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panik at 06:51pm on 10/07/2006 under middlesexu
panik at 06:51pm on 10/07/2006 under middlesexuWell, we kinda needed it. Everyone's tending to drop off after lunch. We've talked to Mike about it, explaining how, even though we're all REALLY into the slideshows and videos we get in the afty, we can't help it. I personally think, the course is SO intense, there's such a lot to take in, that, by 2pm, the brain's sort of backing off, hands raised going 'whoa, dude! Enough already.'
We spent our morning under the giant cedar outside our room, discussing natural pest control. Dry as a bone under that gorgeous tree, even though it was raining. Halfway through, a beautiful little Nuthatch arrived to hop around the branches, picking off bugs - possibly some of the money spiders that kept dropping on us as the gentle rain from heaven upon the permaculturists beneath.
After lunch, we warded off sleep by hacking our way through jungle-like woodlands (she went for a tramp in the woods but he got away - heh heh), looking at chestnut-hornbeam coppice; saw two gorgeous old Hornbeams, twisted around each other as if they were kissing (aw!) Then had our afternoon lecture (seeds and seed collecting) sitting in a clearing, on a ring of fallen trees. All rather lovely, till it really began to rain and we had to head off back, pausing only to snag yet more cherries and some of those mouth watering day lillies. Yum.
Then, the usual afternoon of slides, trying desperately not to drop off.
I just finished my evening's reading; 'Permaculture in a Nutshell' - I need to get through 'no dig gardening', tonight, too - a leaflet issued by the Department of Works, with a beezer looking chap on the front, in a fantastic suit, gleaming brylcreamed short back n sides, a rather spanky pipe and an expression of clench-jawed, intense determination - price, 3/- Hee!
We spent our morning under the giant cedar outside our room, discussing natural pest control. Dry as a bone under that gorgeous tree, even though it was raining. Halfway through, a beautiful little Nuthatch arrived to hop around the branches, picking off bugs - possibly some of the money spiders that kept dropping on us as the gentle rain from heaven upon the permaculturists beneath.
After lunch, we warded off sleep by hacking our way through jungle-like woodlands (she went for a tramp in the woods but he got away - heh heh), looking at chestnut-hornbeam coppice; saw two gorgeous old Hornbeams, twisted around each other as if they were kissing (aw!) Then had our afternoon lecture (seeds and seed collecting) sitting in a clearing, on a ring of fallen trees. All rather lovely, till it really began to rain and we had to head off back, pausing only to snag yet more cherries and some of those mouth watering day lillies. Yum.
Then, the usual afternoon of slides, trying desperately not to drop off.
I just finished my evening's reading; 'Permaculture in a Nutshell' - I need to get through 'no dig gardening', tonight, too - a leaflet issued by the Department of Works, with a beezer looking chap on the front, in a fantastic suit, gleaming brylcreamed short back n sides, a rather spanky pipe and an expression of clench-jawed, intense determination - price, 3/- Hee!
calm
Too cool for subject
And that 3 shilling leaflet with the pipe-toting chap? Sounds straight out of the Fifties! I hope the information isn't out of date! :oD
Too cool for subject
::nods wildly:: It's been INTENSE!
1947, actually :D And good info NEVER goes out of date!