Today we enter another heatwave, though here in the cooler West it is not so bad as down South. The world continues, the recycling people have been too remove the cardboard, compost food box and the plastic. A bumble bee feeds on the hyssop, which they love, plants have been put into shallow dishes of water to imbibe. Also if you want to see the landscape round here, go to Landscape - Hebden Bridge blog and see how the trees cluster thickly through the valleys.
I mentioned the fields on fire on the Marlborough Downs a couple of blogs ago. The lady farmer was on the farming programme yesterday, and she said it was a terrifying ordeal because she had no internet connection for her phone and had to drive some distance away to get it. The dramatic photo of smoke in another incident showed smoke billowing out behind Stonehenge was scary. The one thing that she did say on F/B was that the neighbours all came to help and it was a neighbour who saved the day by driving round the field and creating a fire barrier.
I am debating whether to buy a small ringing bowl, you tap the side and the clear bell like sounds hovers on the air. Paul always used to strike the ringing bowl on Sunday in the small room we called the library, it was beneath the rather frightening hanging scroll of some god, with all the devils clustered around. I left all these things behind for Paul's two boys and his grandson, I had no need of them. Japanese religion is full of scary demons, a bit like the medieval paintings we see on our early churches. To dominate we must...... scare people to obey?? In one of the prints we had hanging there was a Japanese Geisha girl but in her hand she held a small glass bowl with a large goldfish in it, which I thought was very cruel. I know that the carp is a symbol of ambition and achievement, perhaps my down to earth mind takes things to literally of course.
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Anyone livimg in an area where fire is a real possibility must be so worried. Once things cool down next week the next worry is flash flooding (a real possibility here). Do you think the world will ever really take climate change seriously?
ReplyDeleteNo I don't think we will learn, Climate Change has been on the agenda for a long time but pushed aside by shortsighted politicians because it won't happen in their short time in government. Also, people are not disciplined enough to ration use of energy, not to go on holidays, and take climate change realistically. We leave it as a legacy for our children!
DeleteI was only saying today that with all the photos of dry & cracked river beds, crops brown and dead in the fields and (locally) no water for the livestock on the Moor, you would think people would accept that Climate Change is a THING!!! There are cattle, ponies and sheep with lambs still suckling - but no water. All the pools have dried up completely (in all the years I have lived here on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, I have never known it as bad as this. My heart breaks for them all. And recently it has been frightening to witness a fire, out of control, not that far from our village - it only needed to jump across the narrow road to reach the houses. Scary times.
ReplyDeleteI remember staying in the village of Minions, just next to Bodmin Moor where the animals wandered freely. Surely the farmers would put out water for their cattle there if nothing else. Someone said that the ponies turned out were forgotten and left to starve on the moors through the winter. Yes you would think reservoirs running dry, fields afire and even houses being set alight would bring some sense to the matter.
DeleteJust think, our great cattlemen and your intrepid sheep herders have an ancestry in fire.
ReplyDeleteYes Joanne, the early prehistoric farming was carried on in a similar fashion to how they farm cattle in the Amazon, burn the trees and move the cattle on.
DeleteI saw that fire too - how terrifying to have that sweeping across everything that is your life - threatening livestock and people. Then there are the idiots who decide to "have a bit of fun" and set fire to heathland. Glad to be in the west, where we aren't gasping for breath as they are in the South and East.
ReplyDeleteWe hae idiots in the town, young lads (school holidays) setting fire to trees and land. It was ever thus Jennie.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping we can make it to the predicted rain and relative coolness of Monday without any fires like that on Salisbury Plain. What a time to have wheat destroyed like that. Horrible.
ReplyDeleteLosing wheat at this time in history is not good news Tom and the farmers must be gutted to lose so much work. It seems to be more to do with the farm machinery sparking off.
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