Some Tarting Up

 

A couple of weeks back this truck parked on the far side of the garden.  It would seem to be full of water that is used in a high pressure washing process.  One person and two supervisors wandered around the bit of neighbourhood they could reach with the long hose, squirting pigeon poop (remember that power line across the road?).  When the pigeon poop had been dislodged and sent spinning down the drains, they turned their lance on pavements generally and cleaned as much as they could reach around the garden and around the rubbish bins over by that STOP sign.

It all seemed a bit weird to us, until last week when these three turned up armed with paint rollers and a small selection of paint colours - as in GREY.

After they had finished painting the concrete grey, another bloke turned up with a two-tone palette and painted the 'no-parking zone' on the corner. Like that is going to make  difference!

It seemed very nice of them to tart up our view.  However on a walk a couple of days later we discovered that every 'garden' in the neighbourhood had received a coat of paint on its defining walls, and all the others were this gorgeous (eye roll) shade of  rust-ish reddishness.

We are not making fun - small improvements add up, and we have thrice noticed groups of people rubbish picking on the coast over recent weeks.  An FB site called 'save your hood' have been organizing neighbourhood clean ups which have been well supported during lockdown. 

When F and I got to the beach these days we don't come back with a bag full of old rubbish; one or two 'fresh' cans or plastic water bottles at most.  I like it this new way because when F ran out of rubbish bag space before, bits of it got lobbed into the backpack with me.

Then Friday, man with whipper-snipper giving the place a haircut.  Mr B insists it is called a strimmer.  F says "also known as weed-eater".  (What do you call those whizzy machines that cats are not allowed near?  F never took me to the allotment when she piled that thing onto my gardeners van.)

Go Greek clean-up.