tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post7979652802922862229..comments2024-03-20T11:36:53.907+00:00Comments on Restoring Mayberry: My article on Ferguson published at American ConservativeBrian Kallerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-52567396438375914012014-08-31T19:51:02.924+01:002014-08-31T19:51:02.924+01:00P.M.,
Thanks for letting me know; you can see th...P.M., <br /><br />Thanks for letting me know; you can see the piece reprinted at <br /><br />http://www.resilience.org/stories/2009-02-27/future-perfect-future-mayberry-not-mad-max<br /><br />If the piece seems dated, sadly, it's not because conventional oil supplies didn't peak - the peak seems to have been in 2005 -- but because interest in the subject died down after the financial crash of 2008. <br /><br />Thanks for the anecdote; we lose a lot of things without realising it, including a lot of things we that prove very useful later on. <br /><br />I hear a lot of great expressions around here; I could add a few of my own. <br />Thanks!Brian Kallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-50597125554294279572014-08-31T12:47:18.841+01:002014-08-31T12:47:18.841+01:00Unfortunately, that Future Perfect article of your...Unfortunately, that <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/future-perfect" rel="nofollow">Future Perfect</a> article of yours is only showing its headline, withe the body of the article missing (even on the three copies made by the wayback machine). The other two articles are perfectly accessible, though.<br /><br />Your <i>Wreck of the Irish</i> piece reminded me of a couple of things though:-<br /><br />- Despite my (Irish) mother's family not having dug potatoes for generations, somehow I learned from oral tradition that they have to be dug over, and that they can even be grown from peel if that has a bit of the flesh left, if the peel has an eye (so allowing more to be eaten). I separately learned a trick involving car tyres that allows a great deal more to be dug over per plant. I had to explain digging over and what it does for the potato plant to someone I met when I visited a vegetarian club, who was wondering why he hadn't grown any; it turns out that what I was taking for granted just isn't general knowledge.<br /><br />- You can improvise a spade from carved wood and give it an edge by pounding in flattened tin cans, cotter pin fashion. Clearly that piece of folk wisdom can't go back before the nineteenth century!<br /><br />All that has in turn reminded me that a <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/08/17/bad-cess" rel="nofollow">recent Crooked Timber article</a> has been asking for expressions from Irish oral tradition. I have commented there, and it occurred to me that you might be interested in doing so too.P.M.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16958277602980951566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-40138849187835352092014-08-29T00:25:56.551+01:002014-08-29T00:25:56.551+01:00Thank you Betsy! Glad to have you reading, and wri...Thank you Betsy! Glad to have you reading, and write any time.Brian Kallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-72917276658048273272014-08-28T19:46:32.627+01:002014-08-28T19:46:32.627+01:00Just read your terrific article, and am now happy ...Just read your terrific article, and am now happy to have found your blog-betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777978398680764604noreply@blogger.com