I agree with everybody about cutting the grass, but recently when i was on Exmoor the edges were so high we couldn't see a thing. We'd looked forward to seeing the ponies and every thing else, but there were very few gaps in these huge edges to see anything. By the time you got to a gate driving passed you managed to catch a glimpse of some thing . Even on the Moors, there was very little wild life to see. The roads were too narrow to park . It seems where a good cutting would do alot of good they neglect it, and then cut in stupid places like Round abouts where the grass could be left to grow.
My husband has a good sense of humour it made him laugh when he saw them cutting side ways along the hedges so cars could pass more easily, then leaving the tops to grow and not touching them, they were over nine ft tall in some places, a sheer waste of Petrol driving around that day , needless to say we never went back.
I signed a Petition recently on the computer and since then I've been unindated with E-mails from every where , no matter what the cause I'll write to my local coucil first I think. Goldie
) Manicuring the verges and hedges is a symptom of this. Nature isn't tidy - imposing unnatural order on it eventually destroys it.
) Old maybe, Quiet! Never 
