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Sweden Herd immunity
Why is it that people that use Sweden as a bad example use the wrong information?! Noone is stopped from IVA, at least not anyone who would be admitted to IVA outside of a pandemic (a sick and fragile 85+ person might at any time be considered too fragile...
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St. Corona against epidemics.
Saint Corona was only fifteen when she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius around 165. Corona was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the...
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A new Beveridge Report
I think a new Beveridge Report is needed and I am a bit surprised that none of the opposition party MPs have suggested it. The original report was commissioned on the widespread view that things couldn't go back to the way they were after WW2. We need...
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Electric scooters and virus
There are still electric scooters dropped around European cities They are avoided like the plague by everybody Why are they still allowed to be dropped onto the streets? If you want to hire them you have to touch them To make a business many people will...
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Wildlife and EMF radiation
Unfortunately wildlife has almost disappeared as a result of a combination of pollution, environmental damage and yes - EMF radiation from phones and all manner of things. Please everyone look at the data relating to EMF and wildlife. No sparrows, no...
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How to beat coronavirus
The faster you deal with a health crisis, the greater the short-term economic costs, but then the greater the long-term benefits too. social distancing —asking people to stay away from one another. This has meant closing schools, restaurants, and bars....
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nature all around us.
There is something about slowing down and enjoying the nature in our neighbourhood Before this coronavirus we may have been jumping in a car and been whizzing past a lot of nature under our noses in order to get to a national park, but there is all this...
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Polish coronavirus tests
Polish coronavirus tests: cheaper but equally good Polish coronavirus tests have already been registered by the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products. Tests produced in Poland are to be cheaper, which is...
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In an English country garden?
How many kinds of sweet flowers grow In an English country garden? We'll tell you now of some that we know Those we miss you'll surely pardon Daffodils, heart's ease and flox Meadowsweet and lady smocks Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks Roses, foxgloves,...
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Don't fear The Black Death
The Black Death gave birth to multiple musical genres, from gothic to black industrial and heavy metal, to death metal and dark psytrance, for example. The darkest moments in our history have always served well the imagination and creativity of musicians....
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Nesting. Spring. Dreams
Spring. The instinct in Spring is to nest. Create a new nest. Spring clean the old one. Us like birds have the instinct. The spring instinct. Our unique connection with nature. In deed a complex relationship. Children now have freedom from schools. They...
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Life from playing
We learn so much from play. Playing is fun. Playing is an experience. Playing is fun. Formally learn after playing. Play whilst formally learning. Experience the joy of learning. Joy of learning through play. Goodbye unhealthy stress. Just play. Play....
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A dreadful wild animal.
Man is at heart a dreadful wild animal. We know this wild animal only in the tamed state called civilisation and we are therefore shocked by occasional outbursts of its true nature; but if the bolts and bars of the legal order fall apart and anarchy supervenes...
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Living small can be big
Tiny houses are a great way to reduce costs, materials and emissions, however many council regulations are against them. All our communties would be enhanced by permanent groups of one and two bedroom houses laid out in a village style, with common walking...
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Dolphins for dinner!
There's a weird level of cognitive dissonance about people who are happy to participate in the killing of literally millions of fish, but get upset about dolphins. I've always maintained that the only reason most people find dolphins adorable is because...
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A difficulty with seeds
A difficulty with sowing seeds in wild or semi-wild corners is my ignorance in plant identification. For instance, there are I think various kinds of buttercup that are poisonous but which look quite like land cress, so while the land cress seeds itself...
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A recession caused by Coronavirus?
Is it a recession caused by Coronavirus? No this is not a recession caused by Coronavirus. It has been brewing for a long time. Successive governments around the world failed to learn the lessons of the Global Financial Crisis and it looks as if we are...
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Serviettenknödeln
No-one really seems to know where exactly Serviettenknödeln originated. The German Wikipedia entry says that before the 1930s they were only known in the regions of Hamburg, Thuringia and Upper Franconia (all in Germany): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviettenkn%C3%B6del...
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No prospect of employment -
Jobs. Without the prospect of employment and the ability, therefore, to earn a living, there's no hope for people. Life becomes very limited, indeed. Often these limitations are placed on people at birth. If you feel locked-out of the job market, whether...
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The success of the Welsh language community newspapers
In Wales there are well over fifty small local community newspapers. The national newspapers in Wales are in a free-falling decline Whereas the Welsh local community newsapapers are growing It could be because they stick to just reporting the news. Some...
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Making houses with plastic bottles in Ghana.
As like in so many places throughout the world the Ghana has a problem of the plastic bottles rubbish polluting the environment. This waste of plastic in the waterways aids to the increase of flooding . People in Ghana often discard the plastic bottles...
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The first dinosaurs were Scottish
A fossil found in Scotland the same size as a Cat could have been the source of dinosaurs. Scientists had previously thought dinosaurs started in either Tanzania or South America. They now think that the dinosaurs started in Scotland This research of...
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Garlic
To plant garlic, carefully break the bulb up into individual cloves and push into the soil about 10cm apart, with the pointy tip just below the surface. Each clove will produce a new bulb. Keep weeding around the bulbs as they grow and you’ll be harvesting...
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Rembrandt
Every few years I like to have two pints of Ramrod and Special in The Flask (Flask Walk) then stroll across the Heath to Kenwood House and stare at... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Rembrandt_Self-portrait_%28Kenwood%29.jpg/800px-Rembrandt_Self-portrait_%28Kenwood%29.jpg...
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The Bog
Cutting across the bog to get back to the higher fields earlier in the week I came upon the first frogspawn of the year. First a football size clump in a very small depression which will dry up too soon .Beyond where the wellies wouldn’t save me from...