I Sympathise with everybody who has had unpleasant things happen to them. It does seem difficult to have any belief in justice and fairplay these days. I so want to believe in the goodness of people, especially young ones, but it is so easy to become cynical. We had so much vandalism at our Site last year and I personally had my fence burnt down and our greenhosue broken into and used as a site for drug taking. They graffitied all over the inside of it and left it a right mess, and I know it was young people as I have seen them - a police officer and I chased some of them off my plot one day.
Our local authority have just built a lovely willow youth shelter just outside our allotment gates, it will have a lamp nearby. The idea is to allow young people somewhere they can congregate safely, and I really do hope it works out well for them and I don't begrudge them a space for themselves. A lot of my allotment colleagues are just waiting for the trouble to begin, but I am just hoping they are proved wrong. busy_lizzie
