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Watched an old Kiwi film called 'The Quiet Earth'. Basically there's one man left on earth, and then he finds a girl - and it's all good. Then there's another guy - and the girl picks this new guy (but still flirts with the first guy). And I just felt such strong empathetic jealousy and anger as that was happening. I mean what the fuck can you do about that? You got rejected, and there's no more girls left, and you have to watch and hang around like some kind of seedy hyaena looking for scraps - or you could wreck it all by killing the other guy, or you could try and run away and futilely attempt to thwart your omnipotent drive for love and affection. Fuck that, that would be beyond awful. That feeling is still lingering too.

The rains have hit this last week, and the garden seems to be responding favourably. Sally has grown a couple of sets of leaves (after the damn cabbage caterpillars managed to find me again!!!! I thought I gave them the slip at my old house). With Nemisty, managed to get some purslane the other day. The sheep have attacked two trees I bought as well, so I've put them in the nursery corner to heal them up (hopefully both make it, although it'll be a tough recovery for the pineapple feijoa). My Caths are sprouting extra growing stems on every which node possible. Unbelievably, it seems they actually prefer to grow in torrential rain than the modest amount of water and hot days I've been giving them before. I leave them outside, and they've been loving it. That's about it.

Checking this thread out after a few days... wow, it does seem that this isn't your run of the mill job. If it was a set-up - why on Earth would they choose an event with literally everyone taking photos? There's obviously zero evidence for us of Osama's death - but here there's more photos and video than you can shake a stick at. I don't think they're infallible geniuses - but I don't think they'd do such a job without knowing there would be an absolute horseload of photographic evidence. Maybe they didn't care. Speculation hurts my brain.

The heat this summer was so strong it travelled back in time 2 years aye Nemisty?

No idea how this works... I'll add 5 packs of Tricho hybrid seeds (to be selected from a pool of available seeds by the winner).

What's your potting mix / soil made up of?

Could this end badly?

Cold rain, seems to be really undervalued as a pesticide. All my spider mite problems seem to get sorted or at least managed with a bit of rain. Probably scale too - I don't seem to get scale on my exposed plants.

The closer that 'meth' is to the front of the name, the more trouble you get in

He's obviously extremely upset - he's about to cry, or already has been crying (look at his lip curling). But the fact that he's been listening to the radio - that changes a lot I think. It's filled his head with what's current - he's not like some guy who's been totally cut off.

Don't cha hate it when someone does something to annoy you, but stays below the threshold where it's enough to truly reprimand them? Was at a classical concert the other night... Woman behind me insisted on whispering/talking audibly during it (it's the done thing by everyone to be silent during the performance). Not loud enough, or frequent enough to warrant a "Please be quiet", or an evils - but enough to make me lose my focus a few times too many. I was driving home late at night, and the guy right behind me had his high-beams on for kilometres and kilometres. I tapped my brake lights a few times at a few times... nothing. I flicked my headlights a few times... nothing. Just didn't seem to care. I gave him a few flashes as I let him pass in the passing lane.

Here's a few more little tidbits: http://listverse.com/2013/04/11/10-modern-day-hermits/

Did you write those melodies?

You tease! Take a better picture haha. But from what I can see - it looks amazing.

Black rice! Apparently it's the bomb, and was only allowed to be eaten by Asian royalty. Please cook this advice with a grain of salt, for 3 hours. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rice

Seriously consider if it's worth it. Even if you manage to survive unscathed - you might begin a crippling addiction that will take years of your life. If you have even a single grain of a thought that it's possible - then it's wildly possible. Your brain will heavily underplay the likelihood of it being unable to avoid addiction. If you didn't want to go for that reason, and just wanted to trade yarns with farmers - then I'm sorry for assuming otherwise. Give dis a read: How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict

I like SAB because of all the SABers.

It looks a little bit like Woolly Nightshade (non-native tobacco plant) too. But as you say the leaves aren't hairy - so it won't be that. There's another weedy plant that it looks similar to, but I don't know the name of (it has multiple small flowers on a stalk, I think they might be yellow [it's not Mullein]).

My rope climbing ability skills are not really existent at the moment. But I'm quite fit and quite strong, and have done a lot of hiking (70kms over 4 days, and up and down a 2.5km mountain in 6.5 hours are the most recent two). But I didn't feel truly challenged by either, so there's room to improve. I am actually saving up for a trip at the beginning of 2014, but so far it's to see family (and a girl ) in Europe - but if that doesn't pan out, then I'll highly consider coming along (in which case I'll crash course train up in the months before). So I'm not just chain-yanking.

What is this strange nut? I collected it last year from Kawau island, next to the old homestead. It's been cluttering around ever since then, so I want to finally find out what it is - so I can grow it, or eat it. Here is the nut in question: I took this photo of a tree from near where I found the nut, but I can't remember if I took the photo because I knew it was the tree the nut came from, or because it was just a tree I wanted to ID. But I can tell that the photo I took was primarily for ID reasons, (as it's not my usual stunning photography ) so it has a high chance of being the mum tree. Thanks in advance.

Looks stunning. Can't wait to see it growing bigger

Sounds legit! If I have the cash, and amn't working fulltime - then I will definitely be interested. I'll keep it in mind. (In no position to promise now)

Lovely plants. :D If only there was somewhere to put them, haha

My research that has stalled. I'm researching a particular plant, that contains a particular chemical, that under an extremely simple chemical reaction - should transform into another particular chemical (according to my research). The second of these chemicals, my research has surmised is active in humans. The first chemical - my research has determined, is not (which is also backed by the limited field-testing). There are two stages to my project: Stage A) Cultivating this plant in a suitable manner (this will require research and skill with cultivation - there is not much room for error) Stage Performing the extraction and chemical reaction (initial research indicates this to be relatively simple... but I've probably jinxed it and it'll have unforeseen difficulties) Bonus round) Bio-assay? Realistically, stage B cannot commence without stage A having been completed. Should my research succeed, I believe there will be available to all - a simple, discreet OTC method to produce a CB1 agonist (let's leave it at that). I'm not a qualified chemist, and there are a few assumptions (relatively benign ones I should think) that nevertheless need to be assessed for Stage B to proceed. Now I'd like to comment that due to the nature of this plant, and my location in NZ - it's going to be extremely difficult to perform this anywhere other than NZ. I would prefer to perform it here, but that might make the funding difficult. In terms of the funding - most of it will go towards stage A. Some prototype propagators will need to be made and tested (small ones), and for stage B one cheap reagent will need to be procured. I'm willing to disclose more in private, but for risk of intervention I won't disclose in public (until the project's momentum is too great to stop ;) ). Immediate requirements: * Advice from adept chemists and biologists. Enquire via PM if you'd like to help.

Nah, Chai tea is the one that tastes like dirt. Redbush tea just tastes a bit like normal tea, but different (can't really describe it better ).