The sun is just peeping over the fields now. I'm hoping to get the grass cut if I'm back from work early enough. My sister is visiting next week and I want it to look nice.
Morning all. Sun peeping out here too, after a very misty start. Hosta, for the llama and for the Brexit report... Busy day today - novel appreciation group this morning, gardening group this afternoon. Plant swap, plus helping a member design her new garden. Bliss... I'm taking some baby Soldanella plants, but no idea what I'll get in return...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Good morning all. Bleary here after a disturbed night - OH snoring - so headachy now. Bleary day too with grey stuff and damp feeling air. More coffee and then biscuit making for me cos can't be faffed with a cake today.
Liri - sounds like you have a good day in store. Love a llama Hosta. Hope you get your grass cut and you're home in time to weed a bit Chicky.
Patchwork this pm so I'd better get a move on. Have a good day all. Lots of Zen vibes for you Yvie and to all yet to pop in.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Morning everyone, Rained all day yesterday and most of the night, will try to get to the allotment between the showers today it's to wet to do much but need to inspect as I've not been for a few days.
Have a good day all.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
I was listening to radio4 this morning and they were talking about the Venice Biennale. All I could think was that they were using an awful lot of words to not say very much. I think that's what bugs me about much of the 'Art World' - lots of talking and telling you what you're supposed to think about it. I've never felt comfortable with being told what to think. About anything. I guess that's why I'm an engineer and not an artist. I do love art - some of it, anyway. Both looking at it and doing it. Just not talking about it.
Thinking of you Yvie. The trouble with being a landlord, like being a developer, lots of people make lots of assumptions about you. Hopefully the Law will be more objective.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Very difficult to talk about art on the radio without using a lot of words I was quite impressed with the R4 bit on the Venice Biennale this morning. It's not easy to talk about something that is a visual language but my take on it is along these lines.
Art is about the communication of ideas. To do this different artists use different 'languages' . If people don't understand these languages of course they will find it hard to get the message. For some reason this exasperates some of them. Some of them claim that if they can't understand it, it's not art.
Poetry is also about the communication of ideas. To do this poets use different languages. A poem may be written in Japanese ... those of us who don't understand Japanese will find it hard/impossible to understand the ideas in the poem, although we may like (or not) the sounds and rhythms made by the words. Even if we don't understand the ideas, we accept that it is still a poem ... no one claims that it isn't.
People don't think that just because they can hear they should be able to understand the ideas contained in a poem written in a language they don't know.
Why do people think that because they can see they should be able to understand the ideas in an artwork which has been made in a visual language they've not studied?
Some visual art is immediate and universal and easier to understand ... but that doesn't mean that art that is more 'difficult' isn't art. Explanations aren't 'telling you what to think' ... they're simply that ... a verbal explanation of the artist's intention when making the work.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cute llama Hosta. Spent time watching foresters taking down huge tree from next door. Even though it wasn't in leaf there is so much more light coming into my garden.
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Overcast and damp here
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm hoping to get the grass cut if I'm back from work early enough.
My sister is visiting next week and I want it to look nice.
Sun peeping out here too, after a very misty start.
Hosta,
Busy day today - novel appreciation group this morning, gardening group this afternoon. Plant swap, plus helping a member design her new garden. Bliss... I'm taking some baby Soldanella plants, but no idea what I'll get in return...
Liri - sounds like you have a good day in store. Love a llama Hosta. Hope you get your grass cut and you're home in time to weed a bit Chicky.
Patchwork this pm so I'd better get a move on. Have a good day all. Lots of Zen vibes for you Yvie and to all yet to pop in.
Rained all day yesterday and most of the night, will try to get to the allotment between the showers today it's to wet to do much but need to inspect as I've not been for a few days.
Have a good day all.
Thinking of you Yvie. The trouble with being a landlord, like being a developer, lots of people make lots of assumptions about you. Hopefully the Law will be more objective.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Art is about the communication of ideas. To do this different artists use different 'languages' . If people don't understand these languages of course they will find it hard to get the message. For some reason this exasperates some of them. Some of them claim that if they can't understand it, it's not art.
Poetry is also about the communication of ideas. To do this poets use different languages. A poem may be written in Japanese ... those of us who don't understand Japanese will find it hard/impossible to understand the ideas in the poem, although we may like (or not) the sounds and rhythms made by the words. Even if we don't understand the ideas, we accept that it is still a poem ... no one claims that it isn't.
People don't think that just because they can hear they should be able to understand the ideas contained in a poem written in a language they don't know.
Why do people think that because they can see they should be able to understand the ideas in an artwork which has been made in a visual language they've not studied?
Some visual art is immediate and universal and easier to understand ... but that doesn't mean that art that is more 'difficult' isn't art. Explanations aren't 'telling you what to think' ... they're simply that ... a verbal explanation of the artist's intention when making the work.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Spent time watching foresters taking down huge tree from next door. Even though it wasn't in leaf there is so much more light coming into my garden.