do as it such a lovely blowy day let’s take our White Knight tumble drier out for a spin to the top of Clee Hill.
While we are out and about enjoying the countryside should we take the kiddies rubbish as well?
Maybe we could take a picnic? Make a special occasion of it because it isn’t every day you take white goods out for a ride! On second thoughts, what with social distancing wouldn’t it be best to go after dark?’
Clee Hill is where we love to go.
It is 2942 feet high. The road up
winds through the sheep happily grazing, past homes nestling in the hillside enjoying the glorious views over the undulating Shropshire countryside, Wales winks in the distance
No out of the way lay-by suits the likes of morons like this. Driving up through the fading light what were their thoughts...
‘Let’s bugger up our beautiful countryside’
seems to fit the bill!
It's hard to comprehend what goes through people's minds at times. I think part of the problem is that there is just not enough thinking going on. Too many mindless idiots are roaming the land (and not all of them are dumping driers!!)x
ReplyDeleteOn Clee Hill walking the collapsed Iron Age fortifications, the other day there were two deflated balloons with ‘Happy 10th birthday Son’ on them beside an empty pop bottle! What message is that giving a ten year old?
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I simply cannot fathom this mind set. I had a boyfriend in high school. Handsome. I really liked him. We were hiking in the park one day. He had a Pepsi in his hand. I go so far back, sodas still came in 8oz bottles. He finished the drink and broke the bottle on a rock. I picked up the pieces, brought them home in m jacket pocket, and never dated him again.
ReplyDeleteGood for you Joanne! It just beggars belief what some people think is perfectly okay. I remember us walking along a lane, coming around the corner towards us was a lovely lad who just threw some rubbish on the road. I said ‘You’ve just dropped something!’ He looked at me and returned and picked it up, he smiled sheepishly as we passed... he got my message!
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That's just beyond weird.
ReplyDeleteSadly Sue, it is the world we all find ourselves in. So many things need to change...
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Your post hit a nerve in F - she gets really worked up about mindless (or more especially mindful) littering. The mindless ones can usually be asked to pick it up and be expected to comply (sheepishly). The mindful ones - and we suspect yours are in this category - would just get ansty and belligerent if caught and had it pointed out that they were destroying what other people enjoy. That rubbish is no 'accident' or mindless flick of a cigarette butt.
ReplyDeleteI agree, mindful littering, now there’s a thought! Living in another beautiful part of the world, deep in the Kent countryside, once again I caught someone red handed. A couple of women in a car were parked overlooking a beautiful valley, as we approached I could see exactly what they were up to... cleaning out the crud from inside their car, leaving it just by the driver’s door on the roadside. Well, I walked up and gave them a piece of my mind, drawing their attention to the beautiful views and just exactly what they were doing. They said not one word, when we walked back, the car was gone, yes, you’ve guessed it, the rubbish remained. Did I do any good, I don’t know? The good I did do was to myself, because I didn’t walk on by turning the other cheek...
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Can you send that photo to a local newspaper to publish ( probably it would be against some law or other to do so by the paper though) and someone would surely recognise some of that rubbish.....the pink cot parts, the broken wooden " thing"..even the tumble dryer! Their pals might know they had recently had a new one? This sort of thing really gets to me......I was taught never to drop so much as a sweet wrapper!
ReplyDeleteLocal paper page of shame, type of thing? You were taught well, just like hopefully the majority of folk. It seems the minority don’t have a care about the finer points... we go back to my other post about would you crap on your own doorstep? They obviously don’t! They are more than happy to share the lurvve!
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I hope there was something with an identity on it..even the white knight serial number?
ReplyDeleteThe worst thing is that once dumped, the landowner can be prosecuted for having it there...
Who the land owner of Clee Hill is I have no idea! It has the domes of the air traffic control, whether they own the whole shebang who knows? I didn’t inspect it long enough to discover the serial number I am afraid.
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