Stirrings are afoot for the new growing season, with the woodash and the compost going on the veg ground towards the end of February, which has also at last given some good, cold blue-sky days. Various early seeds have been sown, alongside the normal winter activities such as wood sawing.
The wild birds seem to be doing ok, surviving without mod cons, but with the benefit of supplementary feeding - good to be giving them some support. Trees too are admirable 'survivors', giving a stoic and reassuring presence, in an un-reassuring world -? Taking in CO2 and giving out oxygen makes them pretty vital entities.
There's been quite a bit in the papers lately expressing concern that in modern western-style 'power and control' cultures, real democracy could be under threat - not necessarily the best news for 'freerangers' - ? Traditionally self-motivated and responsible sections of society seem not to be too trusted too in such times, as the uk's junior doctors seem to have been experiencing. Maybe though, if internal self-motivation energies are stymied, a longer-term sustainable source of productivity is foregone - ?
