Dumbing Down

Why does everything have to be dumbed down? Yet more evidence: Go to the BBC website or the ABC (Australian...) website and look for a category called "Arts". You won't find one. Sure, they have "Business" and "Sport" and "World", but no "Arts". No, the editors of these prestigious organisations have seen fit to file the Arts - poetry, dance, literature, classical music, painting, etc etc - under "Entertainment". ENTERTAINMENT! When I listen to Beethoven, or browse the drawings of Rembrandt, or read some Wallace Stevens, I don't look to be "entertained'! Sure, some art can be entertaining, and some entertainment can be artful, but PLEASE! Yes, I know that Entertainment is now the opium of the people, but this is further evidence of the long decline into barbarism.

I Want to Live Here

AMAZING!
The full story can be read here: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Beans and Brocolli: a match made in heaven

My brocolli has reached new heights. It's very windy here in the Hunter Valley but my vegetables respond to my loving touch. The beans I planted weeks ago have sprouted. Next door the brocolli is thriving:

Two rows of beans

Thriving beans, with brocolli next door