Bear Reeds

Image: © Michael Dennis Stagg Taken: 25 Jun 2011

It used to be The Bear pond, now it is advertised by Lenny Henry, but the point is still the same, the estate flood attenuation and hotel restaurant discharge pond is now finally an ecologically decorative landscape as the reeds have grown with the assistance of some dedicated people. The map shows a reach now under culvert and soil which is a shame, but then drowning people's very active children that climb fences at lunchtime is not to be advised for restaurants seeking business, so one can understand the removal from alongside the garden. Pity about the delayed weed development also shown, but soon we may be rid of that too, I thought government and local authority wanted trade (Arthur Llewellyn Jenkins, we had to go to Cribbs Causeway to replace a collapsed sofa, her brother went to a good part of the West Country for a care relative, very good sofa, but we would have preferred to buy locally as we did our other furniture and half an antique or two) and they like development to increase the Rateable income, especially of old sites re-used under central funding rules, however relief of planning regulations has just destroyed design, saturated places with housing with no work base, congested, flooded streets, on waste tips and left us with many offices that are empty and rented by government to keep up the appearance; the Council has fought this left right and centre and we begin to see progress as poor plans are vetoed, good ones passed and the general junk attitude of British society (a note made by my Geology teacher at School during the 1960s) is overcome. Little by little these sorts of projects are winning, so thugs can throw glass and rocks at ducks and fill the place with plastic waste, alike About a Boy (film with Hugh Grant) a point about a new form of duck shooting, in old marshlands, but we are gradually winning as this shows. Thank you Aidan Millerick.

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