On the wall of our garage there were three large honeysuckles which we planted when we first moved here. A couple of bits were still alive, but most of it had died-off, and the trellis supporting it had fallen to bits.
Mike cut it hard-back and pulled it all away from the wall. We’ll put up new trellis and hope that the honeysuckle sprouts from the stumps.
I was trying to extricate some of the old trellis from the wreckage to see if I could re-use it in any way and discovered that honeysuckle is the very devil to try to break – I needed my secateurs.
This reminded me of the idea that it might have been used as a form of rope by ancient peoples, for example at Seahenge…
https://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/collections/features/seahenge
Needs must – people used what was to hand – that’s how we survived. As my Mum used to say ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’
While on the subject of Seahenge….. I remember when it was found. My view was, and is, that they could have studied it, recorded it, and left it where it had been very specifically and carefully placed. The sea might have taken it – so it goes.
It is a personal view, but I don’t see how archaeologists who ‘work with’ and respect the peoples of the past and their ways and beliefs, could disregard what was a very careful choice of placing.
With today’s technology a perfect copy could have been made and displayed, so the information would be there but – the actual site could have been left to be taken by the sea. That’s LIFE.
The tree trunk in the centre of Seahenge had been placed upside down. My interpretation of that is that the curled up body would be placed in the centre of the roots of this upside down tree trunk – in the heartwood of the tree – ready to re-live.
Heart-life of the tree, and of the person, connecting. Death in life. Life in Death. This is such power-full stuff yet they took that, and put it in a museum.
But….’Sister of Seahenge’ has been left where it was placed…….
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