19 April 2010
We’ve now been home for a week and have spent a huge amount of time on our allotments. G has dug all of the beds on one of them that didn’t have things growing and C has weeded the beds that do have things growing (like the broad beans, garlic, onions, soft fruit etc.) and sown seeds in the beds G. has dug. Even if we say it ourselves, it is looking fantastic. G. has now started digging our second allotment – that will be more difficult as it has had ‘green manure’ growing on it all winter. Yesterday G. became Chair of the allotments committee.
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Sorry I'm confused. So Gregg dug and Chris delved or did she spin or was she spun. And who now is the gentleman. I suppose by the time the second allotment is dug all with be sorted.
ReplyDeleteWe think he may be referring to: "When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the Gentleman?
ReplyDeleteThis little bit of Revolutionary Thinking comes from 14th Century England courtesy of John Ball cleric and leader, along with Wat Tyler, of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.
John Ball preached to the insurgents at Greenwich with these words:
“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may (if ye will) cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty.”
Just love that phrase “naughty men” to describe capitalists
The idea was restated in the Declaration of Independence as "... all men are created equal ..." which is an ideal so revolutionary that we avoid it even today – even Nick Clegg doesn’t go that far.