climate and life

I’m organizing a candlelight vigil in Knockvicar organic garden as part of a huge international day of action on climate change. We need a bunch of people to make it work. It’s going to be fun, short and super easy – will you come ? Events like ours are happening simultaneously in every corner of the world just as our leaders gather in Copenhagen for the most important climate negotiations of our time. Our message is clear: The World Wants A Real Deal : a treaty strong enough to tackle dangerous climate change. Come and join me! Check out the event and RSVP here: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/real_deal_rsvp/?id=142363&cts=1260190019&m=521 If you can’t make it to mine, check out this map showing events across the world. http://www.avaaz.org/real_deal_map See you there ?

 

smallholding

Don’t even think of keeping animals (goats, sheep, chickens, cows, horses) without this book.

 

home remedies, away from home

Here I am in Annaghmakerrig (the Tyrone Guthrie centre) for a week of hand and mind work so there will no be baking this week (16 may), no show in Knockvicar, but I may well get home a little heavier with all the lovely cooking here. A fellow inmate, American artist Kathleen Ferguson, who is plotting great work on the Silk Road gave me her home remedy against cholesterol and I thought I’d share it on :

3/4 cup organic apple cider vinegar

3/4 cup honey

7 cloves garlic

blend and leave to sit in a cool place for four days.

Take one tablespoon in warm water every day.

(I read a while back in some newspaper that Ralph Fiennes learnt from his grandmother a magical cure against arthritis, a tablespoon of honeygar [a honey/vinegar mix] every day so with the above concoction we may well be killing the two birds. )

In an old house encyclopedia I also read that using only demineralized water helps with arthritis greatly (did someone ever use this?) you need a dehumidifier plugged in any room if you live in the damp northwest of ireland to get a good supply.

As for me here, I am making very new work with material and rusty metal, I don’t know where this is going but I am amused and excited.