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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to linger,
Thank you.
A bit sad that tool-making&using H.sap.sap is not -in some areas- now imparting basic knowledge- -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
<q>I reckon all traditional medicines should be given the same treatment.
Yay indeed!
One of my neighbour’s in-laws had a really nasty foot fungal infection of long standing.
I knew about 7-finger. I’ll never forget the evening,afterwards, he invited his wife to smell his feet! (She, for the first time in their relationship, couldnt!)
I always keep manuka seed-capsules (for diarrhoea), and grow koromiko
(no need to grow flax-root around here!)for the opposite problem – I dont need this stuff, but it is amazing how many people do-Simple (heh!) stuff.
Fresh manuka herbage, steamed, helps congested breathing- and we all (now!)
know about manuka honey- -
Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to linger,
Linger- what place has oral learning/practical teaching pre-school, in the systems you are familiar with?
As kids, in my family, it was expected we would have a hoard of nursery rhymes/songs/genealogies (basic)/times tables/some spelling formulae (“i before e EXCEPT”)simple recipes and how to use simple tools (screwdrivers/hammers/saws)
before we were 7- that is, before we reached the end of the primers-(I was in Standard 1 at 7.)
O yes. It was also expected we could read before we went to school... -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
The dodgy seers and the paw-reader are malevolently mischievious and prey on the fragile.
Not wrong, Hebe.
One of my family (junior circle) members fled to Auckland on the *strength* of that kind of prognistication - and is still paying off the travel & hotel costs for his family. And they cant afford that. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
“The old Maori sheila, she don’t believe in abortion.” An ignorant, ignorant man.
O very much so – especially as my own mother -married at 19, had me at 20- was very discreetly advised by one of her female Purakaunui Maori relations about the known abortifacents vailable in ‘the bush’…only learned that a couple of years ago!
I clearly was not a contender for that kind of knowledge but I am pretty certain the info was passed on to my 3 sisters. Who, just incidentally, are/
were nurses & midwives. I have urged the remaining 2 to suggest that research into the plants would be a good idea, since -anecdotally- there was little risk of haemorrhaging
and a certainty of early foetal death.But that’s not the kind of stuff midwives are interested in of course…
whooops!How To Derail A Thread, Even on PAS. Lesson 921
-sorry everyone!
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
<q>Our sunsets are magic up here, and when the stars are out,it feels like I’m wrapped in a blanket of twinkle :)
That's what I will miss especially (along with the birdsong) when I leave here mate- the sunsets & the stars-
we've never had streetlighting in Big O, and it makes a huge difference to star display- -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
<q>Those Maori elders eh? If you’re stuck without an almanac you can always pull a couple out of your butt.
Equally ignorant about ‘elders’ eh? (I assume he’s referring to kaumatua – i.e. an age status.) The wisdom of kaumatua was respected for life-experience in general – but you had to be actually an expert ( a tohuka) in a field – for, instance navigation (which was the major field for star lore)- before you’d be respected for that kind of learning.
I’ve never heard of ’perigee sticks” and I did have the privilege of knowing a Wai Pounemu tohuka with expertise in star-lore.
Creatures like Ring should be held up to far wider public ridicule & contempt.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Or created?
O, this is a bit weird-
I thought I had already responded to your comment,
saying, something like -who can prove anything like poets/wordsingers/singers indeed making new words/expanding/blinking/cranking language-
but I deeply feel
that as very early people made wonderous pictures ( and carvings)
so did we begin to enhance how we make real our dreams and desires in words &songs.
A pity this is not appreciated now -
Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Flouncey widebottom black*-silk trou do good as well-
midnightblue/scarlet/gold/pinegreen/duskgrey/whatever!
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Lilith __,
I did, after your hint...I have now Revised My Facts of Life: NEVER believe what you see in pictures - just what you see before your eyes (and check your visual aids
and those of others round you...)Giddy gods! what weird crap is out there on the Tubes! And, has been hiding in peoples' heads for yonks!