Friday 29 June 2018

Folds in an Album


Bloody skating helmet I collected from Malmesbury yesterday had half the innards missing. Why do people advertise stuff that's not even fit for purpose? Bastards.

We went to Tyntesfield House the other day. It's a National Trust property once owned by a family that made their money from South American guano before they went into merchant banking.

There was a painting on the staircase that intrigued me - not for the subject matter, but how a few daubs can be transformed when viewed from a distance. Look at this.


Now look at it in context. Suddenly it becomes satin folds on a dress, catching the light perfectly.


We had a picnic near a kids' play area. Now who can spot the famous words from an eponymous album from the late 60s prog-rock genre? You might have to click on the image to enlarge it to see what I mean.


The names on the boxes are apple varieties grown locally in Somerset for the cider industry.

Talking of booze, I wonder if anyone has calculated the effect on global warming of the booze industry given the vast amounts of CO2 required? The national shortage of CO2 must mean we're doing our bit to combat climate change, albeit at the cost of a beer shortage.


2 comments:

Steve Borthwick said...

If the CO2 is extracted from air (which most is) then the effect is net-neutral ; apart from the energy needed to extract it etc..

A Heron's View said...

Correction:
'Beauty of Bath' is a dessert apple cultivar.
It was propagated in 1864 by George Cooling and awarded a Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1887.
'Beauty of Bath' is a very early apple usually cropping in August but can crop as early as July (e.g. in 2011) or last into September. It bruises easily, so is best picked by hand. Fruits can drop early by themselves, often when not completely ripe. Traditionally, straw was placed under the trees to lessen damage to falling fruit.
The fruit's taste is sharp at first but sweetens later. The flesh is white but sometimes has a red flush under the skin.
leaves. It is not a cider apple.

When I was making Cider in Somerset in the 70's
our favourite and preferred apple was the Morgan Black and for a cider that was drinkable at Christmas we would make one barrel of Granny Smith. All told starting in October we would generally make about three hundred gallons a year.