Thursday, June 21, 2007
IE 6.0.2800.blah
Settings mysteriously returned to normal. This is good, being old enough not to like change, whether or not for changes sake.
Interested to see in the Guardian earlier this week a peice neatly linking up two of my bug-bears - to wit, regulitis and signitis. Linking both into a general failure of 21st century people to manage themselves - and particular the lower orders thereof - in a sensible way. Dishing out orders in one medium or another being a rather unsatisfactory substitute for work, thought or management. Didn't actually read the peice so don't know whether the author (a gent) picked up on the third bug-bear, that is to say the various interest groups who make money out of these diseases and who therefore have no interest in their control. Maximum sustainable yeild is what they ought to be into - although maybe they don't read their Lipseys and go for the quickest possible buck. Accountants, lawyers and consultants in the first case; consultants, contractors and PFI partners in the second.
But our ambivalence in these matters was neatly demonstrated by the peice immediately following which laid out in loving detail the various problems which will arise from a weekly consumption of alcohol the daily consumption of which would leave the average denizen of TB considerably less than satisfied.
Broad bean harvest continues with a bacon and onion flavoured version today (the general idea coming from the good Delia). Plants now getting on for 5 feet high - as a result of not pinching out the shoots this year. Doesn't seem to have resulted in a plague of blackfly so perhaps the spray I used was particularly unorganic. Report back on bean stew later.
Ate the first ever strawberry from the allotment today. Cambridge stock planted out over the winter. Next year might get a proper crop.
But it is a pity that one can't eat willow shoots. The small tree which I cut to within a foot or so of the ground at the bottom of the Southern allotment over the winter had put out shoots to around 5 feet high. Pulled them all off today and there must have been twenty pounds of the things. All fairly green and soggy so put them in the compost bin - the half that I cleared out last so it has more than a year to do the business with the willow. Unless that is, everything is disturbed by having to renew the pallets holding it together on that side. They are looking decidely past their sell by date.
Interested to see in the Guardian earlier this week a peice neatly linking up two of my bug-bears - to wit, regulitis and signitis. Linking both into a general failure of 21st century people to manage themselves - and particular the lower orders thereof - in a sensible way. Dishing out orders in one medium or another being a rather unsatisfactory substitute for work, thought or management. Didn't actually read the peice so don't know whether the author (a gent) picked up on the third bug-bear, that is to say the various interest groups who make money out of these diseases and who therefore have no interest in their control. Maximum sustainable yeild is what they ought to be into - although maybe they don't read their Lipseys and go for the quickest possible buck. Accountants, lawyers and consultants in the first case; consultants, contractors and PFI partners in the second.
But our ambivalence in these matters was neatly demonstrated by the peice immediately following which laid out in loving detail the various problems which will arise from a weekly consumption of alcohol the daily consumption of which would leave the average denizen of TB considerably less than satisfied.
Broad bean harvest continues with a bacon and onion flavoured version today (the general idea coming from the good Delia). Plants now getting on for 5 feet high - as a result of not pinching out the shoots this year. Doesn't seem to have resulted in a plague of blackfly so perhaps the spray I used was particularly unorganic. Report back on bean stew later.
Ate the first ever strawberry from the allotment today. Cambridge stock planted out over the winter. Next year might get a proper crop.
But it is a pity that one can't eat willow shoots. The small tree which I cut to within a foot or so of the ground at the bottom of the Southern allotment over the winter had put out shoots to around 5 feet high. Pulled them all off today and there must have been twenty pounds of the things. All fairly green and soggy so put them in the compost bin - the half that I cleared out last so it has more than a year to do the business with the willow. Unless that is, everything is disturbed by having to renew the pallets holding it together on that side. They are looking decidely past their sell by date.
# posted by Jim @ 4:40 AM 
