Word of the day

Rubricism – a scrupulous regard for following the directives and instructions to the last detail; a tenacious adherence to rules of behaviour or thought; formulism; of, pertaining to, contained in, or prescribed by rubrics, especially liturgical rubrics; an authoritative rule; especially a rule for conduct of a liturgical service; the strict or overzealous observance of liturgical rubrics.

Milne muses

"If you are alone, the country is your companion; and nature becomes Nature, a person, someone to whom you can almost talk. You do not only walk through measured miles; you sit, dreaming, contemplating, absorbing it all, through unmeasured minutes." ~C.R.Milne #MondayMotivation pic.twitter.com/SAVO8Dalml

— A.A.Milne (@A_AMilne) March 25, 2024

Beautifying the blogosphere

Anguloa Uniflora, the orchid with flowers that resemble swaddled babies. pic.twitter.com/ItzlASejnt

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 13, 2024

Farmers care

The militant anti-farmer and anti farming activists say farmers don’t care for their stock.

It’s both ethically and economically imperative to care for you stock – even if it means you have to go to these lengths to do it:

Sheep farmer Marian Porter with one of the greatest rescues we’ve ever seen! 🤩

🎥 Gary Thornborrow pic.twitter.com/wOrgvqIEYO

— Farmers Weekly (@FarmersWeekly) April 5, 2024

Maya muses

In 2000 at the age of 72, Angelou penned a series of two-sentence sentiments for the iconic greeting card company, Hallmark, that adorned cards and serving dishes. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” pic.twitter.com/eGcOzbTbwG

— Maya Angelou (@DrMayaAngelou) March 19, 2024

Child abuse

Whoever let this young girl think climate change will kill her is guilty of child abuse.

"I'm terrified because I know I'm going to die from climate change".

Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/OSAEmIZnCL

— Kiwi BOSS (@planet_mc83783) April 5, 2024

David Seymour is right:

But I want to make it clear that if they want to effect real change in the world, they need to turn up to school and get a good education now.

He was echoed by Heather du Plessis-Allan :

No longer is this just a strike about the climate – it is now also about toi tu te tiriti, it is about freeing Palestine, ending the fast-track approvals bill, keeping the ban on oil and gas, and lowering the voting age to 16. 

It’s about everything, basically. Everything except the most important thing they could be doing as children… learning.

Well educated young people equipped with the ability to reason, think and innovate are what the country, and the world, need for a sustainable future.

The solution to climate change is not hysteria or protests predicated on the left’s list of what it regards as the world’s ill. Nor is it money wasted on politics and bureaucracy.

It’s research, science and technology that will help reduce warming and enable adaptations to it and that needs well educated young people, not protesters who almost certainly don’t really know what they’re protesting about.