Ching Ming Trash!

The Redoubtable Mrs Walker is on the warpath. Three weeks ago, she was enraged about the amount of rubbish left behind at the cemeteries after the Ching Ming Ancestor Worship Festival this year ... and so we passed through one yesterday on our way to Ma Shi Chau National Park to see if this one too had yet been cleaned up.

The answer was ...

Three weeks and still no clean-up.  Not even the bins emptied!

Who you gonna call?  28680000 it says here?  Joke!!!  It isn't the right number however this government number will transfer you from here if you ring.

And I must tell you that I'm currently trying to ring them and I've been on hold since 11.45! 25 minutes of "Sorry, our hotlines are busy, please wait!"

Apparently this grave clean-up service has now been passed from Government to the private sector ... and do you too feel that the private sector is not doing their job?  This cemetery was filthy and the entire hillside stinks!

And there's all sorts of random wind-blown Hell Money all over the National Park ... 

 ... although that is the least of the National Park worries! (Another huffy post yet to come!)

Shocking, isn't it!  This year everyone is talking about how the standards of cleanliness in HK have dropped so dramatically - you should see the numbers of "Angry in Tseun Wan" etc Letters-to-the-Editor in various newspapers - and now it looks like we could have just found the reason:

SUB-CONTRACTING!!! And, specifically, sub-contracting to people who aren't actually doing what they're being paid to do!

It's such a shame to see it so neglected and stinky because these cemeteries are so very pretty ... 

... and surely dead ancestors deserve so much better!

I'll eventually be posting on these fabulous Chinese cemeteries so I won't show you any more now.  I've just done this one since Mrs Walker wants my photos to send to the Government Department formerly responsible for the annual post Ching Ming clean-ups with an attached PLEASE EXPLAIN! 

And I'm right there behind her because three weeks - THREE WEEKS!!! - is just too long for nothing to have been done!

Go go Mrs Walker!