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1. At 05:09 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Aunt Dahlia wrote:

   What o what is the creature huddled under the bush in pic 31 of gallery 32.
   I want one.

2. At 05:16 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Stewart M wrote:

   I note some one, picture 97 set 30, works for Torchwood !!!
   

3. At 05:29 PM on 29 Dec 2006, wrote:

   Daisy is famous at last!

   (42 of 99 in the 3rd 'yes' - whatever gallery that is)

   I am a very happy bunny now. Time for tiffin!

   Tiffififin xx

4. At 05:40 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Linda wrote:

   Have I missed galleries 18-27????? If so, where can I find them please?
   Thanks

5. At 05:56 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

   Fellow froggers, a cry from our resident student:-

   Research project underway during these holidays, on the Green Belt from an anthropological man v nature aspect. If anyone has a view on this, he'd appreciate hearing from you?

   Thanks,
   Val

6. At 06:09 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Aunt Dahlia wrote:

   Linda
   Try here
   /blogs/pm/2006/12/more_windows_on_your_world.shtml

7. At 06:23 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

   Good grief Valery! I'm not sure I even understand the question - if it helps I think that attitudes to green belts are deeply affected by broad socio-economic background as well as the more usually-discussed concepts of group/individual need and environmental concerns. You really don't want me to elaborate on that, I'm sure.

8. At 06:29 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Linda wrote:

   Aunt Dahlia
   Just found them, thanks! Still looking for mine though- but still enjoying ploughing through them all!!
   

9. At 06:54 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

   Appy - he says that's absolutely the kind of stuff he wants! He's forever patiently trying to explain to me the difference between sociology and anthropology when I try to give him an opinion - but he must like the sound of you better! A lad of good taste.

10. At 08:56 PM on 29 Dec 2006, Ann Tarrant wrote:

    Just wish the little welcoming hand would hover over 18-22; I assume we are there somewhere, we just aren't allowed in.I won't add to the numerous dopplegangers yet. Thanks to Eddie's 'here, here, & here, & 27-29 links I have been able to enjoy those, at least. A 'back to Galleries' link needed, or have I missed it? Ax

11. At 09:29 PM on 29 Dec 2006, pinklefish wrote:

    Aunt Dahlia - It's a bunny! It looked weird to me also, but then like one of those stereogram pictures after a bit of staring it suddenly became clear...

12. At 12:25 AM on 30 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Valery (9), really? And there's me in the sociology and politics camp -- although there are anthropoogists in my department too. If there are questions I'd be happy to have a go at responding to them (when I've sobered up).

    Pinklefish (11), congratulations on your spelling talent.

13. At 12:36 AM on 30 Dec 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Oh dear. Here is the missing "L" from my previous post. But tee hee.

14. At 01:29 AM on 30 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

    I quite like anthropoogists!

    He says he doesn't have questions per se, as he hasn't decided what angle to go at it from yet (that makes not a lot of sense grammatically, let's blame the drink while I was watching the Woodstock DVD, but you'll get the gist), he just wondered if anyone had anything they would like to contribute on the Green Belt issue. He's too shy to post on here himself, but honestly I'm not being an interfering mother!

    He's just looked in to see if you made any further response, and was very taken by your last! He's recently become publicity convenor for the Anthro Soc and they are toying with having an (ironic) slogan, "Anthrocoology". Their first thought was "Ingold we trust". The I in question being head of the dept and a well-respected figure in the field. However, they ran it past him and he didn't want to become responsible for a cult! Partypooper? Discuss...

15. At 09:15 AM on 30 Dec 2006, Anne P. wrote:

    Valery (5), have emailed my daughter who is an ecologist in the water industry in the south-east to ask if she has any ideas.

16. At 10:52 AM on 30 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

    Anne P - thanks so much, what helpful people :o)x

17. At 12:08 PM on 30 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Val & Aperitif & Val's Resident Student,

    Don't know if it'll be relevant, but I did a piece a few years ago treating 'ownership' of property, etc., and it's fair to say that attitudes towards the ownership/occupation of land are deeply conditioned by personal history and circumstance.

    The 'green belt' presumes that we will continue the present trend towards 'close settlement' or urbanisation, whereby already more than half the people in the world (and well beyond half those under twenty) live in situations where they have no experiential reason to regard what they put into their mouths as biological tissue.

    I'm reminded of a comment from :
    

    Perhaps the most serious obstacle impeding the evolution of a land ethic is the fact that our educational and economic system is headed away from, rather than toward, a intense consciousness of land. Your true modern is separate from the land by many middlemen, and by innumerable physical gadgets. He has no vital relation to it; to him it is the space between cities on which crops grow. Turn him loose for a day on the land, and if the spot does not happen to be a golf links or a 'scenic' area, he is bored stiff. If crops could be raised by hydroponics instead of farming, it would suit him very well. Synthetic substitutes for wood, leather, wool, and other natural land products suit him better than the originals. In short, land is something he has 'outgrown.'

    Hope this is of some interest. I also commend Searches on Henry George, Wendell Berry,
    and , featured i n Orion magazine, itself an excellent source (see LH sidebar)

    Happy New Year
    ed

18. At 04:04 PM on 30 Dec 2006, Ruth Arloff wrote:

    Is anyone having problems viewing some of the 'windows'? I can't see 8,12,13,14,17 + the last one posted. When I click on them, it says it's done but then nothing comes up, this has been happening since the site was set up. i'm looking for mine which should be around number 12 onwards, + of course I would like to see them all. I like the ones of animals, as it evokes winter homeliness + comfort.

19. At 09:49 PM on 30 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

    Ed I - a huge thank you from my Tom! He knows of Aldo Leopold and is knocked out by how apposite your quote is for his purpose!

    This has set him off down a good trail, and he promises me he will post when he firms up his ideas - it has pulled together some other topics which they have been looking at this year.

    The Frog as resource, another winner.

20. At 12:06 AM on 31 Dec 2006, wrote:

    Val & Tom,

    Always glad to be of help in sharing the burden of awareness.....You might find some apposite quotes

    And I'm rather fond of .

    What do I know of 'greenbelts', anyway, ?

    From My Tom:

    Proving that someone is evil
    does not prove that we are good.
    The religion of greed is our great evil,
    turning our ecological foundation
    into sand and dust,
    and friends into mortal enemies.
    Global security is the only issue.
    National security is irrelevant at best
    and deadly, more likely.
    Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
    for it tolls for us. All of us

    --Tom Iglehart

    Obviously influenced by Lao Tzu - so much so that I painstakingly translated the opening two lines into Chinese characters and used them as a placard at the Glasgow Antiwar march in 2003.

    
    ed
    

21. At 12:59 AM on 31 Dec 2006, Valery P wrote:

    More thanks to you Ed & Tom, nice guys both.

22. At 04:05 PM on 31 Dec 2006, jonathan hood wrote:

    Great experiment!Some really fine photographs-a true cross section of society.Will you have them all posted soon?Missing some galleries-18 to 26.Hope you all have a great New year

23. At 06:19 PM on 01 Jan 2007, Paul Terry wrote:

    The links for galleries 18 - 22 do not work