Hello. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Anyway, today is St David’s Day, the first of March, and the first day of spring (in meteorological terms, at least).
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus.
Doing
- Blossom is out on the damson trees, and the filbert tree is draped in red catkins. We planted the first of the broad beans in the late winter sun.
- Dug another bed under the oldest damson tree, watched over by some chatty robins.
- Made buckwheat pancakes (a little later than Pancake Day).
- Joined Stone Club (https://stoneclub.rocks)
- Explored a new bit of Vauxhall I’d not been to before. The Thames looked higher than normal.
Reading and watching
- Electric Eden, by Rob Young
- Forget ‘advice to my younger self’ articles. What would older me want to know?, (FT, £)
- The Internet Transition, by Robin Berjon
- Every Coastal Home Is Now a Stick of Dynamite, The Atlantic
Listening
- Optical Delusion – Orbital
- Milk For Flowers – H. Hawkline
- Tracing Static – Rob St. John
- Poaching song – Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders
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