Dear Reg at Inroads

I note to date we have had no response to our polite letter pointing out the ditch at the end of the drive wasn't acceptable still and requesting you fix it.

In the last few days we had some rain. As it was the end of too many days of humid heat the rain was great. So good we didn't even take an umbrella to walk down to the ditch at the end of the drive. What we found down there made us laugh because we wouldn't let little local government lackeys like you make us angry.

Down at the end of the drive, a couple of metres from the ditch you put in we had a new stream. A bit of an inspection shows your ditch doesn't quite take into account slope and gravity so now we have a wide flow across the drive about two centimeters deep. We never used to have this - even in far heavier rain than what we got in recent days. Now that isn't really acceptable and if it lasts through the winter we will be less amused but at this point in time it is mildly entertaining that your ditch doesn't appear to be doing the job. (The photo collection just gets better all the time)

But the really funny part is that it was moving through reasonably fast - through to the neighbours who started all this in the first place by complaining. A glance over the fence shows it wasn't the puddling effect they used to get - they are now ankle deep through there, and possibly close to getting water into the house itself. We were so amused we almost wet ourselves (I suspect the neighbours heard us laughing insanely, they have been avoiding us since).

You really should have asked that engineer who knew what he was doing before you bowled up with the heavy machinery. I think you may have stuffed it up quite badly.

I think we could probably fix it with a bit of a ditch down the side of our drive - but we have absolutely no intention of doing that. It's your problem after all.