A MEETING,AN ARGUMENT AND AN AMAZING PIECE OF LUCK

A meeting was scheduled at the crack of dawn this morning at our conservation site with the man from Laings who was responsible for the recent destruction of a grove of young and very valuable trees on a conservation area. He trees had been paid for by public subscription and one,a black poplar could prove to be irreplaceable


I have last crossed swords with this chap some ten years ago when he was employed by our local authority and was not at all surprised to hear him peddling the same trashy arguments has formerly.

There was one hell of a row as we put our case and he trotted out the usual pathetic excuses. But he finally agreed to replace the damaged trees and to leave the conservation area alone in the future.

He claimed a breakdown in communications but happen to know that they deliberately cleared the area,with out consultation in order to let the ground out to tennants. When we took over this piece of ground it was above head hight in bramble and nothing had been grown there for over thirty years. The moment our group cleared it and planted the young trees they saw a way to make money out of it,strimmed down the trees and attempted to take it back again.

I shall not trouble you with the lame excuses we were obliged to listen to while we stood about getting rained on , it is enough that in the end he gave up the fight and the land is now ours again.

I was about to leave when a large truck appeared in the lane containing two men,a huge mower and a pair of brush cutters, they were heading for the church yard. As you will know if you have read my blog before their was a battle to save this sensitive site from the hack and slash methods of Laings and in the end our Local Authority drew up a plan I conjunction with our group to stop their activities and prevent any further damage.

Suddenly and without consultation they decided to return to their fortnightly strimming of the pathways. Thank the Gods we were on site to stop them. I told them that if they persisted I should park my mobility scooter on the pathway and they would have to strim around me. That cooled them down quickly and they decided not to strim today after all.

During the afternoon a flurry of e mails were fired off and I hope that this time all will be well. It was, it seems another breakdown in communications, it ssems that they have forgotten all about the conservation programme.

One thing is certain,if one blade of grass is touched I shall personally see to it that the ass of the ass responsible gets kicked all around the parish. Yea,verily and forsooth!