Well, after nearly a month away, Wisebeard returns... with a tidier house, a nearly sorted attic, and dying rosebay willowherb.... the last of which is deliberate... much as ilike the old fireweed, it had replaced my lawn, and i felt it was time for it to wave bye bye... my onions and turnips seem to be growing well, the cabbages and lettuces seemingly luring the pests away... and my experiment in growing peppers in the windowsill seems to be a success, with five or six glossy green fruits already there.... and i have also managed to be brave, and clear out enough junk to hold my own boot sale... which is nice... so expect to see the beard at a football pitch near you... strange how life goes, isn't it... or not, as the case may be... but i'm tired, and trying to prepare for karate grading on wednesday(when i hope to gain my red belt..) and a short walk in the wilds of Snowdonia on saturday.... during which i hope to raise money for "charridee"... and i will be performing my first kata (pinan nidan) up a mountain, in order to raise even more.... never has the beard that is wise been so in demand, or had such a varied social life....which is slightly worrying... but i digress... so, until claimed by the mountain gods, Wisebeard Salutes you!!!!!

Well, the rain has set in, and Wisebeard personally is glad.... for lazy gardener that I am, I am happy to let nature water my onions.... and my lettuce, carrots and fennel... not to mention the savoy cabbage!! For wisebeard now has vegetables... and fruit, for the tomatoes are growing fine...and the peppers seem to be doing well... with the help of a certain young lady my beds are getting more prepared, and the herb garden is cleared and growing....oregano, chervil, sage, thyme, lemonbalm, rosemary... mmmmm.... nothing like home grown produce.... humans seem to love growing stuff... even if they're not much good at it sometimes....some say this is a throwback to the Judaeo Christian god telling Adam to look after stuff... some that it is due to Frey, or Buddha, or whoever, telling us to.... but i just think that it is something in us, something natural, just in the same way that some ants farm aphids... something we can't help, like building big nests and killing each other.... why is a mystery... probably we'll never solve it... but the point is that we like doing stuff for ourselves, and i think thats why we have a lot of antisocial behaviour.. because now more than ever we are discouraged from doing it ourselves.... we don't build our own houses, we don't grow our own food, we don't make our own clothes... we don't do much except cook, and we try to make that as easy as possible... no wonder people play up... frustration at not being able to do stuff, even if they don't realise this....people are made to feel useless... and why... well, my theory is that its because theres money in it... if we grew our own food, where would Mr Tesco be...??? if we made our own clothes, what would happen to poor Miss Selfridge???..... if we built our own houses, how would Mr Barratt survive?? but at least we would all be busy..... occupieed.. and content... lets be honest, mos people have jobs they dislike, and lives that are very samey... get drunk, watch telly, shout at a football.... and get frustrated and become antisocial... and its happened before.. the better off a society becomes, the more decadent it gets, and the greater the level of violence and antisocial behaviour... just look at rome!! but waht's the answer... even a wise beard does not know.....but until we find one... Wisebeard salutes you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!