Result!

Yes! It does pay to moan or complain because it gets things put right. We pay for everything whether it is in the form of goods or services and now I am retired I have the time to make darned sure that I get value for money.
Last week, after tackling Tesco (that one is still ongoing and I haven't followed it up yet), I contacted the city council because a path that I use regularly is very overgrown. The pavement runs along the side of the local primary school field and there are brambles, thistles and elder spreading right across with various other weeds that eagerly grab at your arms and ankles to scratch, sting or poke you in the eye as you pass.
I pointed out to the nice lady who took the details that there were a lot of elderly people and Mums with buggys that had to use that path every day to get into the centre to the shops. There is also a scrapyard that has very heavy lorries regularly collecting and commuter cars parked all the way up the narrow street and that makes it impossible for people to walk on the road.
She dutifully took all the details and I did say it seemed strange that the school had recently spent thousands of pounds to make a garden for the children who use the school but the rest of the school grounds resembled a waste site. The grounds around the school had also had several thousand pounds spent on them in the past five years but you'd never believe it to see the weeds now!
Anyway, this morning she rang me to give me a progress update and it seems that someone who deals with street safety inspected it last week and the school have now been sent a letter which gives them fourteen days to address the problem or the council will do it and charge them.
I thanked her for ringing me to let me know and at least I feel better because it should all be tidied and cleared before the school summer holidays.