Sometimes you get to the stage where you feel like packing it all in.  Why?  Because something happens where you say why bother?

I’ve been walking the line each morning looking for the first signs of wild flowers growing - I saw some signs yipee.  Some colour to the verge, some beautiful grasses with long slender feathery flowers  where looking wonderful.

Then one sunny June morning some idiots turn up employed by Wigan Council and drive up and down on a sit on monster of a gas guzzling mower and rolled over the lot!!  And this is on a part of the borough that they don’t own!!! Hey what on earth is going on!  We don’t own it, can’t put bins on it but we’ll roll all over it with a massive mower!!  I wouldn’t care if they did a good job they where environmental thugs!!!  Tufts of grass left all over the place, no cuttings removed or mulched, mowed over small fir trees and almost all of the verge leaving dirty great big tire tracks all the way along The Line.

I’ve asked this question so many times why oh why can’t people like me receive some form of subsidy to properly take care of these areas of what could be outstanding natural beauty.  All this just at the time when insects and pollinators are needing good habitats to thrive in.

Why do I do it because not many other people care!!!

Any answers anyone?