Wither your tax pounds goeth
We have spent the last week watching Serco contractors, as Mrs PN put it so eloquently, polishing turds.
Serco maintain a number of quarters at Shrivenham. For the past week a number of contractors have been painting soffits, fair enough, but also using a self propelled hydraulic lift to paint the chimney pots.
Now these are plastic dummy chimney pots. The stack and the pot were battles grey; an unnecessary carbuncle on a dark red roof. Over the course of the week each pot has been tenderly wiped and painted clay orange.
The adjacent site is the responsibility of DIO; I almost said maintained but that would be a lie. Ridge tiles are missing, gutters broken etc.
What money wasted, one over maintained and the other falling apart.