Thursday 15 December 2011

Major Brickbat, Minor Bouquet.

Something else that has proliferated in recent years has been the installation of high power security lights. They’re usually far too big for the amount of ground they have to cover, they wash large areas of road in unnatural brightness, they shine uncomfortably into the eyes of anybody walking past, and they add to the modern problems of light pollution and carbon emissions. Seems to me they represent yet another example of an overreactive tendency encouraged by a retail-heavy economy’s need to make people want things.

And on a vaguely related note, albeit more positive, the prize for the best dressed outdoor tree goes to the shimmering blue cascade in the garden of Rose Mount, Mill Lane, Norbury. Congratulations.

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