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oldherbaceous wrote:I was looking fo Dahlismarie, on the Ray Mears show tonight, but i never saw her.

Wot! As road kill????
Lots of bush tucker around here still. I took my 3 grandsons out with an aboriginal ranger once for a bush walk and education on bush tucker. Some of it was really good. Plants I have seen in the bush all my life, but never known you could use them as food. One plant like a clump of reedy grass, when picked and you chew the end, it gives you moisture plus a sweet sugary chew. Like chewing sugar cane.
Also learnt that big banksia flowers can be used as lamps. They are naturally full of oil.
Your forests that have been untouched must be full of native food also. Sounds like an interesting programme.

DahlisMarie wrote:

oldherbaceous wrote:I was looking fo Dahlismarie, on the Ray Mears show tonight, but i never saw her.

Wot! As road kill????
Lots of bush tucker around here still. I took my 3 grandsons out with an aboriginal ranger once for a bush walk and education on bush tucker. Some of it was really good. Plants I have seen in the bush all my life, but never known you could use them as food. One plant like a clump of reedy grass, when picked and you chew the end, it gives you moisture plus a sweet sugary chew. Like chewing sugar cane.
Also learnt that big banksia flowers can be used as lamps. They are naturally full of oil.
Your forests that have been untouched must be full of native food also. Sounds like an interesting programme.

Sadly Dahlis, the UK has no natural untouched forest.
I live near a National Trust Property called "Hatfield Forest", this has been managed as productive woodland and a rich mans park for centuries, yet is now preserved as a natural resource, being rich in plants and small wildlife.
We have over 60 million people on this small island.

At our National Government Statistics website, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=760 , it says

"Scotland is the least densely populated of the four countries of the UK. There were 65 people resident per square kilometre in Scotland in 2003. In comparison the population density was 125 people per square kilometre in Northern Ireland, 142 people in Wales and 383 people in England. London had a far higher population density than any of the English regions, with 4,700 people living in each square kilometre on average."

By contrast, http://www.science.org.au/nova/087/087key.htm , lists Oz at:

"Australia is a large country with a small population. In 2003 we had a population density of 2.5 people per square kilometre"

So that's 153 of me to every one of you.

Oh well. At least if you get lost here you know you'll bump into someone eventually!
They had that sugar cane grass on the programme, Dahlis. The botanist found it and the aboriginal woman confirmed that they did eat it and a little boy promptly shoved some in quick! The widgetty grubs looked quite tasty, but I think I could only eat them cooked and with the heads cut off.
I'm still having mouth-slavering daydreams about mussels and razorfish cooked on an open fire. (Why don't we have a drooling emoticon?)

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So that's 153 of me to every one of you. [/quote]


Okay, okay, lay off the fat jokes..

Interesting statistics. Though I was amazed the first time over there, that there was so much unpopulated space with so many people. Sad you have so little untouched though.

Jenny Green wrote: The widgetty grubs looked quite tasty, but I think I could only eat them cooked and with the heads cut off.
I'm still having mouth-slavering daydreams about mussels and razorfish cooked on an open fire. (Why don't we have a drooling emoticon?)

Hi Jenny
My uncle ate a witchety grub once in the Northern Territory. He said it was quite good - he chewed it.
Cooking fresh seafood over an open fire on the beach or on a riverbank is just superb, especially yabbies which are like small crayfish or lobster.
We have yabbies in the middle dam here, but I don't let anyone catch them, because if they live on the farm that makes them pure pet

Oooh yabbies! Yum yum. You're making me homesick! What else do I miss? Flake and chips - can't get that here you know. And deep fried seafood sticks. Yes I am a junk food addict. Marmite really IS much nicer than Vegemite though, you know.

Jenny Green wrote:Oooh yabbies! Yum yum. You're making me homesick! What else do I miss? Flake and chips - can't get that here you know. And deep fried seafood sticks. Yes I am a junk food addict. Marmite really IS much nicer than Vegemite though, you know.

Homesick? Are you another wizard of Oz?

Vegemite rules!!!!!!!

DahlisMarie wrote:[
So that's 153 of me to every one of you.

Okay, okay, lay off the fat jokes..

Interesting statistics. Though I was amazed the first time over there, that there was so much unpopulated space with so many people. Sad you have so little untouched though.[/quote]

Dahlis, the joke is on me, I'm 20 Stone.

peter wrote:

DahlisMarie wrote:[
So that's 153 of me to every one of you.

Okay, okay, lay off the fat jokes..
.

Dahlis, the joke is on me, I'm 20 Stone.[/quote]



Peter, I can't even remember "Stones" now. They forced metrics on us poor sods in the 1960's although
I am still a feet and inches girl.
However I had to learn the weights in grams and kilos because of cooking. Crikey you should have seen the size of my cakes till I got the hang of metric weight

DahlisMarie wrote:

peter wrote:

DahlisMarie wrote:[
So that's 153 of me to every one of you.

Okay, okay, lay off the fat jokes..
.

Dahlis, the joke is on me, I'm 20 Stone.

Peter, I can't even remember "Stones" now. They forced metrics on us poor sods in the 1960's although
I am still a feet and inches girl.
However I had to learn the weights in grams and kilos because of cooking. Crikey you should have seen the size of my cakes till I got the hang of metric weight [/quote]

That is 14lb to the stone and 2.2lb to the kg.

So 127Kg.

[quote="peter

That is 14lb to the stone and 2.2lb to the kg.

So 127Kg. [/quote]


Sooo, ookay.....you were just meant to be a lot taller

DahlisMarie wrote:

Jenny Green wrote:Oooh yabbies! Yum yum. You're making me homesick! What else do I miss? Flake and chips - can't get that here you know. And deep fried seafood sticks. Yes I am a junk food addict. Marmite really IS much nicer than Vegemite though, you know.

Homesick? Are you another wizard of Oz?

Vegemite rules!!!!!!!

No I lived in Melbourne long enough to call it home though.

Dahlis, 6'1".

Had to get hold of one of our IT Contractors this week, after leaving an internationally dialled voice-mail, he e-mailed me back from Sydney, ending "just been down the beach for the day it's been 35C all day and we're just going out for a barbeque to finish the day off.



He's back here in two weeks. Never mind culture shock, reckon he'll have centigrade shock!

DahlisMarie wrote:[quote="peter

That is 14lb to the stone and 2.2lb to the kg.

So 127Kg.

Sooo, ookay.....you were just meant to be a lot taller [/quote]

It's the weight of your enormous.....brain. Right, Peter?

Jenny Green, that is the sort of comment I'd expect from some sort of freak!

Actually the over-indulgence of Christmas, I'd lost quite a bit of weight before Christmas and sad to say it has all come back. Must NOT buy tin of choccies.... aaarr c h o c o l a t e, drool, whimper....