I got so into the story of the signs that I forgot to mention, towards the end of the piece, that of course all the European funding that paid for the expansion of infrastructure dried up completely after Brexit!Without those great wodges of dosh sloshing around to keep it all going, NRW was well and truly stuffed.
Not for nothing is 'maintenance' a key aspect of any well thought out permaculture design, and the aspect of 'access' features early on in Yeomans 'scale of permanence'. 'Maintenance' was given a whole episode in Stewart Brand's BBC series 'How Buildings Learn' - some great examples in there where things can go very badly wrong through a lack of attention, though my favourite example has to be the story of the beetle infected 'oak beams of new college, oxford', whereby back in the 14c when it was built the trees that would provide the replacment beams were planted as a grove of oaks at the time the college was founded - that is excellent forward thinking and a great example of having resources at the ready that cannot be stolen (easily), or as was the case of brexit funding, disappear, and will hold their material value which Holmgren has pointed out is a measure of real capital - that and the knowledge and skill to use them
Many thanks for that Gary, some great points and references. Your example of the long term thinking at New College, Oxford is fantastic- I was not aware of that so thanks indeed. I will no doubt be ussing it regularly in the future! When I was working on designs for our place here at Penrhos, I did consider rotation of our dwelling, every hundred years or so, gradually moving it, the gardens and shelter belt around the site. I like what I think is a Quaker saying, "Plan as though you are going to live a thousand years and live each day as though it might be your last". Hwyl! Chris.
Thanks Chris. Always worrying when a Corp swaps names and numbers. Reminds me of the BWB to CRT debacle. Accountability out the window, downgrading of skilled workforce and, of course, a plethora of new signage. Shocking stuff.
Thanks Guy. Yes indeed, re-organisation implies that something useful and exciting is going on when really it isn't. An old tactic, as the quote atributed to Petronius Arbiter below suggests-
“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
Actually probably not Petronius at all but still a great quote!
I got so into the story of the signs that I forgot to mention, towards the end of the piece, that of course all the European funding that paid for the expansion of infrastructure dried up completely after Brexit!Without those great wodges of dosh sloshing around to keep it all going, NRW was well and truly stuffed.
Not for nothing is 'maintenance' a key aspect of any well thought out permaculture design, and the aspect of 'access' features early on in Yeomans 'scale of permanence'. 'Maintenance' was given a whole episode in Stewart Brand's BBC series 'How Buildings Learn' - some great examples in there where things can go very badly wrong through a lack of attention, though my favourite example has to be the story of the beetle infected 'oak beams of new college, oxford', whereby back in the 14c when it was built the trees that would provide the replacment beams were planted as a grove of oaks at the time the college was founded - that is excellent forward thinking and a great example of having resources at the ready that cannot be stolen (easily), or as was the case of brexit funding, disappear, and will hold their material value which Holmgren has pointed out is a measure of real capital - that and the knowledge and skill to use them
Many thanks for that Gary, some great points and references. Your example of the long term thinking at New College, Oxford is fantastic- I was not aware of that so thanks indeed. I will no doubt be ussing it regularly in the future! When I was working on designs for our place here at Penrhos, I did consider rotation of our dwelling, every hundred years or so, gradually moving it, the gardens and shelter belt around the site. I like what I think is a Quaker saying, "Plan as though you are going to live a thousand years and live each day as though it might be your last". Hwyl! Chris.
Thanks Chris. Always worrying when a Corp swaps names and numbers. Reminds me of the BWB to CRT debacle. Accountability out the window, downgrading of skilled workforce and, of course, a plethora of new signage. Shocking stuff.
Thanks Guy. Yes indeed, re-organisation implies that something useful and exciting is going on when really it isn't. An old tactic, as the quote atributed to Petronius Arbiter below suggests-
“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
Actually probably not Petronius at all but still a great quote!