No its not another great-name-for-a-band (although I think it would be a great name for a band) but an observation on the town planning around here.

You are plodding along, delivering leaflets along a main road and turn off to do a close off of it. It only looks like a small close with perhaps a dozen houses. You get to the end and see that the close goes round a corner. Then you notice that it end in a t-junction. When you get closer you realise that each end of that junction splits further.

Its like the street layout was designed by Mandelbrot

And don’t get me started on the numbering schemes in some parts of town! [*] In some ways its a good job that those who get into power are not often the ones doing the majority of leafletting or we would have rafts of legislation banning inside flaps on letterboxes, forcing houses with names to have a number as well, and mandating muzzles for dogs even, and especially, while they are indoors.

Mind you, I saw something good today. A house with a frosted glass door and a statue of a small terrier-type dog on their doormat. I put a leaflet through the letterbox, expecting to lose a finger or be subjected to a barrage of yapping and was pleasantly surprised when I could see through the glass the leaflet landing on the ‘dog’s head.

* we have places where there are two rows of houses facing each other across a pavement and each row belongs to a different road, and several houses which exist on the electoral roll but have never been found after dozens of visits, amongst other anomalies.