Airing a few of Iz views.

We're keeping busy ...

Cloches cover some early lettuce. Soft neck garlic looking like leeks already early broad beans just coming into bloom. a second crop sown in February is now emerging, grateful for the few days of good sunshine. A fuzz of new leaf on the silver birch. Blossom bursting on the plum tree.

Boxwood hedging grown from cuttings. The stones will eventually be moved uphill when the young roots have secured the ground. The grass path will have to be upgraded. Loose soil is slowly dribbling through the dry stone wall.  I will cut the turf away by the wall to reinstate a camber. The grass turf that is removed will be dried on top of the stones then used as a mulch for the hedge. 

This morning  I got the warning from Anne-Sophie,"Don't go out they are spraying the fields with fungicide." Thankful for the warning. I had forgotten about the "Spray Season" distracted somewhat by the natural beauty of new spring growth.  How may we counteract the evident damage that air borne chemical fertilizer particles Aerosol slurry droplets as well as pesticide herbicide and fungicide over spray. We are being poisoned. Emile has had a crisis. He has faced a lifetime of seasonally polluted air. Covid Contamination is one of the least significant risks to our health. I have lived and worked through many popular epidemics, when everyone around is complaining about the Flu. Our immunity to natural hazard is good. So it is for most of the elderly folk around here. Virusses descend from the upper atmosphere every cold season. For the most part there's an organic remedy for every "Old World" ailment. Little need for masks. No need whatsoever for the introduction of intra muscular injection.

My layman's view is as follows: Our evolved immunity protection ,given that we are upright social creatures, seems by whatever accident or divine plan, to defend against lateral contamination. Natural well tested remedies applied through "usual channels",i.e.as food introduced orally, whether as infusion, a tisane,or as a balanced healthy diet, "Food for Health" sez we. The brain is hard wired with the continuous experience over millenia.Our D.N.A. is our deep core memory bank. Creating an unnatural back door by I.M. introduces confusion to the natural system of personal protection. Our immune systems are near maxed out coping with occupational hazard, industrial pollutants , the continuous out pourings of exhaust effluent from domestic heating, cooking and cars. Huddled against the discomforts of urban winters central heating turned up. Folk overcrowded breathing each others expelled air creates as much of a vector in the human quarter as intensively reared animals do when burdened by similar viruses. Tuberculosis in humans, cows and badgers, avian flu, pig flu.  Innoculation , guaranteeing immunity doesn't exist. even after a second shot. Be warned... It may also distract the biological intelligence from coping with an already overburdened relative "front line" , preoccupied , maintaining it's defence against all manner of illness, bacterial, fungal and viral as well as the wear and tear and physical damage caused by service of work in inhospitable and toxic industrial environments. There's much to be said on the iPhoney, prolonged crisis. happy to discuss in person. Drop in for coffee sometime if you've a will. Leave your masks at home we want to see your smiling healthy faces. 

The local cloud of fungicidal toxicity has passed us by now,so we may resume our enjoyment of fresh oxygenated air. There are no borders or barriers to the wind borne effluent. Where is it likely to linger longest is in the urban crush, combining with all other atmospheric pollutants on the way. 

The Big Cold is creeping up on us, we still hear folk speaking and acting as though Al Gore's movie was a true prediction and a warning. It's a movie. The urban quarter is becoming a sump for airborne water soluble pathogens. When will it be safe to breath in?...