The Hole of Horcum. That’s a big old hole on the Moors, 400ft deep and over half a mile wide.

Some of the potholes on our roads feel almost as big…

There are so many potholes, thousands waiting to catch unsuspecting drivers or riders. The days of a relaxing drive in the countryside replaced by a never ending slalom, trying to avoid a suspension killing impact. Every week more and more appearing as the local Council has adopted a ‘no intervention policy’. Every week more and more getting deeper. On the way to our closest store there is one pothole almost in the middle of the road which is 6 inches deep and two foot wide. Drivers now resorting to leaving warning cones all over the roads to try and ward off more cars dropping into the abyss.

As currently there is no fuel in any of the local petrol stations, maybe it’s all part of a secret rewilding of the roads project.

41 thoughts on “Holes”

      1. We have lots of yellow squares painted round the holes, but no filling in, apart from a series of about six where they have filled in 2 and ringed the others!

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  2. Same here re roads. There was a braw stand off the other week in our street between the council and the guy they hired to sort..ONE only…. With a;ll the stuff mixed to fill 4. Need I say more re when the council said 1 only, he told them where to shove it.

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  3. Our car’s suspension did suffer damage recently – quite expensive to fix. Seems these problems are worldwide. Our councils are doing their best, but this problem is never ending. As for petrol – for the moment we are OK. Lots of panic buying causing shortages. The government is halving the fuel excise temporarily and guarantees the arrival of fuel imports by underwriting their arrival to our shores. There are a number of security measures they have put in place – reducing heavy vehicle road charges, relaxing the fuel standards (still sufficient for use, of course), so many more… This position we are currently experiencing is mind blowing. Guess we all need to appreciate our ‘lifestyle’ has been side swiped. Everything has changed.

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  5. I have to drive through (or around it if I can manage it) when I drive out of our parking lot onto the main road. Then the streets here are challenges in themselves between trying to dodge potholes and slow down over speed bumps. Driving isn’t such fun anymore. I haven’t driven through the country for a long time now, so have no idea what those roads are like. We don’t seem to have any problem getting gas, but the price has soared this past week or two. I’m glad I don’t drive much these days. I go only where I have to go, no pleasure driving.

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  6. Potholes are everywhere over here too. I also feel like it’s a metaphor for the state of the world in general. Thankfully our fuel supply is ok over here but the price increase is definitely not ok!

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      1. I can imagine. I used to be a cyclist. But that was years ago. I hit a small pot hole then on one occasion that gave me an injury.
        If I had still been a cyclist now, I would have stopped a few years ago with the state of the roads.

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  8. So we in Ireland are not the only ones with potholes! Actually ours are more like “craters.” I find myself all over the road with them, like I’m driving in one of those little “dodgem” cars kids go in. And they’re even more dangerous for cyclists… and motor cyclists.

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  12. and yet we seem to have had new roads here, cycle paths and pedestrian crossings on places that needed them once, but now the place in question is bypassed, it just seems a waste.

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  18. Our road conditions are wildly different depending on what part of the county (country too) you’re in. It’s important to keep a sharp eye out or you’ll bust something!

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