28 August - John Waring. Environmental health or mental elf
I
dropped in on Rita Grootendorst on Saturday, she and her husband were busy
tidying up after the builder. On the way in I had to negotiate stored building
materials, there is very little room to keep the front garden organised. One
item made me think that Rita was expecting another visit from her favourite stalker,
John Waring of Bexley council’s environmental health department.
Rita told me that
Waring had been around on 15th August
and left what a covering note calls a letter. If two well filled lever arch files is a letter
perhaps the Guinness Book of Records should be told about it. It will have kept Waring
employed for a week or two preparing that, one must wonder if he ever does anything that is
not obsessively spiteful. As usual his intent is to bog Rita down with worry and
anxiety. As if to prove it, just six days later he had the council’s rather
unpleasant solicitor write to her complaining that Rita had not yet responded.
I cannot imagine any Court official reading through it any more than I was able
to in an hour or so but I did note that much of what Rita has written
is dismissed as “a tirade” and often she is not answered. I also found photographs
purporting to be of dangerous structures. viz. a small quantity of wood stored on
top of a polycarbonate roof when if the camera had been pointed in the opposite
direction it would have recorded a similar scene in a neighbour’s garden.
Bexley council said in the latest letter that if Rita does not respond
immediately they will assume she agrees with what they say about her. Always unreasonable, constantly vindictive.
While reading Rita‘s ‘letter’ a short but ferocious thunderstorm broke out putting her new
roof to the test. There was a minor leak around an unfinished roof light so it
coped reasonably well which is more than one can say for Bexley council’s
drainage system. This was what I encountered on the way home.
The scenes shown here are repeated after every significant rainfall and ignored by Bexley council for more than 25 years. If only they would do what we pay them
for rather than persecute pensioners who have
won awards for their garden.
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