Posts by Farmer Green
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Just scrap NZOA funding of TV (except Maori TV) and put the funds thereby saved into LIVE theatre ; LIVE music etc.
We might even save Downstage.Who wants to be one degree removed anyway?
See image 28 - TV sunrise:- -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Chris Waugh,
farmers and foresters still work by, or at least take into account, the phases of the moon,
It is certainly a fairly small minority ; the rest just get their hay wet, or wonder why their transplants don't take readily, or why the rain didn't soak in and the tractor slid off the race.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Lilith __,
I was going to mention it and thought to also talk of other animals having similar cycles , so that in fact it was about fertility more than anything else. When you consider that cows have a 21 day cycle , you wonder if the moon has always taken 29.5 days for that particular one of its cycles.
(The ascending/descending cycle is 27.3 days long) -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Yep; this 365 1/4 days to get around the sun is the problem. 360 days and 4 seasons of 90 days each (say) would be so much easier . . . 36 ten day weeks in the year. It’s only the stupid clocks that have to change. And chuck out daylight saving while we’re at it.
Now we’re talking. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to BenWilson,
farmers are not everyone, not even close.
That’s right , and yet most everyone in Godzone depends on them for food . It’s not a comfortable relationship really is it?
Once upon a time , urban folk depended on them for housing timber and clothing fibre as well. Fossil fuels stepped up. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Farmer Green,
these days.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to BenWilson,
That’s true at this time, in this country. Very few grow their own food , or even know how to do so , these days.
We’ve come a long way in 100 years in this country.
But that is one of the great pleasures of being a farmer; you can ignore those artificial and arbitrary things, and just go with the natural rhythms. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Lilith __,
I don’t think the 12-month year and 7-day week are hurting anyone, are they?
No . The 7 day week thing is irrelevant and mostly ignored by farmers, as is the concept of weekend. Same with months ; only seasons count for anything, as the Celtic festivals indicate. The next one is the start of summer , Beltane , in early November. It will be duly noted with a glass or two ; more likely Lindauer Brut than Dom Perignon though.
And the BIG bonfire. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Here's the whole caboose:-
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Happiness Stan was quite bothered with it.