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3 June 2021 11:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonI am also toying with getting an actual plastic sign for the wildspot near my house, and making a poster showing people what all the wild flowers that grow there are with pictures.
I'm worried it would be a bit passive aggressive tho;
basically, over the lockdown, I wrote to the council on 5 separate occasions asking them not to cut it because it was bringing me happiness. Needless to say, one call from my neighbour and they were straight over. I ended up having more than one chat with the strimmers in the street, and negotiated them down to cutting back the 50% against my neighbour's wall but leaving the 50% against mine.
Then, a month later, one of the councillors came over to Have A Chat and ask why I wouldn't let them cut it back. Apparently it used to be a path? but like, for it to be useable as a path it would need to be flattened and have steps installed. The council clearly don't want to do that, they just want to kill shit because having things "tidy" scratches some kind of ecocidal itch, and harm my bees and sparrows.
I'm currently constructing a bin from scrap wood to place there, so people will drop litter in the bin instead. After that, a seed-exchange box & I'm hoping then a sign as well will make it a bit of a "destination", you know? A little "feature".
Big broadleaf docks and grasses which rustle, buttercups and ground-growing ragwort, and scatterings of herb robert, and the sense of all being right with the world as oddly coloured spiders weave in and out.
I'm worried it would be a bit passive aggressive tho;
basically, over the lockdown, I wrote to the council on 5 separate occasions asking them not to cut it because it was bringing me happiness. Needless to say, one call from my neighbour and they were straight over. I ended up having more than one chat with the strimmers in the street, and negotiated them down to cutting back the 50% against my neighbour's wall but leaving the 50% against mine.
Then, a month later, one of the councillors came over to Have A Chat and ask why I wouldn't let them cut it back. Apparently it used to be a path? but like, for it to be useable as a path it would need to be flattened and have steps installed. The council clearly don't want to do that, they just want to kill shit because having things "tidy" scratches some kind of ecocidal itch, and harm my bees and sparrows.
I'm currently constructing a bin from scrap wood to place there, so people will drop litter in the bin instead. After that, a seed-exchange box & I'm hoping then a sign as well will make it a bit of a "destination", you know? A little "feature".
Big broadleaf docks and grasses which rustle, buttercups and ground-growing ragwort, and scatterings of herb robert, and the sense of all being right with the world as oddly coloured spiders weave in and out.
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Date: 3 June 2021 13:26 (UTC)https://wearetheark.org/
I am enjoying watching the pastures turn to wildflower meadows, although I am also considering getting a few sheep next year to help us manage them (also: homegrown wool) XD
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Date: 3 June 2021 15:35 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7 June 2021 08:52 (UTC)I'm not sure why, but I guess fear of spiders is partly a thing you learn. I am quite scared of the ones that come into the house, but I suppose the ones outside are "in their proper place", as well as looking very different, so they're nice to watch.
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Date: 7 June 2021 12:49 (UTC)