Nungali

Well ... dang! I been on vacation since 1983 ! never came back. But I know what you mean. Sometimes I have this nightmare where I am stuck on a cruise ship and have to live in that environmet for months Or I could go 'water boarding' in Nicaragua ( jeeeze ! they gotta come up with a better word for that ) I watched a doco once about a 'game warden' in Africa, looking after the last surviving group of some endangered animals. Most of his day was spent walking though and didnt do much work, or any equipment and lived in a half built shack. Eventually, after a fund raising some group got enough money to buy him a bicycle - he was overjoyed, now he might have a chance to spend less time travelling around every day and be able save those animals. At the time I saw that, I had just got another job on a movie ... as someone had decided to fund $90 million for a movie about a cartoon dog. So I am standing there thinking, in this hand, it takes 3 months to come up with $50 to buy a bike for a poverty stricken ranger to save a dying breed of animals ... and in the other hand is $90 mill to spend on a cartoon dog. And people wonder why I am a bit 'crazy' ? ? ?

Some of you might be interested in this ( since there is one or two who often mention living off the land, doing it rough, giving up complexities and being over controlling unfair authorities , etc. ) Charlie's Country. Been waiting to see it and did last night. He does pretty good alone in the bush ... until he gets a bit sick, has a bad days hunting ... the rain sets in, he gets sicker and not well enough to hunt, which makes him weaker ... ( bought back some intense bad memories for me that bit ... ) Anyway, it turns out better at the end - thank God ! Its pretty intense with a lot of extended, emotive,close up shots of Gullpillil ( he got a best actor award for it at Cannes). . . and sort of reflects his own story as well ( and thousands like him) . (For those that dont know him he came to fame at a young age in the movie Walkabout They took him to England as everyone was amazed at his 'acting ability' ... actually, he wasn't acting ... people at functions and awards would say he seemed very nice and smiled a lot but didnt say much. They didnt realise, back then. he could not speak English. Another time, his agent was being admonished because David said he wouldnt be able to make a flight to the UK to meet a deadline for a part in a film. If he wants the job, tell him to get on a plane tomorrow. It wasnt that simple, the agent told them. he would have to travel a few hundred kilometers by car. Spend a day walking, swim across the flooded Alligator River, walk another half day to his home camp, get his passport , papers , cards etc , come back the same way and then go to the airport Anyway, if you want to go off grid really off grid ... better watch this first

Poppies of course.

OMG! I mean the first picture of bridesmaids I put up on the previous page ! < retires again to meditate on ..... >

Okay I will fess up. One time I was at a friends place who lived on a deer farm. Must have been about 100 does in a large field .... all happily in a group (just like those bridesmaids ) . We were watching the buck charge them ; from a distance just a sea of white turned up tails with this charging beast running through them. - watching the mass divide and reform each pass, a bit like one of those flocking bird formations that make interesting patterns. { That group of bridesmaids was plain asking for it .... I tell ya .} Safety in numbers - he was confused by the large number of choices and couldnt just single one out and chase and get her. Hmmmm ..... ..... <retires to meditate on significance in own life> .

Just make sure you wear something appropriate

This is pretty cool, eco friendly , 'free energy' . A water powered 'cliff railway' - just the thing to transport things up and down the high escarpment opposite my place, the best spot is next to a water fall. The water is taken in at the top of the falls, used to weight power the cable car down, while its weight pulls up a lighter car from the bottom. Then the water would be released into the stream, where it would end up any way, with no pollution to it. Then that car is lighter and able to be lifted by the one filling at the top. Love it ! http://www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/how-it-works/

Like Deci was returned to the wild

In case you do go bridegrooms: (the ones in dark clothes) Bride's maids Charge and scatter

I think you mean bride's maids ??? What Marblehead offers gay advice now ? ? ? Noooooooooooooooooo .

Hang outside a bit before you leave - you might find a 'restless wanderer' that wants to escape too.

Oh yeah, and I agree with Marbles ... I hate weddings and refuse to go .... but yes, they are a social occasion where one can meet others ... even others that might be thinking " Damn ! How come they got a partner and I didnt."

Bravo ! ( A problem arose yesterday and I decided to completely ignore it, until it effects me. Then I realised, even though shit is happening a lot lately here , the moments in between are quiet, beautiful, serene and I am surrounded by nature ... yeah ! the moments in between " Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone .... "

Petition to bring back the seahorses. And their equivalent in water, to indicate its purity, now seems in abundance in - of all places - Sydney Harbour ; these little guys (apparently they are everywhere there now) I was pretty impressed last visit. A harbour full of ships, ferries, sailing boats, pleasure craft, with a city and CBD on all its shores, I was at Darling Harbour, the busiest foreshore and looked into the water over the edge; crystal clear, heaps of vegetation and lots of different types of fish ! Some one is doing their job well ! ( a 15 years ago it was a grey murk with floating plastic bottles and jellyfish ) Oh yeah ... they got a wild penguin colony as well - the last mainland one in Australia ... and they chose Sydney Harbour ? http://fnpw.org.au/plants-a-wildlife/birds/little-penguin/manly-little-penguins http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/marine-australia/underwater-sydney-sea-monsters-of-the-harbour/

They are great for throwing at space pandas !

Sorry, I cant, I have to be tending something that I am not going to turn into food, its a thing I have about 'feral pets' . Feral pets are the best ever and I luv 'em ! ( My ex even busted me for treating her as a feral pet ... and wrote a song about it ) Dry composting toilet. I have seen a few and there are a lot of them pictured and designs shown on-line. I have seen a few with big problems so I tried to eliminate all that and the expense. I already had an outhouse so I set it up in that. I have these wooden boxes with tight fitting lids, big enough to sit on, so I cut a hole in the top of one ( the size midway between the inner and outer size of the toilet seat) the seat is attached to the top of the box. Inside the box is a 20 litre plastic HD bucket, A plastic strip runs around the inside of the hole in the wooden box top, under the seat and goes down into the bucket (to prevent any spillage). I use sugar cane mulch as the dry agent ( any dried similar , many use sawdust ) . But some in the bottom of the bucket and on top after usage. Before it gets too full I lift up the wooden box top that the seat is attached to and remove the bucket and empty it into the 'composter'. Most designs sit you over the composter in the building; expensive, large, cumbersome and eventually it will be needed to be emptied, I have done that once before at a friends place - no thanks. (I also have a friend that has one over a big plastic barrel, now its full, it is too heavy to move and the idiot the built the outhouse built it around the barrel ). For the actual composting part ( separating them into two components really cut back on issues, expense, tech ... it just means that about once a week you have to manually empty, but that is pretty easy. The composter is a large size plastic olive barrel ( I can get them locally pretty cheap, ) After mucking around a bit I found this is the best minimal set up; holes in the bottom for drainage, two holes near the bottom that fit a length of plastic drainage pipe with air holes drilled all along it. This sits across the bottom and through the holes for support, its sealed in and the ends are capped with fly wire.. Another one towards the top to let air out; one end with a sealed cap, the other end with an elbow and an upright going up a couple of metres with fly cap and rain protection. Then the barrel lid screws on to the top. So about once a week I empty the bucket into that and screw the lid back on the barrel, I have 3 of them, 1 is full, 1 half full and one empty. I started about 2 years ago , I am assuming by the time the 3rd is filling the 1st will be able to be emptied. After about a year, it looks and smells just like fresh dug earth (although some rare toxins can last 3 years (like tetanus ), so it not used on food crops ( maybe fruit trees ? ? ? , but I would go through a plant cycle first, i.e. fertilise a crop with it, say nettle and comfrey and then harvest and use that in compost. All up I would say it cost under $200. .... And just about any woman (or even a man) can make one

Just as well I didnt mention the elephant in the (dark) room

yeah ... I should know better ... now I am in trouble there as I posted this pic as a visual addendum to my usual rave about POV's being facets of a larger thing, like a crystal *** Warning ! Warning ! typically nasty innuendo picture approaching - shield your eyes .... ...... < you have been warned > .....

For me , crapping into a bowl that contains clean drinking water is soooo weird . I mean, thats good water, and then where does it go ? None of my solutions are for an urban environment , some can be scaled up. So far I have 2 barrels of dry composted .... 'toiletries' soon I will be able to use it to fertilise a barren section of the garden. The trees and grass will then grow better there and boost everything from growth, insect and animal life and CO2 absorption. A friend from the city admonished me for wasting water at my sink , I had to explain how it goes out to the garden and waters the plants, if I cut back on sink water, I would just have water those plants with a hose. I suppose I could be more efficient and not have a little tropical garden patch outside the front windows and only have a watered food garden .... but man does not live by food garden alone

Yep, they do that here too (not that I can see Deci as one who would appreciate an 'enforced' 'healing' change your personality session . special healing ceremony; You stand off from these guys ... over there .... now, it all depends on how good you are at 'dancing' .

Oh, thats right, sexual liberation and the 60s revolution was an Illuminati plot .... I forgot about that idea PS. The dolphins were in on it too

I'm available at present .

I got censored without notification on another site that allows the most obvious abuse and insults. I posted a picture of a woman sitting on a Persian carpet smoking a hookah .... apparently I was advocating 'drug usage' ???

Errmmm ... I just have glass by the tap on the window sill and use that. After a while when I am doing a load of washing up anyway, it goes in. I dont see how putting a glass in with the rest (or not) saves anything. However, you might like this other thing I do; on my way out, I often stop at the old wooden bridge, jump in the river, have my morning wash (no soap, rinse-gravel scrub - rinse ) and have a big drink while underwater. No rain, roof, gutters, , reverse-osmosis filtered, ozonated (it already is ), underground storage, kitchen or 'water spout pole' .