20090307 Light Maintenance and Tyding of the WLA with Nile

The wild Life Area look bared. A month ago it was covered in snow but now the only things that seems to have accrue in abundance is rubbish.

All kind. I often wander how it is accumulating here. I calculated times ago that roughly 40 Kg of detritus come to stay here every year (without counting fly- tipping, however). I was probably too conservative in my estimates.

What I know is that without some kind of regular cleaning all the stuff will strangle the vegetation and that in turn will make increasingly difficult to appeal to the good will of the locals for its survival.

So with my friend Nile (that used to live around here) we came down for a bout of garbage-gathering.

Also the works for the renovation of the west side abutting Ball Court have started and all add to the sense of dump-emptiness.

Thanks to Nile in charge of the camera it is possible to give a little test of what this necessary and highly unrewarded endeavour feels like:

Well when all is done and dusted we still have a little maintenance of the wattle hedge that far from be a barrier to people it is actually a sort of stair (and a fire hazard too!!).

Only after that we can congratulate ourselves that the world has become a little better (well it is a good Karma anyway...)

Still it is not all too bad. The area reward us with one of its little wanders: an early sweet violet (Viola odorata)