As a long time
resident of the area, and regular (twice daily) user of this park, I'd like to
congratulate you on the recent initiative to tackle dog fouling.
The signs are
perfectly clear and unambiguous.
I am not quite so
sure about the exhortation to "grass up" your fellow dog walker, as
it's not quite the ticket and very un-English, but I suppose we are a
multi-cultural society so it's probably a sign of the times.
As I have said, I
use this facility to walk my dog, a black Cockerpoo should you be interested,
twice a day, and always go armed with sturdy poo bags. Furthermore my dog is
always on the lead when she should be.
So again, well
done and thank you.
I would like to
suggest the theme for your next two "campaigns". Litter being the
first and cyclists being the second.
To the first. As
a dog walker I can attest to the massive amount of litter strewn all over the
park, mostly discarded sandwich boxes, yoghurt pots and so on. I am aware that
the pupils of Holmesdale, who are basically biding their time between childhood
and prison, use this park extensively. But come on, if you can fix dog fouling
you can fix this surely. Of course written signs would probably not suffice as
that assumes the little darlings can actually read! Perhaps some visits to the
school or some pictorial guidance?
The second type
of litter is much more troublesome and that is discarded bones from BBQ
sessions. If the weekend is a nice one, a whole variety of people settle down
with their portable BBQ and burn food, pretty much at the same rate that they
are burning their shoulders and legs, eat their food and then lob the bones.
As a result I can
pretty much guarantee that my dog will find, within a ten foot radius of each
scorched oblong of turf, several bones. These are both unhygienic and very bad
for poor doggie. It is legal to burn food in the park? If so it ought not to be
as it is unsightly and must represent a fire hazard even in the most wet of
English summers.
So have a heart
and try and do something about the litter if you would.
To the second.
The cyclists.
I know these
people are a common nuisance all over Great Britain and none more so that the
"Hitlers in a hurry" that hurtle around our park, angry as ever and
with a complete disregard to fellow park users.
There are signs
that say quite clearly "pedestrians have right of way", but it's
quite possible that these lycra clad lunatics are so angry at the world, their
red misted minds can't see the signs. Possibly you could make them bigger.
Don't get me
wrong, not all cyclists terrorise other park users, normal people with normal
clothes will always slow down, or maybe even stop to avoid walkers, and bless
them even tinkle their bells for us (and that is not a euphemism!).
If you'd like me
to "grass up" BBQ bone chuckers and general-purpose litterers, please
let me know.
Regards
Peter Martin
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