There was I, digging a hole, hole in the ground, so big and sort of round ....

Dearest Blog,

                   I am sure that you will agree with me Blog when I say that it is of paramount importance that runners cum joggers are protected at all times. It is praiseworthy, therefore that Coventry City Ciouncil and their agents have the best interests of competitors ay heart in their annual Half Marathon race each October. ‘Health and Safety’ regulations insist that the road surface for competitors in the Coventry Half Marathon is in reasonable condition so that the chances of mishaps to the joggers are minimised. So it was, if you check my letter to you Blog last October, the hat a couple of council’s jobsworth came round the local lanes with a spray can, marking in red paint all possible hazards. So it came to pass that at the bottom of the Estate driveway, a hole of diameter approximately one foot (30 centimetres to you Blog) was highlighted in red spray paint as a possible danger to the competitors in the Half Marathon race two weeks hence. But the rain it did rain and the hole of diameter one foot (still 30 centimetres to you Blog) now measures eighteen foot by three feet and six inches deep (at 2.4 centimetres to the inch, work it out yourself Blog!!). log I kid you not. And worse …. the drain has developed a hole alongside the grill and is growing daily.

      In an agreement I have exclusively negotiated with the betting company ‘Bet Teroff’, odds are being offered on the following::--

5 to 4 on that the council do not repair the hole before the next Coventry Half Marathon in October 2013

Evens:-  that there is a road traffic accident before the council repair said hole.

5 to 1:- that the hole is repaired with all the surplus horsemeat that is no longer needed.

10 to 1:- that the hole reaches the middle of the Lane before April 1^st.

50 to 1:- that the hole becomes a new Coventry City tourist attraction, second in importance only to the Cathedral.

100 to 1:- that a cow disappears down the hole and reappears as a horse.

500 to 1:- that the hole from the drain will meet the hole in the road before the council repair the hole in the road or the hole in the drain.

100000000000 to 1:- that the hole becomes designated an official scientific black hole. (minimum bet is one quid, condition and terms apply. Bets accepted subject to status)

    

                                    Colin