Don't Know What We've Got Till It's Gone....
In the words of a song by Joni Mitchell we don't know what we've got till its gone. How evident that has become just now. I was out walking the dog and noticed how long all the 'public' grass has grown. I noticed trees in the parks and pathways are all hanging much lower than I ever remember seeing them. It made me realise the job our council workers do without us really noticing very much. This is just a random photo of my garden - its as overgrown looking as the roadside verges! Certainly the praise heaped on the NHS workers and Care Staff recently has made their work, normally fairly unrecognised, much more noticable to everybody. There has been a call for them to get a pay rise to recognise the hard and sometimes dangerous work they do (I can't see that happening!) When our bin lorries didn't turn up at the beginning of this we panicked. How would we cope without our bins getting emptied. The recycling centres and charity shops ...