The harvest is in full swing right across the whole of
The Cotswolds. I watch from a distance
within the woodland the Badgers, as they in turn watch the combines rip through
the fields of gold. The cereal fields
that have given cover to nature’s bounty of new life are now laid bare once
again after the passing of these gigantic, noisy machines.
Always fascinating to me how nature’s timing of the
harvest coincides quite beautifully with the growth and strength of all those
beings that took protection by it. The
Leverettes are now as big as their parents and can run as fast as the quickest
of their relatives. The Roe Deer fawns
and the Fallow Deer fawns, the Muntjacs are now big enough and strong enough to
easily outrun their predators, but always so pleasing to see them take cover in
the woodlands as the combines relentlessly churn through the cereal fields acre
upon acre.
The excitement of seeing these monstrous machines excites
me as much now as when I was a child.
The busyness, the toing and froing of the tractors pulling the trailers
full of grain. The augers as they swing
out from the side of the combines in a robotic, precise manner. Not seeming to spill a grain as they load the
moving trailers.
The tolerances of todays’ technology never ceases to
amaze and the whole theatrical experience when observed almost resembles
Thunderbirds on speed.
The Badgers are still doing exceptionally well. The Coopers still delight in their part of
the Badgers protection programme.
Liz Truss, our Environmental Secretary, has announced
that she doesn’t intend to roll out a gassing programme in any forthcoming
Badger cull proposals, saying that she favours shooting. A small step in the right direction I
feel. Although, any movement in the
slaying of Badgers is a step backwards in our whole eco system. Especially after hearing the news this week
of a BTB outbreak in Cumbria that can be directly linked to cattle movements as
my blog stated on Sunday June 9th 2013 titled, “George Would Have
Told Them to Keep Dodging the Lead.”
As the commemorations go on across the length and breadth
of the land on the anniversary of the start of the 1914 1918 war, the Great War
supposedly to end all wars, the excitement of the Commonwealth Games really
brings home to me just how great the Great War was. Nearly half the globe in conflict leaving a
world in its wake consigning the mis-treatment of women and the underclass
workforce in the annals of history.
Never before has the human race seen such vast change in such a minute
window of time.
A 50th birthday party and 20 years wedding anniversary
brought a very satisfying afternoon’s hospitality. A chance to see people from the same village
and to catch up on bits and pieces of gossip and to generally be enlightened by
other people’s lives. So diverse, so
different to the conversations to be had in the villages forty years
previous.
Changes are constant, progress is forever in evolution,
but I feel the real progress and change in evolution is always in the eye of
the beholder, because so often the benefits to a minority are at extreme
discord with the majority.
The fundamental issues that were surely learnt from the 1914
1918 war and were shortly mirrored in the 1940 1945 war tells us that peace and
harmony can only emulate from humanity and equality, two ingredients that are
so conspicuous by their absence in the Middle East today.
Please watch my amusing short film of my Badgers who
epitomise equality and humanity.
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