Monday 22 August 2011

Spectacle



Positioned below the track and the other side of the stream this is just the spot that the eye is drawn to as you stroll up to through the woods. A perfect arena for a show. So don't we just love to see the work done to denaturalize the landscape, all in the interests of beauty and er, whoever gets the cheque from the biodiversity grant. The trick must be to persuade the public, or the more uncritical of them that this uglification actually is something so special it's worth making a special journey to see.


Make a virtue of your appalling errors in fact. That's done by importing a working horse - yes a real horse - to help pull the logs away from the area, and advertising the operation as a feature. It's certainly a good vantage point to see whatever's on offer. Will we also have morris dancers and bear baiting? Or is it more in tune with the times to have Karaoke? And will the horse remove the hacked torsos? I think not. Their value is obscenely great for reminding us who is in charge. Nature must dance to this tune, karaoke or not.

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