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Here be a stump. I was rather hoping that local Colchester Borough Council political candidates would be strapped down on the stump, told to speak for two minutes and then allow the Wivenhoe Dogs of War to attack them, should they talk political twaddle.

But nope - it seems that the stump is simply a raised flowerbed.

Blimey.

Appearing outside the vey fine Wivenhoe Eyecare and Jardine over the course of the past week, the stump is certainly an improvement on the barren patch of land that lay before.

This hyper hyper #hyperlocal development has passed me by in terms of the local planning etc; I even live within shouting distance of a local politician forced to be pitched up on the stump. I’ve probably been too busy poking my nose around the Cross etc.

I presume (NEVER presume!) that this is a Wivenhoe Town Council initiative, soon to be filled with plenty of pretty flowers from those very decent folk of Wivenhoe in Bloom?

Or maybe it is just an alternative eye test for the optician opposite the stump? How many red flowers and how many yellow flowers can you see, Sir?

Um…

I can see a red rosette, a yellow rosette and a mad dog (NOT a politician) about to endorse a local politician.

Not many blue flowers around these part, mind.

Steady Jase. Steady.