To the relevant maintenance department:

Please may you take a stroll up WAGON ROAD, start from the railway bridge and admire our well decorated GUTTERS.
When was the last time this area was actually attended to?

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I need you to walk to this exact spot as in the picture and tell me what you can identify in these leaves.

I know what it is and there are many like trees in Estcourt.

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Once you have identified it, please report to me and I will take you to another location where there is a massive one, which is right under your noses. This is more proof that things are merely ignored and no responsibility and supervision is taken.

Or perhaps it is the no-care attitude because the clean-up task has become a monster and one doesn’t know how to handle it or even where to begin.

Angela Keyter