THERE seems to be no end to the fun things that the St Helier Constable wants to bring to our capital.

First there was the spate of toilet improvements which turned them – somewhat bizarrely – into cafés. There have been street changes which include bollards and benches and traffic direction changes.

Whether these are an improvement or not depends on your point of view, but the general idea behind all of these ideas has been to improve the lives of people who live and work in St Helier.

The latest of these ideas is for a fountain to become a centrepiece for the Queen’s Road roundabout. As random ides for ways to improve an area it is probably medal-winning.

This one came to Mr Crowcroft after a fountain on a roundabout in Funchal, Madeira, caught his attention. And why not? After all, we all spot things on holiday that we wouldn’t mind having at home. It usually means risking a run-in with the luggage allowance Nazis after trying to cram a particularly vibrant rug into a too-small rucksack but, hey, a fountain, why not?

The Transport department have rained all over the Constable’s parade, come over all sensible and said that anything that obstructs the motorist’s view must, of course, never be allowed to sully said roundabout. At which answer the Constable – and it is extremely hard to disagree with him – crossed his arms, stuck out his bottom lip out and asked why, in which case, there were so many election posters covering the roundabout.

Well, quite. How is that trying to read the name of the candidate beneath a picture of a man who is clearly Mr Bean is safer than peering through sprinkling water in search of oncoming traffic? Besides, when stuck in the 8 am unmoving queue of traffic that blights Rouge Bouillon it would be nice to have something to look at.

In fact, if someone can come up with a makeshift water feature in the next week it would make for a better view than the posters for the Deputies election, which are undoubtedly coming up to the last-proof-with-the-printers stage as I write.

So here’s to a fountain and the prettifying of St Helier. Talking of which, anyone remember what happened to that nice idea for a Millennium project in St Helier? It was called the Town Park or something.