tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120867762024-03-07T02:40:40.557-04:00little gwionAnd she put Gwion Bach the son of Gwreang of Llanfair to stir the cauldron... And she herself, according to the books of the astronomers, and in planetary hours, gathered every day of all charm-bearing herbs.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-78647164269599228862008-03-08T03:15:00.002-04:002008-03-08T03:26:38.717-04:00paranoid gardeningI want to post all about my garden but paranoia and self-preservation stop me. It's a crazy world, eh?little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-66656977455667875822008-03-08T03:14:00.000-04:002008-03-08T03:15:42.290-04:00What do you mean, it's March?Oh... Wow!little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-80845935048954727422007-05-02T12:26:00.000-04:002007-05-02T12:32:01.712-04:00hallucinogenic rewindYou know the way with PC games, like real time games, when you make an arse of things you can go back to the point of your last save and everything’s ok. I mean, all the mistakes you made, it’s like they never happened. You can probably isolate one particular blunder, a moment of bad judgement, which was definitely where it went wrong. So you go back to a saved version, start from there, and turn left where formerly you turned right. <br /><br />I am hoping to do that for real. One night, I'm really out of it, I come to on the floor of a bedsit in the mid 70s, and the whole of my adult life has been a late adolescence drug induced dream. "Oh wow," I'd think. That awareness of a colossal dream experience, only dimly remembered.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1137422471262964552007-04-25T11:36:00.000-04:002007-04-25T11:37:34.376-04:00Oh yeah, and......I'll need to get some charcoal and a blowtorch.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-17682200725893616962007-04-24T05:58:00.001-04:002007-04-24T05:58:53.386-04:00Casalla Abstract<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redroom_studios/261715823/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/261715823_1937a839cd.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/redroom_studios/261715823/">Casalla Abstract</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/redroom_studios/">Redroom Studios</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-24717293411098972752007-04-23T11:31:00.000-04:002007-04-23T11:48:14.181-04:00Herbal TechnologyWhat I've been thinking is, a way to get the best from Sally D. I learned a lot from my stay in the Maghreb about shisha pipe use. The experiment will be to use Sally with the pipe in the place of tobacco, (it's reasonable to suspect that the apple flavoured mollasses soaked tobacco is for public show only, and that other herbs are smoked in private).<br /><br />Neat Sally might be too much. Consider mixing it with <a href="http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Hypericum+perforatum">st john's wort</a>, <a href="http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Salvia+officinalis">common sage</a>, and <a href="http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Melissa+officinalis">lemon balm</a>.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-50942909613358418262007-04-23T06:57:00.000-04:002007-04-23T07:00:11.193-04:00*yawns and stretches*Yeah! Springtime!<br /><br />Better get out into the garden.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-25141481363085778142006-10-26T04:19:00.001-04:002006-10-26T04:19:27.073-04:00American Victory<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dshaboy/275657167/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/112/275657167_e95e3d8f0d.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dshaboy/275657167/">American Victory #4 (unstreightened)</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dshaboy/">Dshalock the Libertarian</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-14179569269988074212006-10-26T04:17:00.001-04:002006-10-26T04:17:14.478-04:00FlickrThis is a test post from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/r/testpost"><img alt="flickr" src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width="41" height="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a>, a fancy photo sharing thing.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1161760803097454982006-10-25T03:18:00.000-04:002006-10-25T08:06:36.169-04:00Do you know what strain your Sally D is?This is a question I'm often asked. And here's a reply I'm going to standardize:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">No, I don't. You're not the first to ask this, and my response is always the same: Do you KNOW what difference it makes? The leaves of this plant will do what you would expect from them. <br /><br />It seems to change subtly depending on its environment. For example, I grow some plants in my home, and others in the greenhouse at my allotment. They all come from the same 'mother' plant, which I got several years ago. The greenhouse plants (the one in eBay is one of them) are different to the houseplants: their leaves are twice the size, and I find them to be twice as potent. <br /><br />This changeability of the plant makes me think that it's environment rather than parentage which matters.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />L. Gwion<span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote></blockquote></span></span>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1160372314359239702006-10-09T01:32:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.969-04:00FlickrThis is a test post from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/r/testpost"><img alt="flickr" src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width="41" height="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a>, a fancy photo sharing thing.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1160081828572619782006-10-05T16:50:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.901-04:00"At Gay Coney Island" - poster dates from the 1890s<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/261702601/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/261702601_65096a7620.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/261702601/">"At Gay Coney Island" - poster dates from the 1890s</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/67688014@N00/">Magnolia Thunderpussy</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1159905016398071302006-10-03T15:43:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.824-04:00Fully Grown Salvia Divinorum<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstyave/259947175/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/93/259947175_389e65c7e5.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstyave/259947175/">Fully Grown Salvia Divinorum</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pigstyave/">PigStyAve</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1159397901738391592006-09-27T18:52:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.745-04:00New Orleans?<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thethirstysailor/251030613/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/108/251030613_7f828b7b66.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thethirstysailor/251030613/"></a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/thethirstysailor/">InspectorOyster (I was TheThirstySailor)</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1159221304935693882006-09-25T17:48:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.666-04:00Writing home - 1950<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/252722202/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/120/252722202_049a009e88.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/252722202/">Writing home - 1950</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/67688014@N00/">Magnolia Thunderpussy</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1158929652160859632006-09-22T08:48:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.582-04:00FlickrThis is a test post from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/r/testpost"><img alt="flickr" src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width="41" height="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a>, a fancy photo sharing thing.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1158190913697461802006-09-13T19:36:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.488-04:00Fist in my Mouth<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fannyflaps/242602060/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/84/242602060_6c95339907.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fannyflaps/242602060/">Fist in my Mouth</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/fannyflaps/">everyone's favourite narcissist</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Horrible? Or is it "art"?</p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1157581145107308362006-09-06T18:13:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.380-04:00loose change<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smoothdude/234544352/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/91/234544352_da13cec353.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smoothdude/234544352/">loose change</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/smoothdude/">smoothdude</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1157333990467012852006-09-03T21:34:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:45.185-04:00Sexy Dwarf<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raimundo/231837109/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/95/231837109_a368ca8ab1.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raimundo/231837109/">Sexy Dwarf</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/raimundo/">PAИ</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Don't fucking ask.</p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1154639382822094162006-08-03T17:05:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:44.899-04:00Circus artiste, Köln 1928<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/205972073/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/61/205972073_b5740db4cb.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67688014@N00/205972073/">Circus artiste, Köln 1928</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/67688014@N00/">Magnolia Thunderpussy</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1153695877631772312006-07-23T19:00:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:44.675-04:00carling academy ghosts<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredspoonphotos/196390597/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/59/196390597_fc90f2994f.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredspoonphotos/196390597/">carling academy ghosts</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/fredspoonphotos/">christmasstree</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1150805659503140152006-06-20T08:10:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:44.570-04:00Matricaria in the World of NumptyAKA German Chamomile. There's now a <a href="http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Matricaria+recutita">link</a> to more information in the sidebar there. They sell this, powdered, as a natural remedy for babies' teething troubles - $5 or thereabouts for 20 sachets. That's more than the cost of a packet of seeds.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1150293492981384472006-06-14T09:55:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:44.329-04:00In your cool sheets at night......with the mist memories of the night-before's dreams, closing your eyes - go into the earth and count the 72 herbs of the Lady's garden. <br /><br />That's the idea. Get 72 of them.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1149968870053920522006-06-10T15:40:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:44.060-04:00Gardeners live a long time because......they're always thinking of next year.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alchemy-works.com/pedicularis_groenlandica.html">Pedicularis groenlandica</a> is a must.little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12086776.post-1149759093024798402006-06-08T05:28:00.000-04:002006-10-25T07:48:43.748-04:00flamenco feet<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstyave/162897849/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/62/162897849_b2fd5899ef.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstyave/162897849/">flamenco feet</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pigstyave/">Pig Sty Ave</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> </p>little gwionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11024453043130431096noreply@blogger.com0