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Moving on from the litter bin we got to what had been the site of the water tower last reported on on June 5th.

Our responses illustrated the BH tendency to put a more positive spin on things than I. So arriving at the site we found that all the rubbish and the superfluous  fences had been removed and the memorial pillar, illustrated in the previous posting, had been completed by the addition of a tasteful rectangular metallic plaque saying something of the history of the place sitting on top of a trapezoidal slice of tropical rain forest sitting on top of the square pillar itself. The pillar was now sitting in the middle of a disc of grass, one side of which can be seen in this illustration. The right hand part of the illustration gives some idea of the state of most of the rest of the site. A few trees had been planted, which, despite all the recent rain, did not look very happy at all. Maybe they will survive if they are not co-opted into the games of the children of the affordables, but I would not place money on it.

So my first thought was that whoever was responsible for the garden had run out of money and simply shouldered shovel and left. They had got it wrong again.

While the BH first thought, much more positive, was that what I took for a bit of derelict flower bed was actually a sanctuary for wild and meadow flowers. Which on closer inspection it probably was: far more flowers about than were likely to have arrived by natural causes. It might well all look rather good by next summer.

Which is interesting. Because this is a sort of gardening of which I entirely approve, even practicing it myself in a small way, on, for example, the new daffodil bed. But it never occurred to me that they - whoever they might be - would ever do such a thing. Much quicker to find fault than to think about what they might be up to.