This Green and (Once) Pleasant Land

It doesn't take long to turn a green and pleasant landscape into something between a war zone and the surface of the Moon... I've tended not to set an alarm much since retiring but now I'm awake at seven as the workforce arrives, and very awake at seven thirty as they begin stripping the ground away.

Ah me, this was a lovely place. Of course, our immediate environment - our house and gardens, is as lovely as ever. But there's a real understanding now that this is the long distance future. If the West of England Combined Authority's Joint Spatial Plan is approved and if that Plan confirms our small village a Strategic Development Location, then the incessant noise of close by house building might continue for the next twenty plus years.

Don't mind me, I'm probably just being NIMBY... :-(