Dear Sir,
Coming home from the Good Friday Service at the Xcel Centre we drove up St Cuthbert’s Way in the sunshine enjoying the beautiful array of crocuses which were all in bloom.
We would have done the same with the daffodils except there were no blooms to admire as three youngsters (aged about 10/12) were clutching large bunches of daffodils rapidly picking any that were in bloom.
What a pity they couldn’t leave them for everyone to enjoy – picked blooms don’t last as long as those left growing. I don’t know if they took them home and whether they told their parents where they got them from – but if they did I hope their parents pointed out to them that what they had done really amounted to theft – stealing them from the rest of the community who could have enjoyed them.
Rev Sheelah Stevens
