Natural England [organisme public chargé de la protection de l’environnement] wishes to extend its coastal path, which already covers a good part of England. I know this because some time ago one of their agents showed up at the door of my Suffolk home [dans l’est de l’Angleterre]. He had a proposal for me: he wanted to pass this hiking trail right in the middle of my garden.
I live in an estuary – I’ve always known that. In the past, the coastal path was interrupted each time it crossed a relatively wide arm of the sea. The route never strayed far from the shore, and hikers found themselves left to their own devices in the creeks. But today, trail managers want to include estuaries and river mouths. Rightly so, because, after all, they’re part of the coastline too – it’s a very elongated stretch, further inland, and windy, but a stretch of coastline nonetheless.
The bad faith of neighbors
Anyway, Mr. Biodiversity came knocking on the back door, armed with his maps and compasses, and begged me to give him a stretch of grass, just behind the meadow where my alpacas graze. This would allow him to create a passage to another busy path, which leads to the dyke. I was lost. “But the path starts that way”, I replied in a quavering voice, vaguely pointing in another direction. “We want
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