The Christmas Tree is back in all its glory. As many of you may have
read, on Saturday at 8am we discovered the lights on the ground, fallen
off or pulled off who knows. This meant we could not restore properly
so when the switch on happened the tree looked like it was wearing a
skirt! However, Jon Wright, Property maintenance from Bognor Regis to
the rescue!! BIG THANK YOU. They had spent one and half days putting
all the lights up, leaving everything looking beautiful and were
dismayed to hear what had happened so they returned today and restored
the tree, in their own time, free of charge! There are some very kind
people in this world
Some of you may have read previous blogs as I have tried to work my way through the bureaucracy of licensing and installation for festive lights in the town centre. In fairness the paperwork has been easier (was started in JUNE!) mainly because a lovely lady called Katie in Havant Borough Council has been helping me. So why am I saying there will be no festive lights in Waterlooville this year? Scottish and Southern Electrics SSE!! We have to get permission to hang the motifs from their lighting columns (also know as lamp posts!) To do that we have to get an installer approved by them!! Our installer from last year retired and we had to find a new one. To hang, plug in and flick a switch on 8 motifs, put the lights in the Xmas tree, plug in and flick a switch, and also hang some battery powered lights in the trees (and remove) Our first quote COST £3500 Which we felt was excessive. We did find a local installer, Cl...