Wartocracy

One of the smaller water towers on what was the Epsom Cluster has now been repurposed as flats and is on general release. Part of what was St. Ebba's, which used, on occasion, to furnish interesting afternoon boozers at TB from its substance dependency unit. This tower can be glimpsed, between the rails to the left of the illustration.

The contractors must be nearly finished and keen to get their final payment as they have tidied up the site. The piles of earth and worse arising from leveling the site have been smoothed down and grassed over. The boundary, the primary subject of the illustration has been posted and railed.

It being this last which I am moaning about today. This sort of post and rail does not last that long, say less than ten years, after which it is going to look very tatty. Unlike the concrete posts and chain link wire mesh from the fifties of the last century, still up & running, neat & tidy around at least some of the nearby houses, formerly council houses. To my mind, this particular sort of wooden fence, if used on public spaces. should be supplemented by a hedge, hawthorn or something like that, which can grow up and take the place of the fence in due course and which requires little maintenance. As it is, we can look forward to years of tatty fence, in full open view, with everyone who might be involved in doing something about it passing the buck. Or perhaps just saying what on earth do you expect if you elect a government which provides just the sort of council services which you ought to expect for tuppence a week. As they once used to say, pay monkeys and get peanuts. Or perhaps it was pay peanuts and get monkeys.

But good that they have managed to leave most, if not all, of the trees, planted by those boring, do-gooding Victorians in what were the grounds of the asylum.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/wartocracy-resumed-or-wartological-tweet.html.