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    Just so yas know its not my real bday just the random numbers I punched in when I joined up. Shame!

    Oh and I loved Steve Irwin :.(

    Ah well, you mayaswell relish it, you only get so many days of free collective pampering per year, Internet birthdays are as good an excuse as any!

    Happy Wednesday it is then..

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    I grew mine in singular spacing, but I'm sure they would do okay in clumps.

    They will be sweet in small pots for quite some time but after a year or two they do start to get quite big. So you have a bit of time up your sleeve and if you have room you may wana look at creating a new patch for them so they don't rob you of too much garden space.

    I'm just at the harvesting stage now so gonna do a bit of reading up on preparation, and will report back if I have any interesting news.

    Quite exciting. Good to see others growing it too. I'm gonna start a new batch once I find some more seed, and grow more, as I only ended up with one plant making it past the first couple years.

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    Ummmmm.. Yes. You will defs need to repot eventually.

    The whole impetus is orientated towards root growth so you want as much depth and width as you can spare.

    Not for wee peckers like those in the pic, that's okay for the first while, but realistically they should go into the ground once established if you can. I kept mine in a 15L pot for years 1-2 and then in the herb bed for years 2-3.

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    ^

    I recently found a small life hack related to this, i was at the supermarket with bugger all $, needed shampoo, conditioner and body wash and then saw the 'mens' hair and body wash, made sure it didnt smell toxic, and thought fuck it, womens and mens hair cant b much different realy so bought that 1 bottle of shower goop instead of3 sepearate ones and then had money left to buy a big bunch of rhubarb for crumble.

    Also, convert money when u have it into big bags of rice, spuds, lentils, oats, flour etc so when time gets rough u can still make hearty foods with fresh additions of herbs, veges and weeds frm the garden and surrounding land. It really pays off to learn about ur local edible weeds, as alot of things grow all year round and are very nutrient dense - and free!

    Ive been eating stinging nettle lately, cz its everywhere! You've just gotta boil it for5mins and pour off the liquid to remove the spines.

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  10. Posted

    Childhood

    Kathleen Raine (b 1908)

    I see all, am all, all.

    I leap along the line of the horizon hill,

    I am a cloud in the high sky,

    I trace the veins of intricate fern.

    In the dark ivy wall the wren's world

    Soft to bird breast nest of round eggs is mine,

    Mine in the rowan-tree the blackbird's thought

    Inviolate in leaves ensphered.

    I am bird-world, leaf-life, I am wasp-world hung

    Under low berry-branch of hidden thorn,

    Friable paper-world humming with hate,

    Moss-thought, rain-thought, stone still thought on the hill.

    Never, never, never will I go home to be a child.

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    Yeah those cacti-people are the best. It has been a similar perception changing process for me too. Just the fact of coming across shared enthusiasm and realising the way in which so many of us have dreams, goals and ideas in common has really reshaped my overall view of people. You can only work with what you know, and before all my trading i thought there was limited cause for hope for us as a culture. Now i see the same issues but have greater faith knowing all the plantheads of the world are quietly working away towards self-liberation.

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    Dcliw there is a perfectly timed cross over of dream and waking realities which blows your mind more than just a little bit. I was dreaming that giant multicoloured feathers were falling down on me, yet somehow I was still awake to the extent that I physically put my arms up above my head to try to catch one, and just at that moment, the poster I have of a black and gold Chinese dragon on really light handmade paper happens to fall down off the wall to be clasped by my waiting hands.

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  16. Posted

    Happy birthday everyone who is birthday-ing on this day. Full moon and venus conjunct jupiter..auspicious as can be

    *let me preopose a toast to Toast and all yee shared birthdayers, to your health and happiness*

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  17. Posted · Edited by bogfrog

    Hah... thanks mutant. Its very nice you sayin you love me and all and i love ya right back.

    But Meanwhile the hyperaware and cunning virgo in me deduces that this is really a ploy to make the pride and vanity of leos self evident through my response..

    While your speaking of those wiley aquariums.. i have come to especially appreciate their unique, kick-ass value this year. I spent a fair amount of time this summer properlly getting to know and appreciate an aquarian friend. She is a hybrid metal-head/fire hippy who had always intimidated me a little, then when we spent some time hanging out and i discover she loves classical music as much as metal and trance, reads books like nobodies business, is a pro at fire poi, rope dart and hoop, has a degree in psycholgy, is obessed with classics and mythology but is also an extreme skeptic, yet more openminded than most people i have met. Wtf. Usually those things wud only fit in four people.

    Then i realise my mum is dating an aquarian and my friend who i now live next door to is an aquarian, and somehow all though they are each incomparably unique people they show very much the same traits, so many contrasts and surprises. So clearly focussed on going about their business in the way THEY choose.. so inquiring, always making assessments and testing theories, yet unattatched to developing set belief systems. Dynamic is the impression i get i guess. But erratic if not chanelling as that energy into something they find meaningful and rewarding.

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    You really are an awesome astrologer Mutant. Mad skills.

    Now tell me the good news and bad news about Leo's aye?

    I am Leo sun.

    Ascendant Virgo.

    Moon in Gemini. (hence the wordiness)

    Mercury in Virgo.

    Mars in Virgo.

    Venus in Virgo. (all those last three Virgo-ness's in 12th house)

    Can't remember the rest of the top of my head

    Apart from Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Scorpio.

    So I got lotsa that manic Virgo energy, balanced out a bit by the other tings..

    When I first talked to ya in another astrology thread a couple years back it was the first real exposure I had. Set me off on a search.

    I now love astrology and find much usefulness in it. I go through phases or borderline obsessiveness with it, and then won't pay much attention for a while...but I do this with all things.

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