Posted in Blogroll, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Politics on June 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I was curiously surprised when I read that the Spanish government is to give human rights to great apes. Of course it’s good news for the marvellous hairy beasts in that they will be given protection from experimentation and exploitation. Of course that protection should already be in place by way of their animal rights but if giving them human [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Mother Earth on June 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Offload, Politics on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What’s that phrase they use about a week being a very long time in politics? Oh yes, I remember. It’s . . . a week is a very long time in politics.
The same can be said about the news.
I get my time on the pc and one of the first things I do is check out the news. [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth on June 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What a gorgeous evening to celebrate Midsummer. The sun has come out in her fine blazing glory in honour of her longest day’s work. After tomorrow, her days will get shorter and shorter and then Winter will arrive.
Here’s how this blog celebrated the solstice last year and as I can’t improve on that, I will just leave you with a [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Pondering on June 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The End of Cheap Oil and the Rise of the Scythe
Originally posted on You Tube by Kaivido
Quaintly out-dated? A bit antiquated? Well, we might think we can look back fondly on those days of heavy labour and hard graft from the techno-safety of our retrospective armchairs but it’s not so far-fetched to believe that in this age of rising oil [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to this article in today’s Guardian, the RSPCA has said that having animals in classrooms regularly handled by the children may be harmful to the creatures. Now I’m sure there are many who will be saying this is just more pc gone crazy or that it’s a health and safety policy too far but all things considered [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Music and Dance, News, Politics on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Amazon Indians have been squaring up to the mighty corporations and the state in a bid to prevent the construction of a series of hydroelectric dams that are planned for the Xingu River.
The officials are claiming that the construction plans are part of their sustainable energy drive but in reality it’s difficult to see how concreting, flooding and connecting [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Politics on May 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Not the inconsequential, small-time, amateur thing that’s going on in America right now. Noooo . . . this is the real deal. The proper, vital, earth-changing stuff.
Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again when the school councillors are up for re-election and my little boy has decided that he wants to have a go.
He wrote an [...]
Posted in Humanity, Mother Earth, News, Politics on May 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
None of them.
On Monday, over a hundred countries are gathering in Dublin to negotiate a new international treaty to ban cluster munitions.
Our own Ministry of Defence is fighting against a total ban. They would like to see two types of cluster bomb retained for continued military use (which I think is the current UK position), arguing that [...]
Posted in Family, Moments, Mother Earth on May 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Anna’s View
Posted in Blogroll, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Species are dying out at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published today – and human behaviour is to blame. The Independent
Yes, the human footprint is to blame according to the Living Planet Index. The report, produced by WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Politics on May 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My daughter’s friend’s mum works for an environmental charity and part of her role is to record badger numbers. Last night she took the girls to a badger sett located in a beauty spot a few miles away from where we live.
They all waited and waited in the hope that they would catch a glimpse of a badger. [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Pondering on May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We took advantage of the weather this weekend and worked on our garden and patio area and as I laboured away, many a random observation and idea popped into my empty head and you’ll be thrilled to know that I’m going to share them all with you so here goes:
Ponder number 1: To build or not to build [...]
Posted in Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Offload, Politics on May 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Introducing Raving Rev. Rod - American televangelist, dominionist and denouncer of all things Islamic, homosexual or non-Jesus worshipping.
Senator John McCain calls him a spiritual guide. I’d call him a misguided spirit.
Really! Well apologies for dragging up an old post but where do the religious right get their self-righteous superiority from? What is it with their deep and unmoving belief [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Music and Dance, News, Politics on May 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Hubby was having a clear out and he had put this little table on the rubbish pile but I had other plans. This table has history in it. It’s been in our family for generations five years and has served us in a variety of ways. It’s been a nature table, a picnic table, a shield from a [...]
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