Wednesday, 12 April 2006
Hosepipe ban
Another nauseating tale of the ways in which we are being encouraged to shop our fellow citizens comes from the Guardian via Longrider:
Paula Campbell, a spokeswoman for Three Valleys Water, which services 3m households in north London and the home counties, says its best informant is a "very keen" woman who increases the scope of her surveillance by snooping as she takes her daily jog. ("She says she is exhausted from all the running," Ms Campbell report). Gardeners on her route beware - she has shopped several since the ban began just over a week ago, and is on the lookout for more. It is not known whether "supergrass" showers, or for how long, on her return home.
In any civilised country, of course, this woman would have been found hanging from a length of garden hose days ago.
