Tuesday morning the farmer across the river brought down two wagon loads of stone and tipped them on the river bank. It seemed wise to keep an eye on this suspicious development yesterday; and, sure enough, at breakfast time a gang of men turned up with digger and cement mixer and timber and got to work. They were building some sort of dam across the river downstream from us.
Having had the river through our field twice this winter, this was not a welcome sign. But a call to an extremely helpful and concerned Environment Agency Wales resulted in some action. They left the work to continue for the rest of the morning, then turned up in the afternoon, read the riot act and told the gang to remove everything. By late afternoon the river looked as though nothing had happened.
And I assume the farmer has been left with a warning from the EAW, if not a threat of prosecution, and a large bill from the contractor.
I slept well last night
