Progress has been made in our Community Garden:
On Sunday, 1st March, 2009, five of the prospective users of the Community Garden (Kay, John, Sarah, Graham and Your Blogger) went in there to pick the surface litter. This is what some patches looked like before:
... and afterwards:
It's just surface clearing. As soon as you dig a little deeper, there is more rubbish -- for every forkful of earth, there's at least half a forkful of litter. The wilderness, which at one time was a playpark for kiddies, must have been used as a dump for years and years.Outside, in Dalintart Lane, some temporary fencing had been left behind -- by the Employability Team? by the Council workers? -- after the green wooden fence was finished. Pedestrians took their (mostly youthful) energy to the red-and-white plastic slats, which have ended up destroyed almost completely.
Not a good way of looking after material. I hear the Council is in dire financial straits. Well, "every little helps", as the saying goes. However, these temporary fences are well and truly good for the incinerator, where at least a little energy could be gotten out of them, but not much else. What a waste!PS: They are now on the other side of the wall, where there is less foot traffic and where the council van can get at them easily for removal. Wonder how long it will take for them to be lifted...
Your Blooger wishes to end this post on a positive note: this is about half of the rubbish picked off the surface...
... and this is what the litter-picked garden looked like about four hours after work had begun:
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