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Jan 30, 2019Jan 2019

This though not long, this is a more thoughtful account of library at Alexandria than the usual glib accounts. Interesting.

Another one from Charles Darwin. Not what you expect, perhaps. If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Why do people post short, retorical statements like. "Make every second count." To which I want to reply. " I was until you wasted twenty of them, especialy when your dots, .......... made me think there was something more." Except of course, if I do...

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin

If I like a members post or comment they get points, hopefully, but do they still get points if I use one of the other icons on the menu such as "sad". To date I have been using other icons to comment on the content of the post/comment, not on the ...

Found in the garden today, hibernating ladybirds.

Found in the garden today, hibernating ladybirds. Hope they stay to eat the bugs next year.

It has been a dry winter so far, but we did get a sprinkle of snow the other day, I turned the country into a wonderful sombre gray but still lovely monochrome painting.

Its quite cold here now with a strong wind, so I spent an hour this morning hand weeding pots in the greenhouse. Its mainly Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. What I wanted to know is, is this little menace the same problem in the US and Australia...

I was just asked to approve a comment from a new member, as you sometimes are, so I did. Because it was not rude, hateful, or suspicious in any way, but it was a whole truck load of rambling woo and BS, which would normal make me want to be rude. So ...

Quoting our own members again, a few days ago, in some comments about the early history of Christian mythology, Cutiebeauty wrote:- “It goes way back to the origin of ignorance... “

Went into town today for some shopping. This is Louth from the surrounding fields, some time ago it was voted the best small market town in England, what it still has though is the tallest medieval parish spire in the country, and in the winter sun ...

Hamamelis mollis the Witch Hazel is coming into flower in the garden now. It has a slight scent like Hyacinth and the strange but lovely flowers, as with most winter flowers, last for weeks. This is a form called 'Palida' I think.

Thanks to several weeks of quite warm weather through the new year, the catkins on the hazels are early this year with us here in the UK. They look good now in the winter sun but we are just about to get the frost and snow hard. Not flowers as such ...

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Jan 19, 2019Jan 2019

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This has so many ideas in it it will make your head spin at 90 degrees.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. G. Bernard Shaw

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Jan 16, 2019Jan 2019

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Maybe there is no easy way, especially to loose weight.

This is from a video but still worth quoting. We should not pretend to know what no one can know, like religious people commonly do, that is a lie too. Aron Ra

True or not? Where would you like to go ?

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Jan 13, 2019Jan 2019

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Interesting bit about the early mammals, just in that gray area where classification shows its subjective side, and you feel the deep time and it mysterys even more.

We are lucky here in the UK, in that the climate means that we can grow and naturalize Snowdrops, ( Galanthus ). Just coming through now, like an early promise of spring in mid winter. Also posted in Gardeners.

We are lucky here in the UK, in that the climate means that we can grow and naturalize Snowdrops, ( Galanthus ). Just coming through now, like an early promise of spring in mid winter.

Biological genetic evolution can only react and never foresee. At some stage in human development; it does not much matter exactly when; the biological evolutionary ground work needed for the development of human language and culture had been ...

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address. Am I supposed to think it came from God, if so then it is very strange because it was sent to my father and you would think God would know he's been dead three years now.

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Jan 5, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an open mind if you are vegan.

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Jan 5, 2019Jan 2019

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This will soon become a big issue if we are not careful.

I think you will like this one if only because he is such a keen young man.

Part of. - To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every ...

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Jan 3, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a part of the life story not so often told, yet it is a good telling, enjoy.

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Jan 3, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a really neat graphical telling of the human story, I really enjoyed the way it is presented.

Happy new year, to all in the Gardeners group, and thank you for all that I learned from you in 2018. Especially that photos of the most beautiful gardens and flowers are not anything like as interesting, or going to get anything like the number of ...

One thing that I have noticed, is that many of the people who say they believe in homeopathy, and even spend money on the products, fail to make the distinction between it and herbal medicine. Some herbal remedies of course do work and many are part ...

What is wrong with wool, it comes from sheep does it not. Wait I will give you my opinion when I find my glasses.

How wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land. Oliver Goldsmith

My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look especially good with snow on them, or as here in bright winter sun. You could cook with them but they are beautiful just to look at, and the birds love ...

Bright winter sun shining on crab apples. The last of the autumn.

The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old. So the day after Xmas being a holiday here in the UK (boxing day), I took the time to make some pies to share with friends, especially my very good friend who cooked dinner for me ...

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Dec 25, 2018Dec 2018

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Speculative perhaps but interesting none the less.

Its a cool gray winter so far, suits the cool gray deer perhaps.

With the relatively mild winters in the UK, we can overwinter a few things outside. So that I am still getting parsnips, leeks and sprouts, from the garden. And with a few late apples, plus peas and onions from storage, it looks like the makings of a...

For many years I have though that one of the saddest things was that it will take the skeptic/agnostic/atheist world centuries, to catch up with the great head start that the theists have in terms the arts and rituals, all those songs, paintings, ...

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Dec 20, 2018Dec 2018

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Just a good story about sailing round the world.

Admin especially or anyone who can help, a post has appeared on the gardeners page which looks very like a scam.

A message for the festive season from E. Fitzgerald. Ah, fill the Cup:--what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn TO-MORROW, and dead YESTERDAY, Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!

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OK if you do not like cute, don't watch this. Debussy "Clair de Lune" on Piano for 80 Year Old Elephant.

There are a lot of things to dislike about Christmas. I think that one of the worst is the patronizing statements like. “We must remember all those who have no family, and are spending Christmas alone.” Which is really annoying. Speaking as a ...

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Dec 15, 2018Dec 2018

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If you thought that robotic ships were still a long way off?

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Dec 11, 2018Dec 2018

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Five who no one believed. This one is about some you may know, some you wont, but science always tells good stories.

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Dec 10, 2018Dec 2018

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Maybe we will soon not need so many antibiotics?

"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than the place you are visiting." Clint Borgen So......?

Wintering a Tree Fern, in the north. Our first really cold weather this week and so its time to wrap up. Clockwise form top left: 1. Water and stake. 2. Tie up fronds. 3. Bubble wrap. 4. Strap on plastic sheeting.

While in Cyprus this week I found that a lot of gardens had Bougainvillea in flower. It is a favourite, though it would not grow here in the UK. But it is so colourful and it lasts so long, perhaps because most of the colour comes from the coloured ...

Like most gardeners I only take holidays in the winter. So that usually means going south for warmth, this year to the island of Cyprus. Where among the rocks I found the beautiful little Narcissus serotinus, the autumn flowering “Late ...

If its a cold day you may want to watch this one, it will certainly warm your blood up.

When you are young, and simple things seem enough.

How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of ...

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Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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This is a new idea, though many may have kind of guessed it was likely. Great art work and interesting sound track too.

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Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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History of some wonderful animals.

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Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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One for future history perhaps.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins, talking about relativism.

The mild autumn leaves still a lot of colour in the garden, and now the winter flowers are starting too. With Chrysanthemum, Iris foetidissima in berry, some climbing roses still going and winter jasmine just starting.

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Nov 18, 2018Nov 2018

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More natural history than is usual for this group, but the look at bird behavior is wonderful.

My vegetable plot in winter. In this part of the UK it is possible to overwinter leeks and parsnips in the ground most years. So these remain now though most of it is cleared and dug. Interestingly I have read, that they were the main two vegetables ...

The first of the Mahonia shrubs is just coming into flower now, it is a hybrid form from Asia, M. medina I think. Before the hard winter we had here in 2010 to 2011, it was over head high, but that winter the top was killed completely. It seemed ...

Do you think it true? That when we reject organized religion, we can still get caught by pseudo-religions, such a the belief that nature has meaning and purpose, the idea of so called spiritual values or that the arts can give us “artistic ...

This is not about growing but I thought you would like it. Many books on garden history say that, people in the middle ages and before, did not value views and landscape, even in gardens; but I do not think that human nature changes that much with ...

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Nov 15, 2018Nov 2018

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Here are some you may not have met with before, and they show just how quirky evolution can be.

For years I saved every bit of used potting compost in a heap, this year I have enough to mulch the whole garden with it. There may not be much food left in it but it still makes the plants grow.

Phygelius is only on the edge of being hardy here. I have to grow it by the stream, which being spring fed and warm all year keeps a little frost away. And sometimes you get a late flower or two after the main show and just for a while before the ...

Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right. H.L. Mencken

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is a prison. H.D. Thoreau I will post this one with a link too, well worth five mins.

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Nov 8, 2018Nov 2018

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Long ago, far far away, something fundamental happened. I love this it is a bit speculative but still a good story.

Nothing so absurd can be said, that some philosopher has not said it. Cicero.

My father passed away not long ago, one of the last things he did was to make, with my help, this eyecatcher, plant frame for the wood.

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Nov 3, 2018Nov 2018

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Is there something big out there? This video has a lot in a small space.

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Nov 2, 2018Nov 2018

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I posted this on another page but it is worth posting twice. Perhaps one of the saddest films ever, just give up three mins. of your time, to learn about lose and the results of human arrogance and disinterest. And see also, Hathacats post, This is ...

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me / The Quarrel of the Universe let be: / And, in some corner of the Hubhub coucht, / Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. Edward Fitzgerald./Omar K.

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Oct 31, 2018Oct 2018

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One for the Halloween time of year.

I think that this one could be very useful if someone has just been negative about your post, or even trolled you. Jean Sibelius. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame. Konrad Lorenz

All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given ...

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Oct 28, 2018Oct 2018

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If you want begin understanding yourself at the most basic, then this is a good watch.

The first of the winter colour is now showing in the garden, with Jasmine, Lamium, red crab apples (there are a lot of apples this year) and Winter viburnum, which flowers with us all winter and smells strongly of hyacinths especially if you bring ...

I certainly claim the title of “nerd” . In fact I am proud flag waving Nerd Pride member. Another member really liked this. (Definition. Nerd. Envy word used by the victims of popular culture, for those who escaped.)

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Oct 25, 2018Oct 2018

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This one is really thought provoking, and you are free to have as much fun speculating as you wish.

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Oct 24, 2018Oct 2018

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If you have an interest in DNA but are not an expert then this is worth watching.

The Ginkgo in the garden now is just coming up to full colour, I hope this weeks winds are not going to be too strong.

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Oct 22, 2018Oct 2018

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Watch this one and wonder if we will get lucky.

"When you are not able to forgive an indiscretion against you, you give that person power over you." One of the sites own members SukiSue wrote a post which included this line which I thought well worth quoting, as a stand alone. So I thought that ...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells

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Oct 21, 2018Oct 2018

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This is really the deep past. I enjoyed the a lot, and hope it works, I am new site and this is my first attempt at a video link.

The instinctive need be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are. Konrad Lorenz

The summer season ends for me (as the photo shows) at the last 'plant fair', at a wonderful old priory here in the UK. Do other countries have these events?

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me / The Quarrel of the Universe let be: / And, in some corner of the Hubhub coucht, / Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. Edward Fitzgerald.

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson

Is anyone else grateful that the fashion for the word 'Bright' seems to be fading. I always thought it patronizing to fellow sceptics and insulting to the many blameless victims of religion.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. Confucious. Posted in response to Marionville's post.

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