Crops have gown on ok in the changeable month that's been August, needing though more protection than hitherto. The potatoes have had mixed results with lessons for next year, but the onions have come out remarkably well, considering they had a nasty attack of the 'aliums'.
This year's building out of spare re-cyclable materials project has been to addd a 'converandory' onto 'The Retreat', which was last year's project, and is just about finished now -a bit of extra motivation needed for the final push.
Motivation, though, almost seems to be a thing of the past, in today's 'control' type cultures in the west, with even traditionally self-motivated souls such as the professional classes not these days seemingly trusted to self-responsibly 'get on with the job' - 'carrot and stick' management styles ruling - ? There's some evidence too, of the very wealthy having some motivation-type problems ---.
H's rural motivation case-study looks at a 'heart v. head' conundrum situation, whilst Bob Dylan gets nearly the last word -----
