JRR Tolkien and Carter Court, Carterton, New Zealand...

 

the tree at bottom was planted as a shrub by the lightbulb changer at Carter Court.

at the time people were being "set up" and coming through the hedge at will and looking through my window. I complained to the manager and she said it was okay by her if ANYONE at all came onto the property and did what they liked.

She must have had second thoughts because the lightbulb changer planted a shrub and said he would trim it. HAHAHAHAHA. five years later see above. when I told her that the lightbulb changer had no gardening qualifications she lied to my face and said he did when everybody in Carterton knows he was a ladies hairdresser before he retired.

the top tree is a Japanese silk tree that provided shade in the summer.

Two of these were felled because the guy next door did not like them and got the so called gardener to obtain permission to fell them. She was gung ho because she got three or more trailerloads of free firewood.

The excuse was and in fact there are two excuses trotted out was because the autumn fall blocked the gutterings. Well what the hell are the staff for and capable of if they cannot clean out 8' of guttering once a year from one unit?????????????

there seems to be no recourse for stupidity, slyness, ignorance and vindictiveness. 

If you want to know how it rolls around here try this;

a fictional account of the realities of getting old and being institutionalised and jammed up against the bureaucracy and the madness of dementia and people who you don't know and would not want to know.