DEAR editor,

Penarth the garden by the sea?

Well, no - that's what it used to be

Before our more pragmatic ways

Turned front lawns into parking bays.

Remember hedges, snip, snip, snip

Meant Sunday mornings at the tip?

They harboured bugs and nesting birds

Unerring where they aimed their turds

Sang raucous songs at 5am.

New Larchlap soon put paid to them

Our pristine paving, wall to wall

Has covered up the messy soil

The small raised bed is quite a feature

And keeps the kids in touch with nature.

And Council, when it finds the fees

Will fell those pesky pavement trees.

Sue Knight

Redlands Road

Penarth