porgey post=357993 wrote: Wippersnipper, goat, salt, flame gun, weed mat, wee….

Sounds like the song lyrics from REM’s “End of the World”

http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/r.e.m./it's_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it_(and_i_feel_fine)

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane

I agree with some of your points but it has to be better then the usual nonsense of “closing fisheries, pay fishermen out and then importing fish from overseas” that you see from Government environmental policy.

Robyne post=358178 wrote: If you want to see what GST is doing??? look at your shopping docket,

Last weeks grocery bill is in front of me and is $88.77 with $1.07 GST. (Two people) No GST on fresh food, milk etc etc and we eat very little meat. No GST at the farmers market for example.

Robyne post=358178 wrote: vets bills,

wait, what… I…[Read more]

I have just been using he raw bbcodes to do my thing. I get the bbcode editor loading and doing nothing You can link to them below, the GUI for them is on the fritz.

http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php

Browser: Chrome

Humbug post=356959 wrote: :laugh:

Sorrel is a herb

Indeed… and as the Wiki link I posted and Callie replicated

The plant’s sharp taste is due to oxalic acid, which is a poison. In small quantities sorrel is harmless; in large quantities it can be fatal

Gives me a good excuse to bypass the Sorrell Soup 🙂

calliecat post=356956 wrote: the leaves look like sorrel

I think you nailed it mien furry, feline, fraulein !

My partner confirmed that the seed flower in the Wiki link looks like ours. Poisonous it says !

Humbug post=355937 wrote: Weeds are cool :tup:

While I respect your opinion, I don’t agree. Landcare groups, for example, have million of hours of volunteer work and spends million of dollars trying to eradicate weeds.

We clear lantana (3 hrs a day, 3 days a week, our 50 acres hopefully cleared in another couple years) from our property…[Read more]

Airgead post=356859 wrote: One thing to consider that even the best wood burner, standards approved, running properly and at peak efficiency puts out more fine particulates in a day than a car puts out in a year.

Granted there are particulates, however I do think your claim is exaggerated somewhat ? Of course there are no NOx or SOx and the CO2…[Read more]

Lady B post=356855 wrote: Not answering your question, but do you have ceiling fans since you have high ceilings. Great for pushing the warm air back down to where you ‘live’.

No, we’re on solar. I did ask my solar guy about ceiling fans and he said no, stay away from them. We use a pedestal fan for a few days in summer (about 10 or so days…[Read more]

Airgead post=356657 wrote:
I’ll throw out a few ideas to get people thinking –
[ul]
[li]Community power schemes[/li]
[li]Community lending/Microlending[/li]
[li]Small business startup assistance[/li]
[li]Food sharing[/li]
[li]Land sharing[/li]
[li]Community tool/appliance/stuff loan or hire – colaborative consumption[/li]
[/ul]

I guess I come…[Read more]

Snags post=356549 wrote: Completely off the grid still requires batterys and panels

No it doesn’t. You’re assuming (I think ?) I mean replication of modern life by DIY. It’s not practicable nor sustainable to do that, nor is it practical or sustainable to continue in the same vane as the rest of the western world is going to do. My point was,…[Read more]

caddie post=356569 wrote: I am heartily sick of both the major parties.

Agree, voting tweedlee dee in, then expecting anything different from them, kicking them out and voting tweedle dum in seems the very essence of Eisenstein’s words on insanity ie doing something the same way over and over and expecting a different result.

caddie post=356569…

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Airgead post=356539 wrote: But the only real solution is to stop emitting. If we keep emitting no amount of trees will help us.

Which is why there will never be a political solution, it’s too hard. Not that it really matters, we’re decade(s) too late, if 350ppm was where we needed to be, we’re way past that and even a concerted effort now would…[Read more]

Snags post=353696 wrote: sad news in Greece as they illegally chop down the forests to keep warm

As in Australia, here and here and here

I could go on…

gardenlen post=348282 wrote: yes robyne,

we are being sold out all over the place, china if not is about to own cuddy, more water than sydney harbour will come under their control, same in the kimberlies. selling our food land, sold out over this cli8mate hype, now more than ever our fish stocks are going to be raped, and

Soooo… We in Aus are…[Read more]

Toad post=355688 wrote: I find so many families wanting to get out of the rat race. Most want to do just this get off off the grid.

We live off grid, in terms of how most here think of it. Own power, own water, own sewage own heating lots of our own food.

Here’s us

We also spent 10 months living in Cambodia, a real eye opener

As Snags…[Read more]

lia healy post=355873 wrote: We got a smart aerial from Telstra (it took many many phone calls to get one and they cost $700 (you can pay it off)), but long story short we now have 3 bars on most of the property.

What ? I can’t even get coverage in my house. I ONLY get coverage if I am less than 2m from my phone (to the coverage unit) ! How the…[Read more]

Jeweller post=355840 wrote:
Any advice?

Ask here

gardenlen post=355902 wrote: it’s all about control dierich,

As we breed ever bigger Government we imbue them with the need to find more stuff to do to justify their existence. As we make more rules, we need more bureaucrats/police/lawyers to monitor these rules, we need people to answer the phone and file stuff all creating busy work, more jobs…[Read more]

I see it’s classified as a weed ?