It was a lovely day for the Recorders Conference at Haywards Heath on Saturday. The sky was as blue as a sky can be without tipping into fantasy - and there were daffodils and crocuses under the empty trees. Mark was there, and we sat with him and Paul and Nigel.
Claire got the talks off to a good start - and Neil told us how the Pearl-bordered Fritillary project is going. All the Speakers made their talks interesting and engaging, which is not always so easy to do when discussing a year of recording. The caterers put on an excellent veggie buffet - nice food, very well organised. The older I get the less I want to eat meat and fish.
Jackie came round for supper afterwards - chicken(!) pie, new potatoes, carrots and a cauliflower cheese (one I had, as they say, made earlier). And we had a Waitrose orange cheesecake for dessert. And lots of laughter at the plights and problems of old age. Its either that or cry about them - which we occasionally do.
Last night we - the Arundel Four (Captain B. Jacks, Terry and Mrs Captain) - went to the talk at the Wetland Trust. It was by Linda Magyar, a Hungarian conservationist, about the traditional livestock of old Hungary. We saw some amazing and wonderful cows, pigs and dogs - many of them seeming to come out of a Hans Anderson fairy tale. They are, of course, very threatened now. The preferred animal is chillingly the "factory animal" - poor creatures who live in lightless units in cramped conditions and fed on I dread to think what.
What a sad world we have managed to create while cut off from out Creator. And when the rescue comes it will be for all the earthly creation. There will be no more "factory animals".
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