Were these wiki leeks! My apologies in advance. Simon -----Original Message----- From: "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk> Sender: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:05:19 To: Vernon Levy<v_l...@o2.co.uk>; <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Reply-to: julia....@nspipes.co.uk Subject: [NSP] Re: Cocks & Bryan Book for sale
On 17 May 2011, Vernon Levy wrote: > Leek growing was another area of > expertise where tempers ran high when secrets were shared and custom and > practice > challenged. I witnessed many vehement arguments regarding the growing of > exhibition > leeks and wondered how grown men could allow themselves to be dominated by the > obsession with secrecy and the preservation of the status quo. In the time I have lived here (9 years), allotments have been destroyed, greenhouses burnt, and family feuds are alive and well. Mostly over leeks......they're an argumentative lot, locally. (I can hear a few of you say "no....really?"). Barry & I were lightly postulating earlier today that it was due to residual Viking genes which descended to the reivers (an equally argumentative bunch). Not surprising then that pipemakers, some of them of reiver descent, also have difficulty agreeing. Back on topic, Jim Bryan told me that he was told off for publishing the secrets of pipemaking. There was also a " lively discussion" with another person at the time as to whether it was adequate. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
