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I second that Alan, and will add greenhouses to the list.....

Lots of potting up and on today, but i am running a little tight for space, as always at this time of the year.

Absolutely bucketing it down now.

What a load of .............
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... ningadvice

Have you ever thought why cows have horns, or why certain animals have antlers? It is a most important question, and what ordinary science tells us of it, is as a rule one-sided and superficial. Let us then try to answer the question, why do cows have horns? I said just now that an organic or living entity need not only have streams of forces pouring outward: it can also have streams of forces pouring inward. Now imagine such an organic entity — of a lumpy and massive shape. It would have streams of forces going outward and streams of forces going inward. It would be very irregular; a lumpy organism — an ungainly creature. We should have strange-looking cows if this were all. They would be lumpy, with tiny appendages for feet, as indeed they are in the early embryonic stages. They would remain so; they would look quite grotesque.
But the cow is not like that. The cow has proper horns and hoofs. What happens at the places where the horns grow and the hoofs? A locality is formed which sends the currents inward with more than usual intensity. In this locality the outer is strongly shut off; there is no communication through a permeable skin or hair. The openings which otherwise allow the currents to pass outward are completely closed. For this reason the horn-formation is connected with the entire shaping of the animal. The forming of horns and hoofs is connected with the whole shape and form of the creature.

The cow has horns in order to send into itself the astral-ethereal formative powers, which, pressing inward, are meant to penetrate right into the digestive organism. Precisely through the radiation that proceeds from horns and hoofs, much work arises in the digestive organism itself. Anyone who wishes to understand foot-and-mouth disease — that is, the reaction of the periphery on the digestive tract — must clearly perceive this relationship. Our remedy for foot-and-mouth disease is founded on this perception.
Thus in the horn you have something well adapted by its inherent nature, to ray back the living and astral properties into the inner life. In the horn you have something radiating life — nay, even radiating astrality. It is so indeed: if you could crawl about inside the living body of a cow — if you were there inside the belly of the cow you — would smell how the astral life and the living vitality pours inward from the horns. And so it is also with the hoofs.

[Rudolph Steiner,The Agriculture Course Lecture Four]

Want to read on

http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Agri19 ... 12p01.html

I thought you'd been on the magic mushrooms Alan until I noticed it was a quote!!!

I give up - you can always find more nonsense than I can.
I liked this I read earlier:
There was once a short story contest; the rules specified that elements of religion, intrigue and royalty must be present. It was won by a college student with
“Jesus Christ! The queen is pregnant and she doesn’t know who the father is.”

Geoff wrote:I give up - you can always find more nonsense than I can.

My apologies, Geoff. If you want nonsense, think Biodynamics, think Rudolph Steiner.

alan refail. And our rudolf gets paid for this.

Just timed my Church clock winding trip wrong, was half way back when the heavens opened....

Infact, it now has been raining nonstop for 26 hours, despite the weatherman saying last night, it had been mostly dry for us....

Glad Old Codger and myself pushed ahead a few weeks ago, and got our potatoes, onions, shallots, peas and broad beans sown.

I haven't got a clock to wind at the moment. ...Pendulum has fell off ...the suspension spring has sheared......... very sad and quiet without the clock chiming.....it stopped at 3 am April 17th..........but if we make that 3pm then its stuck at our cup of tea time.

Clive.

Well i do hope your clock soon gets repaired, Clive.

It really is quite vile out there at the moment, very wet and very windy...
Also bitterly cold....

Clive,

Good job it stopped at 3am and not 3pm.

You'd be awash with tea by now.

Regards, Gerry.

Gerry - awash how apt!

Westi

Just got back from a short weekend break,
Which has been much needed here.
Apart from 2 hours of sun on Friday evening...
We have had it all hail, gale force winds and horizontal rain
Home now and still damp, but we did have a laugh

Dear Donedigging, sorry to here the weather could have been a little better, but i just knew i could rely on you to still have a laugh.

I always try and make the best of any bad situation, and it really does seem to help.

Although saying that, it's our lovely Sues funeral tomorrow, and that is going to be tough, but i am going to think of all the funny, happy times we have had since we were kids.

Dear OH,
We all had a laugh because, I played football with grandson, aged 3, I haven't run for a good few years! he shouted that's it Nanny you are not playing anymore,,,,,with that he picked up the ball and walked off, so funny!!!

I am sure no one will mind if I say we will all be thinking of you tomorrow.