With some trepidation I went for a walk on Saturday on Port Meadow for the first time since the hue and cry in some quarters about the expanded student accommodation at Castle Mill.
It was a beautiful winter’s morning – clear and cold and bright.
The sun glinted on the river where ducks and geese honked and splashed, cattle mooched on the banks, a flock of starlings wheeled around, and I’m pretty sure I saw an egret and certainly a heron. It was a lovely and tranquil scene.
Only on my way back into town was I even aware of the student flats. Do they spoil Port Meadow?
Today’s letters
Not one jot; certainly not for me nor, from everything I saw and heard, for anyone else.
I find the protesters’ rant about the ruination of Port Meadow quite absurd.
Time to move on? I think so.
Geoff Crawford, Cowley Road, Oxford
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