tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61805241630834884312024-03-05T08:55:28.816-08:00My room nowTalking about life in the countryside, growing things, making stuff, keeping a few chooks and pooches whilst seizing the days and squeezing in as much writing and painting as I can...might even branch out into eco-architecture when the fancy takes me
lynne fornieleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802176620149902735noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180524163083488431.post-48204686216537415182022-01-12T02:06:00.002-08:002022-01-12T02:06:54.375-08:00My introduction to Extinction Rebellion and Memories of The October 2019 RebellionI originally added my name to the main Extinction Rebellion website must have been around november 2018. At last something good was happening! Exciting!<br />
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I couldn't go to the April Rising in London and sadly missed seeing the gentle people coming together for the first time. It took me a while to find XR Chichester but when I did I was so relieved and delighted. Since the inaugural Heading for Extinction Talk in May 2019 my life seems to have been taken over, as I can see lots of others have too, by generally working towards raising awareness of the climate emergency and swelling our numbers. There's an almost tangible energy surge filling the air. A direction and focus that's full of urgency. Time is slipping through our fingers and nothing can slow it down.<br />
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The Rebellion that October served to even more deeply heighten and embed my passion for what we are all trying to do. In the months leading up to October I have had long, quiet moments of introspection and research. I have discovered for myself just how badly we were being deceived and duped by both big business and governments around the world. I had watched the climate crisis get worse and worse over the years but had never really honed down into individual scientist's papers and articles. It was clearly far too inconvenient, if not outright dangerous, for the powerful institutions to let us in on their secrets and to be honest, I question if they had even properly understood just how bad the situation is themselves, at least on government level.<br />
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In my view we should be doing everything possible to force the governments to carry out proper, in depth risk assessments on the time frame related to further deterioration of the deep ocean permafrost layers. No one has done this as a comprehensive study taking on board data from international research stations. Have a look at what Dr Peter Wadhams says in this video link. We have to listen to him. He is after all, an expert and has spent his entire academic life studying and observing this particular subject.<br />
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For me the October Rebellion was joyful, invigorating, saddening, shocking, funny, exhausting on every level and above all inspiring. I watched as people who didn't know each other stepped up to hold a space and give each other the strength to stand firm. Communities were formed and extended, sometimes in a flash as circumstances called. I still can't quite believe that we took and held Whitehall for as long as we did. So close to Downing Street and yet we stood or sat shoulder to shoulder and refused to be intimidated by the police. If they had been like the Hong Kong police the story might have been different but maybe not.<br />
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The first time a policewoman politely asked me to just stand over there, on the other side of the barricade and being a generally polite and mild mannered person I started to do as she had so reasonably asked, until that is, a small determined young woman appeared at my elbow and whispered..."Don't do it. Stay where you are." I laughed and thanked her and took a few steps back in the direction I'd started to move away from. So easily I had complied. Not the next time though.<br />
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Later that same day my daughter joined me. The police had very shoddily refused to let the disabled facilities be unloaded. They were showing that although they were largely tolerant they could be harsh and unnecessarily unfair in their treatment of the more diverse among us. We'd just started, as a group from the South East Region, to put up tents and make ready for the evening. Whitehall was being covered in a patchwork of pop up tents and bigger gazebos brightly hung about with bunting and XR flags and posters. In the distance the hubbub of Trafalgar Square could be heard. Somewhere the drummers were working their magic. Suddenly a snaking line of police men and women were determinedly marching into our midst, grim faced and resolute. They were heading to the gazebos as their first target. A number of them surrounded the bigger of the two nearest to us. The rebels had been laying down carpets and hanging little flags to adorn it's walls. To their distress the police encircled the structure and ordered them out. Then with serious faces each policeman or woman grabbed hold of the nearest part of the structure and looking rather comical and ridiculous they lifted the flimsy tent high above their heads and triumphantly carried it off to the side of the road. They dropped it there leaving one of their number on guard and turned to do the same again.<br />
However as the crowd roared with delight we realised the drummers were coming and all of a sudden they swarmed through our number and as the police surrounded the gazebos the wonderful, deafeningly loud, synchronised beating of the drummers mirrored the positions of the police and made a circle around them. The police faced outwards and stood to attention as the sometimes smiling drummers stood no more than a couple of feet away from them, facing them and lead us all in chanting. Extinction.....Rebellion, Extinction.....Rebellion, Extinction.....Rebellion ....OY to be repeated again and again. One or two of the police were visibly moved. It must have been hard not to be. The rest of the tents stayed where they were that evening. The police had been faced down and so loudly and joyfully. My eyes fill with tears at the memory of how truth will be heard.<br />
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Perhaps the most joyful and fun Action for me was swarming with the drummers through the City. This time with my son Ed and our Nikki holding on to the enormous road blocking XR banner. We set off down the tiny. winding lanes flanked by office buildings. Not great sky-scrappers but maybe up to four or five storey sometimes Georgian, Victorian or post-war buildings. Inside we could see the white shirted office employees distracted from their computer screens. We waved and smiled and for the most part they waved and smiled right back at us. The drums again worked their magic and we were loving interrupting business as usual. At every widening of the narrow paths we would hear the sharp penetrating blasts from the whistle of the drummers leader and they would form a circle to launch into the now familiar opportunity to chant again...Extinction.....Rebellion, Extinction.....Rebellion, Extinction.....Rebellion ....OY. Office workers were coming down into the streets, or at least huddle on the steps of their buildings to take photographs and do an occasional little participatory dance along with us. Only one kill joy hurled sticky water out of a third floor window at us. But even that wasn't enough to quell our elation and intention to spread our message to the chant of "Whose streets? Our streets" "What do we want? Climate Justice. When do we want it? Now"and "Power to the people. People got the Power....and "Get up, get down. Leave that oil in the ground" Just fantastic.<br />
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So what will 2020 bring. I suspect far more of us putting ourselves on the line but also with perhaps another dimension...a twist that remains to be revealed. But whatever it is we'll be there..EXTINCTION .....REBELLION!<br />
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<br />lynne fornieleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802176620149902735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180524163083488431.post-57359727445206353122019-10-29T10:59:00.000-07:002019-10-30T02:49:57.528-07:00Cling, we are fading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am lucky to live in the countryside, in a place I love, surrounded by woods and fields and ancient tracks. As I return from whatever travels the day has demanded up the lane that leads to my home, trees arch above my head and welcome me back unfailingly. The copse where we often walk the dogs is full of old trees, some cloaked in moss and many tipping at unnatural angles where strong south westerlies have pushed them from vertical over the years. Many of them have fallen and now provide complex ecosystems for all of the wildlife that bursts from their softened sinews. I can't help but imagine fairy folk peeping from between the tangles roots and hollowed out trunks. The outstretched roots of the tree in this photograph are to me a big green hand grasping at the earth...holding on, clinging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How resilient is the noble tree and how willing to adapt. How giving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the Crisis continues to escalate and unfold, I spend more and more time exploring how to foster my own resilience. Not just on how to grow and store food, keep warm and physically do everything I can to enable my family and friends to survive but also on how to keep my heart and mind open, to be in and of the moment, to continue to nurture others and find a place for strangers at my table. The communities we gravitate towards will be increasingly important. There can be no more business as usual....for business will no longer be relevant. We are still for the moment anchored in the fossil fuelled reality of modern life but a transition is coming and how we relate to that will shape the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I find myself reaching out, searching for deep ancestral memories. As I lie awake most nights, images of ancient, familiar faces project onto my eyelids. I wonder how these people lived and died. How there once was a time when we were profoundly connected to nature. There was no separation. We innately knew the seasons, the growing patterns, the cycles between birth and death. Every plant had a use and was more than just a flowering. Each wildflower held the secrets to a myriad of functions and different either household or medicinal purposes. Mysteries had been revealed to us long ago and now as we chose to ignore the truth they had so generously shared, they are once again held tight and are once again as secret as the night. It's up to us to knock and ask for the closed doors to be opened. To make the effort to see what is before us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am glad that I spent many years in the discipline of working as an architect. Painful as it often was. Understanding how to fit elements together, how to make a building warm and cosy with breathing materials and fresh air creating a healthy environment. The often confrontational and adversarial atmosphere of the building site has knocked off many of my own corners and taught me skills to at least try to resolve and not apportion blame but fix what is wrong as best one can and move on. To be part of a team is a privilege. Old brick layers can unlock mysteries if only they are asked. Equally the latest research into solar panels for example, can change the way things have been done for decades if not hundreds of years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Cling we are fading" was one of the first pieces of art made by my son. It perches in my kitchen and reminds me everyday to be in the moment. To be aware and to breath gently.</span><br />
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Bluebells ringing in Spring</div>
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A rather lovely little virginal bluebell all in white</div>
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An early campion</div>
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Darling primroses</div>
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More shocking pink campions</div>
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Violets my grandmother's favourite little flower. Can't imagine why anyone would want to cover them in sugar and eat them..they are so pretty to look at.</div>
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This old ash tree is like a great hand coming out of the earth</div>
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Ahh lovely wild garlic...ramsons</div>
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Deer slots in the claggy mud</div>
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May blossom</div>
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Baby camomile with what seems to be rabbit droppings by the side..</div>
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So love when the spring flowers start to bloom</div>
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<br />lynne fornieleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802176620149902735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180524163083488431.post-1168845534369286162015-10-07T07:48:00.002-07:002016-04-29T11:29:45.757-07:00Puglian ParadiseJust beginning to feel better after the longest and most horrible virus infection..<br />
So back to the keyboard but with lots of pictures!!!<br />
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This is our trullo down in Puglia. You can just see me in the garage..for that is what the funny little bit on the end is supposed to be. We haven't been for a visit for around three years..if truth be told we haven't had any kind of a break for three years. Some times work just won't let you</div>
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Me labouring in 2008</div>
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These two saints are inside our gatepost! St Damiano and St Cosimo patron saints of Puglia</div>
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Looking up into the stone dome of one of the cones..we have just started lime mortaring the joints..after sand blasting the old layers of earth plaster off.</div>
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This is where a little basin will sit with its own little window</div>
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Our olive trees..we have around 200 some are ancient and so beautiful.</div>
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When we can we cut off the suckers all around the base..they haven't been properly pruned for ages.</div>
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A stormy Puglian sky behind one of the cones.Sadly the weather can turn cold during the winter months.</div>
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You can see how this tree is in desperate need of a haircut. They are pruned to make them like an open box so that the sunshine gets right inside. This one is next to a mispora tree and in the foreground there is a pomegranate bush.</div>
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Orchids and wild flowers are in abundance.</div>
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Our house is a way over there in the distance. In the gently hilly background is Harting Down set in the middle of the 100 or so miles long track known as The South Downs Way. A basic tarmacadam track lined with hazel trees and wild garlic takes you to our front door and the big house as we call it further down the hill along what is known as The Borders Path and then it's just forest and wonderful walks. We used to get deer poachers sometimes at night but not for a long time now. Instead we are plagued once or perhaps twice a year by Raves kicking off in the woods..the thump thump of the music they generate keeps us awake all night ..but it doesn't happen often...</div>
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Fields of golden barley waiting to be cut.</div>
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We took the dogs out this morning for a walk in the woods...it was sheer magic. The only sound, the wind in the tree tops and birdsong. It's still July but we had a massive rain storm yesterday so for the first time in ages we put our coats on.</div>
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So tranquil and pretty. How lucky we are to have such treasure on our doorstep.</div>
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Moss growing on the tree trunks.</div>
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Suddenly a Buddleia tree or Butterfly Bush in full flower. Not a normal woodland plant although our garden is full of them and they do tend to grown like weeds so maybe I'm mistaken. So many butterflies dipped and dived around us as we walked.</div>
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Wild flowers and dripping trees everywhere. The dogs have all scooted off into the long grass and up the steep hill to the right. More often than not we see deer galloping through here.</div>
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I stop and stand just marvelling at how beautiful it all is.</div>
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How lovely...wild raspberries grow along the path.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier in the year these Lords and Ladies berries..poisonous of course look very different! They look rather like slender pale green ladies dressed for a day at the races in huge elegant hats that could have been designed for My Fair Lady .<span style="background-color: #f5f3ee; color: #331c59; line-height: 1.2em;">The plant's fascinating shape and form has inspired a wide variety of names:</span></span></div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 'Kitty-come-down-the-lane-jump-up-and-kiss-me' (an old Kentish name).</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #fffadc;">The Hemp Agrimony, </span><i style="background-color: #fffadc;">Eupatorium Cannabinum</i><span style="background-color: #fffadc;">, belongs to the great Composite order of plants. It is a very handsome, tall-growing perennial, common on the banks of rivers, sides of ditches, at the base of cliffs on the seashore, and in other damp places in most parts of Britain, and throughout Europe.Although oddly it's not really damp where this grows and seems to be thriving..my own garden is full of it.</span></div>
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Rose Bay Willow Herb and my dear old friend the Nettle.</div>
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Perennial sweet peas..wild and tangled and sadly without a scent.</div>
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This is where I have long been thinking about making a sculpture garden..Rather pathetically I have never found the time or energy to give it any proper attention..I have dragged various bits that I've had my eye on to various [laces and they have quietly let the wild flowers and grasses obscure them..</div>
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Somewhere behind the wild flowers is a path...crying out to be redefined and celebrated with art</div>
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Lovely old steel globe left by a friendly assistant many years ago..a slate patio area for the table and chairs given to me for a birthday by my father now sadly passed away..weeds pushing up through the crevices and cracks..an old bench that I had tried to move a couple of weeks ago and only succeeded in snapping the wrought iron support..lies dying...BUT Margarita arrived with her whirlwind energy and picked up the scythe..her technique is actually more hack than scythe..the blade might never recover..but she hit the long grasses and down they fell!!!</div>
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So together we have dug and scraped, cut and pulled..lugged and heaved until the wilderness patch began to take shape....To have someone to work with has been revolutionising how I can think..reclaiming this meadow into garden has been back breaking on my own and to have her laughing and joking as we plant and pick has been such a joy!<br />
I can feel the gardening process doing us both good..healing and delighting!<br />
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Luckily my children are all sculptors/artists and over the years we have amassed lots of their cast offs. The black bust is of my eldest daughter made by her brother and the steel sculpture is another piece by him.</div>
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Eli, Margarita and I spent a morning digging out these chalk chips from an exposed bank..and then we wheel barrowed them into place..I love the bright reflective surface they have created around he dark pieces...</div>
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My two Super Heroines Margarita and Eli!!</div>
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The dog roses are out in all their spectacular glory making arabesques across the skyline. Funny that so called common plants are known as dog this and dog that. They are full of simple elegance whatever they are called..a rose by any name would smell as sweet and all that!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">by "Jan Struther",<br />pseudonym of Joyce Maxtone Graham, 1901-1953,<br />author of <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/miniver/miniver.html" style="color: #661855;"><cite>Mrs Miniver</cite></a>.</span></h2>
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And at last young Jack turned up just before the thistles went to seed..yippee Last year he came just after..that wasn't so good.</div>
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So happy to see it looking tidier..next time he comes in July I'll have cleared away the remains of the brambles to give him a better run at the long grass over to the left. The black thorn are still there along the right flank..I only managed to cut down about a third of them..hey ho..</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mobile phone/camera bag from Panama</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as you can see my kitchen is rather bonkers but I enjoy it's eclectic mix that reminds me of so many friends and dear ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to put it into a little context here are a few images of friends enjoying a meal..actually it's more a case of here are some images of a typical meal..I love feeding people!<span id="goog_1707792398"></span><span id="goog_1707792399"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Me and Marge..before my hair went quite so bright white! I'm on the right!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome all ,
relax, sit down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So glad you
all could come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have an olive,
a glass of wine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pass the
plates along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All day I’ve
picked, diced and chopped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as the puppy
played round my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The onions,
grown with love and care <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sizzle, watch
the heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green beans
sliced and gently steamed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">salt flaked potatoes
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">roast with
thyme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black poppy
seeds crack and dance <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on tender leeks
divine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self seeding
fennel, grows like weeds <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their
fragrance fills the air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bake them
sliced with milk and butter, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh but my, they’re
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cucumber cool
in yoghurt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beetroot slid
hot from their skins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">revealed as scarlet
slashes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gleaming as though
full of sin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take some
fried radiccio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">artichokes crisped
in tempura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have some,
help yourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always cook
too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pass the salad
down this end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rockets grown
too long<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but those
tomatoes they’re just fine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they smell of
summers gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hunt among
the green leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The foxgloves and chives are best of friends and the keen to multiply fennel seem happy sharing their bed. The strawberries are constantly trying to join them..but enough is enough!</div>
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The strawberries do have their own patch...and have invited a large mullein to nestle with them. I have stopped using a net as the little song birds get trapped and that is distressing for them and me! I'd rather share the berries with them.</div>
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This little banks slopes down to the patio if you could call it that! The place where the garden table sits..and summer lunches can be enjoyed.</div>
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The architectural rhubarb just grows and grows!!</div>
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So that's it for May!! Everything is growing except for the cabbage seedlings which seem to have been eaten by some mini villain...</div>
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Spring is stirring. The branches of the trees are still pretty much naked. The white rowan in the fore ground was planted for Isabelle who as a young girl danced ballet..it looked as though with its little white berries gleaming, it was holding up its arms in a delicate arabesque.</div>
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Fennel self seeds everywhere and will I know soon dwarf the rosemary. I'm thrilled to see the foxglove seeds I planted have turned into lovely plump babies this year. Foxgloves or Digitalis are definitely one of my very favourite plants...such a delight to find growing in woodland often with sensuously curling ferns nearby.</div>
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My funny birthday gift lady gnome is standing clutching her basket in amongst the onions and feverfew.</div>
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I laid out an array of wedge shaped beds a few years ago to wrap around the lime trees in the middle of the garden...sadly the last few seasons I have had no time at all but this year decided to make a real effort early enough in the year for it to make a difference...and hooray my sister-in-law Margarita came to stay and amazingly gave me a hand. The kindly kept working while I dragged myself to the computer to work 'work'.</div>
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Chooks meanwhile keep an eye on me and petition every day to be let out...petitions denied!! Until after harvest.</div>
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Sylvia has been considering her own literary career. She has adjusted her diet recently so that instead of spending time sitting on eggs she can contemplate under the ash trees as she unravels plot lines.lynne fornieleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11802176620149902735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180524163083488431.post-85982810936777578042015-02-05T06:54:00.002-08:002015-02-05T06:56:20.241-08:00lino cutting at Omega Print Makers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sketch up of an idea for a really simple lino cut. The two or three I have made before have all been mono-colour so I thought I'd experiment with introducing colours this time.</div>
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Once this was done I used the smallest lino-cutting blade to channel out an outline. To my surprise the lino was actually quite crumbly unlike the synthetic lino 'lookalike' that I had used for the other prints that I have done.</div>
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Mary Stephens suggested using the straight blade to make the initial cut and although this does slow down the process it makes things far more accurate and crisp. I found I had to surrender to the slowness of the process and just not try to hurry it...it became quite meditative and enjoyable.</div>
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A wide blade was then used to lift off the lino that didn't need to be included in the colouring. I'd decided to make the whole of the background colour yellow.<br />
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To finish off the design I made a monogram to the side.</div>
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I made a register for the plate and marked it with a T for 'top' and put a simple cross in one corner.</div>
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Very exciting I was to use the big old Albion Press.</div>
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I mixed up the oily inks white and yellow using the brayer to get an even consistency. In oder to create a yellow colour across the whole of the print I inked up a clean and uncut piece of lino identical in size to the one I had cut the design onto.</div>
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The Albion Press has a horizontal bed that sits under the press mechanism when It's not in use. This is moved forward by turning the handle to the side. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">A hinged cover is raised to reveal the bed. The template or register is laid on the bed and the lino on top of it..placed carefully so as the make the following prints line up. A clean piece of printing paper was placed on top of the inked lino.Two or in this case three layers of padding were then placed on top of the paper and the hinged cover was lowered. The large side handled was rotated in the direction of travel of the bed until the whole profile of the bed was clear and the edge could be seen out the other side. The beautifully patinated and rather stained by use handle that goes across the front of the press and forces it downwards is pulled...then released. Once more the side handle is turned and the bed reappears.</span></div>
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I know it's only a simple rectangle of yellow ink but it was wonderful to see it so crisp and clean.</div>
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The paper is vertical and the inked lino is lying on the bed.</div>
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The inked lino.</div>
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There are now five sheets of perfect paper each with a yellow rectangle of ink, waiting for me on the drying rack to transform into prints of my design next week. I love this printing business!!<br />
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I had to miss the first class as I was ill with a horrible cough so was delighted to finally make it down to the Omega Arts Centre in Portsmouth where the Omega Print makers run a course under the tutorship of Mary Stephens Having failed to produce an image the first time round with my do-it-yourself efforts I was really pleased that the first session was in dry point techniques. </div>
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Mary had a beautiful German book of the first photographic images of close ups of seeds and botanical subjects. She photocopied the one I chose to work on and I taped it and a thin acrylic sheet to the back of my A3 sketch book. Using a simple etching needle I scored the dry point grooves to make the image. </div>
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Once it was as I wanted I transferred a small amount of oil based ink onto the glass mixing plate and using a folded square of card smeared it all over the plate making sure that it filled each burr.<br />
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Then using an already blackened piece of scrim I lifted off the bulk of the ink working it into the grooves. The plate still looked mostly black but not as thick as it had been. With a cleaner piece of scrim or tartalan I continued to clean the plate. The final polish was done with a scrap of torn up telephone directory.<br />
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The thick watercolour paper we were using was put to soak in a water bath for a good ten minutes. It was then taken out and placed against a vertical plastic surface to drain for a while. Once it had stopped dripping it was put between large sheets of blotting paper to dry off until touch damp.<br />
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This beautiful press was bought from a lady who had it in her kitchen...lucky thing.</div>
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This beauty is a cast iron Albion Press but not for our purpose. <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">They were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">originally designed and manufactured in London by Richard Whittaker Cope around 1820. They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">continued to be manufactured, in a range of sizes, until the 1930s.</span></div>
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This far more modest press is the one I used. Still it's a lovely thing. I have just bought a really good quality woollen blanket in a charity shop and intend to boil wash it to make it into felt so that I can cut it up to make y own..I'm already fantasising about one day buying my own press...sigh!!</div>
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I thought the grass would look good with a flash of yellow and so I used a brayer loaded with a light film of yellow ink to roll a thin stripe onto the plate before placing the paper on top of a piece of unprinted news print and then covering with the damp printing paper and blankets. I'm still messy as anything with the sticky black ink and have to make a special effort to use folded scraps of card to pick up and move the clean pieces of paper,</div>
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This is the etched and inked acrylic sheet just before printing from it.</div>
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Here is my first ever print using a press. I was thrilled to bits.</div>
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This is the inked up acrylic or plexiglass sheet that I tried and failed to get a pink print from using my mangle.<br />
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And here is the first print of the hare. I can see a number of changes I'd like to make and was surprised at how long it took me to ink up and wipe down the plate. I need to do a better job of cleaning the edges of the plate. I did enjoy the whole process enormously and am looking forward to doing lots more.</div>
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1) Demonstration of how to make a plexiglass etching </div>
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I made this pen and ink sketch last summer (2014) when a lovely young friend was getting married and I needed to think of something to make as a wedding present. This was the first study made on heavy water colour paper using a very fine 0.2 Mitsubishi Uni pin pen. I scoured google for photographs of hares and finally made sketches of a piece of sculpture..adding a more muscular interpretation.<br />
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So after gifting the first sketch I made a couple more to see how it would/could work as an etching...not that I have ever made an etching let alone a print before.<br />
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I watched countless youtube videos and felt rather overwhelmed by the process of creating a metal plate with the various coatings and acid baths so feeling a bit of a coward I finally bought some acetate or plexiglass, which is especially for etching. This was particularly easy to use as you can just lay it on top of your image and start scratching the surface. My drawing included lots and lots of individual hairs rather than shaded areas so I just followed what I had already done. I already had a few suitable pointy tools but found a simple set of etching tools which worked well enough.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-tBrxtGr8RA_RU6nFV8D9uPbRGoLa4Gs54-sen_0_GFrIzY5sDt9ridoEQGxq7r9UVtUCTH9cnrTJiUlyb-X611wBHaqzmtn5xXaCV1EHKDEQj0Hc86HAyeycquevi64BcyZRSNhriHa/s1600/815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-tBrxtGr8RA_RU6nFV8D9uPbRGoLa4Gs54-sen_0_GFrIzY5sDt9ridoEQGxq7r9UVtUCTH9cnrTJiUlyb-X611wBHaqzmtn5xXaCV1EHKDEQj0Hc86HAyeycquevi64BcyZRSNhriHa/s1600/815.jpg" height="360" width="640" /></a></div>
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This photograph was taken outside so as well as seeing the hare and a few dandelion seeds above its head a tree and bits of house are also visible. These needless to say are not part of the composition.</div>
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I bought these water based printing inks in the local art shop...the down side of just watching videos and reading books is that you can't quizz the printmaker about the best way to do things so this was all trial and error..with lots of error.</div>
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I envisaged using soft colours so mixed a little white with red for this fairly bright pink..I spread the inks onto a piece of clean glass using one of my oil painting spatulas. I love the mixing process and the hissing noises the brayer makes as it rolls the ink.</div>
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As I only have an old mangle that screws onto a table I decided to do the whole process of printing outside in the sunshine. The girls gave me all kinds of encouraging advice.</div>
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So here you can see the mangle screwed firmly onto the garden table, the inks mixed ready for rolling with the brayer onto the plate, piece of damp water colour paper to use for the printing and as I didn't have a felt blanket I used a couple of clean tea towels and a and towel...not ideal!</div>
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I wadded up some tissue inside a piece of silk and used that as a dauber to apply the ink. Later when I finally did find a local class we put the oiled based rather than water based ink on with a clean piece of card. Which makes sense..why would I use a piece of silk!! At least the water based ink washes out...I think!</div>
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Anyway back in September 2014 I only inked the lines of the image...each scratch creates a trough for the ink to sit in. This was no doubt also a mistake as when I eventually inked it up with oil based ink I had to cover the whole thing and then left off the excess finally polishing it clean with telephone directory paper after lifting the heavy layers with tartalan or starched cheesecloth. That aside I rather liked the resulting object of the plexiglass with the ink hare and dandelion seeds...by this time I was getting so excited.</div>
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This is the plexiglass held a little away from the white surface underneath so it's a double image.</div>
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My funny little mangle!</div>
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I placed the plexiglass image up on top of a clean towel..then the damp paper and two more clean tea towels and turned the handle. I got a lovely rectangular shape made by the edges of the acetate but no hare..well it was so feint you could hardly see it.</div>
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Determined to find myself a teacher!! and not long after this got a reply following someone else cancelling from Mary Stephens classes down at Omega Printmakers Workshop in Portsmouth starting January 2015. More posts after her much needed words of wisdom</div>
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Flints peeking through the ice on the South Downs Beautiful muted colours</div>
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What a beautiful peaceful place to call home. So very fortunate.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole of this field is subjected to drenching with a herbicide that kills everything in its path at least twice a year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dogs are not allowed onto these fields at all. This is Tata being naughty about a month or more after the spraying... My daughter knows 11 young women with cancer..true they don't live around here but if this is normal practice throughout the country maybe the reason lies in this chemical sodden direction!!</span></div>
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Taken early summer before cutting the grass and weeds </div>
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A long line of black thorn ..very daunting!</div>
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Amazing boy, Jack came with his little tractor and topped the field..what a sweetheart! So now I can see how invasive the wretched black thorn actually is.</div>
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There used to be a regular post and rail fence along this boundary...!!!</div>
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And on the opposite boundary there are now huge encroaching brambles!!! Will leave this to fruit then the loppers will be brought out!</div>
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Looks like the fairies have been here but it's thistle seeds!!</div>
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The beautiful field that we back onto</div>
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and bunnies are in residence!</div>
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The chooks live just the other side of this 'hedge'.and the house is down there too</div>
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Vics took this group selfie and I think captured us rather well..my gorgeous, gorgeous girls.</div>
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Wild Garlic or Ramsons that Ross McNicol makes delicious meals from.and this recipe pinched from River Cottage isn't half bad too;</div>
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Dandy Lions make tangy salad leaves too..when I was little we'd chase each other squealing.."Wet the bed wet the bed" It was only later I found they are diuretic!</div>
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Scrabble desperate for me to throw the ball again..and again..and again...She actually has lumps of mud on her eye but is so intent upon willing me to participate in her game that she was totally unbothered by it.</div>
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Whilst out I saw the most wonderful mossy tree stumps and trunks..just waiting for fairies to poke their pointy little faces out from inside the hollows.</div>
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A large gnarled fist clutching at the cold earth...</div>
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This one looked like a little unicorn..a dainty horses head with shaggy green coat and a long horn from the centre of its forehead.</div>
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Josie just put this one up and reminded me how much I love it:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">The Harvest Moon, by Ted Hughes </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;"><br />A vast balloon,<br />Till it takes off, and sinks upward<br />To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.<br />The harvest moon has come,<br />Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.<br />And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.<br /><br />So people can't sleep,<br />So they go out where elms and oak trees keep<br />A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.<br />The harvest moon has come!<br /><br />And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep<br />Stare up at her petrified, while she swells<br />Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing<br />Closer and closer like the end of the world.<br /><br />Till the gold fields of stiff wheat<br />Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers<br />Sweat from the melting hills.</span><br />
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand<br />
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,<br />
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br />
And Eternity in an hour.<br />
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A Robin Red breast in a Cage<br />
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.<br />
A do<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ve house fill'd with doves & Pigeons<br />Shudders Hell thro' all its regions.<br />A dog starv'd at his Master's Gate<br />Predicts the ruin of the State.<br />A Horse misus'd upon the Road<br />Calls to Heaven for Human blood.<br />Each outcry of the hunted Hare<br />A fibre from the Brain does tear.<br />A Skylark wounded in the wing,<br />A Cherubim does cease to sing.<br />The Game Cock clipp'd and arm'd for fight<br />Does the Rising Sun affright.<br />Every Wolf's & Lion's howl<br />Raises from Hell a Human Soul.<br />The wild deer, wand'ring here & there,<br />Keeps the Human Soul from Care.<br />The Lamb misus'd breeds public strife<br />And yet forgives the Butcher's Knife.<br />The Bat that flits at close of Eve<br />Has left the Brain that won't believe.<br />The Owl that calls upon the Night<br />Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.<br />He who shall hurt the little Wren<br />Shall never be belov'd by Men.<br />He who the Ox to wrath has mov'd<br />Shall never be by Woman lov'd.<br />The wanton Boy that kills the Fly<br />Shall feel the Spider's enmity.<br />He who torments the Chafer's sprite<br />Weaves a Bower in endless Night.<br />The Catterpillar on the Leaf<br />Repeats to thee thy Mother's grief.<br />Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly,<br />For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.<br />He who shall train the Horse to War<br />Shall never pass the Polar Bar.<br />The Beggar's Dog & Widow's Cat,<br />Feed them & thou wilt grow fat.<br />The Gnat that sings his Summer's song<br />Poison gets from Slander's tongue.<br />The poison of the Snake & Newt<br />Is the sweat of Envy's Foot.<br />The poison of the Honey Bee<br />Is the Artist's Jealousy.<br />The Prince's Robes & Beggars' Rags<br />Are Toadstools on the Miser's Bags.<br />A truth that's told with bad intent<br />Beats all the Lies you can invent.<br />It is right it should be so;<br />Man was made for Joy & Woe;<br />And when this we rightly know<br />Thro' the World we safely go.<br />Joy & Woe are woven fine,<br />A Clothing for the Soul divine;<br />Under every grief & pine<br />Runs a joy with silken twine.<br />The Babe is more than swadling Bands;<br />Throughout all these Human Lands<br />Tools were made, & born were hands,<br />Every Farmer Understands.<br />Every Tear from Every Eye<br />Becomes a Babe in Eternity.<br />This is caught by Females bright<br />And return'd to its own delight.<br />The Bleat, the Bark, Bellow & Roar<br />Are Waves that Beat on Heaven's Shore.<br />The Babe that weeps the Rod beneath<br />Writes Revenge in realms of death.<br />The Beggar's Rags, fluttering in Air,<br />Does to Rags the Heavens tear.<br />The Soldier arm'd with Sword & Gun,<br />Palsied strikes the Summer's Sun.<br />The poor Man's Farthing is worth more<br />Than all the Gold on Afric's Shore.<br />One Mite wrung from the Labrer's hands<br />Shall buy & sell the Miser's lands:<br />Or, if protected from on high,<br />Does that whole Nation sell & buy.<br />He who mocks the Infant's Faith<br />Shall be mock'd in Age & Death.<br />He who shall teach the Child to Doubt<br />The rotting Grave shall ne'er get out.<br />He who respects the Infant's faith<br />Triumph's over Hell & Death.<br />The Child's Toys & the Old Man's Reasons<br />Are the Fruits of the Two seasons.<br />The Questioner, who sits so sly,<br />Shall never know how to Reply.<br />He who replies to words of Doubt<br />Doth put the Light of Knowledge out.<br />The Strongest Poison ever known<br />Came from Caesar's Laurel Crown.<br />Nought can deform the Human Race<br />Like the Armour's iron brace.<br />When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow<br />To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow.<br />A Riddle or the Cricket's Cry<br />Is to Doubt a fit Reply.<br />The Emmet's Inch & Eagle's Mile<br />Make Lame Philosophy to smile.<br />He who Doubts from what he sees<br />Will ne'er believe, do what you Please.<br />If the Sun & Moon should doubt<br />They'd immediately Go out.<br />To be in a Passion you Good may do,<br />But no Good if a Passion is in you.<br />The Whore & Gambler, by the State<br />Licenc'd, build that Nation's Fate.<br />The Harlot's cry from Street to Street<br />Shall weave Old England's winding Sheet.<br />The Winner's Shout, the Loser's Curse,<br />Dance before dead England's Hearse.<br />Every Night & every Morn<br />Some to Misery are Born.<br />Every Morn & every Night<br />Some are Born to sweet Delight.<br />Some ar Born to sweet Delight,<br />Some are born to Endless Night.<br />We are led to Believe a Lie<br />When we see not Thro' the Eye<br />Which was Born in a Night to Perish in a Night<br />When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light.<br />God Appears & God is Light<br />To those poor Souls who dwell in the Night,<br />But does a Human Form Display<br />To those who Dwell in Realms of day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">If I could give you a gift </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">it would make a space for you </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">to be between the words.</span><br />
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My 93 year old father Ned, is bed ridden and lives in what used to be the garage. No it's not like being shut under the stairs.. It has been converted to provide him with a bedroom and a self contained little unit for him and my brother Chris who is his full time carer.<br />
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He has a very restrictive way of life as he had a massive stroke some eight years ago and through macular degeneration he can't see and his hearing is very poor..so there is not a lot he can do. But he used to an architect and loved to paint with oils and water colours and gained a lot of pleasure from just making things creatively. One of the loveliest things he made was a whole wall of beautiful blue rustic tiles for his own kitchen and all of the pots for pansies that he grew for my sister's wedding. So he used to be a do-er.<br />
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We bought a big lump of potters clay and set about having a go at fashioning a few crude pots not easy when you've only got one hand that works...however between us we came up with a couple of quirky looking pots...and they have been sitting on top of his bookcase gathering dust..good side is they are thoroughly dry.<br />
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They were pretty much bone dry but as I don't have my own kiln I thought they should have a little extra drying before braving the log burning process....so I put them into an old biscuit tin which I put an inch or so of table salt in..Ned's idea he thought that as we don't have any glazes they might pick up a bit of the salt into a glaze if we could get the necessary heat. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdHDB3FR3Ir4e9pB52uwSjIx7YUNvVJyjoosBfXMYFxvD3PJbRglRQNbSS7shIBp5CNnavMS2yyub_n3rU2bSFlwq2UqaJCl49-FBE6uhqhquJtYJ5lr2pLbABc_llWxFMTtBDQHRBox_/s1600/2013-10-05+14.49.57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdHDB3FR3Ir4e9pB52uwSjIx7YUNvVJyjoosBfXMYFxvD3PJbRglRQNbSS7shIBp5CNnavMS2yyub_n3rU2bSFlwq2UqaJCl49-FBE6uhqhquJtYJ5lr2pLbABc_llWxFMTtBDQHRBox_/s1600/2013-10-05+14.49.57.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>
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So into the biscuit tin and then popped into the Rayburn and turned up to full heat. They went in on a cool setting to avoid thermal shock and sat there getting toasty for a couple of hours or so.</div>
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This the is the massive log burner..the only working form of heating in the house. When this is banked up you need to get naked it's so hot..and on top is one of my son's pieces of sculpture based on..an atomic explosion..on a domestic and entirely peaceful level it makes a really effective bronze radiator..</div>
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Oven warmed biscuit tin containing the little pots is placed in the bed of the fire along with the hand and the kindling is set alight..I thought it might be important to let them heat up from the beginning of the fire being lit.</div>
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Half way through and things look ok..no sign of salt melting to form a glaze.</div>
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Piled in some more logs and sat back to enjoy the heat..at this point I could have put some wood chips or thin pieces inside the tin to blacken and smoke the pots but decided to leave that until I could see how the whole thing had gone without.</div>
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They came out pretty black as it was but the salt didn't get hot enough to melt and form a glaze.</div>
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I have started making beads too which is so easy and great fun..hope to make a few strings before Christmas.</div>
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Dear friends, Damian and Renu recently gave me a gift of foody fare brought from Ceglia Messapica where they have a little property. I have never cooked them before but the little bulbs left me in no doubt about how they should be prepared and what they would go well with.They are calle<span style="font-family: inherit;">d <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">lampaschiuoli</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></span>delicious little bombs of slightly bitter delight. They are actually the bulbs of wild hyacinths <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 25.59375px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: x-small;">(</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">muscari)</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> picked</span> and bottled in Puglia in the South of Italy and look very like our familiar little spring onions but they have none of that latent sweetness that manifests when fried and caramelised. Their tinge of bitter complements the earthy softness of the thin slices of artichoke fried in garlic enriched extra virgin olive oil until just starting to turn brown. Some cooks say they should be left for a while with salt flakes to pull out their moisture but I have never found this to be necessary..I just slide them into hot oil and watch them, keeping a sharp eye to make sure they don't burn more than a little along the edges of the skin..and turning a few times to ensure golden brown all over. </div>
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These fresh green beans were tossed in my big old pan in piping hot olive oil with crushed garlic and a pinch of sea salt until they just slightly start to change colour..but it's only necessary to let a few take up the streaks of brown the rest should be just past al dente and still properly green. I squeezed fresh lemon juice onto them just before serving.</div>
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Chop two lovely red onions and sweat in olive oil until soft and golden...stir in your favourite mushrooms...add a good big pinch of dried herbs or if you have them chop and dice oregano and thyme..later add basil. I also sprinkled a handsome amount of Bouillon on to the mix. Add a tin of tomatoes and some fat prawns. I sometimes make this with mussels and sliced squid. I would also put in capers . Cook all of the mix in a big frying pan and set aside until the spaghetti is cooked..then find your favourite serving bowl ..strain the pasta and stir in the mix..you can then place a few basil leaves on top to serve...</div>
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mozzarella and sun-dried tomatoes with basil and spaghetti . Ridiculously easy to make. Cook pasta..stir in a bowl of little mozzarella balls that have been sitting in with oil and sliced sun dried tomatoes and a light sprinkle of herbs..Next time I would let the heat melt the mozzarella just a little bit more...in fact I'd make sure the cheese and tomato are heated through..this time I only used the heat from the freshly strained pasta.</div>
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This was really delicious and I will make again for Christmas. Cut butternut squash into skinned chunks and mingle with whole chestnuts..I used frozen. I then poured oil and salt flakes with a sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper. So good!! The sweetness from both ingredients merge and complement each other. It also offsets the mild bitterness of the lampaschiuoli.</div>
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