Yes, we know … we said we weren’t blogging this week.

But our plan has been changed by the mind-boggling, skull-numbing indifference of the powers that be to the celebration of a major historic event in Boston.

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We’re talking about the Remembrance Day events to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War – the pinnacle of which is the Remembrance Day service in the war Memorial Gardens this coming Sunday.

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Last week we highlighted the slapdash advance road warning sign about traffic restrictions on this most important day in our history.

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The sign – dirty, misspelt and battered – warned of restictions on Sunday 1th November.

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It ought not to have required a master’s degree in cartography to have worked out from our photo where the wretched sign was – and to have done something about it.

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But the indifference that sadly now typifies the powers that be in charge of Boston was such that no-one could be bothered to put matters right.

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So when we tottered into town on Saturday we were presented with the mixture as before despite the problem being highlighted for a full week.

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Who is responsible for special event signs such as these?

Depending on whom you ask, the answer is either Lincolnshire County Council or Boston Borough Council.

If the former, we would have hoped that the latter might have communicated the error and got the sign changed.

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But communication is not Worst Street’s strong suit – and we are sorry to say that after  the publicising of the disrespectful sign, there was probably a shrugging off of responsibility under the not my department, guv’ attitude that exemplifies our local authority.

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Incidentally, after last week’s item, a reader sent us a photo taken in York – a city which some at Worst Street foolishly liken to Boston – of how the job of signing should be done.

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As far as we are concerned the only thing that York and Boston have in common is the single word shambles – in that fine northern city it means an historic shopping area that attracts thousands of  visitors every year – whilst in the case of Boston, it means what the dictionary says … a state of total disorder.

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