How dull, how shabby, how tatty – some might say ‘how Byron Shire!’
What on earth happened to the botanical name theme for the street names around here?
One can bet one’s life that the guilty clown in Council’s offices who came up with the dopiness (and there has to be an investigation – such stupidities don’t happen by osmosis) will be too ashamed to own up, and will shrink behind the shabby shield of ‘collegiality’, or use some other eccentric excuse to escape exposure.
Let’s sum it up – it is a remarkable, risible, revolution of the ridiculous.
Spooner might say that a loon might (be) close. But surely this loon is close, in the form of Byron Shire Council.


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