Welcome To Council Madness Where You’re Not Allowed To — Just Because

Just because the rules were mandated 70 years ago, when we had fewer concerns about water, bush fires, or global warming — or the future generally

Maria Rattray
5 min readSep 14, 2022
A tree sawed off near the trunk, in a forest
Photo by Bakhrom Tursunov on Unsplash

So effectively a few things happened in the last few days.

Firstly, I went out to check the verge in front of our house, so I could decide on the heirloom seeds I wanted to plant.

That’s when I discovered council had come along and poisoned a strip of lawn on each garden, I’m guessing to ensure that things looked tidy.

I was devastated.

Who suggests such action?

Have they taken steps to be informed about safety? (And by the way, reliable safety information you can’t expect to find on the back of a container of chemicals. Somebody has to be in the position of researching, feeding their results back to the authorities, and making a decision based on clear evidence.)

And does whoever suggested it was a fine thing to do, have any idea about the ramifications of their actions, for their pooches, if not for their children who live and play on grass.

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Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com