Oh that will be from the pottery, when you came across the channel on your mission for birds and seals, with Paddy and Helen!! When the weather gets better I will go over on one of the farmer's market days and (having saved my pennies first) see if I can induce them to make me a plate with rooks on it.(My favourite bird) I hope I can persuade her, but maybe she also likes rooks. And no, it is not the dead centre.. no-one has been buried there since the first world war, pretty much. The more recent departed are up through the woods, quite a hike away, and accessible from the Fingringhoe road, by the site of the old church and adjacent to the old burial ground, where the 'pirate' grave is. That's why we had to do the big clear up, because no-one tends anything there any more- but things will change - one helper last saturday is going to do a plan of the memorials (and we found ones no-one has seen for years, under old dead trees covered in ivy etc.)
Blackbirds were Helen's favourites, but I'd bet she'd enjoy the challenge of doing a rook plate. Rooks are a great favourite of mine, too, perhaps because of the 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' cliché. Don't get rooks here so it's the first bird I look for when I get to England. My red admiral icon photo was taken on my last visit, just behind the farm. We had a clean-up here a couple of years ago, but it was to save a rare little fern as its habitat was being invaded by sloe bushes and pines. No-one quite knew what this fern was supposed to look like until the botanist-in-charge showed us it was the one we had all been trampling on.
Taking the time to join together with people in your community, to take care of our Mother Earth, is the best kind of direct action there is. It's not spurred by anger or hatred (as some kinds of direct action/protest are), it's spurred by love and gentle caring. Good job on the clean up!
Thank you R, and yes, it was spurred by lots of very good reasons and many unexpected people turned up and were wonderful workmates. Lovely to get to know them and sharing manual labour good for comradeship. Two church ladies fed us all with lovely home made food and Elizabeth gave me some of her carrot scones, topped with sesame seeds to take home (Think she knows I am bad on many of the housekeeping skills, - except cake, which I am getting known for.. I don't eat it, but I do like baking it)Hard to rule out direct action through anger and hatred.. I agree that the other motivations- love, care, are much better. Sometimes though, the hatred of injustice and anger about oppression have been motivations toward action that have helped shape history. I guess the value of the latter must also be weighed in the balance... Now, you must get on with your 'to do ' list .. small steps, small steps and you'll soon be there...have a lovely week.
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Anyway, keep up the good work on your marble orchard. Is that the dead centre of the village?
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We had a clean-up here a couple of years ago, but it was to save a rare little fern as its habitat was being invaded by sloe bushes and pines. No-one quite knew what this fern was supposed to look like until the botanist-in-charge showed us it was the one we had all been trampling on.
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