March 18.Your series The Squalor of Scotland, should have focused on
the complete lack of pride shown by many Scots in their country today.
The trash syndrome shown in the colour photo on the front page of the
Herald is all too commonplace and is a growing blight in Scotland (March
17).
Fortunate to live in this beautiful glen, I am a part-time voluntary
bin-man, for my verges and driveway are used as a coup by passing
motorists in daylight and after dark. Verges are littered
with old refrigerators, broken furniture, stained mattresses,
builders' rubble, and plastic bags of waste and old clothes. Yesterday
yielded two broken lawn mowers. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night are
popular with courting couples. They leave the more personal mementoes.
Bloody tampons and used condoms hang like obscene fruit from the hedges,
and soiled sanitary towels towels are flung into the burn.
The town tip in Perth lies six miles away and, over the years, I have
carted tons of rubble there in vain attempts to keep clean this little
bit of the most beautiful country on earth.
You should have drawn attention to this unlovely facet of the Scots
character, though I fear it will be shrugged off by people determined to
turn this lovely land into a slum. Where has all the pride gone?
Curt Theobald,
Hillfoot of Glencarse,
Perthshire.
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