Nothing could be more fulfilling than making the countryside safe for walkers. No one should have to risk their neck on a rickety stile, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles
Nothing could be more fulfilling than making the countryside safe for walkers. No one should have to risk their neck on a rickety stilea nasty fall I had one Easter Sunday
I expressed my gratitude, but my first, thrilling thought was this: there is a head of paths? That’s an actual thing? How wonderful. I want that job. I want to get up every morning, sift through reports of poor signage, overgrown-ness and death-trap stiles, consult my maps and then go out and rectify. I believe. I’m serious about this. I left the woman my number for the path man to call me so we could talk for hours, but he didn’t.
We were back where we started. I had one last question for him. If he hadn’t the means to fix anything, what did he do all day apart from drink tea? He said he mainly answered emails saying he’d be looking into stuff that he knew full well he couldn’t/wouldn’t be looking into. I wondered what this path officer would have done if he’d read in the Guardian about me falling off a stile on his patch. I had a strong image of him driving a six-inch nail into my forehead.
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