But, while the funds have been
scratched together from special budgets and local businesses around Sefton Park, who gave pounds 30,000, it is difficult for the council to spend its regular maintenance budgets on the work because the road is unadopted.
So you have lots of vintage tunes chopped up and mixed and
scratched together at Yoda's usual frenetic pace.
What might have been better would have been for a chamber-orchestra to have been
scratched together from alumni of the last half-century, rehearsed on the afternoon by Professor Colin Timms, and to have given us, say, a Handel concerto grosso, a Mozart divertimento, and the Serenade for Strings by Elgar, first Prof of the Music Department.
All for apathy-inducing amounts of money - by next week's episode, they haven't even
scratched together enough for an '80s-style cocaine binge of the sort stars enjoyed when many of the participants were last popular.
Peter Taylor was sacked by September, Leicester
scratched together 28 points and came last in the Premiership before being placed in administration for several months.
In four other knocks Tendulkar, who has had to come to terms with the recent death of his father, has
scratched together a mere 52 runs.
