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diff --git a/reading-log.md b/reading-log.md index 2664d6d..31d33d1 100644 --- a/reading-log.md +++ b/reading-log.md @@ -6,6 +6,31 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-04-15 +### @{turned-out-nice-again} + +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} |