We speak of the keeping of a room as we would of the keeping of a picture; for both the picture and the room are amenable to those undeviating principles which regulate all varieties of art; and very nearly the same laws by which we decide upon the higher merits of a painting, suffice for a decision upon the adjustment of a chamber. Median laws. The abomination of flowers, or representations of well known objects of any kind should never be endured within the limits of Christendom. With formal furniture curtains are out of place, and an excessive volume of drapery of any kind is, under any circumstances, irreconcilable with good taste; the proper quantum, as well as the proper adjustment, depends upon the character of the general effect. In short, the cost of an article of furniture has, at length, come to be, with us, nearly the sole test of its merit in a decorative point of view. But their creation should not come at the expense of the old features of our landscape, the waders struggling to adapt to our changing farmland practices and the intensification born out of ever greater pressures on our land.
Replacing farmland with Sitka spruce benefits the investors that are driving it (and obviously produces valuable timber and other climate change benefits), but should curlews and other wildlife pay the price? We are violently enamoured of gas and of glass. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way - the Yankees alone are preposterous. The woodland is also well used by local people, particularly at the moment as part of their daily lockdown walk. There could be scarcely any thing more directly offensive to the eye of an artist than the interior of what is termed, in the United States, a well furnished apartment. It would be wasting time to disentangle the paradox - and the more so as no one will deny that Philosophy has its merits, and is applicable to an infinity of purposes. Or, will the finished product be four sided, shaped etc. How much space and how much finishing length do you need for a given product? Brexit will remove the guaranteed ring-fenced funding for agriculture from the EU whilst post-COVID austerity will mean that farmers have to compete for limited public funding against all the other claims on our cash-strapped government purse.
My excursions into the local landscape have not provided easy answers to complex land-use issues but there has to be a better way of saving the heritage of curlews and other wildlife whilst enabling appropriate forestry to take place. Carpets are better understood of late than of ancient days, but we still very frequently err in their patterns and colors. Gird yourself, for it's back to the space station Nerva we go to briefly express our utter disbelief that Sarah Jane lacked the fashion and logical sense to change out of the dress and heels and into something better suited to exploring and running from giant wasp things. Whether fringe purse ’s the classic flapper dress or an eye-catching pinstripe suit, there are so many timeless options for you to choose from and bring back into fashion for the evening. I don't think the smile on her face above is connected to the Doctor finding the Ring of Time so the trio can make their way back to the TARDIS -- no, that's far too sensible and obvious an explanation. These make super unique and functional gifts! The rapid drive for commercial forestry should not make the same mistakes as farming did, with intensification leading to a dramatic loss of wildlife and an impoverishment of the landscape.
Bath and body crafts make bathing an altogether different, and much more pleasurable, experience. The plain pouch (on the left) is much smaller in volume than the more realistic-looking ones, and the netted motif (on the right) depicts a rather unfunctionally-large mesh size. Careful consideration and tighter guidelines are needed in the rush to plant to ensure waders are left with enough suitable habitat, perhaps with wetland creation integrated into climate change mitigation measures for flood alleviation. I now teach agriculture students, some of them the sons and daughters of the farmers I worked with in the 1990s. They are passionate about big tractors and livestock but most have no interest in forestry, maintaining the cultural barriers to woodland establishment on farms. The resulting woodland is now full of birds - blackcap, yellowhammer, willow warbler, whitethroat, linnet, song thrush and stock dove - with swallows hawking for insects along the densely suckering blackthorn thickets. Today Junior’s latest song posting is “Skate Punx”.
