Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888
speaking of opera I watched Moonstruck the other night with Cher and Nicolas Cage …and I liked it
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the antithesis phht, opera was the original rock’n’roll
Rock ‘n’ Roll … Uggy and QOTSA on Jools 🙂
Cho Cho San excellent behaviour
you didn’t do opera Yes, I did not “do Oprah”, being as it is, the antithesis of Rock ‘n’ Roll.…
“While blasting people is satisfying personally, in most human relations it is best not to do so.”
Thanks for your advice Johanna. Oh and I’ll be more than happy to remind you of your words next time you blast someone here, because after all you have quite a history here at ‘blasting’.
Eddie Synot used to go to school here. Wouldn’t have thought future lawyer type but there you go.
I concede the ground to you however;
You were far more succinct.
Question for Calli, Johanna or any other Cat gardener.
I was shown a small orchard the other day of approx 1ha in area. Established circa 1890-1900. It’s the original house and buildings on the farm I harvest at near Horsham.
Many large lemon, orange, fig, pear and apple trees all bearing fruit in abundance even though they are not cared for to any great degree.
Original buildings are all there in various states of decay. An amazing time capsule.
Question is how rare would this be wrt the varieties of trees. The oranges are only 2/3 what you get these days but incredibly sweet and the lemons are huge with a very deep rind.
Screw it, I’m over trying to be “nice” with most of these imbeciles.
Reality will hit them harder (eventually) than I ever will with mere words and scorn.
“Mme Zulu has announced she’s regained the weight she lost during the chemo and radiation treatment, so that’s a great step forward – she’s also pleasantly surprised on how much she’s saved by giving up smoking….”
Nice to hear Zulu.
Rosie,
I have absolutely no problem if you want to continue getting jabs to travel or for whatever reason.
However if you think the programme is over for those who have had enough you are sadly mistaken. The publicity campaign for next booster push is being planned according to Federal Health Minister. I doubt they will be telling us the booster was created 2 years ago and that TGA extended the shelf life of some batches by six months beyond recommended expiry date.
Sadly the huge amount of adverse signals from all around the world are not having impact on our Health authorities or the so called experts. The obvious question is why ?
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The people desperate to attribute any death whatsoever, at any age, to any vax intake are every bit as duplicitous as those who tried to attribute suicides and car accident deaths to Covid two years ago.
Almost as bad as those who staunchly refuse to hear any bad news about the shit they’ve already had pumped into their arm!
“They” are certainly not going to tell us. One thing is certain though, they don’t give a shit about us.
Sadly the huge amount of adverse signals from all around the world are not having impact on our Health authorities or the so called experts. The obvious question is why ?
Also interesting is that is now clear that the military were involved in this shit show from the absolute outset.
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forbes
Bring popcorn!
Do you think Harry and Meghan should be stripped of their royal titles?
Yes 96%
16,802 votes
No 3%
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Undecided 1%
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Vote here:
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Campaigners are calling on Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to deny a visa to influential anti-vaccine activist and COVID-19 misinformation spreader Peter McCullough.
The only way the f’cking turds in the TGA and Government can win this debate is by not having it.
As long as the Palace don’t send them to the colonies…
It is entirely up to individuals over 30 to get a 2nd booster, or not.
In short, for most people the vaccine program is over.
For some of us the vaccine program and its implications will never be over…..
pastoral care … but your standing is only marginally better than livestock
When is industrial-scale abuse in schools not news? When it’s in state schools:
https://mercatornet.com/a-horrifying-report-on-sexual-abuse-in-chicago-public-schools-sank-without-a-trace-last-week-why/82550/
This story is from Chicago but could be from here – in our media, with the honourable exception of Hedley Thomas, and in Gillard’s sham royal commission.
The Royal Commission that investigated the Church, in an effort to embarrass one Tony Abbott, but didn’t investigate certain outback communities?
A few days ago I posted a quote from a paper Indolent had referenced that was about the relationship between mRNA and myocarditis. Pubmed has over 1500 citations(human restriction) for adverse events related to covid vaccines.
Making ill-informed assertions destroys credibility.
the broad implications of the admissions, by former German Chancellor Merkel and ex-President of France Hollande, that they never intended to fulfill the agreements they signed in Minsk. They were not just lying, she said — they were violating international law
Some moral authority.
Question is how rare would this be wrt the varieties of trees. The oranges are only 2/3 what you get these days but incredibly sweet and the lemons are huge with a very deep rind.
Bushie the two orange trees at the front of my joint are ancient. They haven’t had fruit for about 20 years. I’m trying to get mum interested in trying to see if she can get some seedlings going from them.
(Comments on how to do this most welcome! I also have some apricot seeds from a very old tree that used to be near my factory.)
Think most of the citrus you buy are grafted onto whatever rootstock does well in local conditions. Out of my pay grade by several orders of magnitude.
Might make an interesting project for whatever the right time of year is in your area.
Dickhead Dan @ Work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_GqNk0f2LY
Bush, have a dig for a local heritage gardening group. Many old salts can identify varieties by sight, and there’s DNA identification out there too.
Wrick- how can you get seeds from a tree which doesn’t fruit??? If it’s ungrafted, which is a possibility if it’s old, try covering the root zone (same diameter as canopy) with a dark coarse sand, and watering it daily through summer- it should throw up suckers which can be cut off the parent radial root with a clean sharp spade, whwn the growing stem darkens from green to a rough grey-brown.
PPSH-41 Fun!
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Wrick- how can you get seeds from a tree which doesn’t fruit???
Missing detail, they had fruit for the first time in 20 years!
And Bushie that lemon sounds like a rough lemon or citron- ye olde rootstock for a lot of wussy cumquats and tangelos. Are the branches spiky?
Or, the rind could be an expression of dryness and deficiency- throw some chook poo down and water it up. Chelated iron is a good guess from over here. Most citrus you can think of as a bigger tomato bush, over a longer period.
HB, you’re right about the rootstock- retail trees are the leftovers of commercial production, i know in WA at least it’s a hard task to dig up anything robust or tasty- the racks are full of quick growing and flavourless dwarfs.
I daydream about getting my eye in and propagating a retirement business based on travelling the world and securing rare vines, heritage fruit trees and ornamentals…
132and Bush:
Ditto.
One of the reasons I changed my nom de blog to my real name was because I got sick of pulling my punches on people who deserved a good verbal smack in the mouth.
Being ‘nice’ is what got us to this point.
Being ‘nice’ has dealt us the absurd position of having to live up to a standard while the Left behave like thugs, who then decry the loss of civility in politics.
The Left has worked hard to get us annoyed, and so ‘tough titties’ to civility.
New Fred!
“As for the hysterical nonsense, will be ramped to eleventy.”
Of course – that’s standard procedure. Remember “Global Warming”? Old fashioned term you know – it’s “Climate Change” now. Oh, wait – that’s old now too, now it’s “Climate Extremes” or whatever.
Flim-flamery and co once said “Drought is the new normal”, saying essentially that our dams are useless and will go dry. It wasn’t that long after he said that, that Sydney’s Warragamba over-flowed and Brisbane was flooded too. And if you get satellite photos of NSW from 2018 and 2022, you can literally see the flood waters, and the significant greening of the landscape – from space!
If you were to download 4 datasets from BoM and graph them with a common timeline (temperature, precipitation, ENSO index and IOD index), you would note – with a simple eyeball and data comparison, no stats required – that in Australia:
* we are a land of extremes, and average values tell you not very much;
* temperature is a lagging indicator of precipitation;
* we normally have either drought or flood, and droughts are normally broken by floods;
* the longer the drought, the bigger the flood that breaks it;
* both ENSO and IOD are significant indicators of precipitation;
* both ENSO and IOD tend to be cyclic, but with different periods;
What we see now is comparable to what you can see in the historical record when ENSO and IOD were similar. Shhh! Don’t tell people, they’ll stop believing “The Science” – even though “science” is a process, and “the science” is therefore non-existent – there is a “current majority view of experts in the field”, that’s it. And that is subject to change no matter how “settled” it may appear to be.
“Science is the belief in the fallibility of experts” – indeed Mr Feynman, you are most certainly correct in that assessment, well said, Sir!
Hey, Bowen and Albo are doing a great job of keeping power prices down. Just got notification from my supplier that my usage charges are only going up by 10% in February.
Woohoo!
Mind you, I wouldn’t want to be running a business that’s dependent on the stuff.