Decided to take myself and Mrs P for a late afternoon stroll around Buttermere today, it was very nice as most of you will testify.
Sadly the walk was marred by the copious amounts of dog excrement, nicely packaged in black plastic bags and deposited at most of the gates and even by some of the viewpoint seats, some was hung off bushes like sad black blooms, and some was even stuffed into crevices in the dry stone walls.
Now I'm not blaming the lovely pooches, and not even all of the dog owners, but there must be dozens of them who have no regard for the countryside they are walking through.
I have never seen anyone dropping their precious parcels for someone else to pick up, but if I do could I raise a plea for justifiable homicide?
(Pictures available, but I am sure you all have better taste than to ask!)