After a day or two in early Feb with the sun shining, the seasonal 'growing urge' can strike, reminding of the 'elemental' side of life. Preparing the ground and putting on the compost and woodash here on the miniscule enterprise that is the eco micro-holding (small smallholding) is grist to the 'growing' mill. Plenty of birds are around here - some resident, some hard weather visitors, although the flock of resident doves now seem to have found new lodgings.
TV ads seem to proliferate these days - can so many be 'counter-productive' - ? Commercial news can sometimes seem to imply things should be 'ever upward', but realistically, sometimes it can be more of a case of 'damage limitation'. Does the seemingly march of central and commercial power, though, carry within it longer-term problems for individual rights? There have already been reports of government intentions to offer people money to give up rights, for instance, and reports that there's a move within the UK governing party to 'sign off' from the European Human Rights Charter.
