RECENTLY returning, for a brief moment, from London, I really looked forward to walking among the spring flowers in Queenswood.
The spring flowers there were, but not the ones crushed by felled trees - and the vehicles of the tree fellers.
It seemed nowhere was untouched, a devastation of empty spaces forlornly marked by tree trunks left where they fell.
Questions to other, universally saddened, walkers as to why, gave a series of apparently council approved answers.
Expansion of ‘woodland’ car parks, removal of non-native trees, and the improvement of undergrowth, ie brambles, for the benefit of dormice.
(Larger mammals, for example deer and horses having been either slaughtered or banned.) I am not sure whether I will ever see a dormouse, I am sure I will never see the splendour that once was Queenswood again.
Christian Collison, Chelsea, London.
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