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Resolutions, and a few links
Jan. 20th, 2016 01:00 pmIt feels like ages since I've posted, so even though I haven't great things to report, here goes:
My resolutions are off to a flying start, apart from the one about practising the recorder - and the one about writing. :( Today, okay?
Though the recorder one is partly that from this house I can hear one of my neighbours from time to time playing, just idly, I think, on the flute - such lovely and delicate melodies, very beautiful and ethereal. But if I can hear them, they would be able to hear me, and that would be a wrong thing to do to the neighbourhood - to let loose just-learning sounds on the recorder - you all know how horrible that is, right? - and also very shaming. So maybe not today for that.
For some reason I've been cooking up a storm this past week, including with the jackfruit seeds I mentioned once before. ( Read more ifyou're interested in jackfruit seeds!... )
Which all doesn't really add up to a post, so how about a few links?
I enjoyed this article by an historian, about health services as portrayed in Downton abbey.
I was happy to see that traditional hurricane-proof houses on Tanna had stood the test of Cyclone Pam last March, though (as the video footage shows) standing the tests was not just the roof, but also the plain strength of those inside holding it down as it bucked in the wind.
and in my own country, a traditional farming practice creates great patterns while countering erosion.
My resolutions are off to a flying start, apart from the one about practising the recorder - and the one about writing. :( Today, okay?
Though the recorder one is partly that from this house I can hear one of my neighbours from time to time playing, just idly, I think, on the flute - such lovely and delicate melodies, very beautiful and ethereal. But if I can hear them, they would be able to hear me, and that would be a wrong thing to do to the neighbourhood - to let loose just-learning sounds on the recorder - you all know how horrible that is, right? - and also very shaming. So maybe not today for that.
For some reason I've been cooking up a storm this past week, including with the jackfruit seeds I mentioned once before. ( Read more ifyou're interested in jackfruit seeds!... )
Which all doesn't really add up to a post, so how about a few links?
I enjoyed this article by an historian, about health services as portrayed in Downton abbey.
I was happy to see that traditional hurricane-proof houses on Tanna had stood the test of Cyclone Pam last March, though (as the video footage shows) standing the tests was not just the roof, but also the plain strength of those inside holding it down as it bucked in the wind.
and in my own country, a traditional farming practice creates great patterns while countering erosion.
