A Gong For A Wrong

A little rant from a tree lover.

Congratulations to our local council,
who have exceeded themselves by far.
I award a shiny gold star for your
level of sheer incompetence.

You have to be pretty dense I think
to destroy eight hundred saplings
without a thought, planted by
volunteers of a woodland trust.

Try as I must, I can't contemplate
how anyone could chop down
a flucking forest, each little tree
of five years standing.

In one almighty swoop, managing
to wipe out the equivalent of four
thousand years of tree growth
while doing routine clearance.

That has to be one of the best acts
of vandalism I have come across,
knocks spots of grafitti on the odd
wall or two which can be erased.

A case of they couldn't see the trees
for the nettles they were attempting to weed, so much for routine parks
maintenance.

Reviews

[Lorry]

Well, as you know Chris, as someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with the forrestry commission, i can very much flucking believe their levels of incompetence and beauroc... Bewroc... arse over tit levels of rules for rules sake... Or perhaps its just having to justify their own existence by thinking out loud, way too loudly, whilst others are present, whose own incompetence they dont want known, so they just agree with the flucking idiot, making more flucking idiots and less sense.
Add the woodland trust into the mix and now you have a flock of flucks.
I better shut up now, my boss may be reading this 😀

[Chris Shaw]

I think Lorry you have summed up the situation well. Without doubt there were a flock of flucks involved here. That stupidity couldn't have been down to one solitary flucker. They move in packs:)) I knew you would see this my way. Have a good week-end my friend.

Chris

[Lorry]

That has become my all time favourite flucking word, beating even barstewarding and aerosoles. They will from now on and forevormore be flucking barstewarding aerosoles 😀

[Chris Shaw]

:))...................

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Even though I live in a land far away from you, Christine, it seems that council stupidity knows no bounds. Federal and state politics is bad but i abhor the local councils in all their pee wee men posturing, with their endless red tape and poor decision making.

To cut down trees like this, and barely juvenile ones at that, defies logic. You should post this write on the council chamber door, but knowing them they wouldnt understand it anyway!

A fine little rant, Christine, and one well warranted.

[Chris Shaw]

Thanks Doodley. All that effort by the volunteers from the Woodland Trust who donated the saplings. Heartbreaking for them. Yes, sadly council stupidity. We certainly have our fair share of it in the town where I live. All the best to you.

Chris

[Einstein Noodle]

oh my goodness, Christine!!! and this really happened!!! wow! i love the tree too ... so much so that i am actually planting more in the forest surrounding us ... adding more pines among the oaks in our "yard" ... my goodness, you'd think heads would roll after such a terrible "mistake" ... and they were planted by volunteers ... so so inexcusable >;[
E.

[Chris Shaw]

Just knew you would be a lover of trees Mr E, and you plant them too. Our council are known for their stupidity. This is just one of many sent to annoy us. All that work by volunteers down the drain. Shocking. Hope you are good my friend.

Chris

[Einstein Noodle]

do well Chris .. thank you :) yeah! that's a mind bender .. 800 trees .. by volunteers .. cut down .. unreal .. they are dense ... the only word i can think of to describe such actions .. was the outcry enough to elicit an apology and proferred act or acts of contrition? ... ;) did they replant them?

[Chris Shaw]

They are not replanting the 800. They have said that they will plant some larger trees. The apology was feeble and I got the impression they were doing all they could to bury it. Contrition? Our council? Never ha ha.

[Einstein Noodle]

well....at least that's something eh!? how frustrating for you who really care :(