EVEN though silly season - that time of year when daft stories start creeping up the news agenda - is now upon us, I doubt there'll be any let up in West Lancs.
Instead, there'll be alot of talking going on, or to be more precise, consultation.
The Ormskirk Bypass and Edge Hill uni plans are now out for people to give their views. These are two thorny subjects which a lot of people seem to have an opinion about.
With the bypass, there's quite a few putting themselves into the 'no' camp already.
Which reminds me, earlier today, I was flicking through a copy of an Advertiser from 1964 which had a headline saying 'Ormskirk Bypass to be built in four years' Err...
However, what puzzles me is how come the consultation process is taking place in August - the month when only serving prisoners, put-upon airport staff and people with horrendously large mortgages are still in the country.
Annoyingly though, TV bosses don't seem keen to take the opportunity of when I'm away to pump their tosh programmes (Strictly Come Dancing being one of them) into my front room. Instead, they decide winter would be a better time - making the miserable days a damn site more miserable.
So here's the deal - go away in August and run the risk of coming back to a massive dual carriageway being built across your driveway. Stay at home and be tortured by GMTV's pre- Bank Holiday reports.
Just you watch - I predict that the Friday before (August 24) you'll switch on your telly at 8am to be greeted to the sight of three shiny roving reporters, one stationed at an airport, one at a ferry port and one on a motorway bridge all telling us how we will all be stuck in traffic jams in a 'weekend of travel chaos.'
Where's that Thomas Cook brochure again?
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