Battle of the centses

I live on an unsealed road that is supposedly maintained by council. We've been having a hell of a time trying to get the road fixed through the normal channels i.e. submitting 'requests for service' which subsequently get passed through mutiple channels until they are so watered down nothing effective gets done.

Finally I wrote an email to the roading manager at our council which, added to the requests from other residents, finally prompted some action.

Or so I thought.

The workmen turned up to start work and within two days the weather had turned to custard causing them to down tools and seek shelter along with everyone else. Two glorious days of sunshine since then hasn't prompted a return but at least the roller and grader are still parked up on our road ready for the call to action.

Read the exchange of emails here