As we wait for the council meeting which is due to take place on 11th October, there has been time to reflect on just how much time is taken up with talking rather than doing. A browse through Councillor Heron's own Facebook page shows him pushing against a locked door for more than five years as he had meetings with the previous Police and Crime Commissioner and now this. Recently, even as Donna Jones promised him (and Lord Manners of the Verderers of the New Forest) that she would look at of the options, a spokesperson for the Rural Crime Section of the police force told newspapers that there was no funding justification for average speed cameras - it doesn't sound as if Donna Jones will be met by someone with an open mind. It's hard not to be despondent - especially at how long everything takes and how many animals are killed while we wait - but to get the council to even to discuss it has been a feat in itself. You made that happen by signing here, and those who live locally, signing the NFDC petition which had been running for eight months before it was given this big boost. 

Picture: Juma (left) and his brother Peechay, dealing with the vortex of procrastination. Juma was in fact dealing with a surfeit of testosterone.