"NO one can deny that aspects of the environment are predictable. Day follows night, summer follows winter, most of us sleep when it’s dark, eat at midday and watch the 6.00pm news. Random events are for the most part whimsically quaint, as when the phone rings and it turns out to be the person you were thinking about. Oh, you exclaim, I must be psychic. But there is also a likelihood that between your and your friend’s life, some parallel pattern exists unaware to you both..."
from Ken Ring's book entitled 'Predicting Weather by the Moon'
What a shame Debbie. Thank you for the reply.
We would love to grow that variety John.
Unfortunately, it doesn't like our soil types and yields are not economic.
I agree that it is both an attractive and flavoursome product on the plate.
Where I live, we grow long grain varieties very successfully but not that particular variety.
Debbie - I notice the basmati rice here in Dubai is different from our aussie basmati - the uncooked grain is around 8 -10mm long and when cooked is 14 - 16mm long. It comes from India and is a beautiful product as the grains remain separate and fluffy.
Thought you may be interested.
Earlier we were talking about the Younger Dryas and a possible cosmic impact, but I'm now leaning towards a magnetic excursion. Abstract by Nils Axel-Morner
'The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion in a broad sense ranges from 13,750 to 12,350 years BP and ends with the Gothenburg Magnetic Flip at 12,400−12,350 years BP (= the Fjärås Stadial in southern Scandinavia) with an equatorial VGP position in the central Pacific. The Gothenburg Magnetic Flip is recorded in five closely dated and mutually correlated cores in Sweden. In all five cores, the inclination is completely reversed in the layer representing the Fjärås Stadial dated at 12,400−12,350 years BP.
'The cores were taken 160 km apart and represent both marine and lacustrine environments. The Gothenburg Magnetic Flip represents the shortest excursion and the most rapid polar change known at present. It is also hitherto the far best-dated paleomagnetic event. The Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion and Flip are proposed as a standard magnetostatigraphic unit.'