Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

<Charlie> wrote in message
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:44:46 +1100, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given>
> wrote:

>>Well given that it's as big as your lower 48, it's pretty diverse.  I
>>suspect we only have a hope of knowing info from the whole country
because
>>unlike you there in the States, we only have around 20 million people. 
At
>>your population densities it must be info overload for you to try to
keep 
>>up
>>with domestic infor let alone international news etc.
>
> You have no idea!  If it were not for the internet, I would have no
> idea what was happening internationally.

:-))  I post and have read a group called misc.rural for years.  Sometimes
I 
have wondered if some of your fellow compatriots there are either asleep
or 
just ignoring international news.

Without launching into a
> tirade about the state of the media here, let's just say that many of
> us here simply view the mainstream as another branch of government,
> and, sorry to say, Rupert Murdoch is no friend of mine.  His
> stranglehold on  US media is frightening.

Yes.  A smart business man but he can dumb down news with the best of
them.

> Reading thru posts, I am thoroughly enjoying the diverse opinions and
> "OT" posts and banter.  Ya'll don't seem to be as anal as many of us
> here.  I am really enamoured with your expressions and colloquialisms.
> I feel as if I have just started a new course at University.

:-))  Sadly we are losing a lot of them as the younger generation become 
addicted to im****ted TV.  Now they talk of 'guys' instead of 'blokes' and 
none of the younger generation would be caught dead saying: 'flat out like
a 
lizard drinking', 'useful as a hip pocket in a singlet',  'head like a 
seagoing tadpole' or any of the other lovely old saying we used to use.

>>One thing I have noticed that is a bit different about this ng and how
we
>>down here garden as opposed to other ngs (such as uk.rec.gardening or
the
>>rec.gardens group) is that we seem to be more organically inclined. 
That
>>may not be an accurate perception, but I've thought that for quite some 
>>time
>>now.

> Well now, that is right up my alley.  I shall continue my education! I
> have been an advocate of organic gardening for many years and have made
> myself somewhat unpopular in the other groups with some folks and with
> some family members in relation to organic and sustainable.

I love manure.  My husband says I have a **** fetish and I admit that if
it 
comes from the rear of a cow, horse, sheep, alpaca, rabbit or elephant, I 
will collect it.

I keep my next door neighbour in some veg, eggs and pine cones for fire 
lighting because she has about 20 horses and doesn't garden.  We both
think 
we are getting the best side of the bargain, but I KNOW I'm getting pure 
gold as she feed her horses lucerne (alfalfa) and a lot of it ends up in
the 
stable raking and you would know how much worms love lucerne (alfalfa).

My best coup yet was hearing on the car radio that the circus was looking 
for gardeners to take away elephant poo.  I was 2 minutes from where the 
circus was being held and I was in there and had my ute loaded before I 
could even think aobut the good clothes I was wearing.  I gave it to my 
husband for growing his corn as a friend told me about 25 years ago that
it 
produced the best corn he'd ever grown.  It was great corn!
>
> Thanks for the welcome and I appreciate the op****tunity to view and
> participate in, in this limited capacity and venue, your lives and
> country.
>
> BTW, as I was perfoming my last duty of the night, as the household
> male, aforementioned cat did his nightly thing...appearing out of the
> dark and chirping and wending his way in and out of my legs whilst I
> fertilized, before following me into the house.

:-))  Glad to hear you're using that free fertiliser!  But did you drink
the 
6 pack first?