... HALESOWEN IN BLOOM!
Dear Hilary and Patrick/Balvinder
I refer to landscaping relying on weeds for one, which are growing out of the 99% black tarmac, Grange roundabout on the A456/A459, by the Halesowen cricket ground. You grandly arrive at it from Jct 3, M5 on the nearest and only Gateway to Dudley, "the historic capital of the Black Country" and the motorway gateway to heavenly Halesowen.
In 61 years with a full driving licence, I cannot ever recall driving around the UK, seeing such a major, 30 metre diameter roundabout with nothing on it but tarmac and struggling weeds! Many visitors have noticed, too, over my 50 years living in Halesowen. "How odd" is the common comment.
Why is Dudley ALWAYS so odd and eccentric? From six destroyed railways to masterly negligence over the UK's major, 20 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walkway/Mudway and the Netherton Canal Tunnel towpath slum disgrace (half in Dudley, half in Sandwell).
On the other roundabout at the Asda car park entrance, over 50% of the area is loose white/grey stone, with the fine centerpiece being a peculiar, 45 degree angled conifer collapsing, plus a large branch clearly torn from the main trunk. It looks terrible. There was 100% nature on the previous roundabout that you good people clear felled/wrecked/destroyed for the present shameful mess. What IS the matter with you all?
This is how it should be done
Are the Britain in Bloom judges suffering from poor eyesight, Hilary? You do a magnificent job with HIB and BID but not as regards the two roundabouts, my friend. And you are the more powerful and influential councillor than poor old me who is a complete nobody!
PLEASE REPLY (sorry you did do, Hilary once, earlier this year - thank you), especially Leader Patrick and other Leader Balvinder who both owe me an apology for never, ever replying. And Balvinder once told me, I thought in all seriousness, that she would give some of her time when we met at a WMCA Board meeting in Brum Council House, shortly after her appointment as Chief Exec. Of course, it never happened. At least, I was once granted 15 minutes with Leader Patrick. And a previous Leader, Fred Hunt, told me in the early to mid 90s that the Dudley Tram would be up and running on Dudley's principal mainline railway
by the year 2000 CE, 26 years ago!!
None of this is nowhere near being good enough, my friends.
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