Awnings 4U

One of the things you realise being in London is that we should take our gardens outside of the city for granted. We have these gardens, often overgrown, full of rubbish and whatever junk we can’t fit in the house – but in London? You’d be lucky to have even a potted plant to call your own. Instead in London we see the inclusion of bigger public spaces to make up for the lack of personal, private ones. You see commons, gardens, fields all being appropriated by the public for their use. You can use them for exercise, use them for parties, for picnics or for any other kind of activity. Given that space is at a premium in London, those people looking for a little nature of their own...

I have written hundreds, if not thousands, of words about respecting gardens, enjoying the peace and tranquility of it all and really putting your feet up and relishing that holistic, natural experience of the great outdoors in your own personal space. Occasionally though that peace gets disrupted. The party I was at over the weekend certainly showed no great respect for anything, least of all a garden. Once the dust had settled and the weary eyed began to stir to survey the carnage it was pretty clear this would be a monumental clean up effort, not least in the garden itself. Cans on the floor, food everywhere, turned over tables and chairs, general waste spread all over the grass and in the bushes, puddles of sick littered about. It was...