2024 plan post new blog each week  Never trust an t-Earrach.   March comes in like a lion and often stays til England beat us at Twickers, we've cleaned out Cheltenham and the spuds are planted. 

The picture below shows the grading and seiving of the last of a charcoal bag. 
It's been a very mild winter in perfidious albion but my store of bags is secure faoin leaba .

I'm keying the blog on a 7th generation Dell Latitude tablet from Electrodons in Peterborough.  I've dumped my trusty old Toshiba Satellite which ran for many years ...

 15th Feb and East Anglia is typical of May.

However incessant rain falls unabated. I am spending more time on board to get away from the lunatic asylum which houses my flat. 

Below is a dunnock I met in Daventry during a particularly warm spell mid Feb. In Irish he is gealbhean coille.  The house sparrow is a gealbhan binne.  Gealbhan in Irish is applied to the lark and the linnet and just about any small brown bird. So there ..

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Ancient Rome did not bother with Jan or Feb and they had a point. 

Ireland only got months when invaded by the Roman church. From after about 450AD it inherited an ailmbeith with nineteen characters from the Greco-Roman alpha-beta along with Latin for writing. 

Ancient Ireland did not bother with months or with writing and dealt with climate rather than weather. 

I do not know whether Galanthus bloomed in perfidious Albion BC but they do now and my very own snowdrops are already miserably above ground since the New Year.

EAST ANGLIA WANDERINGS
I took a train from Peterborough to Cambridge today via March and Ely.  The line fell apart behind me during the day but I knew nothing til I got back to Cambridge station to catch the 16.00 to Peterborough.  After [almost] an hour's wait in a warm train going nowhere I was advised to "get on the next Hitchin train and transfer there to a train for Peterborough".

Hoofing down to correct platform  I found said train bound for Kings Cross.  Don't even ask what counties I passed through in the dark but stations such as Meldreth, Royston, Letchworth, St.Neots and Huntington featured before I turned up in scabtown after 7pm at which time they switch off most of the buses causing me to arrive eat my hovel at 8pm from a 4pm start on a platform in Cambridge.

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(Goggle has not yet learned the Irish ailmbeit or how put an acute where Irish use a fodda)

'Bolg' relates to birth and 'baby bump' new life conceived at the height of Samhradh to be born after the equinox as defined and measured at Lough Crew, Knowth and other De Danann alignments

Feabhra (Imbolc) is the beginning of Irish Spring. Its first day is ... 'La Fheile Bhrid' ... Brigid's Day

The Roman Church made "Brigid" a Saint to turn aincient Gaels away from their Druidic roots in the Neolithic.  The same church designated a sacred grass to be raw material for Brigid's 'cross' not realizing that Schoenoplectus lacustris has been nature's way of leading us to water since long before history was invented. 

Brigid as Imbolc was already established in Ireland eons before Abraham was a glint in his daddy's eye.

SIGNS OF SPRING
Hart's Tongue is pushing its greenness above ground.  Gaia is mustering the countryside.  Soon  she will call up more of nature's signposts while I've survived another winter off grid. 

Pentargon kept me warm.  Sadbh kept me safe and the scars are healing.  I see sheep nurseries along the cut and know it will not be long before lambs are skipping. 

Ulex europaeus announces Imbloc at Bugbrooke, Stowe and Weedon.

Communications is a soundless voice. 
Communication is the sound of voice

This first blog of Spring
is addressed to communication. 
Buried in my website
is an essay on communications
 Elsewhere you read how Pentargon
was given a voice. 

THE INTERNET OF THINGS
FIVE is the future, downloads in Gigabytes per second.  I had never seen FIVE til I pulled in at Nether Heyford.  I moored down a bit from Bridge 32, around the corner, where the cut is wider.  I wanted to be away more than a week and felt it would be 'safer' there while waiting for my engineer to call.  When I powered up the Router it was showing FIVE bars.  Hello?  I have never seen five before. 

I had ordered the autobiography "Crazy Dreams" and was listening to Paul Brady  singing 'The Island' on my mobile phone when I suddenly realized the clarity was superb.  I could hear Paul's fingers hammering on the strings and the intake of his breath.  This is what I used to experience at live gigs in smokey folk clubs in the '70s.

I decided to bluetooth the sound forward from the [old] phone to Bose speakers to get more volume but the quality dropped right down.  Bluetooth transmits on a 3G frequency, totally inadequate for High Fidelity.  Reverting to the mobile phone on its own restored clarity.  5G also delivers pure stereo and even quadraphonic
... Just wire the boat ...

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