Just for once I'll put in a word for a tolerant senior citizen never known to complain on his own behalf. When you're 91 years old (equivalent), arthritic, with declining powers of hearing and vision and you've walked a place all your life, it's a bit rich that you arrive one morning on what you've always taken to be your own patch only to be set upon and given the once over by a bunch of aliens with no understanding of how to behave. This is another unhappy result of failings by the UK Border Agency and its local office.
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All females too I think. That's something. To be pursued by females in your nineties! I admire the casual way he takes it all in his stride.
Seriously this is not what we need on Blacka. Wild deer yes. Cows no.
Too right John, seriously do you know anyone at all that actually uses and enjoys Blacka that thinks cows are what are needed?
I don't, along with every other single person I've spoken to about the subject whilst walking up there - be they fellow walkers, bird spotters, mountain bikers et al - they are all of the same opinion.
If SWT insist grazing is beneficial to Blacka why not leave that to the wild deer? After all they don't leave huge pats, create a mess of the paths or dictate that costly and unsightly fencing must be erected. It's a nil cost option which doesn't need repeated signage to justify why the deer are here.
Why can't we just enjoy one corner of our local countryside that is (or was) reverting to it's natural state without it being managed? If I did want to see barren moors or cows-a-plently there are infinite places to do that.
Very well put, both. I wish there was some way of getting this through to people who seem impervious to argument and failing in simple observation. So few places, if any, are allowed to go their own way. An opportunity must be grasped to put forward the alternative later this year when they put together their next management plan: less management and let the place be.
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