Thank you! Best wishes, Simon On 9 May 2011, at 17:07, dave miller wrote:
> Hi Simon > > I love it, it's brilliant - the thought of commuters preferring to > stay at home to do carving is lovely. > > There's a lot in the air at present about preparing for the end game, > the approaching end of the civilisation or way of life we know, and > what sort of society we'll end up with. I think you've really captured > the atmosphere of it, of how it may feel. > > dave > > On 9 May 2011 16:44, Simon Mclennan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I had an urge to write this- I wonder if it will happen... >> The Green Tunnel >> It was around that time that local councils decided to stop >> pollarding the >> tree stocks in avenues, parks and public gardens. >> A gradual outgrowth from the trees and shrubs produced a thicker, >> darker >> effect generally. The trees that had once been kept uniform with a >> neat and >> tidy appearance, quickly began to fulfill their natural >> tendencies: limbs >> grew long and thick, reaching up and out, becoming like the wild >> trees you >> find in old, untouched forest, where the forester has not >> practiced his art. >> Leaving the house, the suburbanites become aware of the street and >> the >> general air of forest or wood that pervades. >> Right outside front doors there is now a tunnel, green and >> verdant. Great >> elm trunks, with vast root systems seem to block the way along >> with fallen >> trunks, and old rotting tree stumps. Ferns abound, with mosses and >> funghi >> coming in, which are a natural part of a woodland ecosystem. Huge >> groaning >> oaks stand at the corner of the street. >> People leaving the house for work quickly become distracted by the >> fun of >> simply being in a wood. Having to climb over or around obstacles >> causes some >> folk to abandon their original journey, and settle instead for >> collecting >> fire wood or building a light bower or shelter for resting and >> contemplating >> in. >> The new atmosphere of course attracts animal life, and the local wild >> creatures that had adapted to urban living, now flourish and have >> a good old >> time. Foxes, badgers, crows and moles settle down and people begin >> to stay >> at home, reading, carving and knitting more. Tellys break, but >> there is >> still a bit of internet, and plenty of vegetables, wild roots and >> tubers. >> Hobbies take off hugely. Most people work a couple of days a week, >> just to >> make enough diodes and chips to build some basic computers. >> Innovations in >> bio electrics produce plenty of free electricity, along with >> mechanically >> driven household items like coffee grinders etc. >> It's all quite a change really. Everybody is always referring to >> Huxley's >> Island. It's sort of the same as now, but slower. Some people become >> frustrated and get quite agitated and spiky- they have a difficult >> time of >> it and that is a fact. >> Roads are kept open, so the bakers van still makes it's round though. >> Corporation heads simply become frazzled and fraught. Most of em >> sort of >> implode, or spontaneously combust, leaving a sticky black and >> charred mark >> on the floorboards. Shame. Lackeys lick their own arses instead of >> their >> bosses', or become side attractions in small travelling funfairs. >> >> >> >> and so it goes >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
