Bananas

[Michaelangelica]

my grandmother used to do that in canada...back in the dirty thirties.

I HOPE you mean burning sea weed for potash.

 

You never know what they got up to in the 30's

A certain ABC show was banned her for showing other uses of bananas.

(Actually all she was doing was demonstrating how to put a condom on with her mouth-harmless really)

[Ganoderma]

:hihi: Granny would not approve of that naughty behavior. Not in her Christian house :)

 

Yes burning seaweed. No smoking bananas (i have that "they call me mellow yellow" song stuck in my head), and no strange sex fetish.

 

Were you serious about Australians potassium deficiency? hope I don’t sound too stupid...

[Michaelangelica]

Were you serious about Australians potassium deficiency?

Well. . . not really. . . but.

In OZ we are rarely serious about anything except cricket (now) and football (later)

But I did have an older friend who had been told by her doctor to eat bananas because she had low potassium levels (Has YOUR doctor ever tested you for that??) I looked up other potassium sources for her on the web as she is a pensioner and could not afford bananas.

[Turtle]

Any suggestions you can make would be appreciated.

 

But you can't irrigate if there is no water

 

See

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news568.htm

 

On the water shortage, are there any desalination plants extant or proposed in Australia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

[Michaelangelica]

On the water shortage, are there any desalination plants extant or proposed in Australia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

 

I believe one has just opened in Perth.

A proposal for Sydney was shelved.

The local council here has two temporary ones on the beach. Someone said they look like something out of a container from Iraq, are an eyesore and make a lot of noise.We have about 15% water left in local dams.

Up the road there is a major power station that uses salt water for steam. I can't understand why they can't be converted to desalination plants by distilling the steam used for generators.

[Michaelangelica]

You will all be relieved to hear that bananas are now $3 a kilo.

 

The NSW Coffs Harbour area growers that sold them at $30 K have all happily retired.

 

All's well that ends well

[LJP07]

I hear Bananas in the morning are very good for mental stimulation and that your better off eating a Banana than breakfast cereal that's covered with sugars or no good additives. Maybe it's not true.

[Michaelangelica]

Cruel and Unusual punishment?

 

Thief forced to eat 40 bananas

 

From correspondents in Kolkata

 

August 05, 2007 12:39am

Article from: Reutersl

 

INDIAN police forced a thief to gobble down 40 bananas in a few hours, hoping they would force him to excrete a gold necklace he had snatched and swallowed.

 

Sheikh Mohsin, 35, grabbed the 45,000-rupee ($1300) necklace from a woman in the eastern city of Kolkata on Friday and popped it into his mouth when police and local residents caught him.

 

“He denied swallowing it at all, but an X-ray conducted in a hospital revealed the necklace was very much in his stomach,” Ajay Kumar, a leading city detective, told Reuters.

;)

Thief forced to eat 40 bananas | NEWS.com.au

[Eclogite]

Clearly the thief didn't give a ****.:confused:

[Michaelangelica]

The latest Australian stamp!:)

[Peregrine]

In our street the odd numbered houses can water on an odd date and evens on the evens... :phones: stumped me how they came up with that one!

 

I live in Delaware USA...we have had a dry summer...hardly any rain. We do the same thing here in the states....the odd even numbers alternate. They haven't asked us to conserve but I think it will be soon. We had this about 4 years ago but the rains finally came...so hoping only a temporary situation.

[Michaelangelica]

I think Sydney has that system.

 

We can't water at all.

Many area can't.

Quantity restrictions are next

 

Inland winter sown crops are dying.

 

71% of N.S.W. is "drought declared"

Whatever that means- I think if you are "drought declared' you may qualify for some government help

 

Now is the time to buy your Aussie farm before the bottom drops completely out of the USA $

 

Fortunately Banana farms are mostly tropical coast and they have been getting some rain and storms.