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by amelia
Sat May 02, 2009 11:25 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

Och and gerra away wi' ye an tha noo ta ye :!:

canne someone please confirrrm rrrreceipt of Heather Brrruce' books I sent forrr the librrrarrry, beforrrre I pop anyt'ing else into the mail for ye...eg wee photo prrrrrizes. Thanking ye...

:)
by amelia
Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:08 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: FUNDRAISER TOTAL!!!
Replies: 12
Views: 14900

Re: FUNDRAISER TOTAL!!!

And I still don't even know what a tombola is when it's at home. Is it one of those turny things with wee bits of paper in i'?

Go' yer message Emma, am on ta i'. Ta.
by amelia
Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:59 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

:) 'ave collected my toners forrr ma prrrinter, so can ge'r onna i' speedy like.
Nor 'eard frrrom ye ye'.

Have collected my toner for my printer, so can get onto it without delay. Have not received a private message from you yet.
by amelia
Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:11 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: FUNDRAISER TOTAL!!!
Replies: 12
Views: 14900

Re: FUNDRAISER TOTAL!!!

Mmmmm, definitely needs that extra 22p. :lol: Great!
by amelia
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:44 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

Just for the record: Though I call them 'photo series', they are not 'photographs' this way, but digital photos printed onto recycled paper, reliant upon and limited by, the interpretation and colour ability of my printer.
by amelia
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:29 am
Forum: Events
Topic: sadraiser
Replies: 5
Views: 7465

Re: sadraiser

Yeah weird. I'm sad too and a bit ruffled. Acting is the peak of human expressionism in my opinion as we do it by becoming IT. It is the pinnacle of freeing the human mind and body, as both must work together in conjuntion with oneanother. Why is the drama drama drama group not doing anything? But w...
by amelia
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

I am sorry, I've only just finished going through photo files - posting vouchers didn't seem efficient, there wasn't time. Have had weather and a sick animal to deal with. Can some lovely person please draw up vouchers for me :?: I am imagining a big "YOUR THE WINNER" on one side, and one of the fol...
by amelia
Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:42 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Forest energy vouchers or similar
Replies: 0
Views: 2213

Forest energy vouchers or similar

You've probably heard of L.E.T.S - local energy transfer scheme and there are others here and there named whatever means something to people. :idea: What I'm getting at, is instigating a setup of energy exchange within the Forest before it becomes necessary. I read the minutes re funds etc and the r...
by amelia
Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:11 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: A book for the forest cafe library?
Replies: 7
Views: 10020

Re: A book for the forest cafe library?

On their way - Heather Bruce's 'Living as Energy' set. I wrote about it somewhere else and my experiment of using the word "forthwith" is concluded. My findings are that it has no more an expediatory effect than the "a.s.a.p", which is far more user & reader friendly in my opinion. 'Forthwith' is li...
by amelia
Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:01 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: What was the last book you read?
Replies: 87
Views: 128562

Re: What was the last book you read?

Healing Circumcism, Deva Daricha. Greenwood Press, Aust 2003. Lotus Birth, Shivam Rachana. Greenwood Press, Aust 2000 These two are the amazing couple behind the Centre for Human Transformation in Victoria, who last I heard, had been right in the bushfire vicinity and lost much. I wonder how there a...
by amelia
Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:36 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: What was the last book you read?
Replies: 87
Views: 128562

Re: What was the last book you read?

Looks interesting. Helpful to this thread is Profle Of A Criminal Mind, Brian Innes, Amber Books 2003. I have this on the shelves here, makes a lot of sense. I need these for my book project, also Criminal Profile, into the mind of the killer, Wayne Petherick, Hardie Grant Books 2005. So basic the l...
by amelia
Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:49 am
Forum: Facilities
Topic: how the cave gets its groove back.
Replies: 10
Views: 16339

Re: how the cave gets its groove back.

Great. That Cave could be amazing. It struck me as a most unappreciated and unrecognized space.

I needed it, and it's dampness and greyness and discard/lifelessness energy, always had me vacate it as soon as possible, when I really would have wanted to sound some more.

Good work :!: :)
by amelia
Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:28 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

My printer is not able to do it's job, and a yellow cartridge is on order but won't arrive til next week. Pages are turning out like they've been sitting at the bottom of the Black Lagoon. My solution seeking creativity, is for the prize to be a voucher/exchange docket - like it sounds you are doing...
by amelia
Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:48 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Do you have something special to give?
Replies: 29
Views: 31537

Re: Do you have something special to give?

printed out photos on A4 size, in batches of 5 or 6 maybe, on these topics: My Chickens - I followed them around and they got up to lots of things. Clouds & Sky - taken from my plane window trip back here. The Sea - close ups, beach, water and foam with the odd cool seagull doing something. Clouds &...
by amelia
Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:42 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

I am really of the mind now that the posts of man/woman & discussion so far with Milk, is completely suited to this topic. What is a teenager but a potential man or woman struggling to accomodate all these changes, learn about itself and where it fits in, in the greater picture. Unless anyone has a ...
by amelia
Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:14 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

This is a biggie and I am gonna ger'into it one time. I was not a bad kid, more a sad kid - the saddest kid that is humanly possible to be... So much of this is about/stems from, the nonrecognition that we are spirit contained in human form. We are our full spirit in the little growing body of baby,...
by amelia
Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:43 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Balkanarama email for the forest speaks
Replies: 1
Views: 4914

Re: Balkanarama email for the forest speaks

Dobro, ja sam magyaritza! Hrana, voda, lyubuv i muzika! :D
by amelia
Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:50 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

Is it anything like Yerba Mate?
by amelia
Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:27 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: more great books for the library
Replies: 0
Views: 2280

more great books for the library

The Healer Phenomena, getting around in the form of celtic derived woman, Heather Bruce, just donated 2 of her books for me to be able to send you as gifts, when I told her of my sending Annie's book to the Forest library. 'Living in it' a guide book for being in a Human Body & 'Living as Energy' pa...
by amelia
Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:43 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: chairs
Replies: 11
Views: 13798

Re: chairs

One of the first things I loved about the Forest was that the chairs and tables were all different. Understandable to replace the ones that are a danger to sit on but a shame to lose the arty appeal for a school function look. If they are free would they be good to get anyway? But if they do not fol...
by amelia
Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:09 pm
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

Interesting. I will see if it is known at my health/herbs places here... :)
by amelia
Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:56 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

But there was no disagreement from me. I was simply offering what I perceived as easy solutions to abate some over sensitivities perceived. :) I knew you had not been to a meeting, but I gave your view time, as I didn't imagine it was such a problem for you but thought you only trying to assist the ...
by amelia
Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:49 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

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by amelia
Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:43 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

How does that saying go? People see things the way THEY are. They see things through their interpretation as info goes through all their 'mind files' and this is the way it should be. Great to have committees that organise and take input. It is easy for me to see the 'F' as representative of all the...
by amelia
Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:05 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

Didn't they used to steal gold fillings out of teeth in the past? Do they still do gold fillings? What made me kinda sick is an article I read on some rich people in the states getting jewelry constructed onto their teeth...yes i know this has NOTHING to do with anything but the last thing I wrote, ...
by amelia
Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:56 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

Maybe it could seem as though it was going to be vulgar..., but that could be an appeal for some people. For heaven's sake is a familiar saying. The use of 'sake' here is great. The 'F' use in this way I think is a clever and courageous attention grabber. Also the money symbols used in exchange of l...
by amelia
Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:19 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

Well it has had time to be there. I paid airmail. It could be held up at customs. I declared it on the package as containing a book & a health food/caffeine alternative. :? Maybe they are testing it as they can't figure why anyone would pay that much in postage...love perhaps? And, that it really ha...
by amelia
Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:16 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

For F#@#!*'s Sake, OR F#### Off, FETE? This incorporates the two as well as hints realistically that it is for the very sake of the forest's continual existence, but does so in a catchy non desperate way.
by amelia
Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:49 pm
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

did ya get it? Anyone been able to sample :?: :)
by amelia
Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:04 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

I kinda like the 'F' off. What if, it is the FOREST FUND& hellRAISER FETE otherwise known as THE 'F' ? Or Fto the 3 I can see that in poster form etc, some with the full name and others with a giant F and nothing else so that people wanna know, no HAVETA know what the 'F' stands for...it will eat in...
by amelia
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:01 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: 'A Forest in the City' video
Replies: 4
Views: 6455

Re: 'A Forest in the City' video

That's a great video and I learned lots from it.
by amelia
Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:42 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

'Forest hellraiser fundraiser fete'?

Putting it all together, I like the play on words here. It has all the nurturing and action based aspects to it and it touches upon the fate of the forest if not enough money is made.
by amelia
Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:14 am
Forum: Minutes
Topic: Forest Fundraiser Minutes 28 March
Replies: 8
Views: 14337

Re: Forest Fundraiser Minutes 28 March

Hi,looks great, would it be easier to have a gold coin donation (pound/2 pound coins) per child, instead of making them free? It is not much, children add up and the parents would be appreciative of the activities offered etc. It is a fund raiser so that these activities can continue at all. If it i...
by amelia
Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:06 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Name it!
Replies: 27
Views: 27567

Re: Name it!

maybe 'Forest for Forest' ? Folk are so used to the Forest helping others and it would highlight this, as well as calling attention to something needing for the forest, would grab attention from helpful types, highlights a real need without sounding negative or desperate and has the appeal of those ...
by amelia
Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:40 pm
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: kitchen grant - get that good stuff we wants
Replies: 11
Views: 17740

Re: kitchen grant - get that good stuff we wants

Yep the Forest would definitely get this - the example they use on the form a 'volunteer club in the inner city,helping chilren learn to cook' is so similar as it is. Timely to do after the Forest 'ideas' meeting also, to include these in answer to the 'proposed work' section. It asks for a breakdow...
by amelia
Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:31 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: A book for the forest cafe library?
Replies: 7
Views: 10020

Re: A book for the forest cafe library?

Postage was a lot more than anticipated, but tis ok, I was not charged anything for a number of books due to some other out of pocket stuff and promoting the book, so it works out about wholesale price anyway and is my gift. :) Annie was also my tutor for Bush Flower essences and the book contains i...
by amelia
Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:15 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: A book for the forest cafe library?
Replies: 7
Views: 10020

Re: A book for the forest cafe library?

In post today, clearly labelled with a note on it and written inside too.
by amelia
Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:14 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

'Cafe trial pack' in post today.
by amelia
Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...
Replies: 3
Views: 5873

Re: The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...

Or maybe this is a cultural difference. I have never come across as much vomiting of a night as I did in Edinburgh, so praps you are more desensitized to it. I counted as many as 6 'piles' of it as I walked from Bristo Place to the Backpackers closer to the castle. I couldn't help but look at it - e...
by amelia
Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:27 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...
Replies: 3
Views: 5873

Re: The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...

But is opposite of nice Duncan...or were you joking? :)
by amelia
Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:41 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Google Street View for Edinburgh is out
Replies: 6
Views: 7341

Re: Google Street View for Edinburgh is out

Thanks Milk that is fantastic! I just 'walked' from Bristo place to Grassmarket and Candlerow and will go for a further stroll tomorrow. WHAT is with all that construction! I enjoyed 'dropping' the little man to see where I would be, recognizing things as it came into focus.
by amelia
Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:10 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...
Replies: 3
Views: 5873

The worst thing cleaned off a floor ...

I apologize in advance if this post causes offence but I need to share it right now. I think 1 kg of honey that has been vomited up by a dog has gotta be up there with the worst of them. Not at the top, but definitely up there. I discovered it in the early hours and just getting it out of my sock wa...
by amelia
Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:55 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: hugs and hellos
Replies: 32
Views: 33511

Re: hugs and hellos

That little frog has moved into the container outside my window that is for plants awaiting too be planted so there is a regular water supply there.

It is one of the ones that sounds like a stick tapping an only slightly hollowed log, so I get to hear percussion played each evening :)
by amelia
Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:27 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

CORRECTION: Depression is unexpressed GRIEF not anger. Big sadness in these young people. But, they still have to learn how to be in a human body in this century, relating to others. Aside from general rules/codes of the country they are in, this means being cordial to other humans. This means respe...
by amelia
Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:16 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

Oh I agree with you. Those ones are mutated. They have behavioural disorders. They are the ones who need to learn how to behave respectfully. They are the ones who have not been guided so are not as smart as they otherwise would and could be. They are lost and their solution seeking creativity to oc...
by amelia
Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

I had a dog that was so smart I hired an animal behaviouralist to help me with her. He said she was very challenging for him. She looked at you with a 'Why?' and I needed to be one step ahead of her always. Was tricky cos I was still using a wheelchair and sticks and stuff after a car accident. Same...
by amelia
Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:40 am
Forum: The People's Forum
Topic: Teenagers- are they all evil?
Replies: 59
Views: 52805

Re: Teenagers- are they all evil?

thank you. for the opportunity of saying that. I find many of my life experiences isolate me and it is very special to me to begin to break this down.... :D
by amelia
Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:02 pm
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

:idea: Now it is the morning here and as a have a cup o' maca tea, I've reaslised the best trial is to be undertaken by those who need a coffee and to have maca instead, in the morning. Then, for those same folk to be able to repeat the trial, the next morning, or later in the day. This way they wil...
by amelia
Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:51 am
Forum: Front of House/Gallery
Topic: LIST for posting posters
Replies: 8
Views: 12628

Re: LIST for posting posters

Hi I think you have Dancebase as a cafe? Is the National Centre and school for dance. www.dancebase.co.uk. So many people go through for courses or for their drop-in classes. All different age groups, countries of origin. Such creativity and many performers. I love that place and is a good place for...
by amelia
Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:32 am
Forum: Kitchen
Topic: Energy Stimulants
Replies: 24
Views: 31035

Re: Energy Stimulants

what's the go then? Some support for the guarana but no comment on the Maca (macka or Mac A if you want to add a celtic twist). I got 226 g for $9.93 last time from my food coop. As I am sending a book by post for the Forest Library, I am going to enclose 5 or so Roobos teabags and a few teaspoons o...