Monday 1st April 2013
A Bank Holiday Monday may be the perfect excuse to relax, especially at Easter when there’s chocolate to be consumed, but it goes without saying that serious matters are still being considered behind the scenes and feelings are still running high when it comes to the threat of the fields at Home Farm, Boreham, on the east side of Warminster, becoming 320 houses if land development agents Hallam Land Management should get their way.
EBRAG (the East Boreham Residents Action Group) have a second public meeting advertised for Thursday 11th April at St. John’s Church, Boreham Road, starting at 6.30 p.m.
And the Bard of Boreham, Rikardo, who is no stranger to protesting with poetry, has just submitted his latest verse/song ~ a message from local people to those elsewhere who threaten Boreham’s much-loved landscape and the rural environment which nestles between Battlesbury and Bishopstrow. Here are Rikardo’s latest lyrics:
OLD DIRT ROAD
People out a’ walking
Along the old dirt road,
Stepping out without fear
And having confidence;
Not subjected to Highway Code.
Long may they walk
Not letting their feet erode,
Protecting their freeway from calamity
And from the opposition who are ignorant to ode.
People are a’ talking
About devastation, not far from the hill.
The sycophants, the bully-boys and the parasites
Are on a mission, they’re out to kill.
A time to stand up to the Philistines
Who are driven by greed and bad will.
A reason for a season to battle
‘Til the end, to conquer and to fulfill.
People are just happy
When you leave them well alone.
Get back to the city and your glamorous lights,
Slip back into your zone.
The karma wheel is spinning fast
And the truth will be written on stone.
Get out of here and kindly return
To the seat of your tyrannical throne.
People out a’ walking
Along the old dirt road,
Stepping out without fear
And having confidence;
Not subjected to Highway Code.
Long may they walk
Not letting their feet erode,
Protecting their freeway from calamity
And from the opposition who are ignorant to ode.
The Bard of Boreham ~ Rikardo.