Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
when more people apparently are interested in watching repeats of some Irish drag queen telling fanny gags?
And , increasing numbers don't have or don't watch TV?
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to BenWilson,
why bother with the moon? It’s only real importance to earthly affairs is its effect on tides which is limited to affecting coastal people,
Many farmers in all sorts of climates would take issue with that statement. The ascending/descending moon rhythm is used in both agriculture and forestry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_nodeHave you heard of the Moon Stamp on tropical timber?
In modern agriculture this cycle is used mostly for haymaking/seed planting (ascending) and seedling transplanting (descending).
It appears to come from peasant lore /observation. I guess that when you are cutting and turning hay by hand for months that you would notice this effect.A quick gargle found this , which is related but not quite the same:-
http://www.wlbcenter.org/drawer/journalclub/Vogt%20etal2002_TEK-lunar%20rhythms-chemistry.pdf
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to BenWilson,
? It’s actually really, really important when and where we put our work/rest cycles.
Every day!
Even better is to have restful work. Some seem to manage it. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to David Hood,
So he was out by at least an order of magnitude. In his defence though , he did reveal that it was another member of the trio who had asked him to broadcast the "fact".
Never mind , the concert was a great celebration of the work of Charlie "Bird " Parker.Some might like his take on New York:-
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to nzlemming,
Speaking of Hamlet, last night on Concert FM, Django Bates , between songs , mentioned that if every living person in the world today was to be simultaneously playing the role of Hamlet , there would not be enough skulls from those humans gone before us to go around.
Kinda (if its true) puts the present world population in perspective doesn’t it? -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to David Hood,
And the Celts and the Asians stayed with the solar seasons.
“In East Asian Solar term, spring begins on 4 February and ends on 5 May. Similarly, according to the Celtic tradition, which is based solely on daylight and the strength of the noon sun, spring begins in early February (near Imbolc or Candlemas) and continues until early May (Beltane).”
It always made more sense to Farmer Green to use day length to mark the progress of the year , because that’s what the grass does. The change from vegetative to reproductive usually marks the peak milk flow. Or it did in the days before PKE and "dairy support" etc. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Chris Waugh,
tomorrow’s Mid-Autumn/Moon Festival
That’s interesting that Asian cultures are using the Sun calendar to determine the seasons, just as the natural world is governed by daylength. So mid Autumn or Spring occurs at the equinox, and the longest day is mid summer. Spring in the Southern hemisphere would begin in early August, around Candlemas. (or St Brigids day, the start of the Celtic spring in the Southern hemisphere.)
I wonder why modern Western cultures opted to use temperature (?) rather than day length.
The corresponding Harvest moon , referenced since 1706 is attributed to “the country people”. I’m guessing that means farmers etc. , for whom day length is more relevant than temperature. -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
For sure it’s bums on seats. Remember the days when a student could roll in to the late night review- Knickers , Knackers and Knockers etc- and for a few bucks see John Clark, Ginette McDonald, Paul Holmes, Ray Henwood, sometimes Ian Watkins , Bruno et al?
Maybe it’s also the Changing of the Guard. As they say , “she’s history”.Downstage used to feature some fairly "edgey" political satire. Not sure that Rob Muldoon spent a lot of time there.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Sacha,
Yes, that must be the reason that people are moving to big cities all over the world.
Sometimes they do that. Other times they abandon the cities and go to where food can be obtained. That hasn’t happened in recent times though has it?
New orleans? Detroit? -
Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It might not just be the arts that are affected by the regional split of funding.
I mean what has the rest of the country (outside of Auckland) ever done for the nation?
I notice the ATC is still funded. People follow the money don't they?
Defund the provinces and what happens?