The Polish Touch

The Polish government has amended a tree protection law, setting in motion a logging operation that has already caused damage to woodland and doubtless great delight to obsessive chain-saw lovers. SWT might consider sending its own staff to Poland to join in the massacre thus sparing some of our much loved trees. Unfortunately even that would be too late for one view.

This picture, from this morning is the view as it is now:

This was taken a few years ago.

Something is missing and a closer look reveals ..

Nobody from SWT has seen fit to tell us why the Larch was felled, so we have to make do with our own explanation which is that the tree was cut down simply to provide work for someone. Reports from visitors who have asked staff why say that different SWT people give contradictory explanations; and that suggests it was probably a whim of the moment: man with chain saw was there, what do we tell him to do next?

There are those who have hinted that criticism of SWT/SRWT here is over-the-top. And I do have a bit of a guilty conscience that swells up inside me from time to time. Are we expecting too much? Isn't it a bit like giving in to a 4 year old and letting him play with your power tools then getting cross when you find holes have been drilled all over the dining table? We ourselves must take blame for letting things happen. Maybe we could say it is our council and our councillors who are responsible. They, as we've said before, have been next to useless have they not? But there again we elected them didn't we? You may respond: no I didn't,  my vote went to someone else so my vote didn't count. So what can we do about that?  ...... Well we could do worse than attend a meeting of Sheffield for Democracy and the Make Votes Matter campaign on Monday evening at the Quaker Meeting House James St Sheffield at 7 pm.

See you there!