"A-tishoo, A-tishoo, we all fall down" so tells the nursery rhythm we all remember.
Oh! I wish I had those bubonic plague sneezes, I would sniff up pepper spray to strengthen my projectile and lay flat, the thousands and thousands of reeds choking up the once beautiful lagoon I have inherited outside my backdoor.
I do not own the lagoon, but have the fortune to live on it,s banks.
I mean the banks of the little bit of water still remaining viewable amongst the ever encroaching, rapidly growing, ugly reeds.
Twenty years ago, there was a very small patch of reeds growing in the centre, now we have a small patch of water surrounded by these invaders.
Environmentalists cry out, to look after your own back yard, if everyone performs this simple deed, the earth will be so much healthier, less polluted, greener etc, etc.
What happens if you have a "conflict of interest", for example, migrating alien birds taking a short vocation to roost in these reeds, because their land is draped in snow and ice for the season and ours offers spectacular sun filled days.
Their roosting is safe and they can still have a dip in the water (soon to be puddles) surrounding their bed and breakfast lodges.
Tourism is one of the most lucrative businesses to be in today, except these flyers, though beautiful, have empty pockets.
A fellow lagoon neighbour who destroyed a minuscule amount of these marauding lagoon suckers, in order to build a wooden jetty for her son,s boating pleasures, was almost arrested.
Her crime, "habitat destruction" for the five month stay of visiting European Swallows.
Her punishment, to rehabilitate the crime scene by re-planting what she had vandalised.
She did not need to labour too much to fulfill legislation, the reeds nicely came to her rescue, claiming back their space with ease.
l This is where education, the lack of it, comes into play, when authorities blunder into waters, excuse the pun, where they have no credibility.
These laureates, who claim to be so knowledgeable, rather destroy a once perfectly balanced biological Eden, for the sake of holidaying swallows.
The irony of this argument is that their protected swallows have not been roosting in the reeds for seven years.
Do we await their untimely return or intelligently realise that Mr.
and Mrs.
Swallow found greener pastures for their vacation.
It is so very obvious, why the flying Europeans do,nt come anymore, the reeds do not offer them any form of protection, because they grow now from bank to bank.
The authorities seem to be taking a bad gardener approach, by not controlling their weeds, they strangle and deprive the cultured flora of their garden.
Education, is to teach, partake and share in all kinds of glorious information.
It is our inherent right to learn, be taught and use such to the betterment of ourselves and the world around us.
I feel stumped in our endeavours to free our little paradise of it,s demise.
Is this little lagoon perhaps being marginalized, because the suburb in which it flows is not a wealthy one.
What reasoning are the experts using, by jeopardising the habitat of the indigenous water birds, the Cormorants, Fish Eagles, King Fishers, Egrets, Herons etc.
Not to mention the fish, crabs and estuary nurseries of the fry of ocean dwellers.
The lagoon empties into the Indian ocean, this coastline has many small and some large rivers.
Only certain water ways are of interest to the protection squad, it,s rather uncanny, that those, usually meander through the rich and famous residences.
If we as guardians of our lagoon could control the spread of this weedy reed, all life in it and around would prosper and benefit, even the Swallow tourist will return in all their majesty, and that is the most wonderous vision to behold.
Oh! I wish I had those bubonic plague sneezes, I would sniff up pepper spray to strengthen my projectile and lay flat, the thousands and thousands of reeds choking up the once beautiful lagoon I have inherited outside my backdoor.
I do not own the lagoon, but have the fortune to live on it,s banks.
I mean the banks of the little bit of water still remaining viewable amongst the ever encroaching, rapidly growing, ugly reeds.
Twenty years ago, there was a very small patch of reeds growing in the centre, now we have a small patch of water surrounded by these invaders.
Environmentalists cry out, to look after your own back yard, if everyone performs this simple deed, the earth will be so much healthier, less polluted, greener etc, etc.
What happens if you have a "conflict of interest", for example, migrating alien birds taking a short vocation to roost in these reeds, because their land is draped in snow and ice for the season and ours offers spectacular sun filled days.
Their roosting is safe and they can still have a dip in the water (soon to be puddles) surrounding their bed and breakfast lodges.
Tourism is one of the most lucrative businesses to be in today, except these flyers, though beautiful, have empty pockets.
A fellow lagoon neighbour who destroyed a minuscule amount of these marauding lagoon suckers, in order to build a wooden jetty for her son,s boating pleasures, was almost arrested.
Her crime, "habitat destruction" for the five month stay of visiting European Swallows.
Her punishment, to rehabilitate the crime scene by re-planting what she had vandalised.
She did not need to labour too much to fulfill legislation, the reeds nicely came to her rescue, claiming back their space with ease.
l This is where education, the lack of it, comes into play, when authorities blunder into waters, excuse the pun, where they have no credibility.
These laureates, who claim to be so knowledgeable, rather destroy a once perfectly balanced biological Eden, for the sake of holidaying swallows.
The irony of this argument is that their protected swallows have not been roosting in the reeds for seven years.
Do we await their untimely return or intelligently realise that Mr.
and Mrs.
Swallow found greener pastures for their vacation.
It is so very obvious, why the flying Europeans do,nt come anymore, the reeds do not offer them any form of protection, because they grow now from bank to bank.
The authorities seem to be taking a bad gardener approach, by not controlling their weeds, they strangle and deprive the cultured flora of their garden.
Education, is to teach, partake and share in all kinds of glorious information.
It is our inherent right to learn, be taught and use such to the betterment of ourselves and the world around us.
I feel stumped in our endeavours to free our little paradise of it,s demise.
Is this little lagoon perhaps being marginalized, because the suburb in which it flows is not a wealthy one.
What reasoning are the experts using, by jeopardising the habitat of the indigenous water birds, the Cormorants, Fish Eagles, King Fishers, Egrets, Herons etc.
Not to mention the fish, crabs and estuary nurseries of the fry of ocean dwellers.
The lagoon empties into the Indian ocean, this coastline has many small and some large rivers.
Only certain water ways are of interest to the protection squad, it,s rather uncanny, that those, usually meander through the rich and famous residences.
If we as guardians of our lagoon could control the spread of this weedy reed, all life in it and around would prosper and benefit, even the Swallow tourist will return in all their majesty, and that is the most wonderous vision to behold.
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