Ecoprincess Forum Posts (1,278)

RE: A beautiful love story

A freind of mine in Aus keeps sending me pics of Koalas getting drinks from firemen, kids, swimmingpools etc they seem to really like people or are just thirsty.

They are so cute I want one

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

Will you ask Peter to invent a bit between a rayburn and sterling engine I need input here my brain is not technical it does lots of stuff but not technical stuff.

Help damsel in distress Help

RE: If you had the chance to do one thing that you have always wanted to do what would it be

Two internal doors to be installed then all the plaster in the living room to come off, re point and paint.

Hammer girl I have 3 if they wont let you bring yours.

hey another woman with tools too

RE: If you had the chance to do one thing that you have always wanted to do what would it be

Only one thing Karen - your a hard task master



But you already know what it is for me.

I'd like to wake up on a Sunday morning, turn over and get Greg out of bed to make me Tea, he lazy stumbles down the stairs with the dog at his heels and the cat tripping along infront of him. The door opens and shuts as the dog goes out, and I hear the sounds of a dish been taken from the plate rack as Greg talks to the cat and gives it some milk. The click of the kettle as its put to boil, the squeeking of the toaster.

I hear muffled feet cross the floor and turn on the radio, music mellows into the sound of the kettle singing and the smell of toast coming upstairs. The door is opened and dog biscuits are crunched as he sits and smiles at Greg. Teh kettle is boiled and cups are gathered, toast is buttered and I can hear the honey dish open and close as the news comes on the radio.

A woman talks world affairs, and then the morning freezes as she says that a news bullitin has just arrived on her desk, from 2009 the world has decided that it will no longer kill whales for any reason. Trance like I miss the rest of the news, and only stir when Greg arrives with tea and toast and asks me if I am happy and I can say yes. We drink tea and eat toast before taking the dog for a walk up the lane; in a content but questionable way I contemplate I will never go to the antarctic again. Theres a hole in my life now, but its a nice hole.

RE: If you had the chance to do one thing that you have always wanted to do what would it be

Ya can practice your renovation skills on my tumbledown old cottage any time ya like girl

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

I'm trying to invent a way my rayburn can power a sterling engine then I can pinch the technical side for the NZ and Spanish crowed and have my own electricity and enought to go back to the grid.

Rayurn have solar options to go with the stove to heat water will probably invest in this along the way.

they wont do my rayburn but will allow me to invent the inbetween bits. - Must patent it before telling them :Grin:

Solar panels can have trackers that track the sun. Geotherm heat is great and I would have done this had I thought of it before building the garden and laying concrete floors

Wind hoping to go there too.

Solar panels around the equator and a grid to get the power to us if we could harness the power of the sun outside of our atmospher it would take 1 second to power the whole world for a year. wonder how that works on Harleys

Interesting discussion

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RE: Fire and Flood

Jesus god I have just seen something about this on my mates TV

Stay safe you lot

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Ohhhh that just gotten out of bed look, mmmmm unshaven old - hell so am I in working clothes

Davio you big tease

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O yes his particulars would have been of particular interest

and at least by the sounds of his driving he had some interesting moves

Does anyone know

O really peter - ecuse me while I go google

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I apolgise for my last post it was far too serious for me and I wish to take it back



should have said


send him round in his uniform and I will take care of it/him from here

Does anyone know how

if nothing else the fumes will have me high for a week

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

I agree

we all have something to give to our country - did someone else say that

Does anyone know how

Yes well set at this point,


It sounds crazy but its nice ok, I bought these slate coasters about 4 years ago to use in a fireplace hearth. But I used them around the side of a plinth that a rayburn is on, so theres no glaze on them. They are mixed alternatively with small grey tiles which do have a glaze.

I will scout Homebase for grout remover and see if this works. It was one of those tile stick oner and grouter all in ones so hell its set hard.

But it looks pretty

Does anyone know

See your a woman and you look after your cow and it gives lots of milk for you to give to your kids and they burn you at the stake for your troubles.


?witch of the isles?

tell me more my man or I will hex you

Does anyone know

anything about witch craft in Ireland.

The reason I ask is that a lot of visitors slag me about my lifestyle and say that a few years ago I would have been burnt at the stake for less.

A good friend got a sheet of glass engraved with:

The earth is my alter
the sky is my dome
my mind is my garden,
the heart is my home
and I'm always at home-
yea, I'm always at Om

which is a spell thing by Eden Ahbez

I'm going to use it in a porch when I get around to building it.

Just wondering if there were any witches past, present is Sligo or Ireland

Does anyone know how

to get dried grouting off tiles


There isn't a section for DIY and if there was the boys would write rude things on the back of the door.

Is it financially viable

thanks for the compliments.


I agree Women are brilliant and some blokes aren't too bad either.


to us all past, present and future

Is it financially viable

O shut up, you soft thing you

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

I think I see what you are saying James, its not the civil servants and the joe blogs workers in the private sector that are the problem, its the systems by which we are encouraged to work. The Policy and procedures not the people. The way we run the country needs to be looked at, not the people who are doing it now. The civil service is by nature a burocratic system if it were less/completely differt, it would create an environment for creative problem solving and creative and realistic ways in which to run the country.

I dont know if anyone remembers that Charles Haughey got Edward De Bono (nothing to do with U2) but he put some lateral thinking on the Irish problem and shortly afterwards the financial centre was build and things in ireland started to buck up. so maybe we need Edward back to do some lateral thinking for us.

Whats the favourite holiday you have ever taken

sorry its a Kola Bear


Oh dear dear me, must be halucinating (spelling) pass me a

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go carefully there my dear or you could get very hurt.

becareful you are not just the comfy chair, the one hes used too.

Do you want him back why if he dont want you for the wonderful person you are.

Whats the favourite holiday you have ever taken

Now thats my sort of trip

what are those pot plants your wrestling in your pic?

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

really I thought they had too now?

jesus learn something everyday here dont we

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

Personally I beleive its way deeper than this.

I dont think i can fully explain what I feel and beleive. We have been spoon fed capitalism and its just another quack system like communism. IT DON'T WORK. we live in a boom bust system this is not the first or last world recession and until something is done about globalisation we have a problem that is more evident now than before, recession is now world wide rather than in some countries. Before you could always emigrate but hell theres no where to go this time.

The world leaders are fiddling while the world banks collapse (wonder if I still have to pay my mortgage if my bank dies)?

we will end up with half a dozen banks owning the world economy, the small banks in each country will go, monopolies will become normality and we will be living in a McDonalds world of plastic realities and plastic food served us by a red haired clown who will probably be the next president of the USA.

Local communities need to be in charge of their own resources, not just money but services such as water, electricty production and work, transport and health. not decentralistion thats just the same as centralisation but like road kill - spread all over.

We need a new way of been, and most of all we need to get our heads out of our arses and realise that human's are less useful to the world than earth worms, we need some humility and some common sence.

god its rant night

RE: Ireland -- What would you do???

Yep, I'm voting for you mate

can I add that we should all buy Irish then the € that we have will stay in our economy and not emigrate.

If you shop up north the €£ leaves our country, if you sent € to Poland it goes there.

Shop local, keep our € going around in our economy, this keeps us in jobs and more people been paid.

Shop local, keep jobs in your community.

I am 100% self sufficient in food, Ireland can be the same why the hell are we importing french beans from Kenya a country on the verge of famine because their government cant handle their own economy, so Mr Kenya sells his beans gets paid nothing for them and gets no services supplied by his government, hes used land he could have used to grow food for his family or for selling in his local market place, where he would directly benefit from his own work. Mr Ireland can grow his own beans, giving a person in Ireland a job and we cut down on oil miles, boost our own transport industry and local shops.

Is it financially viable

wexy have a glass of to go with that and I usually have an emergency box of chocolates somewhere

Is it financially viable

Damned it all another 15 year of this rain

Yes, but I fear things will get tricky again, lets face it the countries bankrupt again

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my disaster is someone elses humour I like it

you can come drink at my place any time and I have heating now