Tragic Bel 🙁

Penny, I wonder if they grow to different sizes in different places??? By big, I mean bigger than feral bees.

Oh, my, I love seaweed!! Dulse flakes in particular. WIsh you luck on your hunt 🙂

I haven’t read all the posts, so excuse me if this has been discussed 🙂

On Marks Daily Apple, they say women shouldn’t fast more than 14 hours at once, so my preference is to fast most days, for between 12 and 14 or so hours.

The primal ‘way to exercise’ is – move slowly most of the time (ie don’t sit 😉 ), play (whatever it is that relaxes…[Read more]

I have floorboards but also need the vacuum. The boards are uneven, with big gaps inbetween. Add 2 dogs and 2 cats and just sweeping won’t cut it 🙂

blue banded bees are quite big, buzz and are quite obvious in appearance 🙂 we have them visit our durants and desert cassia each day. i love to hear them. they’re australian native bees too, i found out the other day!

bel, what about australian native bees instead of the feral ones? that way, no stinging, no smoking etc 🙂 plus, you support our…[Read more]

If my fingertips aren’t damp enough, I dip them in water, into the bicarb and use that.

Agree,after. The things will be stressed enough trying to cope with the heat, rather than forming new growth. Plus, the extra foliage can’t hurt with keeping the soil cooler ( can’t imagine it’ll be much help, but every bit will count).

My plants need a prune but it won’t happen till March, cos the chooks need the shade till then.

the only thing I’ve found that works well is bicarb soda. Just dampen under the arms and pat some on. I seldom have to reapply 🙂

Well, I’m not going to find the scientific answer. I’ll use the common sense one? It’s a food designed to help an animal grow very quickly with minimal brain development. Kinda the opposite to humans really – we take about 18 years to grow to full size and our brain develops quickly in the first 2 years and hopefully continues to develop after…[Read more]

If you look from an evolutionary perspective, probably not. We’re not calves and cows’ milk is designed for calves. Having said that, we drink raw milk cos it tastes so good.

Edit: if you mean supermarket milk, no, not at all. It’s been treated and that kills any goodies in it. The cheap stuff is worse.

Ouch, but she’s still alive. (You may have heard on the news of the poor bloke who got struck by lightning. So very sad for his son, 11 yrs old and they were a single parent family)

That’s quite amazing!

I’m trying to encourage my 14 yr old to start sewing with the purpose of making a bit of pocket money. I can sew but not neatly enough, but she can sew a straight line very well! Hoping to convince her to keep learning as it may put her through uni or whatever.

I’m here….and surprised this thread is already 2 pages long 😀

I made this one yesterday. It was ok, did need the herbs and oil though I think. I ended up needing heaps more coconut flour than it says (probably double). If you’ve never used coconut flour, it is very very thirsty so a little goes a very long way. With the amount in the recipe, it was a batter. I thought it needed to be a dough, hence adding…[Read more]

And just read that you’ve already done this lol :tup:

We have loads of noisy minors at school (where I work). A few weeks ago, one fell out of the tree and spent the day in a nearby tree. I fed it a bit of bread and watched it to make sure it was ok. That night, we protected it and the next day were able to return it to the tree. It’s family were around the whole time.

They can go from unable to fly…[Read more]

There are many paleo websites that post recipes to all kinds of baked goods etc, that doesn’t use the flours in gf foods. (Gluten is very bad, but gf flours are bad). One of my favourites is Satisfying Eats, Sugar Free, Grain Free, Hunger Free.

fabulous piece of land! perhaps look at straw bale houses??

Wow, that looks fantastic!!

I was going to suggest mulberry as well, if it grows there. Another one is a strawberry guava. They’re a bit slow growing though.