Greens

It's not just being new that makes the character of the green foliage in Spring so attractive. The tones and timbres themselves have their own character, one quite different to the one that soon becomes an everyday accompaniment to outdoor life from June on.



I omitted to mention the Green Party when discussing the local election. I find them appealing in a number of ways but all sorts of questions occur. Is their appeal linked to the obvious fact that they are not the other parties, for example? With the party system you never get all you want and there's always an extent to which you have to hold your nose while putting your cross. One of the bees in my bonnet is local decision making and the empowerment of communities. I sense that there's some top-downism in the environmental movement as with the others. Would they have wind farms all over the Peak District for example? - or just in some parts?

In this I'm a committed Nimby or rather an Inby (In Nobody's Back Yard)- regarding airports, wind farms, new roads and most other ways of filling the countryside with concrete