Wildlife NORAIN

I was going to call this post "wildlife corner", but it's said that there are No Right Angles In Nature. There may not be right angles, but 60 degree angles certainly exist:

I found this comb in the front garden after some routine pruning. I guess that it was made by wasps (paper or bald-faced, perhaps) rather than bees, but either way I'm glad that there were no stinging insects still inside when it was unceremoniously cut down.

A justified and ancient art

Once practised out of necessity, nowadays the production of food for human consumption is treated as one of those incidental items in a country's fiscal ledgers. In the developed world, self-sufficiency in food production is almost universally taken as a given, and so I am inclined to agree with Douglas Adams' trichotomy of views towards the same. We have progressed beyond "How can we eat?", through "Why do we eat?" and have finally arrived at the ultimate evolutionary endpoint of asking "Where shall we have lunch?" Truly, for ape-descended lifeforms we have climbed very high indeed.

This is my blog about growing food in Ireland (fruits and vegetables—not cattle!) mostly for the fun of it. I'll cover most of the usual topics, sprinkled with a bunch of pictures, recipes and a dash of whimsy. The train for mu-moo land is about to leave. All aboard!