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the garden right now .....

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I'm posting these as we now have our chums on board and its vital they can see and read of what I do, to know what is here.



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I laid the herringbone brick paths 22 years ago, they were all down probably within half a year of moving in.



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Above, Frit meleagris, we also have the F. imperialis in the front garden, all pics on this post are of the back.



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The boundary stone was rescued from a riverbed twenty or more years ago. I shudder to think what happens to this spectacular and imaginative loveliness when we leave this planet.....


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Centre are the Erythronium dens-canis ie dogs tooth violets, Frit melaegris and seed raised oxlip.

Gardens evolve, the garden dictates what will grow ie light levels, moisture, soil structure. I merely poke stuff in and let the garden decide. I am keen on a healthy and sufficient layer of leaves and organic debris, theres certainly NO autumnal removal of leaves in this garden; birds, worms, invertebrates of all types cherish this more realistic soil system. And certainly never the crazy covering of soil that breeds all the things you do not want. Also homemade compost is not the universal good thing the radio and tv pundits wld have you believe, mulching with compost can easily destroy crocus bulbs.


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The mower is a Honda, its over-heavy, slow running, not my favourite machine at all ! Only good thing I can say about it is that the wheels are big; but already it is rusting at what will be its 'weak points'.

Most of the above was rescued as thrown away by others. I nowadays never go to any garden centre; Jans Plants was my favourite, H'gate also twenty plus years ago before it grew. Why must a business grow? .. it seems these days on its much expanded and slick form its not making a profit yet its my belief that once you have the best or better business model ie good customer experience, etc surely keep it, but all that has been thrown away to become the mega-supermarket on the hill. In their defence they actually were in the position of ever increasing footfall ... Easter for example was astounding ... so the only way was 'up'.



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Above is actually more than two feet tall even this early, the pic makes it look dwarf, a cultivated form of Doronicum ie leopards bane.



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An indistinct unclear image, note frits centre, this two months ago was a sea of white from snowdrops then blue and purple with crocus, now its frits, oxlip and the beginning of tulips in flower.


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Gardening is good training in realising how soon things will disappear and to enjoy them whilst you can..... this obviously prompts us to re-visit poets such as Herrick and Marvel ......

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm


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An area that was a cuttings bed turned now to an area for flowers prompted by the disappearance of a much valued penpal; it has a pathway and plants not seen elsewhwre in the garden and gems from other gardeners ie Mrs Nields hellebore, roseroot, Canterbury bells and cyclamen, Mrs Carltons perennial phlox and C. tomassianus, Mrs Rennies Ophiopogon, auricula and P. denticulata, Yasmins oriental grass, and my own seed raised and bought Lilium regale which are seven foot spires topped with incredible white trumpets of astounding scent. As it was a rose cuttings bed we have also a moss rose and rosa Mundi whether we like it or not !



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Above are seed raised from AGS seed at least a decade ago, they need a couple of weeks yet before looking their best.


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Above is a well behaved corner at top R.H. ie NNW corner of the garden. Its remarkably weed free as is most of the garden despite the untouched 22 year wilderness next door, a place no-one goes, not even the birds.  My aunties hellebore, Mrs Rennie primrose, Mrs Nields Heuchera and Epimedium and snowdrops from the town dump which luckily i brought here as its now had an eight inch thick track of hardcore material laid to get heavy equipment over to electricity pylons.

The devastation wrought by subsequent house owners on their newly purchased garden can and will be frightening, its because they don't know what they are looking at nor what a 'thing' can produce or is capable of in its twelve months of activity, they regard and denigrate it as just 'rubbish' or just a plant, that word 'just' often prefaces a vast sea of ignorance. When I did workshop work for other firms nearby i was always irritated by the use of the word 'just' ie "Can you just do that ..." ... "can you just do this ..." etc

'Just' could be ten hours .... and it was up to ME to get the price right, often against one bright spark that had this unceasing knee jerk reaction with "Thats a bit steep" ....


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Standard apple at right, AGS seed grown Philadelphus, ivy for the wren.


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In a few days this will be a sea of stunning red, opening flat if the light level is sufficient. All are tulips given to me by David and Gillian, underplanted with Buphthalmum from Miss Rennie, the latter have huge flat daisy like yellow flowers, stunning and provides late summer pollen for the bees, hoverflies etc.


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Back to the dogs-tooth violets, irresistible ......

I've also had a white creeping viola that was collected from a certain to be swept away river bank up the Coquet say ten years ago, I feared it had disappeared but a few days ago its back into flowering after two or three years without.


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Kerria japonica I think ..... I've made an effort to get this to flower better this year, several doses of Miraclgro seem to have done the trick, this is following the advice of Dr Dick a few years ago and certainly i find the results better than Phostrogen, she also kindly gave me her Pieris and many tulip bulbs. Her neighbour was very kind too, Mrs Forbes donated several gardening books inc my favourite the 1960's Readers Digest three volumes in slip case with their exquisite use of coloured line drawings as illustrations throughout, these drew on a much older style of botanical illustration, I have three sets now! and I can remember as a child being fascinated with all they contained. Other kids wld be running around shouting and screaming, i would be reading, exploring, learning, doing, making things .....



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This is plum blossom and bizarrely its a disaster .... theres too much .. it signals that there will be masses of fruit forming which will be too congested hence weigh the branches down and rot because of its crowded nature. Its named variety Czar which is self-fertile, it doesn't need pollinating insects, just as well as there seems so few bees around this year, i never see tv news or any news but certainly bee numbers to my mind seem disastrously low.


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it will have picked up the Miraclgro i have been using generally around the garden ... heck !


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Czar blossom close-up, in the summer each flower will become a delicious plum.


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 Oxlip in profusion, it can vary, but certainly as we say up here 'its a bobby dazzler' ...


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Anemone, not an easy plant, to my mind fickle and seems not easy from the bulbs sold in the autumn, therefore seemingly better bought 'in the green' ie as a live plant as with snowdrops ie Galanthus.



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i am an idiot .....

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I worked well yesterday, focused, interested in my work and output was good, no snags; a satisfying session 12 till 6. I am a terrible man for throwing things in the scrap bin, only components that are 100% as good as the best i've done, ie the height at which i've set the bar make it to the finished board of parts, everything laid out in orderly rows, seldom anything jumbled, certainly never when at the finished stage.

I noticed I didn't have the more usual anxious tendency for speed, i was a more relaxed looser feel to the machine work; it was a difficult component, i make a batch of them on the castan lathe every couple of years and for the first couple of sessions seemed a jagged and complicated series of moves, part of the trick is to 'choreograph' your movements so they are fluent, fluid, natural. And so at this last session things seemed to have 'clicked'. I've also started coconut oil as a supplement and wonder if over these last few days i am better for it, certainly stomach feels better and possibly of a happier disposition, in a 'nice place' as ppl might say. I've also 5-HTP to start but wife says i tried them a couple of years ago and they did not agree with me, made me anxious, full of hell probably ... DRAT .... just spent a tenner at Healthspan !!

But the idiot part comes in up at the horses, at the start of a heavy shower of rain, wind driven rain and so I decide to jump out of the car and feed them, we'd had a half hour on Grimpin Mire at Smoods request so time was marching on and it needed to be done pronto ! And as could be guessed ten minutes later after getting quite wet and back into the car the rain stopped! What was unfortunate is that the Corsa that I run has a most useless heater, I'm used to and need blasting with heat, there have been several times in years gone past that after three four or five hours out on foot i will return to the car wet and on the hours drive south wil need an effective heater, the Vauxhall Corsa is useless for this. Its also a liability at crossroads and roundabouts, i cannot see it making a very good city car, cumbersome, no torque. the much cheaper and some wld say inferior Ford Ka had torque, the power to pull away quickly. This thing, which is much heavier (with its side impact protection etc) the Corsa at run ups to cruising speed and up inclines is decidedly not impressive; its all very frustrating and overtaking is not a certainty, in fact a decided danger if anything should appear coming towards us !!!   Again, frustrating. But then again in the cars defense I must say it did not cost me a lot of money and is a comfortable safe ride for my passengers.

But rain is no problem to men such as ourselves, we smile in the face of adversity, NO ... we positively laugh and languish in such adverse conditions .......

Theres a brief film of me n nine horse driving and running toward the feed area, the night previous it was stunning, fine weather, flowing manes but last night was v wet and a blinding bright light that overturns the cameras ability to handle light levels, never mind I will post it later tonight ...



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All shot by pointing 'blind' unable to see the screen whilst rain comes in the open window.


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Ancient man I assume would have been fascinated by meteorlogical and natural phenomena; I am !!

By feeding 365 we are very aware as to the travel of the Sun as it makes its yearly journey, swinging from a limited winter path to a huge wide circle, we are lucky too that the road we often travel on acts as a sundial, only at midsummer does the Sun set directly at the end of it, intentional orientation? ... i don't know. Its a north running road so it is bound to at some point, but luckily it is just at the northern end of it higher elevation, so several factors co-incide. Iin fact the pics of my sundial were made quite by chance at that exact place.


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each evening ....

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I can remember several times seeing stoats here in the twenty years we have traversed 'the circuit'.

And maybe less than ten years ago i remember seeing a white stoat in his coat of ermine.

They are terrible killers, adept and super-quick, but all the same I wish them luck.

Look at his eyes, wide pool receptacles of anything that moves .......




representative of what we do ..... http://kllrchrd3.livejournal.com/tag/out%20with%20smood

http://kllrchrd3.livejournal.com/tag/smood

http://kllrchrd3.livejournal.com/tag/smud

and maybe llikewise later i'll work thro kll2 and kll .....



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And this is the music I've had on loop as I've pasted these pics, the lovely voice and personality  of Triona ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4n7O8-OEI

And heres her brother Michael that sadly has passed away .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wa4lF4MeSo

A tape that has given out for me after being played endlessly over many years, my favourite from them being 'The Bothy Band' self titled album, a source of incredible joy and wonder, then and now.

It was a sound world that resonated with me, true and authentic but filled with imagination;  after my dad died and i went into digs at last i was able to get backpacking into this wonderful landscape. I had plenty to occupy me....



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early morning garden ....

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Ever since we were told the lie that the workshops had to close because of the 'Fire Officers Report' ie read demolition to build houses my sleep has been disturbed, awake and up far too early every morning. Mostly awake by 0400 and often up at 0500. The property management company thus formed to perform this dirty business is proving shifty, incompetent; shirking any role and high handed in their incompetence. yet so far my dealings with them seem less caustic than others are experiencing, however I'm a little behind the curve in moving out, as third week August is the final deadline so I'm pencilling in as mid May the date to get serious and maybe 20th May to arrange the lorry and men to move the machines out.   All of us are in fear the invoices will not be honoured.

Then I have to construct some form of viable working environment, pictured below is a little of what I have to pack and label ....



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30 years, £800k from one pair of hands, 80% export.

and for 21 years two beagles !!

thats a clean honest record, something the shits that are ousting us can never boast of ......

yet my presence shall live on, hundreds of orchids and other charming plants shall occupy this land a decade after we have vacated; a little like 'Miss Whilmotts ghost' of gardening lore.


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So, lets draw on the exquisite light of yesterday morning at 0730, my garden and the light that shines are medicine and strength to counteract the tasks ahead.

A good chance here to get some close-ups of the gems that inhabit our patch of land ....



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Theres a yellow maverick in there too, the green privet shrubs at front L.H. are cuttings from Penrith motorway services (southbound) an excellent pale small leaved I assumed privet.


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Primula from Mrs Rennie alongside my herringbone brick paths.


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So many blossoming things seem prolific this year, the old wives tale of many berries it is said points to a bad winter, if the blossom is anything to go by we are indeed in for a bad one ...


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Look at that light !!


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Bobby dazzlers !!


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All the oxlips are seed raised by me, very easy.


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Erythronium leaf markings always thrill !



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an easy stroll ...

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The night before had been Grimpin Mire at his own request, but an hour after tonights easy stroll and he is showing his front left leg as painful and generally looking infirm, his being sick several times earlier in the morning did not look good, as he needs to be able to take painkiller he must have food on his stomach; at work he was not himself, stiff awkward, and showed it particularly when we had to leave and get in the car. I have seen this before, with our first beagle, i know the signs.

I was telling him last night that when he goes we will still visit all the favourite places, still work hard and be successful at our chosen tasks.

So here is a gentle stroll, he finds a bone among the birch trees and idles some time among the dry beech leaf litter, within enclosed permeters i let him loose from the lead, I doubt he'll go far.  Woodland fern fronds look good in the low evening light, I did some picture essays on this last year, observing minutely each evening for  aweek or so the wonders and delights thrown up by this phenomena of light, soon leaves will open and the low sunlight will be obscured from illuminating the fronds in their gorgeous auburn orange.

I believe the bird seen is a chiff-chaff actually to my mind seldom seen, we were lucky to get this open display.

listen to the beautiful audio .... https://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/chiffchaff/

http://songbirds-slaughter.org.uk/2013/09/25/4846


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Theres a reason to blog now, my niece and her son know this place, it will be useful and interesting for them to learn more ....


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A bone !!


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Note the illuminated fronds in the foreground, links to last years work to follow .... and how this ties in with a very well known Chinese Tang (ie 1,300 year old) poem ie 'Lu Chai' by Wang Wei .... 'kong shan bu jian ren, etc ' .. 'empty mountain not meet people',  known by everyone in China from an early age.

I also did  work with recording sunlight at mid summer, recording golden dancing midges in the low light. links to follow...


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Busy among deep dry leaf litter .....



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Light and its effects fascinate me.



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Our chums, accessible from 'user info' then click tags.



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learning and enjoying it ...

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Why have so many weeks passed without some serious work and effort on learning Mandarin ??

The look of the language fascinates me, has done since age six when my uncle John brought me a few pages of Chinese newspaper, it would be Summer 1964.

I think its the workshop move, i am on  'tenterhooks'  so to speak ....

Today has actually translated into a day off and the desire to read, several times lately I have said quite truthfully that i would like to eventually retire so that I can read. But, yet, i am increasingly successful so that I must continue to do my 'work thing'  .. I enjoy it mostly and its good for self image and feeds my ego.

A beautiful day, morning and early afternoon in my garden still hell bent on eventually getting to work; sunny, light breeze in the trees, birds vocal. Later i settled to my couch in the front room after a v enjoyable bath with mineral and Epsom salts, ostensibly to read with the light thro the blinds and the sound of the birds quite exquisite. Got some good sleep too, pains and too many early rises probably demanded it, i do not have the regular seven day routine with Sundays as rest.

Now i am fit and rested, my mind can hook into things that interest me and so i wrapped some paper around an accurate stick of walnut, a left over for many made as some kinetic sculpture for the Queens nephew ... ie to make a 'poem stick' in Mandarin, each of the four sides having a different poem and so as to get my writing back onto form I started with pen and paper and a real favourite and the first Chinese poem I ever memorised ....


空山不见人
闻人语响
返景入深林
复照青苔

{C}{C}{C}{C}

鹿柴

pic of poem stick to follow .....

hint, copy into Word and also paste into google translate. With word you can enlarge and get an excellent font to copy from.

heres an early blog post of mine re this poem ..... http://kllrchrd.livejournal.com/41612.html .... taken unmistakebly on Fujia slide film. Click and click again to get a full screen image, i can take you there exactly to where this image was captured in '07. Incredibly its the same place (within a yard or two) that in 2013 i made a film of golden midges dancing in the midsummer sunset. http://www.56.com/u96/v_OTQ0NDc0MDU.html


heres some Mandarin learning material picked up a few moments ago .... http://www.5156edu.com/page/08-07-20/36227.html

my dog is back from animal hospital .....

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Smood started his latest bout of upset on Tuesday when he sicked up five times in one morning before work, starting in the early hours.

Uh-oh ...... alarm bells.

This would be his third week of daily Loxicom painkiller and we should have known what was happening from what we witnessed with our first beagle. But of course after his last vets stop-over three weeks ago we ever hope it won't happen again. Wednesday was dioarhea a little vomit and Wed night / Thurs am was continuous all night panting, couldn't settle, the signs of obvious distress.

Reading your dog is absolutely essential, theres a reason for whatever they do or display.

Its half past noon now, i collected him at 10.30 and he's now had his four pills or parts therof and an ultra light meal of boiled rice and a tbsp of the high electrolyte recovery dog food scraped with a fork into ultra small pieces. The stand-in vet said 1 & 2/3 cans a day, I think that is too much, for the next five days we will actually be only giving him a bare quarter can with 1-1/2 tbsp boiled rice and the reduced juice.  With the previous painkiller his guts ended up bleeding and an oil free bland diet is essential to heal his insides. Now its Tramadol we are using, i dread his next flare up of pain, he sqeals dreadfuly. Fingers crossed etc  .....

Its realistic to say we are now in a circle of pain and ageing which seems premature on a 8-1/2 year old beagle, but he was unfortunately bred from an old bitch and I would love dearly to speak with other buyers of Rossmaith beagles from especially Jan 2006.  Our first Rossmaith was faultless, an utter joy, long-lived; everything that makes the ideal pet. But Smood was different, not an easy animal at all.  We regard him as autistic and it allows us to understand him at the very least, as often stated here low protein feed and cod liver oil for brain function is essential.

I too have a poorly stomach and have had this for say three or four years. I'm starting to use gluten free when possible and seemingly similar products can yield totally different results as per discomfort etc. I cannot eat sitting down, never have done as I eat at the kitchen bench or at work and then get straight back into whatever i am busy with. I eat small meals only and am veering away from bread. For my own pains pots, toms and bell peppers are a complete no-no.

What compunds the difficulty is a magpie nesting nearby, lumps of meat and food junk have been found in trees and shrubs, this drives Smood nuts, ie cubes of chicken were found in the birds waterbowl !! ....  half a year ago there was a 'phantom cat poisoner' nearby, the RSPCA called and said it was prob anti-freeze that was used. Over our garden wall is a recently established tyre business with horrible aggressive owners .. uh-oh ....

So i shall have to accompany our pet beagle when he is down the garden to see what attracts him so much.



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what to do at meetings .....

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This has dawned on me slowly and it was only yesterday whilst at work and in my head working out the format and layout of the new workshop  (that i must create in a few weeks time to flee the impending demolition on my existing thrity year tenure)  that i realised that we should have recorded and had typed up the salient points of the meeting last july when closure was put to us out of the blue and sold on the idea of 'Fire Officers Report'  ... utter hogwash, its to turn the site into houses. Lies are a bad way to base dealings ....

let them see you are recording this and will be having typed a paper transcript, they'll think twice and feel shame and guilt at their phoney explanations.

to my credit I gave the man 'some stick'  to use the vernacular, i have little tolerance for nonsense, its amazing what he let slip considering he was so smooth, slick and battle hardened.

I have with hindsight ordered the Olympus DM670 and will be adding Sennheiser HD201 headphones. The setup has lots of features and seems from two hours review and price comparison work the most appropriate buy for me. Theres another 'situation' rearing its ugly head where a true and accurate record of someones nonsense could prove useful ...... some idiot at the bottom of my garden wanting to cause problems, a most distasteful character.

my wifes uncle cld have died from medical negligence, since then over the years he has recorded every visit to his GP; a dreadful co-incidence is that another uncle of hers did in fact die from the say problem (brain tumour) .... all he got was the 'pull yourself together man' blimp type response, i too have met such a doctor and refuse point blank to have anything to do with him. From what i have learnt from ten years of Chinese medicine ie acupuncture we have to 'listen' to our bodies.

i think i'll write to the school next door at my workplace and ask why in the area at work theres so few songbirds, i've lain food for two or three years and still its only a pair of pigeons and a rook or two... good project for them. Such a contrast to tha chatter of songbirds here at home, but interestingly tho i always dread the impending June 13th shutdown when they go quiet,  even this morning ie April 20th its too quiet out there. We also think there is a poisoner active somewhere, someones cat was killed half a year ago and if the twit that assaulted me from over the garden wall is anything to go by he is the only idiot I can think of that fits the bill, hence the voice recorder. However its a Sunday morning and as we know from experience here its the one morning out of seven that someone else nearby feeds the birds, draining our garden of birdsong.



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Picassos father was a very clever painter of pigeons, I imagine the house was full of the terms, form, outline, tone, colour ....

Once the bulldozers are in they'll wonder where I went.

As soon as i get in or out of the car they fly in to me, or at least to the potential of free food. I can well see how and why pigeon-fanciers get into the hobby.




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Many clever photographers knock the amateurs love of sunset pics, in my defence I must say its memory and atmosphere I am trying to capture, of a much loved location.



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above is back to A setting as are all pics on this post, using P is often overwhelming and unreal for sunsets .....

In outline are burials from 4k years ago still visible and hopefully free of any twerp digging into them. If only we knew or cld see who they were, when in their prime as if we had a magic portal into the past; i believe all such ancient things should be left alone, all they find are the same old bits and pieces and produce reams of detailed drawings .....

In front of the hill just out of sight (ie conifer clad|) is the first domestic dwelling in the world to be lit by electric light.



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we know very well indeed the travel of the sun on its yearly cycle and its position as it drops below the horizon each evening. not so many ppl these days would be able to say this.

sometime i wish to plot this change of sunset over the half year and also to do some work with the 'plane table' .



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the future ??

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I had an awful vision this could happen .......

.......we can only contact our Doctor on his (dreaded) facebook page!



    me ... i need help please

Dr .. hi

   me .... my arm is caught in a turnip grinder here at our farm ....

Dr ... cool

   me ... No, not cool, its real and bad, blood .....

Dr ... dude !

   me ... ehm - NO - the blood and the pain is beyond belief ....

Dr ... cool

   me  ... help me please.

Dr ... cool

  me ... fck NO ... HELP !!

Dr ... lol

   me ... I might die

Dr ... cool



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. The future huh ??

stuck at the workshop ....

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i had no choice, the impending workshop demolition and hence move means i need to get more hours in and maintain stock.

yet luckily the radio was quite good, one or two qualms re how material is presented and bias but at least listenable, the highlights were several luckily not having the usual 'Poetry Please' with Roger McGough which postponed cut yr throat time but was far better half an hour on Seamus Heaney; had me in tears at the end ...quote "my father stumbling behind me"..... being a poem on his own rural childhood in Ireland and his fathers  prowess with horse and tackle when an active man, Seamus himself running, stumbling after his father around the fields and the yard. The poem finishes with Seamus a bold and agile man, his own father now stumbling, old.

lets find it ......



Follower

My father worked with a horse-plough,
His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
Between the shafts and the furrow.
The horse strained at his clicking tongue.

An expert. He would set the wing
And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.
The sod rolled over without breaking.
At the headrig, with a single pluck

Of reins, the sweating team turned round
And back into the land. His eye
Narrowed and angled at the ground,
Mapping the furrow exactly.

I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake,
Fell sometimes on the polished sod;
Sometimes he rode me on his back
Dipping and rising to his plod.

I wanted to grow up and plough,
To close one eye, stiffen my arm.
All I ever did was follow
In his broad shadow round the farm.

I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
Yapping always. But today
It is my father who keeps stumbling
Behind me, and will not go away.

Seamus Heaney :

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I sobbed. My own father died at 57, cancer of the throat, I had just turned 18, yet to me his image is always as the active man, his work (which I often went with him on Sundays) and of his garden and things he built, competent in both wood and metal.  He seemed an old man even then, it was his manner, his demeanour but grumble as I sometimes do of his dour nature he gave me talent, integrity and the ability to work. When you think of his father and myself, we seem an unbroken line, I embody both my grandfathers love of words and poetry, my own father not being much of a talker and my dads interests and books, metalworking skills and workshop etc.


Other programmes were good too, the r4 'Jeeves and Wooster' at 3pm was fine entertainement a couple of times had me genuinely laughing, and maybe as well as the Heaney prog an hour exploring three Hogarth prints on r3 at 2pm was utter bliss, something i shall download and probably listen to many times.

Just found a 'powerpoint' presentation re Heaneys poem above ie "The 'Follower' "... what utter twaddle ... abt four pages in re 'the polished sod' the silly powerpoint person / compiler asks 'polished mud' .. awh fck off ... it was earth !!  and tells us its tied in with the care he took ... jeez have they never been into the landscape !!!!!  And to think i cld spend hours reading such junk.


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private pleasures ....

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My father took his pleasures privately; I think it is correct to say this prompted by the memory that has just popped into my head from 1965 or 6 or 7 of recording songs we sang together when my mother had purchased a miniature reel to reel tape recorder sometime in the latter 1960's... 'Home on the Range' figures prominently, perhaps there was a songbook to guide us, memory tells me there was. It would be a bundle of several things bought at an auction of close-out and firesale type items provided by a touring vendor, advertised in the papers, I think there were a couple of books as well, maybe the early and excellent Hamlyn 'Astronomy' in its pale green cloth boards, I still have it here and still consult, a very good book indeed.

Yet the memory is a happy one, no-one critical of the other, simple singing and music giving its best, simple pleasure. Why has the machine been disposed of, why on earth is it still not here, and imagine if it was, it would reveal is secrets and it voices immediately, a bridge to fifty years ago.  Thinking of this harmless pleasure and the little machine gradually reveals to me the structure and layout of that house where we lived all those years ago as if i am sat there now.

I have spent an hour with something quite rare in this house, ie a new-bought electronic device namely an Olympus DM-670 digital recorder. A drawback (disadvantage) perhaps are the 'brushed' aluminium sides to the gizmo, ultra slippery; but otherwise i am thrilled as it can upload music files and record various things ... v handy.... except my machine cannot play the software disc and it seems unobtainable from the web as a free download. I am v keen to hear it play some of my preferred music

But the point of this post is that i can see now that my father took his pleasures privately, he was not one for social gatherings of even any sort, certainly once away from his work no desire to keep friendships; probably he had enough to do with house renovation/s and his garden and all this after very many hours at a difficult and arduous job.

I am lucky I have so much stored in my mind to draw upon. I walked by that house twice last summer, down the old railway track that ran behind it, first time since 1972. I was always baffled why we moved less than a quarter of a mile to a place that offered no advantage other than a move to 'make money' ... three years later he wld be dead and i wld be in digs whether i wanted to or not, next to nothing trickled to me of this activity to climb the housing ladder, so i can sit here and type that everything we have achieved we have achieved under our own steam.  What an absurd move he made, already in his early fifties, not the strongest or robust of men, my advice is always to treasure what you have and not extend or try to grasp things beyond easy reach. Time is our greatest enemy, you cannot out-run it.  A few years ago driving past that earlier house it looked as if an old person lived there and now it has been gutted and made new again. They will have no idea at all of what we did, the things constructed, experiments of many sorts, cultivating the garden, many many things.


http://www.olympus.co.uk/site/rmt/media/consumer/pim/_manuals_aw2011_/DM-670_650_MANUAL_EN..pdf

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I have fallen hopelessly in love .....

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i am helpless, careless of anything, floating in a gossamer web of loveliness....  from when I first heard this song for the first time a few minutes ago .......

her voice, the tune is all so lovely ......

exc language learning material too ....

牛奶咖啡 - 明天,你好

ie "Niúnǎi kāfēi - míngtiān, nǐ hǎo

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg4Mzk5Njc2.html




http://www.xiami.com/song/1770326822


歌词:
看昨天的我们 走远了
在命运广场中央 等待
那模糊的 肩膀
越奔跑 越渺小
曾经 并肩往前的 伙伴
在举杯 祝福后都 走散
只是那个 夜晚
我深深 的都留藏在心坎
长大以后 我只能奔跑
我多害怕 黑暗中跌倒
明天你好 含着泪微笑
越美好 越害怕得到
每一次哭 又笑着 奔跑
一边失去 一边在寻找
明天你好 声音多渺小
却提醒我 勇敢是什么
歌词编辑:薰风习习

当我朝着反方向走去
在楼梯的角落 找勇气
抖着肩膀 哭泣
问自己 在哪里
曾经 并肩往前 的伙伴
沉默着 懂得我的委屈
时间它总说谎
我从 不曾失去 那些肩膀
长大以后 我只能奔跑
我多害怕 黑暗中跌倒
明天你好 含着泪微笑
越美好 越害怕得到
每一次哭 又笑着奔跑
一边失去 一边在寻找
明天你好 声音多渺小
却提醒我
长大以后 我只能奔跑
我多害怕 黑暗中跌倒
明天你好 含着泪微笑
越美好 越害怕得到
每一次哭 又笑着奔跑
一边失去 一边在寻找
明天你好 声音多渺小
却提醒我 勇敢是什么

ie the first five lines ....

Kàn zuótiān de wǒmen zǒu yuǎnle
Zài mìngyùn guǎngchǎng zhōngyāng děngdài
Nà móhú de jiānbǎng
Yuè bēnpǎo yuè miǎoxiǎo
Céngjīng bìngjiān wǎng qián de huǒbàn

and the last two lines ....

Míngtiān nǐ hǎo shēngyīn duō miǎoxiǎo
Què tíxǐng wǒ yǒnggǎn shì shénme

more info no doubt will weave its way to this post ....

var links to same ....

yup, here it is on youtube, found by copying and pasting Hanzi ....







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strange day ....

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My malady of indecision collided with the need for an actual day off; generally this means countryside, but having a much reduced beagle that could be ill with pain at any time cramps my style to say the least. He's on strong painkiller, an opiate for now, the vet wants him back onto an anti-inflammatory that is far more corrosive to his gut. He is increasingly bouncing around like an idiot, cool it !!

We cannot tempt or tease by driving to any of many much loved places, for his sake its better we stick to the usual routine when we drive out, horses etc its as good as anything you will find anywhere else, an utter gem with birdsong, views, rolling countryside and distant horizons that all feed into the loveliness of the place.

The day has been too web based, grappling with various and many things, some for business, some for fun. So far Olympus transfer of web files to the gizmo is proving beyond me, hellishly slow and complicated, baffling software, having found my new fav song its easier and reasonable quality to just plonk the mic on a pillow and play it and record from the monitor speakers, seems as good as a CD.

I had got up at 0520 to record blackbirds but as soon as i got up they ceased their herald of the day. The good news is that later in the afternoon I cannot discern any difference between realtime actual blackbird song and a recording on the DM-670; no difference whatsoever. It was interesting to run the recording and hear the same bird still at full throat, the DM-670 is v clever indeed. Guessing and I need to get more into this it sounds like the blackbird has a folder of songs it rolls out in succession and the gizmo allowed me to hear both recorded and live versions rolling out together and realise how exact the songs are performed.

Its to record birdsong that I have always wanted and if you look as I did a year or so ago I bet all the pundits say a dictaphone cannot record birdsong !!! .... WRONG ....  these geezers will tell u that the best chance is a mini-disc recorder from years ago, which i spent a little time attempting to buy on ebay, bids unsuccessful, my natural reticence at spending money holds me back from 'frivilous' purchases. I do not get happy by buying things and am always sceptical of so called 'advice'.  Perhaps my recollection of searching for birdsong entry level is in fact older say seven years and perhaps now they have embraced something like the DM-670, I do not know and haven't the time to look.

From all the music I've heard ie Purcell, Byrd, Handel, Beethoven, etc I've never heard anything by man approach the depth and  inventiveness of birdsong, the lyrical beauty and optimism; I should have had this DM-670 perhaps earlier in the year, when the dawn chorus is stronger. Perhaps next year I shall map out the early morning chorus as we progress from winter to spring, for instance the second recording this morning a day after yesterdays first attempt at 0530 or thereabouts fully demonstrates how the full orchestral performance of every species is replaced by spuggie squawking near at hand as they realise dawn and reduce their piping.  My experience teaches that Dec 3th starts the new year of birdsong and that the dread June 13th shutdown is inescapable. So with this 0530 recording we can hear the change from blackbirds echoing to the nearer spuggies that will predominate as daylight replaces darkness. Theres also an audio effect of distant echo (on this small fifty house estate) that in between the bursts of the nearer mostly blackbirds is quite magical. And of course travelling out to other locations would provide i assume different and incredible performances..... theres lots to work on !!

I shall try to embed an audio of this ... pending.

An interesting parallel (ie trained to be aware) is all the work i did as a young teenager forty years ago on amateur short wave radio, literallly thousands of hours and with reading I'm always looking at the fall of words, their flow in my minds own voice, then there is all the work I've done exploring classical and chamber music, the best that man has produced, as well as my lifelong fascination with the natural world, discovering a series of carved rocks new to science to my mind glaring evidence of something overlooked by everyone. Theres not much you can find undiscovered in this age, and I've several areas, phenomena there no-one else seems to realise what is there. so of course all this 'training' and increased sensility it seems on felection must inevitably lead me back to birdsong. As wode pengyou cong Zhongguo would say ... "I am so lucky" !




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£67 GBP of v clever gizmo....... if only the software were so accessible ....



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All ship-shape for Easter, looks better in reality.



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Tulips now are the big thrill providers, still with a good display of oxlip, cowslip coming to the fore and frit meleagris fading a little; this is very much a garden of 'layers' successively unfolding, twenty two years of close planting. I feed the soil by allowing a healthy leaf layer and organic debris (avoid compost heap material) and as my neighbour observed when she moved in a decade ago 'its just for the birds' ....



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At left of centre are the still remaining Erythronium ie dogs tooth violets with a few of the yellow 'Pagoda' variety which tend to flower later than the usual pink ones. Mixed among them are frit meleagris, the larger Frit imperialis elsewhere in the garden are now over, I'll have to remember to cut the flowers off, theres no need for them to throw energy into seed production.



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The only way to get this cultivated form of Doronicum to appearyellow in a sea of green is to drop down to the more realistic A setting from P setting. These are from Mrs Carlton which i much appreciate, many things here have happy associations with ppl no longer on this planet, stories and reminders that most likely i am the only person still thinking of them, daily i am among them.



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The pale purple is dames violet ie Hesperis matronalis and has an incredible scent, I let it seed around, easily controlled.

There seems so few bees this year, this is worrying.


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The Miller bio by Christopher Bigsby is a fascinating read, to get into Miller i suggest looking at youtube when he talks to camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gmj38loQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5m0TJ42tw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMg7wX6mrzc

I have a lot of time for this man, being a limey hearing him speak as with the other Miller, Henry allows me to assimilate his writings so much easier.

I tried to read outdoors, its impossible in this garden, the attractions away from the page are too great !


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Leucojum to the right against the plum tree shows up well, the old boundary stone was lying in a riverbed 25 years ago so it may as well come home with me; I guess eighteenth century. Its the same location that many hours of regular close observation rambling slowly up the river bed resulted in a museum quality and rare type of prehistoric stone axe. The yellow is I think Kerria japonica.



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olympus DM-670

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Gizmos n new electronics are alien to me, i mostly use discarded gear for playing music, ppl throw away perfectly good equipment. But my level of sophistication is way behind the modern world, i still play tape cassettes and plonk a radio cassette in front of the pc to make my own tapes, at least I did until three days ago. Its the 'Dancette' phenomena, if its all you've ever known etc ....

I do not and never will have a mobile phone.

So here I am with my Olympus DM-670 digital voice recorder and music player and basically delighted, a mere £67 to purchase new and the freq response and playback with phones is incredible, I prefer 'studio' sound setting so far but I am only three days into it. Birdsong and the dawn chorus are now just a click away. The internal mics are astounding, there is some v clever design and manufacturing involved, I am in awe!

But this new found knowledge has come at a price, a price of frustration, both the software and the manual (ie pdf online) are excruciating, I suggest written by someone that does not have English as a first language and has no idea of the needs of the average person.

But the manual ... flippin heck its both bizarrely Byzantine in its complication and nomenclature of operations and seems to have disregarded what many ppl will want ie to get music files in to the gizmo. Whoever wrote it may be okay with professional manuals but not writing for ordinary folk, someone further up the tree should have realised this. It does not need to be written as if for service technicians on high tech equipment but more as friend or mentor sitting with you and in easy conversational style guiding you through the essentials ie files and getting content to listen to. It needs to be written as 'your first hour' and 'installing music files' these two alone would serve for most of what I need. Maybe even as a podcast.

The software took a couple of days and say five or six restarts to settle itself down and give me the 'files to gizmo facility', the key or info for this is hidden deep and ever so briefly in the onscreen software help, considering its what many or most purchasers will immediately want so little is made of this. ie its shuffled out of sight.  It is not easy to fathom what to do if you are new to this and God forbid do not touch 'format' ......

I also think that the 400MB download from the disc has far too much on it that I will never use and there needs to be a slimline version for merely simple file movement and getting tracks to the device. Another essential not stated anywhere is that because the Olympus DM-670 can only deal with PCM, mp3 and WMA files its far quicker and efficient to extract the audio content from youtubes directly at download by installing an 'mp3' extraction tool or add-on. None of this information is stated in simple terms or even at all, it can make for a very frustrating first few sessions with the machine.

Now i have told you all this you will never suffer the frustration as I have .....

Listening last night to Jethro Tulls 'Passion Play' on my new Sennheiser HD 201 headphones with the DM-670 was a revelation, at last I can play music at a decent volume and clarity (never heard a bass drum before !) without disturbing wifelet in the next room.




postcript ... info to get music files into yr DM-670 ......

A). install mp3 downloader for youtube ...I use ... avs4you.com/AVS-Audio-Converter

if it won't download for every track required, click reload current page in yr browser, this shld fix it.

start the Olympus Sonority software, click left hand 'file' tag and from the dropdown choose 'upload' .... whatever u want,  I suggest on yr pc ie documents area keep it all in a new folder ie 'mp3 only'.

its only on the Olympus Sonority software that you can add or re-name folders.


B). Keep the DM-670 turned off, clip in the supplied USB cable, never remove if led is flashing or illuminated.

select 'file list display' .... highlight as many as you want (i delete prev files to keep it en bloc and new) ...

click 'device' tag  at top of page, click 'upload selected files' in the dropdown.

choose target folder (rename if u wish) and hey presto masses of tracks into yr DM-670 in seconds.

As they say  ..... Easy when you know 'how'....




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new premises ...

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From yesterday I've broken from the tedious pointless cycle of trying to get the idiots that now manage the workshops to provide me with a place to move to, the place is there (i hope not double booked) but its a bit decrepit, under spec and hardly fit for much, not what we could call very secure, filthy, housing junk that the Council-established landlords refuse to move, likewise a pipe hanging off the wall for a water supply, no sink or drainer ..... ugh !! and they adamantly state its up to me to fix it all.

The whole saga so far is one of lies, deceit at reasons for closure and with potential new premises, ineptitude, uselessness, i have utterly no confidence whatsoever in them or their hired in intermediaries.

And in this darkness a bright light of hope has emerged. I drove a short distance to a facility that I've had suggested to me, owned privately by a very competent group of businesses and not having knowledge of it had no realisation of how useful the place could be. A decorator was painting all the walls white as I visited !!

......they cannot do enough for me, building it the size I want in a very high spec ex Government facility, its dry, bright with natural light, and at one point I could feel myself 'welling up' as if tears are not far away at the sight of ....  in fact tears are here now ... and what can cause such emotion in a grown man ??

Fork lift trucks  ....three of them and the biggest can handle more than four tons.

Henceforth any machine that i wish can be easily brought in and set in place.

......my cup runneth over.

I am now determined to live long enough to properly utilise this newfound advantage. No-one has any idea as how I have struggled with such basic and limited facilities for thirty one years and more.

Can we say that God does indeed move in mysterious ways ?? or perhaps I've 'earned' this upturn ??

For thirty one years my livelihood has revolved around an obscenely cramped 'faclity' with zero ability to handle or bring in another machine of any description, huge gangway doors open all winter, draughts, a forty foot ceiling that draws up my precious heat. Yet i am highly skilled, incredibly conscientious and able to design and develop, its about time I had something to encourage such talent.

I have seen endless 'loony schemes' in this locality have money thrown at them when you know fine well its merely budget utilisation or empire building, or bullshit reaching obscene levels, string pulling, the nod in some instances, it would have been more useful to burn tenners for heat. My landlords for thirty years which effectively are the Government are clueless to what I do, their advice in the early days I have known for a long time was next to useless (they do not have my experience, how can it be any use ?) and certainly for three decades blind to what i do. Theres not many stand alone exporters of original high end unique product.

Now the prospects of the new place fill my head, the old shell for my activites as good as gone from my mind. The owners/ managers are so helpful, i must have told them three times that i'm not used to assistance or lifting facilities, I am baffled, astounded by such an agreeable attitude. I did not know such people existed.





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and last nights sleep was the first 'lie-in' to 0730 for nine months, studied Mandarin too at my desk ... my mind is now rested ....


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Bach Goldberg variations ...

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I had no idea of Rosalyn Turek, I am utterly delighted to find her and Glen Gould cites her as his only influence.

I at this point prefer Rosalyns versions, its 'the' set for me, so it goes onto the new gizmo ie the Olympus DM-670  which is proving extremely useful to play music and birdsong, and so I can shut down the pc with its irritating cooling fan as replaced by a less than competent technician and spend my time away from the dreaded m/c or go upstairs in my workroom at my other desk which opens up the ability to read and write, study, learn, work more with paper and books ... things not always guaranteed here at the m/c...... and pleasures I do not want to lose.

An interesting point, its not very easy to memorise things from the web, we tend to flit around too much to only partially read or skim 'bits' certainly picking up interesting material BUT ....  theres less considered 'reading of the text'. As a lot of what I want is memorising, paper and its handy ability to be glanced for a few seconds to re-inforce material to be memorised hours or day later wins hands down. Often having scouted around for source material the trick with web usage is reductive, to reduce your inputs and settle onto what you need, which in my case means copying it down. I have a feeling more serious ppl that need to commit vast amounts to memory will be book and paper based and the books themselves veering to 'standard works' on the subject ie law, medicine, theology etc etc .







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_Variations
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when typing ....

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when typing ....

'Vegas is a shithole'  as  a google search I get .... 'when Vegas wasn't a shithole' ....

interesting result, as it leads me to  pinterest, just what i need to liven up my visual sense, to get rid of the often reducing experience of the web.

http://www.pinterest.com/ticialands/when-vegas-wasnt-a-shithole/

the top of page Dali was a revelation, I hold the man in high regard ....

yet when i look again it is gone, uh-oh ....

oh well a quote ...

I grew up in Southern California, and somehow every town in that region is a five-hour drive from Las Vegas. That unfortunately means I have been there many, many times in my lifetime, and that I’ve watched it develop from a fading, seedy shithole into the world’s biggest high-end mall complex. Since I got old enough to tell my parents to fuck off when they tried to drag me to Las Vegas, I’ve only been there twice, once for an hour and once for three days, and I’m 99% sure I’ll never, ever set foot in the 702 area code again.

I hate Las Vegas for a lot of reasons: gambling is maybe the most assholish thing one can spend one’s time and money on, the place is a worldwide mecca for prostitution and sundry other forms of the exploitation of women, and the cultural environment is nothing but an arrogant celebration of wastefulness, materialism, and vapidity. Add to that a bunch of red-state dicks on vacation and a few thousand assholes from LA who feel like they need to head to Vegas for the weekend because they can’t get up to enough hedonism in one of the world’s most disgusting cities, and you’ve got what might be the most obnoxious party city in the world.

http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/2009/06/17/someone-please-burn-las-vegas-to-the-ground-ill-give-you-50/


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the hare !!

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Its always a thrill to see these creatures, they live above ground and must suffer disturbance and danger many times a day.....

An instance last evening was some twit out with her big lowping dogs shouting and bawling at her charges with little effect. The antithesis of quiet progress through the landscape. Geese were scattered, hares flushed and goodness knows what nesting things disturbed and harried, perhaps even destroyed as she herself would be and was oblivious, clueless to what was happening. We can assume lots of money too, its a big spread of land they have, also changing the use of it, ideal wide open pasture that is useful for curlew, lapwing, oystercatcher, the hare etc and being turned over to some twee misguided idea at 'conservation' ie  un-needed plantations created that would be better left as is. The sound of these bird species characterises the area yet these overactive twerps will compromise and lessen their chance of success, have they never (we know they have never) realised what is there already?? .... brains and sensibility are in short supply as usual.

I'm afraid after hearing her performance last night I am decidedly 'not impressed' ....

nb....  'lowping' is north country dialect for something jumping about out of control or big fast wide strides and jumps  ie lowp 'ower the fence ....




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I should have taken more hare pics lately, I'm too much on edge re the workshop move, back on edge as the rent has turned out more than I want, the first year has 'built-in' charges to cover all their 'helpful work' which seems I will be paying for at 'top whack' ....

Back to waking far too early ......


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I can imagine the animal saying to itself ..."Who the heck is that bawling idiot."

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I've wanted to explore and take pics of primroses for many days now, its one of those 'getting around to it' conundrums. At least i know from many years of rambling the places to find them, so at least nearer to home i know where to get pics. Because of Smoods difficulties there have been less of the usual trips out, even if I don't get out this year they are at locations that will persist generally untouched for future years.

Its that time of year when the beech leaves are emerging, wood anemone is flowering and bluebells provide swathes of blue; which I will specificaly seek out peaceful groves where I know they are to be found en masse. In fact i've a treat in store for my favourite person, I know a muti-vallate settlement that should be nearing its best, a carpet of blue; it makes the furthest point of a forthcoming a 'good day out' a place that maybe its nearly twenty years since the last visit.

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The above are on the bank where the ditch flows down, over the fence theres a self created drainage channel, and its obvious home to interesting algae. Further on if we can avoid shouting women and out of control dogs we can see nesting birds, i assume soon we also will see little bundles of fluff as we did last year. Pleasant things happen in the countryside that most ppl seldom witness, probably just as well.


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Above is from a year ago when most evenings I would be concealed and observing these wonders....

You cannot but admire the ability and strength of the mother to raise these things.

Its an area that would never receive a second glance from many people yet holds far more than anyone would ever realise, for a few weeks at nesting time. Valuable and I hope the farmer never gets it into his head to 'improve'.



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I've missed the spectacular light effects witnessed a year ago as taken then above, low light entered the wood, fern fronds displaying beautiful auburn glow and the daffs looking good, its not a guaranteed effect each year, later I'll write on it seperately and give links for films.

Its possibly something I'll never see again, the daffs have turned now and we are having misty evening skies these last few days. I knew fine well what I was looking at was something special, its one of the skills of life ie to know what it is you are looking at, to know its value and merit, to appreciate the moment.


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I wonder why or how this ditch is so deep, we also have some pillock that dumps rubbish into it ..... beggars belief !!!

For the first few walks up and down this road a couple of decades ago, its maybe a full mile heading north I remember two or three times carrying back half a dozen carrier bags of rubbish, plastic bottles, cans etc 'discard' from idiots. I know many little features and habitats and regular locations for particular birds and animals, it builds to a rich tapestry.



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Mysotis (forget-me-not) at its best, edging a wet run maybe dug to a ditch.

The previous method of image capture ie the Canon A75 gave me consistently better flower pics, with the Lumix FZ-30 it mostly provides 'washed out' images.

Its usually about this time every year I regret pulling out so many forget-me-nots from my own garden, how could such frothy and exquisite colour not be welcome, but unfortunately it resides on the 'unwanted' list in many gardeners minds, I always allow some, but be careful about it seeding itself.


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Primula veris must always be remembered is the cowslip, the primroses above are always P. vulgaris.

hint, just remember 'vulgar primrose' and everything else falls into place.

P. eliator being the oxlip which i have lots at home, all seed raised from AGS distribution a few years ago.


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And we round our trip by seeing if they are okay, the new ones don't seem to recognise us also the over controlling stallion keeps them well away. But this one above is not one of the group, possibly different blood line, a little bit scraggy perhaps but she certainly seemed to know us we assume from when a foal so we make sure she is fed each evening. Always apart from the rest, so with our ministerings she will flourish I hope.

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I had wanted to link to the light effects witnessed and documented a year ago when in the hour before sunset low-angled light entered the wood and illuminated the new furry orange growth of woodland fern. But by clicking on the top RH calender one click to get Apr 2013 i am overwhelmed by gems of prev posts .... so by confining to Apr 20th 2013 and onto early May lets see .....

waterfall and moss in flower .... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/04/20/

theres prob mvi for this that is on servers in China ... links later

rock shelter and Mesolithic landscape / shelter (as with Dan) ..... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/04/21/

http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/04/24/

whoops I need this, let me paste for later ....
西
烟花三月扬州

长江

back to nature posts from a year ago .....

up a moorland burn toward the coaching stop  .... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/04/28/

I remember this also youku deleted the film I think, also Qian Fu de Ai, Chinese pop song to memorise ...  ... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/02/

http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/06/

wow, a family isolated deep in the forests of Russia  .... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/08/

thats interesting 11th May for woodland light, later than I realised  ...... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/11/

wode pengyou zai Zhongguo .... spectacular nature in China .... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/13/

here we are woodland light effects, but now this year at 29th Apr the daffs are on the way out ... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/14/

nature, sunlight, nesting birds, http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/17/

my garden, frits etc .... http://kllrchrd4.livejournal.com/2013/05/18/

And on it goes .......




postscript ... heres mvi from this time, one of my sevn mvi channels, six are on Chinese sites and the imageshack has now been shut down by imageshack as they no longer support mvi but its been preserved on their servers and I have been able to download copes but the format or whatever so far defeats any attempt to re-upload to my current Chines channel. I successivelt fill em up with material and move on to the next channel, i've lost about 3% to most likely not knowing the correct buttons/ info to click. ie sixteen films out of four or five hundred; thats not too bad, sufferable.

I was so secretive I often did not paste links into the relevant posts to see these films, I'll add a few right now .... I'll add mvi links from 17th May backwards for one month to 17th Apr 2013.

These blogs function exactly as I wanted them, a record of what interests me that I can draw on in the future, I need to catalogue and index somehow, as all the above material is just one month of one year, prev years back to I guess 2007 haven't been touched for this post.



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