This is a piece of council land that has lain unused for decades. The local residents association has appropriated it for communal use and a group of volunteers have been building a reserve. Landscaping is underway and plantings of hundreds of donated native trees, flaxes and grasses. The council provided money for an excellent fence and an outdoor table and chairs have just been donated.
Today's working bee was digging out weeds, laying weed mat in a koru shape and planting out native grasses. We also planted a Pohutukawa which has been positioned to provide shade and shelter to a sitting area. We excavated an area ready for concreting in a base for the table and chairs.
It's a sad indictment on modern life that this beautiful, donated set has to be secured in concrete to stop unprincipled scrotes from stealing it.
Things are shaping up and in a couple of years when the trees and plantings have matured it will be beautiful. There's a fresh water stream running through it, fed from Mount Manaia which looms above the Green.
Magic.
All we need now is a Village Idiot.
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Any takers?
4 comments:
Your reward will be in Heaven. I could be the village idiot if no one else wants the job.
Well with a belief like that I think that you could be well qualified.
I lied about the reward in Heaven thing. Sorry, you're still going to Hell and an eternity of cleanskins.
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