Monday, 26 November 2012

Communities, polytunnels, swords and grapes.

I'm part of this community. We live in the countryside, and there are about a hundred of us or more.

There is a very strong craft focus in this community, and we have been shown how to use a forge, make wooden and steel tools, axes, knives, chisels and even swords.

I am comparing the different swords that have been made. Some are heavier than others and I think that the heavier ones must be stronger, because the metal must be denser.

We have been building a polytunnel on the community land which I have been organizing, and now lots of people are involved with building it, because it is really quite big.

One dominating character comes along to get involved, and she decides to have a group meeting to plan what must be done next. I know perfectly well what needs doing next, but everyone stops what they are
doing and listens to her.

 I am now at a meeting where she is asking people to put there hands up to speak, and everytime I put my hand up to speak, she let's someone else speak. She has hijacked the polytunnel building for her own benefit. At the end of the meeting I tell her that I felt I had not been listened to.

She apologized but I could see she didn't really mean it.

So now we try to get on with polytunnel building and no one knows what we are supposed to be doing, because everyone is confused from the meeting we just had.

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S returns something to me that I made 3 yrs ago, and I pass it on to M. I wander with M through fields and vineyards, picking juicy grapes and popping them in my mouth. Its harvest time and the golden yellow sun shines down autumn golden on the south facing chalky flinty soils. asparagus grows amongst the vines, ready to grow back when the spring comes again.

Monday, 19 November 2012

The Crystal Water City of Giants

I am traveling back from leeds to sheffield, and I stop off at the
place half way between these two cities, as I seem to remember I have
work to do here. I get off at the train station of this place, and
immediately I step into a boat. The boat takes me through the streets
which are all waterways.

The architecture of this place is so beautiful. There are crystal
bridges stretching over the wide waters, and cathedrals with spanish
ornamentation and gothic decoration, very feminine in form. Everything
shines and sparkles, and the sky is a rich blue.

I have some work to do here. I know I have been here before, but I had
forgotten all about it. I have to go to the old giants ruins, and
explore the lost lands beyond. I get to the huge stone steps at the
bottom, and meet a friend there. Together we start to climb the stone
steps, and as we go up, it gets harder and harder to climb up. I
decide to leave my bike and bags hidden in a little place, because
climbing with them is too difficult.

As we climb we meet two more friends, and we start to get into the
giants old living space. Huge stone floors and windows, and tables and
chairs. And I go up many stairways to get to see the view over the
sparkling water city. And I get to the top, and then remember that my
bag and bike are not locked up, and panic that someone will find them.
So I tell my friends to keep exploring while I go back down to my bag
an bike. When I get there I remember that if I only could remember it
was all a dream I would not need to worry about these possessions I am
carrying.

Now I go back into the town. I need to meet a musician, and he has
left me instructions as to how to meet him.

I get on the tram, but I can't seem to find the way there, and have to
ask the tram driver for guidance.  I end up being taken all the way
out of the city only to be brought all the way back in to the city,
where I finally meet him. We have to walk across some really busy
roads, where I nearly get hit by some cars, as the cars are driving on
the other side of the road, and I am not expecting it.