In Blighty we have been promised a 'barbecue summer' so often it has ceased to be even funny to our usual maudlin sense of humour; global warming was something that happened to other people. This year though is turning out to be a cracker as we say.
My solitary reader will perhaps recall how miffed I was with the construction of the cycleway. especially because so many trees were sawn down to make way for it. I am willing to say I was too easily persuaded that this was an unnecessary intrusion and threat: I had visions of mad cyclists whipping down the new cycle track at speed. Few do I am glad to report. The Missing trees have not as yet been completely replicated in new plantings – several of these were vandalised. That's not the fault of anyone but the vandals. Then something happened.
Council workers turned up one day and laid turfs all along the central reservation that marks the pedestrian side from the cyclists side. Wild flower turf. The results have been madly spectacular for two years in a row. True and couple of places have been trodden down – that could easily have been anticipated in the design stage; people tend to walk in straight lines not where planners wish to direct them. You can see examples all over new estates, etc.
What we have now is yet another argument for a new Public Park. It's well used, mostly well used by considerate people and gives access to green space to families and increasingly students. Why not Lower Ouseburn Park?
Slideshow here. (Off site link.)
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