IndianDreaming

Nice work Olive - Have you tried yoga or tai chi? They are very balancing habits to get into, and can often help maintain a state of balance after a bumpy ride. Yoga Nidra has been helpful for me. Through this practice i have been able to identify, and 're-wire' some subconscious or underlying issues that caused less than ideal behaviors in my waking state. Be mindful of jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire with pharmaceutical panaceas such as antidepressants and anti psychotics. They do serve a purpose in the short term if they are managed correctly, but long term they seem to be counter productive. They have their place, but if you can manage with a healthy lifestyle/counselling/yoga/taichi/excercise etc then you'll find firmer ground beneath your feet than with a chemical crutch. Well done - It takes a lot of effort to do what you've done, and even more to share the experience with others. Hats off to you and hand shakes all round. Edit: Book by 'Swami Satyananda Saraswati' on Yoga Nidra http://bookzz.org/book/2306370/4f8b4c

Yes please - I had a plant, until my chickens found it... PM'd

Doofs are what you make them - keep your own spirits high and ignore the riff raff - the more you can ignore them and maintain a fantastic fun and fabulous attitude, the more they'll leave you alone and the more you'll be surrounded by like minded fun and fantastic people! I'll be there - in the happy herb shop stall - come hang out and escape the riff raff with me if you like, and we can chat about fun stuff. The password is "SAB is Awesome" :-)

I love the tall stainless steel double insulated straight wall design... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bodum-Stainless-Steel-Travel-Vacuum-Mug-Black-/231529075676?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_15&hash=item35e83553dc

Would love one if there's one left m8!

Sounds interesting - how are you going to cover the dome?

I've used talc before, it seems their little feet leave a scent trail, and talc can break the trail - this was for meat ants in Vic though. As an aside, I once sat for quite a few hours with a friend and harassed each ant on the way back to the nest that had food in it's gob - after god only knows how many hours of entertainment we had a little pile of ant food 1 inch in diameter and about half an inch high, and the circle of ants around it was about 3 foot thick! Any ant that tried to get close got shooed away and eventurally, they seemed to just circle about 3 inches away from the pile and we only had to shoo one every 10 seconds or so - ah, those were the days...

Up for grabs is this lovely chunky blobby bit of cactus. I believe it is a Cereus Monstrose but my cactus identification skills are somewhat iffy... :-) It's about 60cm or so tall. If you'd like to be the proud owner of this wobbly work of art then post your offer here. I'm in Vic and will send it wherever you like at your expense. Friday arvo 5pm aest is when I'll call it quits and send it off to it's new home

Sounds very interesting!

Hey Bog, I feel that there should be more focus on reading emotions or interpreting feelings. Emotions seem to be entirely ignored when it comes to education. I'm not sure how you'd go about teaching it, but I believe that if a child is made to be aware of their emotions and the causes and effects that change their emotions, then they are able to trust themselves more and have less fear of the unknown, which is sometimes a major obstacle to learning. Also, I've had a long standing argument that kids should be taught to talk to strangers. Have a think about that one for a while... I've been thinking about it for over 20 years now, and I feel the world would be an absolutely spectacular place if the 'don't talk to strangers' rule was abolished.... seedy people would be found out so much quicker and the social/communal skills that this change would make would be amazing.

St Mary's Thistle - Silybum Marianum

I have put some Acacia Acuminata (Raspberry Jam) seeds in hot water to soak overnight (250ml water, boiled and left to stand for 2 minutes in a cup, then seeds thrown in). I thought I'd post a picture showing the difference between a swollen seed and one that hasn't swollen yet. I wish I'd had the foresight to take a photo of the seeds before I put them in hot water - their size was extremely uniform. All the seeds looked to be almost identical in size. You can clearly see in the photo below that some seeds are definitely twice the size of others, the coat has taken on a slightly lighter colour and if you press the seed coat with your fingernail, you'll notice that it is very slightly 'rubbery', your fingernail will make a small impression on it and you could probably quite easily rip and slide the coat off at this point with no trouble at all. Compare that to an un-soaked seed and you'll break your nails before you'd even make a scratch on the hard seed coat.

What?? Where does the $550,000 come from? You can buy Kava for $20 a kilo - $80 if you're getting ripped in Aus... $1800 a kilo? wft?

Try coltsfoot and/or mullein - as a tea and smoke, they're excellent herbs for asthma.

Yes please bullit - if theres any left

Ads forcibly injecting crap into peoples heads is disgusting, I'm not a fan at all. If there is was no opt out mechanism I doubt I'd visit the site (unless an ad blocker worked well enough) I'd pay to be a member to not have ads.

Linnear Rundgren has a fantastic eye for the microscopic beauty of the world, look her up and have a chat, she's amazing: http://riaus.org.au/art-exhibitions/life-micro-cosmos

I can't see any benefit to notifying the authorities, they're likely to burn down the trees to stop people from harvesting them...

Get in touch with Torsten m8 - he is an absolute wealth of knowledge regarding IBS and other issues - there's a fantastic thread or 2 on here if you search. He may be able to point you in the right direction to help get yourself back on track.

The first step in your quest is to pop in and see your local member of parliament and start lobbying for plant freedom, because the medicine you're after is restricted here...

If you're gentle with the pot I'm sure it'd be ok. It's a hard decision pot/ground - if you plant in the ground you'll get better growth (generally) and you can take cuttings if/when you leave... if you're staying more than 5 years, I'd go ground, just to see it go berserk!

The questions you've asked vary depending on where the plant is located, i.e. sunny position, shady, humid, dry etc... I'm no expert but I can tell you what I do and my plant lives and grows. 1. Pull it out of the pot and see what the roots look like, if they're all tangled and turning in on themselves with no space to expand, re-pot. 2. In the spring/summer I fert mine once a fortnight with powerfeed with the recommended dose for a tomato or veggie and it seems to do well - in winter I don't give it anything. It all depends on your location and climate and the health of the plant - experiment, but keep in mind, less is best with ferts 3. If the vine is green, it's alive. Leave it and see. If the vine cracks when you bend it, chop it off. If there's a node on the bit of vine, that's the likely position for new growth, if there's not a node, I don't know - you'd have to talk to someone with more experience than me to tell you if growth will happen on a bare stem Looks like a lovely plant - my instructions above are from a non-expert, so have a crack at it and see if it needs modifying for you area.

The activities you're not finishing and the things you're dreading doing could also be the problem... If you feel compelled to do something by someone else, and it goes against your grain, it's very difficult to maintain the motivation. Check and see if you're doing what you want to be doing, and not what you think someone else wants you to be doing. I found this to be a massive part of my inability to maintain interest in certain topics. I kicked a few people out of my life and whallah - free flowing, happy and motivated.

I'm terrified of the media, I'm terrified of the government, can we have them all arrested and shot severely punished please? Edit: Removed the word shot in case my statement is misconstrued as an act of TeRRoR - fucktards...

Mine lean towards the light and they do a complete bend within 24 hours - I was amazed at how quickly they bend though a full 60 degrees! These plants are 1ft tall and 2 inches wide at the widest point. I tried doing half turns for a month to see if I could get a twist happening, but it didn't work, they just happily bend away.