, I do wonder where all these happy South Suffolk people are hiding!
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