Greetings and Salutations!!

felix · Post: # 16798Post **felix** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:58 pm

Hi,

Wicked site!

About two years ago, my dad sent me a link to www.dieoff.org. I started reading and within a week my aspirations took a 90 degree turn. I no longer saw any future in Plan A (cars, supermarkets, economic growth). At first I was scared. I felt lost. Everything I had been taught to rely on was no more than a plate, spinning ever more slowly on a stick. But in time I came to realise that I had been handed what every person needs, something that I (along with many in the West) had been lacking - a purpose, a challenge, a quest. I had departed on the long and rewarding journey towards the promised land of Self Sufficiency!

Well, this is my first year with my own allotment. In October I inherited a thicket. One half was knee high Couch, Bindweed and brambles, the other was covered in least a hundred plum suckers that formed an inpenetrable fortress of stick. It was time to put fine words into action. Was I all mouth and no trousers? Well, evidently I am not completely lacking legwear as with a little help from my friends I have celared 80% of it and planted potatoes, onions, garlic, beans, peas, parsnip and beetroot, with tomatoes and lettuce still to go in!

And now, to cherrify the cake of life, I disover a veritable motherlode of likeminded down-to-earthers with whom to celebrate and commiserate as one world collapses and another rises from its filthy ashes. Praise be to <insert preffered deity>!!!

ina · Post: # 16800Post **ina** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:19 pm

Hi Felix, and welcome to the site!
You sound as if you are in the right place here. And your allotment seems a proper challenge... Speak to gunners, he's very successfully "civilised" an overgrown allotment and loves digging! Saying that, others have mastered that challenge, too.

Have to have a look at that link; I know several people who had one of these moments of enlightenment, caused by one thing or another. Good to know something else one can pass on to encourage even more light in the world!

Shirley · Post: # 16806Post **Shirley** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:33 pm

Hi Felix

Great to meet you!

The site looks great - I've bookmarked it for a much closer look as there is just so much info there.

WOW that is a good result with the allotment already!! Here's to a happy harvest throughout the year.

Andy Hamilton · Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:27 am

Hello felix, I think that the road to self sufficiency is certainly a path that many need to follow. Have you heard of the multiple earth calcualations? If you take the average person in the west and calculate how many earths they need to sustain their existance (ie for food, energy etc) it is generally more than one. Before too long there will have to be a change in mentality, lets hope it is toward self sufficiency.

Wombat · Post: # 16866Post **Wombat** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:51 am

G'Day Felix, welcome to the site!

Nev

hedgewizard · Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:05 pm

Hi felix!

Cherrify the cake of life

... I like that! 8)

Yup, the Changes are coming, no doubt about that. As they come on, SSers will have to tackle a wider range of challenges than growing their own food - possibly including defending their land and the food they grow in it! A conversation for a winter's night, I think...

glenniedragon · Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:18 pm

Scary thought, like a post-apocalyptic novel! the idea of food stealers had never crossed my mind.......that'll keep me awake tonight

kind thoughts
Deb

shiney · Post: # 16938Post **shiney** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:30 pm

Welcome Felix, 8)

Well done with tackling the allotment, keep us updated.

Goodlife1970 · Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:10 pm

Hi Felix and welcome,look forward to reading your posts. Is there perchance an Irish link there?.......

felix · Post: # 16956Post **felix** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:03 pm

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! I feel at home already

No irish link that I'm aware of. Born in bristol, living in Leicester. Speaking of which - did I spot a topic that mentioned leicestershire?

hedgewizard - no doubt man, no doubt. When people start to realise food doesn't grow on supermarket shelves there's gonna be a whoooole lotta trouble.

Seriuously guys, this is a real breath of fresh air for me. I feel quite isolated as everyone around me seems only to be interested in cars, gyms and whether or not a mobile phone has bluetooth. Its really gets me down. Since I moved to Leicester a few months ago I've seen more personalised number plates and shop-shiny chelsea tractors than you'd get in hell's car park! So thanks for renewing my faith in mankind

Wombat · Post: # 16962Post **Wombat** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:40 pm

Felix,

Maybe you are there in the midst of where the problems are to serve as an example to others.......

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:42 am

What is a bluetooth anyway?

Hi Felix and welcome to the site!

ina · Post: # 17000Post **ina** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:02 am

Millymollymandy wrote:What is a bluetooth anyway?

Same question here!

I thought you got blue teeth when you've been in the blaeberries... And been eating them all instead of taking them home for jam!

Wombat · Post: # 17002Post **Wombat** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:14 am

It is a thing on your phone that enables you to send and view, among other things, video images........................some of the guys at work have it..................................great for naughty bits

Nev

ina · Post: # 17013Post **ina** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:34 am

Nev!!!

How would you know a thing like that?

I don't even have a mobile. Or rather, I have one - got it years ago when I was looking for a job and didn't have a landline phone where I lived; but I haven't used it for a couple of years now, and keep meaning to donate it to something or other. Only, it's probably so oldfashioned now that nobody would even want it donated to them!