Thursday 30 September 2021
Wednesday 29 September 2021
Monday 27 September 2021
Sunday 26 September 2021
"Food Security"... They make it sound so clinical."Homeland prosperity" sounds more comforting.
"I didn't do nothing..."
Saturday 25 September 2021
Friday 24 September 2021
Thursday 23 September 2021
Wednesday 22 September 2021
Tuesday 21 September 2021
Monday 20 September 2021
Sunday 19 September 2021
Saturday 18 September 2021
Friday 17 September 2021
Thursday 16 September 2021
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Awaiting Due Process...
Aren't we all? In the meantime, ignoring draconian guesswork based regulation, we are sticking with the accumulated traditional common wisdom, that has carried mankind through millenia of natural adversity.The modern contribution may not displace or replace the effective life support mechanisms accrued through generations of rural living. Why throw good healthy homegrown habits away?
Agri Business is turning the traditional life supportive rural hinterland into a pathogenic toxic desert...
Tuesday 14 September 2021
Monday 13 September 2021
Sunday 12 September 2021
Saturday 11 September 2021
Gleaning the Meaning of the Beaning of Life...
The ghost of a shadow of his former self...
Friday 10 September 2021
Thursday 9 September 2021
Wednesday 8 September 2021
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Monday 6 September 2021
Saturday 4 September 2021
Jungle Mama checks her brood...
Dobri Dyen, Moy Droog... Ayup, the Russian One.
My token "Hello". I haven't got to know any Russian People. The closest I got to it was busking in France years ago. Stas was (?is),a good Celtic (Irish style) whistler. A lot of fuss seems to have been made in the Western world about the dangers posed by the "post Soviet" progress. For the record, I have never been a gullible believer. At the time of the "cold war" they started teaching me Russian. They were just starting to experiment with language labs. I enjoyed the lessons sadly now mostly forgotten. Taken out of school too early. My attitudes to the modern Liberalised Socialism post war were considered too rebellious back then, my guardians took little interest in my schooling. At seventeen they "sold me down the river" to serve at the rich man's table as a silver service waiter. I dropped out. Exploitative,"Lakeland Trust" scheme, a residential eighteen hour day on permanent call to affluent clientelle,all for five pounds a week. It wasn't a home I wanted to live in. I dropped out.I've been "out" ever since.Get in contact "Russian One", if you have the wit or the will, we are easily found. Honest amicable exchange over manipulative propaganda bullshit. We all benefit from learning to make friends, one at a time.It's been a long road since coming into my majority in sixty nine.I'm pushing seventy on an uphill climb. Working on the "Big Finale". It'll likely be years before I'm gone forever, but time is of the essence if anyone out there has notions of jamming together. You don't need a ticket.
Friday 3 September 2021
Ayup Emma, Good Morning...Just wondering...
You'll see a lot of postings gleaned from the YouTube on the subject of narcissism. Heaven only knows if you take the time to listen, there has been little evidence so far of any healthy response to an alienated parent's distanced caring. That's for most of your lifetime, daughter. Graceless, charmless attitudes aappear to have been groomed nurtured and cultivated in your expression of personality and character, that now would give no benign service in your senior years. Being honest with yourself would have to come first.Then being honest and morally righteous with ,for and to others. One attitude copes with all without complications, practically and without moral compromise.
As we are the sum of our life's experience it may be worthwhile to allow the previous posting's message to penetrate the familial denial barrier. A small pill of nostalgic reflection. You may be curious as to how things came about that you should hate me so unaturally. If I had raanted on back in the day with the lessons that the post below tries to convey I doubt you would have kept your ears unblocked for long. You may need to discuss the points the doctors advice may cover. I hope you have a trustworthy long term other with whom you may talk. I saw a glimpse of a photo of you and a man. I didn't dwell on it. What might I learn about him or you, from a posed photo. If you are both commited to staying together he'd be welcome here, he's brave enough to get over any misinformation or personal shyness I hope. My offers of familial hospitality are not meant to be seen as a challenge.
Love's a strange beast of burden. It often carries pain amongst the pleasure, We may not seperate the two in favour of our own likings. If you have real friends out there (where ever that is), who may read this ,relating to the subject of which I allude, i.e. narcissism, I hope they prod you in the right direction.I will leave the destination up to you.. Reading a book "The Emotional Terrorist", by Erin Prizzy, (spelling ?), might be enlightening, Check it out.
You might like to give your dislike and contempt you have expressed for your brother an objective reappraisal. Perhaps there is more to it than I would care to know. Familial Love between the Three of you just isn't natural..None of you know the rules of the game the others are playing by. All three exclude each other. Three strategies three seperate games. Good Luck with that time waste anyway. I only play the flute, and on occasion I play the Fool.I sometimes think the three of you would sneak off to Canada, or that you have perhaps gone back to Abercrave. I haven't chased it up but the last news was of the back aching, Pinky Scrubbers variety. So how's all that going? I am not one for imagining too much, rather first hand real time encounter every time.Book now while Stocks Last.
Oh well, nuff sed for now.
Distant Love, Emma Grace...Dad.
Thursday 2 September 2021
Tractor man is creating a dust storm upwind of our little field...
Not the weather for what he's doing ideally, the surface is dehydrating fast. It means I wont be able to harvest more beans and Zuchinni until the tractorman finishes work. A cloud of mineral bearing what ever he has sprayed or powdered on the field since the wheat was cut, blow into the air every year. I can't believe they serve the long term interest of the land. They are closer to carpet baggers than cultivators. The Earth will only get poorer by their misguided ministrations.
Our region has seen major changes. It supported more life back in the day. Recent aeriel photos show the extent asset strippers have exploited the landscape. That little cluster of houses,(a "hamlet" the English would call it), low centre, is where we live. The east side of the village has periods every year when it's just a wind blown "desert". We are trying to aquire the land, how lucky we'll be is anyone's guess. We could then create a "Buffer Zone" of protection against airborne toxins, pathogenic pesticides and what not. A good ground plan, waits in the wings for a chance to manifest. Once the Juggernaught has passed...
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What may we do to improve things. Buy the land back and set a better durable example.Encourage small holding homesteads. Bring vibrant families back to the Rural Quartier. Help to bring back the Earth to a dignified retirement from industrialised denatured service.The land is degrading fast. It needs your help. New skills need learning. Be part of the Agrarian Rennaissance, "La vie paysanne c'est permanent", it's the only way forward.
