Seasons Will Never Be The Same Now We Are Forced To Share Our Quiet Havens All Year Round With Lewisham's Indifferent Dog Walkers!
My regular uninspiring route from Nunhead to Brockley presently has a through road blocked for maintenance. Traffic is redirected along Aspinall Road situated on the boundary of Southwark with Lewisham. Not in the least an inconvenience is the detour it transpires. Otherwise, one would never have known how lovely the Victorian terraced northern end of Aspinall Road surpasses all streets with its gorgeous Spring blossom. This is how so many mundane looking London residential roads and streets might look transformed similarly with a little more borough council imagination. Nearby streets to Aspinall Road array a bit of blossom; but; halfheartedly being without the attractive regimentation of Aspinall Road's tree lines. Though, even Aspinall Road requires gaps to be plugged
along its length.
Aspinall Road in Spring, Lewisham SE4
Aspinall Road SE4 is well worth a visit before blossom falls all too soon covering pavements in pink snow.
Click Googlemaps link below to Aspinall Rd. SE4:
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signs of Spring are evident in the relative haven of Brockley and Ladywell
Cemeteries soon to be besmirched forever with new borough bylaw
allowance to wholesale dog access which most Lewisham councillors persuasively green, red, blue or yellow; and; with an eye to the potential
of the local dog-owner vote will, doubtless, have wholly supported dog
access to even more, hitherto, banned to dogs green spaces. Mix’em all up and
all them Lewisham councillors really do make a gungey brown which goes
very nicely with the hue and ambiance of yukky dog-poo they’ve sanctioned
to be smeared all over Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries.
(pictures left and below)
No!…not the Spanish Bluebell interloper. This is earlier Spring in
Brockley Cemetery with
Siberian Squill (Scilla Siberica)
(picture left)
Spring Crocus (Crocus vernus)
Along with shy sister and brother creatures who thought they had a safe and special sanctuary within Brockley and Ladywell free of certain ubiquitous molestation not possible to escape from elsewhere in the wider urban community I too (a founder member and present treasurer of FOBLC) am now chased out of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries by the minority dominance of dog owners, perhaps, never to return.
Spring blossom
offsets Ladywell Cemetery's
unique Victorian incinerator
and lime burning chimney.
First butterfly arrival in Spring 2009 to 'our foblc cemeteries' is Comma (Polygonia c-album)
And, Bee-Fly (Bombylius major) hovers about looking for a victim to do its nasty stealthy deed upon. This ‘pretend bee’ lays an egg in the nest of ‘proper bee’. Nasty bee’s baby then hatches and sets about eating proper bees’s young family until it is fat enough to pupate and turn itself, in due time, into ‘another child-killer’. You couldn’t be more horrified to learn that down low in the grass amongst dog-walker's dogpoo even dirtier deeds are expidited by the likes of Bombylius major and other of his murderous entomological pals...
But wait!...a creature even nastier...lurkes within the depths of a Lewisham Council Chamber being none other than the Lewisham Mayor himself (a veritable butcher) who has by proxy offloaded his lazy understanding of certain Dog Control Orders courtesy of cross-party councillors which, with an eye to ‘dog votes’, persuades the Lewisham Mayor to unleash countless dogs to ravage the lovely green havens of Lewisham parks and cemeteries evermore.
Elsewhere Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) are roused out of their monument hive by
the warmth of Spring. Those wary bees are immediately prepared to trace a stinging beeline toward the daily incremental dog-butt which, thanks to a certain Lewisham offal-monger, has opened up cemetery gates to an unprecedented defiling. Even if, disturbingly, on the decline nationally honey bees have managed to occupy the same Brockley Cemetery home for many years.
Of recent visits to the cemeteries I see vigorous wholesale mowing and
strimming of grassy areas against an important aspect toward conservation of wildlife within (so-called) listed and designated sancturies has habitats devastatingly stripped making the potentiality of residual creature chrysalis, cacoon, invertebrate, egg, seed or floriation unlikely to show specific
previous array while ‘grass’ had, municipally, year-on-year been
forgotten to its own preferred, unintended, seasonal devices.
Meanwhile...
On the 6th of April 2009 new Lewisham Dog Control Orders will operate
effectively; or not; as they didn't with the old 'Lewisham Council Dog Control Orders'
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