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Post by jack on Mar 5, 2012 0:50:57 GMT -6
Gidday
Oh you poor buggers.
That is just terrible. How many that you know have been taken Cavey?
My heart bleeds.
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Post by jack on Mar 3, 2012 17:50:12 GMT -6
Gidday
Those things are the only thing that nature can throw at us that really scares the crap outa me.
Luckily I have never even been close to one.
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Weather
Mar 3, 2012 14:08:34 GMT -6
Post by jack on Mar 3, 2012 14:08:34 GMT -6
Gidday
I hear you jokers are getting those horrible twister things as well.
I hope all the phamily are safe and well.
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Post by jack on Mar 3, 2012 3:27:43 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey I actually posted those links on too soon cos now you can down;oad the main events.
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Post by jack on Feb 29, 2012 2:28:04 GMT -6
Gidday Down here we have way more sheep than people and shearing them is a huge job and we have also made it into a sport. In the North Island most shearers work a 9 hour day starting at 5am through to 5pm. During a days work many tons of sheep are caught and dragged out to where they are shorn the turned and rolled around to get the wool off the entire animal and very few of them are are very helpful. A days shearing is like running back to back marathons every day. Here is the website for the worlds biggest shearing competition:- www.goldenshears.co.nz/home.htmOn Saturday they will be streaming the finals live on the internet so I strongly suggest that to get an idea of a totally different world you should follow the action on:- www.goldenshears.co.nz/live12.htm |
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Post by jack on Feb 29, 2012 2:13:20 GMT -6
Gidday
Yeah she sure would be beauty Eh!
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Post by jack on Feb 29, 2012 2:03:34 GMT -6
Gidday
I thought I was 70 but that says 80.
Please tell me I aint wrong.
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Post by jack on Feb 28, 2012 13:39:49 GMT -6
Gidday Hey, methinks that some of you jokers would be interested in this. cavalcade.co.nz/ |
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Post by jack on Feb 28, 2012 3:53:04 GMT -6
Gidday
I wish!
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Post by jack on Feb 28, 2012 3:49:37 GMT -6
Gidday
Het that says I am ten year older than I think I am.
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Post by jack on Feb 26, 2012 3:40:24 GMT -6
Gidday
What is the pretty little red birdie?
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Post by jack on Feb 19, 2012 2:47:05 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey that idea makes a lotta sense. Give it a try mate.
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Post by jack on Feb 19, 2012 2:44:15 GMT -6
Gidday UNFORTUNATLY THE POWERS THAT BE ARE BENT ON ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT HAVE CREATED THE DISASTERIOUS EUROPEAN MODEL AND ARE CURRENTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WE SEE HAPPENING HERE TODAY. OBAMAS NO JFK njm740, you are a man of exceptional perception. Be careful. |
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Post by jack on Feb 14, 2012 2:22:47 GMT -6
Gidday
He's a bloody beauty Eh!
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Post by jack on Feb 13, 2012 3:05:17 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey thanks for the info. Those photo's look like the sorta thing that Kiwi would do.
We have a small 14kg. cylinder that is used for caravans at the back of our house, but it is for lpg, liquid petrolium gas, and it lasts us just under 3 months for the range top cooking and we have electric oven and solar and wood for our hot water.
But that place looks great and I could easily imagine me living there.
But I would have to have somewhere for a few sheep for me home killed mutton though.
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Post by jack on Feb 12, 2012 1:29:23 GMT -6
Gidday
Well it is what I thought but the size of it amazes me. It must be just compress natural gas and not liquid I guess.
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Post by jack on Feb 11, 2012 13:11:42 GMT -6
Gidday
That looks pretty bloody good.
But what is the big thing that looks like a bomb, is it a gas storage tank? If it is it looks huge to me but everything up there is big Eh!
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Post by jack on Feb 6, 2012 17:46:30 GMT -6
Gidday
Let's hope oit starts a world wide landslide in reality when it comes to food.
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Post by jack on Feb 5, 2012 2:41:13 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I am on the other side of the world and it appears the other side of the fence as well.
I find this a terrible sad story. I may have been reading something between the lines that isn;t there but I really feel so bad for the both of you. I believe that there is unemployment there that is rotting your relationship to the core and that your poor man has been overwhelmed with the worries that are resulting from your situation. I have been there and done that and it really is agony for the man who likes tpo believe his role in the relationship is to provide, but he just cannot.
Please, if I am right, have pitty on the poor bugger and try to see things his way. He will be breaking in two over how things are going down hill and simply not know what to do and in desparate need for support.
I suppose I have stuffed things up by saying this but so ofeten good marriages crash through the want of a bit of effort to make them work.
Shut up Jack.
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Post by jack on Feb 1, 2012 1:06:48 GMT -6
Gidday
Bloody good for him Eh mate!
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Post by jack on Jan 30, 2012 21:41:05 GMT -6
Gidday
"You are only as old as you feel".
Wrong!
You are only as old as the one that you feel. That'l make you a lot younger Eh mate!
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Post by jack on Jan 29, 2012 1:15:49 GMT -6
Gidday
You have me, way down here, crying now.
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Post by jack on Jan 29, 2012 1:06:26 GMT -6
Gidday
Well you are just so right when you say about the End Times. And when we look at all the evil in the world today and how it is overwhelming the whole world there is one phrase that Jesus said that over the last month or so has been running through my head and filling me with hope.
That phrase is:-
"A divided house cannot stand."
Yes, the evil one has divided his attacks into so many fronts so let's look forward to when it all comes crashing down on him.
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Post by jack on Jan 28, 2012 20:56:22 GMT -6
Gidday
And the tough jokers ate haggis.
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Post by jack on Jan 28, 2012 20:52:18 GMT -6
Gidday
That is so sad when we hear about family who cannot pull together at times of grief.
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Post by jack on Jan 28, 2012 0:41:41 GMT -6
Gidday
That is very very sad news. Yes it is too young as well.
My most sincere condolence.
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Post by jack on Jan 26, 2012 1:16:51 GMT -6
Gidday Those planting guides do look good. Down here we have a website that I don't know who actually set it up but it sure is good. I reckon with the expertise on this forum to set up something for you jokers to refer to shouldn't be impossible. Yep down here they work with only three different zones so there would be a hellava lot more info needed to put into it but what's wrong with a reall good challenge? www.gardengrow.co.nz/ |
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Post by jack on Jan 18, 2012 2:04:38 GMT -6
Gidday
Cool Eh!
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Comfrey
Jan 16, 2012 4:36:27 GMT -6
Post by jack on Jan 16, 2012 4:36:27 GMT -6
Gidday
The healing qualities of comfrey are almost unbelievable. Back in the late '60's we had an orphaned lamb that we were feeding as a pet. Unfortunately it got an infection, probably through it's naval, which started to attack it's joints, like it's knees. The poor little bugger had these hugely swollen knees and could hardly walk but because it was a real little battler we tried all the normal means, like penicillin but it just got worse.
After a bit over a week, the swollen knees started to ooze puss and when we had given more anti-biotics that we should have used on a full grown sheep we turned to the only other thing we knew of, comfrey.
I made a paultice for eack knee and wrapped a bandage arround the legs to hold them on but they just fell down so I repeated the process and tied the bandages together with some old bits of cloth up and over the lambs back.
It sure looked hard case.
After two or three days I took the paultices off and big scabs came off each knee showing a pussy hole gong right down into the knees. I repeated the process with new comfrey paultices and left them on for a week. This time when we took off the bandages the holes were all clear and the wool around the joins that had rotted off under the scabs was starting to grow again and the lamb appeared to be walking as if nothing had ever been wrong. In other words what the penicillian had failed to cure the comfrey had done so with no side effects what-so-ever.
I have also used comfrey on injuries to myself as well with just as spectacular results. There is however one thing that you have to be careful about, and that is with deep wounds it has been known to heal too quickly and heal over the top leaving some problems still infected inside.
The healing qualities of comfrey grew so well know at one stage that a lot of people were taking it internally, which is great in moderation but people can be real stupid and overdo things Eh! Some where taking large quantities of the roots, which are much stronger than the leaves, internally and like anything it can be overdone and a few people got liver damage though overdosing so comfrey got a bad name when stupid people had done it to themselves.
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Comfrey
Jan 15, 2012 2:04:03 GMT -6
Post by jack on Jan 15, 2012 2:04:03 GMT -6
Gidday Iffin you really want a fabulous tea liquid fertilizer then you do need to grow some comfrey in a corner of your garden. Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is a very important herb, with many attributes. It has been around a very long time, and is still very important for us today. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& It is a winter dormant perennial herb, providing lots of lovely lush green leaves for use in summer, and pink bell-like flowers which are loved by bees. It is from the same family as borage, which is one of the best bee plants ever, with its beautiful blue flowers. Comfrey Comfrey is a brilliant companion plant in your orchard- it has very thick fleshy roots that break up the subsoil as they grow down, and give the worms a great place to live, thus encouraging them to stay around- with their constant activity it is like making fresh compost on the spot, which is great for the trees. This herb is also well known as ‘poultry medicine’. They will eat it when they need to; it helps control intestinal parasites, lice, etc., so it is a good idea to plant some in their pen- or run them in your orchard! It is a good idea to cover the plant with a chicken netting barrier so they can only reach the leaves. There is a downside to comfrey. It must be planted where you are not going to disturb the roots- every little piece will grow, and therefore it can become a real pest if disturbed by a rotary hoe or similar and transported to other areas of your property. However, if planted under fruit trees, or in the chook pen where you are only going to harvest the leaves in summer it will grow in ever increasing clumps where you plant it. This herb is also great in compost- it acts as an activator, is full of potassium, calcium and vitamins A, B12 and C. The medicinal side of comfrey is legendary- it is also known as bone knit, among other names, for its ability to heal tissue and bone. Besides broken bones comfrey poultices from the leaves and roots are also used for cuts, bruises and sprains. The importance of comfrey is due to its allantoin content, which promotes the growth of connective tissue, bone and cartilage, and the fact that it is easily absorbed through the skin. How to make a comfrey poultice: Place washed comfrey roots or leaves in a blender with some calendula tincture- blend. In a small saucepan, over very low heat, heat to a comfortable, soothing temperature, stirring constantly. Spread the paste thickly onto a clean piece of old cotton material, fold and place onto the wound, sprain, or broken bone area. Wrap with a bandage and leave on about 30 minutes. Use the comfrey poultice several times per day for an initial injury. Poultices last several days in the fridge, and can be frozen. blog.landscapedesign.co.nz/general/comfrey-one-of-nature%E2%80%99s-multipurpose-herbs-by-ginny-clayton/archives/1168/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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