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A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist
My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element, Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Opera, Science, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Birgit Nillson, Creed Cornwall, Eco Dyeing, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks and Titanium oxalate as a Mordant, King Mark, Klaproth, Liebestod, Phenolphthalein, Rod of Aaron, Saxon Invasion, St Crida, Staff of Moses, Titanium oxalate, Titanium oxalate as a mordant, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, William Gregor
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Look What Turned Up in the Garden – Common Stinkhorn
In fact two of these little fellers turned up in the garden. And that’s not sexist writing. Its Latin name is Phallus Impudicus and according to Wikipedia: “Botanist John Gerard called it the “pricke mushroom” or “fungus virilis penis effigie” … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Research, Science
Tagged Botanist John Gerard, Botanist John Parkinson, Common Stinkhorn, Deadman's Cock, Fungus virilis penis effigie, General Historie of Plants 1597, Hetty Darwin, Hollanders Working Toole, Linnaeus, Phallus hollandicus, Phallus Impudicus, Pricke Mushroom, Species Plantarum 1753, Theatrum botanicum 1640
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Melvyn Bragg on Richard Dawkins
Posted in Inspiration, Science, spirituality
Tagged Dream Songs, Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins
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Below the Line and Back of the Cosmos – Some Eco Prints on Watercolour Board
I have art papers and supports of every kind and in every size, just about. Examined under a microscope, some will be found to be dusted with the sands of Dubai and Grand Cayman, the Isle of Sheppey, the D-Day … Continue reading
Taking a Red Cabbage (and an Apple) for a (Low Calorie) Walk
With apologies to Paul Klee for misquoting his famous definition of drawing (that it is … taking a line for a walk). This is a red line that’s been taken for a walk. Well, … more like a spin. A … Continue reading
The Artist who Drew with the Sun; the Meissner Effect and the Apostle Paul
The Artist who Drew with the Sun is the heading over an article in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. The artist is Roger Ackling, who died in 2014. Excerpted: “One does not have to know how to bring meaning to one’s life: searching is to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Christian writing, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Ecology, Inspiration, Reviews, Science, Sculpture, Walking, Walking Art
Tagged Colossians, Land Art, Maglev trains, magnetic levitation, Meissner Effect, Occasional Papers, Resurgence Trust, Roger Ackling, Superconductivity, sustainable energy, Tate, the Apostle Paul, Walking Art
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One Square at a Time
There is a lot of weather going round at the moment, physically and metaphysically. Since I’m talking about squares, forgive the play on words, though the round in my first sentence ought really to be around. Poetic licence. There is a deal of … Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Creativity, Ecology, Photography, Quilting, Research, Science, Vegetarianism
Tagged Agricultural companies, Allotment, Allotmenteering, creativity, Deformed Wing Virus, European Honeybee Decline, Genetically Modified Food, Growing Food, Jude Hill, Library of Halexandria, Nine, Nine-square, Numerology, Organic Food, Oxygen, quilting, Raised Beds, Sacred Numbers, Science Magazine, Spirit Cloth, Tree felling
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Inch of the Day Friday September 18 2015: The Season of the Fungi
We are approaching that time of year, aren’t we? The season of the fungi. (Sounds like the title of a 1950s Sci-fi ‘B’ movie, doesn’t it? I’m beginning to see fungi all over the allotment. Nibbled at least, like this … Continue reading
