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Ha ha ha yes, it's often the poisonous ones that look pretty! I forgot to buy Foxglove and Opium Poppy seeds for this spring, so I'll get some in ready for next year. Foxgloves look so unique and come in so many colours. I love the large size and bright red of the Opium poppy- they look so exotic (of course I won't be brewing their seeds up for Laudanum... )

Thank you for all that- very kind of you to detail it. I'm hopeless at DIY stuff but I might ask my pal if he could set one up. I'd have to ask my housing co op first though.

I forgot to mention: the back yard gets quite a lot of "weeds" sprouting up through the concrete cracks- and with all that rain we've had there's been a lot of them! When they get too messy and too much I pull them up and put them in the compost bin (I never use weed killers). There's always some left for insects. Some also grow in the concrete cracks in the front too. This year there are some pretty lilac flowers that have a sort of star shape. Never seen those before. But when I was in the park I think I spotted some- so they must've been seeded from the park (there's a park group who plant flowers and wild flower seeds there each year).

I had heard about vortex healing before, but don't know much about it. Will have a look at that.

Well, the rainwater forms naturally, so yes, it's what plants have evolved to absorb. Tap water not so much! Wormery compost is meant to be mixed with soil because it's so concentrated, and the leachate is also meant to be diluted into water. Mixing it with rain water will make your plants very happy. I'm not growing any "food plants" these days because I moved from a place with a front garden (not as nice as it sounds due to it being in a very rough area and on a busy bus route) to a place with only a north facing back yard. I have pots of flowery plants (some wildflowers for insects) outside my window, but I don't have tomato plants any more because people's bins are outside the front of the houses and they stink in the summer and of course attract flies which would be crawling over the tomatoes, plus people would just walk up the path and steal them (in my other place I had a gate but the wall was low and many tomatoes got stolen). In the future I might consider getting some raised planter boxes and grow root vegetables (and enclose them in those sheeting type greenhouses) in the back yard. It'd need to be done that way rather than in those grow bags as mice do pop up in the yard from time to time. A bit off topic..sorry folks! To get back on topic- I'd love a rain barrel to collect rainwater (to water the plants with) but they all seems to have to be connected to a drainpipe. I just want something easy that the rainwater will fall into and with a tap at the bottom to fill a watering can with the rainwater. I haven't been able to find one though.

Those Anglian water chaps sound like something from the X Files. One thing I noticed when I was tending tomato plants a few years ago is that they LOVED rain water. I did of course give them tap water when it was hot and sunny, but when it rained they grew bigger very noticeably. The smell of rain in the summer is one of the best scents of nature. I also had a Wormery then and gave the tomato plants the worm leachate. The tomatoes these plants grew were the best I've ever tasted in my life, and that includes buying expensive organic ones from organic shops. Though of course my plants were organic in that they were not sprayed with pesticides and grew in pots of compost with Wormery leachate and rain watered when it rained. I was very fond of these tomato plants and enjoyed tending them and watching them grow into tall plants and produce big fat delicious tomatoes.

@DaleP That was a fascinating post, thank you for that. I knew a little bit about water from reading about Dr. Emoto's work. However, I had never heard about biophotons before. For me personally, the taste and crispness of mineral water is very different to the flat and nasty taste of tap water. I remember telling this to a friend a few years ago and he said he couldn't taste any difference! incredulous I told him to close his eyes and poured him out two glasses of water (one from the tap, the other from a bottle of mineral water I had in the fridge. Knowing which one was which I asked him to open his eyes and drink both. Surely he'd taste the difference I thought, but no! He said they tasted the same. His taste buds must have been defective. I'll use filtered tap water in coffee, but I won't drink it straight from the tap. It tastes unpleasant.

Now people in south-east London are ill, but Thames Water say they've done tests and it's not contaminated. I can't say I believe them. Exclusive: after cryptosporidium outbreak in Devon, residents in south-east London report stomach cramps and diarrhoea. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/thames-water-vomiting-bug-cryptosporidium I myself was ill with the same sort of complaint last week (but I live up North). Doc sent off a sample to the hospital laboratory, and it revealed salmonella. I think in my case it was a dodgy egg. Nobody in my area has been ill. I filter my tap water with a filter jug and also drink bottled mineral water.

Yes quite.

Brand has had a roasting in The Guardian for his fake baptism stunt. We all know why he did that (to reboot his public image into the "good Christian"). The Guardian makes it quite clear they don't buy it.

Oh they've had enough of it all now. They are busy drinking themselves into oblivion. Look at this below- do you really see these overweight unhealthy drunkards as potential servicemen and women?! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13432857/Britain-worst-seaside-town-homelessness-youths-vomiting-drunken-fights.html And yes, I know it's the Mail! But read the comments about conscription and war in those articles and you'll see even their readers are putting two fingers up to conscription and war. DM readers may be dumb, but they are not willing to be war fodder. Imagine if there were NO sign ups at all! What would the PM do? Couldn't put all those "conscientious objectors" in jail now could he? (Although of course about half would be rejects because they are too obese, drink/drug addled and unfit to pass a medical). These youngsters like to do nothing much more than stuff themselves with junk food, guzzle booze, ingest drugs and mate with each other. Being sent off to fight a war (or in the case of women as support personnel like nurses) is quite different to waving a Ukraine flag and sending them a tenner.

I've got to admit those Chinese cities look spectacular at night with the light shows!

I've used a lot in the past, but currently as and when needed I use Arnica oil for muscle/back aches. Daily: slippery elm for GERD/heartburn. And I'm currently on a course of homeopathy (for complex health complaints).

Not quite. Reading comments online in reaction to the media trying to drum up conscription enthusiasm I saw not one comment stating they would sign up. Mothers said they will not let their sons go, men said they wouldn't go, older people said they supported young people not going. Nobody wants it. Reasons given where why would they risk their lives for a war they don't want, for elites who don't give a toss about them, and that the UK has nothing worth fighting for! In addition: look around your neighbourhood next time you go for the weekly shop. See all the overweight young men filling their trolleys with junk food and beer? The young lads walking round stoned? The obese young women with several kiddos in tow? The simpering soy boys? Can you see them as fighting fit soldiers and auxiliary service women lol.

It's very noticeable the lack of the sense of "duty" to be conscripted, plus add in the factor of the large numbers of obese young men who are unhealthy and very unfit; those with mental health conditions and the soy boys, I don't see a large number of healthy dutiful young men like we had in 1939.

Just so. It'd be the most marvellous thing to happen.

Either way, it's "reported" so the aim is to stir the pot.

I hope that's not another Archduke Ferdinand incident...

Judging by the comments I see generally online most young fellas are not going to allow themselves to be conscripted. They don't want to fight in a war for elites who don't give a toss about them. They've seen too much about the two wars in the previous century to go along with it. Good for them I say. Imagine if all young men world wide say NO. Wars would cease. Peace is the only way for a better future. As David says most ordinary people just want to live a normal happy life and not be involved with wars. It's the elites who crave war. Evil creatures!

It only appears to work for those who already have good connections, wealthy social networks or have some inherited money already! Ever seen it work for a homeless man living in a tent? Nope. It's more nonsense to tease the plebs with.

There's plenty of people get their wishes such as a lovely big house, a lottery win or a very well paying job who have no religious/spiritual beliefs at all. In fact most of the very rich don't and they can be quite superficial. It's all down to social networks, connections and random luck. The latter especially with regards to a lottery win- how many lottery winners have just bought the ticket with no belief they'd be the jackpot winner? They did nothing (such as making vision boards or chanting I will win the lottery jackpot over and over again) to make themselves win- it was just random luck. I won £3,000 from doing a magazine crossword in 1998. I still remember picking the envelope up lying on the mat. It was brown and I inwardly sighed thinking oh what bill is this now. When I opened it I actually gasped in shock. I was poor and that was a huge amount of money to me back in 1998 (heck I still wouldn't sniff at it now). I never believed I'd win, again did nothing to help the win. It was just random good luck.

Hello Ria, welcome. To answer your question The Law of Attraction materials, books etc haven't been suppressed because it's nonsense. If it (manifesting what one wishes for) actually worked, nobody would be poor, starving, dying of horrible illnesses etc. And I would've won the lottery years ago!

Thanks Mr H. It seemed that way from what the hospice nurses thought when they went in his room in the morning and saw he'd gone in his sleep. In my opinion the best way to go is in one's sleep.

Cancer has always been with us. Even dinosaurs got cancer. Perhaps it is more prevalent now than in previous centuries but that would be impossible to ascertain.