quick post. Really about links and recording stuff. Today is my son Mark's birthday and I had posted his card a couple of days ago. It was one of a stained glass local landscape done by Deborah Lowe who apparently has her studio in Todmorden. I have always fancied a small square or roundel to hang on the window so that those diffuse colours shine through the room, so maybe?
Another link is about 'Degrowth' - yes we have to go there at some stage, and it should really have been yesterday. I had the 70s book of 'Limits to Growth' though it seemed only to be about facts and numbers but it still seems to stand there questioning us and our consumption of goods, so here is the video by the BBC. Funnily enough, you see the wind turbines up on the hills in the card, which are really there by the way, well a news item came through that said that in France a much smaller turbine had been made without blades.
The third link is Mike Pitts on how to write a book. He produces the 'British Archaeology' magazines. So as he was very much part of the Avebury landscape here is his blog. Of course he doesn't really tell you but Yorkshire Pudding might be interested in his next book 'Island at the end of the World' which if I am reading it right means the Easter Island.
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| Silbury Hill at Avebury And lastly, because this garden floated through my mind yesterday, an open garden day in Kirkbymoorside in 2018. The garden was behind one of the town houses and it was a very hot day. A link here. It is a very English happening;)  |
I love the lay out of that garden. How lovely. I cannot wait to have the time to devote to making mine. Right now, I'm so busy that I'm just chucking stuff into the ground. I figure that what grows, grows and I will be able to begin digging and rearranging next year.
ReplyDeleteIt is something to look forward to Debby. The above garden has been developed for years, look at the razor cut sharp grass edges. A protected environment which has walls, hedges or fencing round helps the plants survive from wind or animal as well.
Deletelovely bit of stained glass there - i've often admired the work of anyone who does things with glass..... i'd like to do a course of mebbe stained glass and make some sort of mondrian inspired piece for the sun to shine through
ReplyDeleteIt is quite expensive though to have an individual piece but the light can transform a room.
DeleteWe will definitely go backwards here with the current administration that doesn't want climate change solutions. They are doing everything they can to ignore or discredit it. Maybe the rest of the world will learn from our mistakes.
ReplyDeleteThe stained glass is lovely.
Yes a certain creature from your country has been smooching our news this morning and also the prime minister. Hopefully King Charles will be able to lead him along a better road when we get the visitation in September. Charles is very green in his thinking.
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