Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:51:14 -0800WeeblyTue, 03 Jan 2012 10:40:19 GMThttp://www.spiritofthewoods.co.uk/2/post/2012/01/the-garden.htmlCan't remember whether it's 1 year or 2 since the last potato etc. growing escapade, but the soil's sure to be good & fallow by now.

Solstice was 13 days ago so from then on the nights get lighter. I decided to honour the occasion by turning over the spud patch and flinging the empty tyres about a bit to get the stinking rainwater out. Not much point actually doing much yet but at least I'll avoid the usual trick of doing nowt until April then getting tiny marble-sized salad spuds cos I left it too late to plant them.

Previous attempts have gone a bit wrong, usually due to cat activity, sudden 6-week heatwaves and/or blight but each time I learn a bit more. This time next year I'll be someone with some potatoes in a box of sand but may be only one of a handful of survivors from the great 2012 spiritual revolution/possible world-running-out-of-food scenario. This reminds me of that tv show in the 70s. Ooh look its on you tube, all 3 series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI9p1196WtM&feature=related

So far I've turned over a 8' x 4'  patch that got blight 2 years ago, hoping that if I do this every couple of weeks the frosts will kill any nasties still in the soil. I'm using the grass/weed clumps off the top to build a raised bed nearby, but shaking as much topsoil as poss. back into the original patch

Thinking of lining the raised bed(s)for tomatoes, onions, carrots etc. with this weed-proof black webbing stuff, I've got a 3m x 5m sheet of it. Spuds seem to take over from the weeds ok so will try just putting them in the ground. Japanese knot-weed grows straight through some of the tyres, can't get rid of it, but the spuds grow anyway.

Last time, I tried 'no-dig planting', you just poke a hole in the ground and whack a seed-spud in, cover it up & wait. Only got a few very small salad-spuds but given the lack of effort involved, I might do it again on unused bits of the garden, we got a few good meals out of them.

I've been thinning the trees out round the edge of the garden in odd moments, they're quite good for shading on very hot days and they break up the wind, but the climate here is often dull and always damp so I cut them back a bit each year.

Thinking of doing the first planting after the frosts late feb/march but also thinking of looking for some types of seed-spud I've heard of, small and blue or pink coloured skins, apparently crofters etc. grow them right through winter. Anyone got a link? not finding much??

Pictures to come when l get the camera going, advice welcome/needed.

]]>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:59:10 GMThttp://www.spiritofthewoods.co.uk/2/post/2011/02/a-little-thing-i-posted-on-a-scientific-forum.htmlHi, Its a long story but basically I'm a psychic who believes that there is an undiscovered element of the laws of physics that will one day explain the phenomena I'm calling 'psychicness'. Over many years I've been told repeatedly that my readings are accurate, I won't insult the intelligence of the scientists by asserting this as the truth, as I have no proof beyond my own experiences, but I will point to the millions of people who believe in psychic phenomena, not as a body of evidence in itself, but as a large group of real people who do exist. Why are they as convinced as I am? (a big question)

My belief about 2012 is based on Mayan ways of interpreting periods of time; basically they regarded 'ages' (such as the suggested age of Aquarius) as changing over an extended period of about 150 years. Therefore their prediction about 2012 actually relates to the period from 1937 to 2087. I would respectfully suggest that any 'apocalyptic' changes during this predicted period are thought to be happening slowly. Yes calendars and exact dates have changed but there are strong reasons for 2012 being the pinpointed year.

I would further respectfully point out that the world banks are pretty well screwed and are printing money because they simply can't get it by conventional means, and that there is extreme weather much more often than has been the case in hundreds of years, to name but 2 of the 'facts'. In the case of the weather, yes there have been ice ages and stuff before, but if we have another ice age soon, wouldn't that be kind of apocalyptic? In the case of the world banks, yes there are proven reasons for their screwedness, but if the banking system continues to fall apart, wouldn't that be kind of apocalyptic?

Things keep happening that attest to the theory that massive change is underway at this time. This is very far from proving that God is about to smash the planet to pieces (!) but it fits the predictions for 2012.

Finally, I've been a spiritualist medium for years and I've never seen or heard anything I could prove scientifically. However, I've seen so many people moved by things I've told them which I personally could never have found out, that I believe completely in what comes to me from what I call Spirit. In this sense the paranormal will always evade science and there may be no point in trying to verify the Mayan predictions.

We'll just have to wait and see, because here's a 'rule of the game' I've found that guides most psychics including myself. No-one can predict the future. A strange thing for a psychic to say perhaps, but thats how its thought to work. We see possibilities, potential successes and failures, potential comforts and dangers. The free will of individuals is regarded as being the chief influence on the direction of their lives.
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