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 ## 2026-04-15
 
+### @{turned-out-nice-again}
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+Richard Mabey pushed me to indigenise myself with my weather environment. He
+showed how the weather can integrate with our moods, our art, our sense of
+beauty, hope, joy, our activities and lifestyles, our environment. Living in
+tune with the weather can lead us to react better to climate change, as we
+listen to and accommodate the weather instead of fighting it.
+
+Chp 5 argued that we need to accommodate the weather. He pointed to two events.
+The first was the 1987 storm, how people said 'trees are at great danger from
+nature,' when in fact, when we left the trees alone, they grew back with gusto.
+Another is the slow advance of the sea along East Anglia's coastline, which
+created the Broads in the thirteenth century, leading to houses on stilts and
+special shoes, and now means a revival of stilt-houses, solar-powered boats, and
+bin-barges. He told the story of the Jolly Sailors in Orford, where punters took
+to the tables during a storm surge to carry on drinking, the landlord diving to
+the cellar to retrieve the beer, the plaque now on the wall commemorating the
+highest waterline. Contrast with building badly designed houses on floodplains,
+or not building houses at all.
+
+Chp 4 was about halcyon days, howthey can give a snub to big world events,
+though seemingly only in an 'allegorical' way, seemingly nothing more than
+making one feel better about things. Not about deep hope in my opinion, more
+about living in tune with the weather.
+
 ## 2026-04-14
 
 ### @{wilding}