Gaelic spring: New year

(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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