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Chair title: Chair of the people who can't spell yet are sick of being labled dyslexic

Any beliefs you'd like to list so we can make fun- er... discuss them: A passionate belief that health care should be free at the point of delivery and that for some people the NHS can funcition as a semi religon.

Hello Z.

Welcome!

Let all healthcare be free at the point of delivery.

Why not? They can always send the invoice in later ...

Well, if you think about it, the NHS is almost a pre-pay system...

Although I am a staunch supporter of the NHS and all it stands for, I do object to the provision of free fertility treatment. There are ten or a hundred times too many humans on this planet; now is not the time to be subsidising the efforts of infertile people to add to the problem.

Contentious? Moi?

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P-C .

What we need are more infertile people! There again Monsanto et al, are talking care of that for us.

A world population of about 500 million is both sustainable and comfortable.

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

That many?

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Hi everyone

I haven,t been on the thread for a while.

Math, I do hope your knee is better, I am a fellow sufferer of left knee problems too, it gives me hell when there is high humidity, supermarket trolleys bashing into it and little children rushing up and banging into it! Az,s remedy makes perfect sense to me, however if you do not have a bottle of rioja hanging around beer or cognac will do just as well, remember you have to drink it, NOT massage it into the affected area,

Az, yes I do know how you feel, if a plant dies in my garden I get very upset, also Fifi likes very much to lay in my window boxes, flattening my plants, the stray cats also come around and eat some of them, I have a beautiful orange tree in my garden, and a 40 year old palm tree in the centre, I also have several very impressive strelizias, (bird of paradise), I also try and recycle my plants, cutting them and then attempting to re-plant them, this works well with the geraniums, my six year old son is always planting pips from fruit in the garden, and recently we had a beautiful tomato plant resulting from his planting!!!

When I work in the garden, not often, only when my limited time allows, I feel at peace with the world, it almost becomes a spiritual experience, and yes I do believe that nature does communicate with us, plants are living creatures like the rest of us and also deserve to be treated with love and respect.

Jane

Hi Jane

Thank you for your kind words about the knee. I see you've noticed that everyone with a basket or trolley automatically bashes your bad knee, not the good one. I wonder how they know .

I see that you have reconnected with the spirits of the land. I have friends with a smallholding, on which I help out. There is little more calming and satisfying than raising plants and sharing their bounty.

Reminds me we've got quarter of an acre of spuds to lift and clamp....ooh my aching back (I can feel it already). Some gooseberry wine acts as a good liniment for that, but as you say, only if taken internally (2 glasses to be taken after food, every hour until insensible)

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

<...everyone with a basket or trolley automatically bashes your bad knee, not the good one. I wonder how they know.>

God* tells them. Bad God*! Who else could be responsible for an intrinsic feature of the entire universe?

BTW, what's 'clamping' as it applies to spuds? I've always wondered....

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* - or Goddess, if you prefer.

Hi P-C,

We place the spuds in layers between layers of dry straw, and then cover the 'clamp' with earth. 90% of the potatoes will then be preserved for an entire winter. It's an ancient method and it works.

Over the winter you dig out of the clamp just what you need each week, and then recover it. Who needs refrigeration - pah!

Blessings,
Matholwch /|\.

Diolch.

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Hi Math,

My left knee has been going all wonky recently. Could it be an epidemic??? Or just being 40+ ?

I keep my potatoes in a dark cupboard with a tea towel over them, but they still end up going all gross if I don't eat them in time (which I often don't). Your method sounds much better.

Gooseberry wine???

az

Eh up, there's sommat weird going on here. I've got a dodgy left knee too. Old injury (watching, not playing).

Noggin

My left knee clicks randomly and hurts from time to time when I'm walking around. But that's probably nothing. However, I did graze it on the carpet this morning, being enthusiastic with the siblings.

Good God! It *is* an epidemic!

Dodgy left knee thingy.

What can we do??? Should we alert the press?

az

I'm not sure they'd believe us. We've got to go straight to the top.
*Far off gasp. Womanly voice: "No! You don't mean...?!"*
Yes.
The chiropidist.

Why always the left knee??? why not the right one???

Az dearest, as a fellow 40 pluser, (although I only admit to 39) could be aged wear and tear affecting our left knees, mine clicks when I bend it, does yours? it seems almost as if it needs lubrication, I certainly think in such cases that the NHS should prescribe Rioja and Konig pilsner

Hey Math, that goosbery wine sounds pretty mean, my mother had a friend years ago that used to supply us with home-made blackberry wine, pretty potent, but delicious and my grandmother used to make sloe gin.

Hope you,ve got your spuds sorted, I can remember my dad doing something similar, he grew everything that we ate, we used to have loads of apple trees in our garden, and we had one bedroom just devoted to the storage of the apples when I was a child, they were also varieties that you never hear of today!!

I am getting a bit nostalgic here, we used to keep chickens too, and I had names for everyone of them, my favourite was called Beryl and she would come racing along the garden, like a dog, when I called her.

Mind you all of this has absolutely nothing to do with chiropodists, bad knees, aching backs, ummmm what were we actually talking about here???? I think I will go and see the vet.

Jane

May I join the emerging sect of the dodgy left knee? I feel a tad over qualified, but would be pleased to be accepted as a neophyte.

I first dislocated my left kneecap while playing basketball at school and then a few years ago, dislocated it again while at a water park. I have since sprained my knee while playing tig (or tag) with a nephew, which involved having it drained.

It's okay at the moment though

As a consequence of one injury occuring while in Fuerteventura, I have my very own pair of crutches.



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