Credit where credit is due, to some extent, over the past couple of weeks to Wiltshire Council.

First, it did a splendid job of fixing a duff street light in my road. Good work!

Moreover, as it is the season of goodwill to all, I think that it also needs a bit more credit.

This time, for resurfacing a piece of road in Chippenham. A piece of road that had not a single mark, pot hole or blemish on it before it was resurfaced! Well done, chaps!

I am sure that many Chippenham folk will have marvelled at the smoothness of the new Tarmac outside the courts, as it was lovingly resurfaced during an evening or two last week, with delays and rolling convoys. Why on earth resurface that area? Was there a single good reason for this almost illogical piece of road ‘mending’?

Chippenham people may also stand and wonder, not at the lights in our fair town, but at the size of the potholes and craters along Bath Road, in particular just by the lights near Lovers Walk. There’s not a lot of love going on for that piece of road or many others in this town.

But, as your columns are short, listing nearly every road, from the station in Cocklebury Road to Pewsham and beyond, would mean this edition would be roughly 300 pages long!

Anyone crossing Bath Road with small children could potentially lose them down the gaping holes. Maybe they are a new Santa’s grotto for the festive season? I know what might be on Christmas lists across town this year – new alloy wheels please, Santa, to replace my road battered ones, oh, and more Tarmac for Wiltshire Council.

Dave Wicks, Pewsham.