Over the recent months I have taken several photos of the changing scenes from this track with distant snow covered mountains to the north at the start of lockdown and yellow oil seed rape fields in May towards the hills in the south.  Now the yellow fields are brown as the rapeseed has ripened and this field the grass has been cut and baled where three months ago there were masses of dandelions.  Fortunately no vehicles are able to get along this path but we passed two very large piles of rubbish on the nearby country lanes   Fly tipping is becoming a real problem and we met a man who said that he had watched a roofing company van being unloaded with a huge pile of materials and after taking photos and the van registration number he reported it to the police.  He was told that they had no time to investigate fly tipping and subsequently a few days later the pile was set alight which could have set the adjacent wood on fire.  In May I saw two large piles of very large cardboard boxes, polythene and packaging of many new household furniture items on two sites over three kilometres apart and took photos then reported them to the council as the tipper foolishly had left his address with invoices in full view on both of his piles.  I was thanked by the council and told that it was now up to the police to take it further but now I wonder if they did. Perhaps that foolish tipper had also left other piles of rubbish elsewhere and still does but  takes care to remove his personal details.  Unfortunately due to council refuse centres having had restricted openings recently the problem has become worse and I wonder what sort of people have no consideration for the environment and others.

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