Bouquet for volunteer gardeners

IN a city studded with pocket parks, one stands out in Wanniassa.

Congratulations to the locals in Halfrey Circuit who have planted out, and maintain, a beautiful flower-filled edge to this small park.

For those who keep fit by walking the neighbourhood, as I do, it sparks joy to see these patches in full bloom, like jewels decorating the crown of this hill.

My thanks to those special Canberrans who are sharing their passion for gardening, to lift the lives of others.

D Giannakakis, Wanniassa

tired of our government catering to these octogenarian yahoos – their walking strollers and caravans jamming our pathways and city streets.

If that’s not enough Commonwealth Park is jammed to bursting with young couples and families taking selfies.

And through the whole month we’re overwhelmed with the stench of flowers, pollen and endless, endless sneezing.

I say it’s high time our government packed up the mountains of compost used to build this annual nightmare and send the manure back where it came from!

Rob Thomas, via email

Have Australians voted for Socialism?

SO, Andrew Barr is calling for more federal assistance for the failing ACT health system.

If he was not wasting billions of dollars on useless light rail he could well improve our disastrous health system.

However, his imploration to federal Labor, like the other Labor governments, is potentially more sinister than that.

Fallen branches, some dead, ignored

ON November 30, I wrote about the disfigured state of the trees along my street, Macgregor Street, in Deakin. Unsurprisingly, little has changed.

The sawn-off stump is still there, several branches, some dead, some alive, have fallen. These include a large eucalypt branch at the corner opposite the Deakin shops, and a large wattle branch on my street, near the gym. Both have lain there for several weeks.

FLORIADE is a menace to our fair city and it needs to go!

Every spring our peaceful bush capital is overrun with silver-haired flower obsessives needing their tulip fix. I, for one, am

We could well be looking at nationalisation of health. We already have nationalisation of the electricity system well under way.

What will be next? Have Australians voted for Socialism?

Max Flint, Erindale Centre

Some areas of tall grass and weeds have been mown. Others, some in prominent places, remain waiting for a careless cigarette butt.

It seems that it will take a serious injury from a fallen branch or an uncontrolled conflagration to spur ACT City Services into action.

Dr Douglas Mackenzie, Deakin