Thank you! But they now look nothing like the photos do these days... ;-) (I must've switched film types in those 1974 photos, and surely not for the better. I still have the negatives, which are in a special negative album I bought to store them in, which has become a gooey mess due to the glue used to separate the negative sleeves going funny. Sigh...)
yeah, but working outside is good for health.
A fallacy. My knees have been done in by too much walking behind a mower (which I had to give up six or so years ago) and my hearing's damaged due to listening to too much machinery. Would you consider something to be healthy that makes you prefer silence over music - as in always?
you can think stuff over while working instead of instead of it.
Now that I agree with. And it'd be great, except your hands are always too dirty for writing your ideas into a notebook or tapping them into a PDA...
Wandering about with a camera around your neck gives you all you want without the minuses!
no, that's not romantic at all. i imagined something like, you know, pruning jasmins with a funny pair of shears while listening to birds. but what you said really gets me into a luddite mood!
If a gardener is needed, then it's usually for maintenance, which mostly means pulling weeds, raking leaves and softening up soil - or mowing lawns. Plus, yes, pruning and hacking back the overgrown plants, but that loses it's interest after the first few hundred roses and whatnot. Plus you're just another form of servant.
Better than dealing with office politics of course, but healthy and romantic? No.
Landscape gardening might be better, but you'd have to think about what you're doing then, which kinda loses the point unless what you mainly like thinking about is landscape gardening. (Also known as 'exterior decorating';)
Oh my god. It reminded me one friend who's keeping a "dacha", or "fazenda". It's a tiny plot where she grows tomatoes, cucumbers, papers, greens etc. Sometimes I go there to have a rest close to nature and help a bit. No fun at all!!!
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Date: 2007-04-14 11:05 pm (UTC)yeah, but working outside is good for health.
A fallacy. My knees have been done in by too much walking behind a mower (which I had to give up six or so years ago) and my hearing's damaged due to listening to too much machinery. Would you consider something to be healthy that makes you prefer silence over music - as in always?
you can think stuff over while working instead of instead of it.
Now that I agree with. And it'd be great, except your hands are always too dirty for writing your ideas into a notebook or tapping them into a PDA...
Wandering about with a camera around your neck gives you all you want without the minuses!
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Date: 2007-04-15 04:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-15 08:39 pm (UTC)Better than dealing with office politics of course, but healthy and romantic? No.
Landscape gardening might be better, but you'd have to think about what you're doing then, which kinda loses the point unless what you mainly like thinking about is landscape gardening. (Also known as 'exterior decorating';)
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Date: 2007-04-19 01:56 pm (UTC)