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Thanks loads Deb, it’s always exciting when bulbs start sticking their little noses through the soil, winter aconite is my favourite around here.

Iv’e googled and I’m in the equivalent of zone 8b. I’m in the UK so we tend to talk in terms of up north, down south and in the middle as the UK is so tiny!

Yes, I’d love to know what you think would grow successfully in pots but also what your favourites are, what you wouldn’t want to live without in your life.

It’s only my 3rd year of growing but I just have to grow peas even if they don’t provide masses of food by volume as eating podded peas in the garden is one of my favourite things in life. I’ve always loved courgettes even though lots of people seem to think they’re boring, Bianca Di Trieste was a revelation, I’d never eaten a creamy courgette before, when roasted with cheese and walnuts. I grew just one tiny blackcurrant bush in a pot last year and made the most amazing cordial. And I grew Fat Baby Achocha last year which I hadn’t heard of before. The slugs don’t eat it, it seems to endure all weathers, grows for miles and produces loads of pods that taste like a cross between green beans and green bell peppers!

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Oh yes, great!! My taste in music is crazily diverse and I was a metal/rock/hardcore d.j for a long time, amongst other projects. I especially like the second track. You may have to get Barre to formulate an AV product for your vocal cords!

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I love being introduced to new music. I’ve heard of Big Wreck but never knowingly listened to any so just had a little YouTube binge, a kind of Manic Street Preachers meets Soundgarden meets U2 thing going on. They obviously mean a lot to people looking at some of the sweet comments below the videos. I can see why this track is your fave, I was already singing it second time around. I like a good husk in a voice! I listened to some Thornley as well, Easy Comes was good.

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Cool, thanks ?

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Hey @alfawarrior is it okay to share music from YouTube in here, or would there be copyright issues or something?

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For kids (and grown-ups), if you’ve not seen it already, My Neighbour Totoro. Japanese wood spirits, organic veg, cat buses…..totally magical!

https://images.app.goo.gl/r9RC4Zdwmwhx2Vrt5

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Thanks again @barre for your wise words, I knew you’d come at it from a totally different, extended angle. I’m here to pick up on my studies from where I left it a while ago so this is fantastic. I really wish that you’d written The Great Big Book of Barre but as you haven’t I’m picking up snippets here, there and everywhere from your videos. A year ago your reply may have been a foreign language but I’m now pretty much at least aware of everything that you’ve just mentioned so it’s exciting.<div>
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And @amber.lansford thanks for being so open and revealing so much of your path so far. Like I said, I feel slightly embarrassed that I’ve kind of done this to myself, especially as my role used to be to help people get well, but I was a work machine and what happened in my life forced me into a survival mode. These suggestions are inspirational seeing as you’ve used them yourself. I think I follow Melissa Sell on Telegram already and the GNM idea has just made me stop and think for a minute; I think I’m angry at my legs, it’s been so long and I feel that they’ve stopped me fulfilling all my life potential and I’m bursting with potential. It’s not very helpful being angry at your own body. I’m mind blowingly frustrated and could never understand why they didn’t just get better. But there’s so much more to it than nutrition and herbal medicine so maybe the door’s opening again. A huge thankyou!

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Hi, this an old one. Even though I worked in the music industry for decades and had access to masses of wonderful music this album is one that I always go back to. I played it constantly the summer/autumn I was working on a coastal bird reserve before I went up to uni. It’s not a “come on people, let’s get fired up” sort of album but is more of a quiet, internal inspiration album; I associate it with finding yourself, being close to nature, emerging, authenticity. Talk Talk went on to produce more experimental and much respected music but, for me, this is the special one.<div>

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Thanks @PennyJuniper I’ve passed everyone’s advice onto him, this is a very kind group ?

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@barre Thankyou so much for such a speedy reply, he’s been in so much pain today that we had to pull the car over because he couldn’t change gear. We’ve located some and it’s arriving tomorrow! I love linden trees, we head over to The Westwood early July every year just so that I can sniff the linden trees, the combination of the scent of the blossom and the sound of thousands of bees buzzing is glorious. And @Suzanne he has been under a large amount of time deadlines and physical stress these last three weeks, mainly down to my life and his being so kind, hopefully he can just chill now.

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Hi @elin.carlson I’m just throwing in my twopenn’orth as it’s half five in the morning and I can’t sleep though I’m sure Barre will get back to you with a more eloquent and enlightening reply. I read/heard David Icke talk about interacting with the world with your heart rather than your head or your gut and I’ve been trying it out. You instantly slide out of your racing head into the same place but a different place. It’s just calmer and sort of love like and clear and wiser if that makes sense. I don’t know if that’s part of it. I started looking at a St. Germain book in the resources on here last night as well. It’s hard to read on my little phone but, as I remember, it was talking about learning to live within/project your own light. It would be great to have a channel on all this. Barre talks about tiny bits here and there in Alfacasts and interviews and has had a very interesting life that seems to have unfolded upon a particular path or that’s how it comes across. Other people like David Icke and Dr.Christopher the herbalist seem to have had similar “unfolding” lives though I don’t really like commenting about Barre cos it’s only me putting bits together! I felt my life unfolded on an unusual but kind of destined path until I had my accident. If you look back to when you were a kid you often have had experiences that you’ve just put in a box. I can remember leaving my body, and recurring levitation dreams, and an amazing feeling of being tiny and insignificant but enormous and an important part of absolutely everything all at the same time. It was a beautiful feeling that I never have any more and I miss it. I used to have it on the beach or staring at the night sky. It’s hard to put all these things into words but I wonder if it’s part of what Barre was talking about?

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Thanks so much Barre for such a thorough comment, it’s much appreciated. I do actually know someone who practises some form of kinesiology so she may be able to point me towards the right person.

And Amber, sending a big hug back across the pond to you too! ?

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Thanks loads Mike and Amber ? I’ll definitely look into the PEMF tech and Amber I was really inspired by your story in the intro. section. I’m usually very private but I kind of splurged and I think you’ve got to be open and to maybe give a bit of yourself to create a genuine community and this feels like a comfortable place to do so. Bodies are amazing and life, whatever it is, is amazing. I’ve started with what I know and have begun a major dietary overhaul though we’ve had our first snow and the Christmas market season has started so I’ve had to have some mulled wine and mince pies! Keep us up to date with your progress Amber ? x

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I just want to thank everyone for the info. on this thread. I’ve been on crutches for almost 15 years and am now having to be pushed in a wheelchair as well. I slipped on black ice (because I was stupid enough to dress up one night for work and was wearing ballet pumps!) after work one night and fractured my spine and broke my arm. I was back at work within 6 weeks but 18 months later was going downstairs in a hurry and my knee bent completely the wrong way. I was self-employed so carried on thinking it was just a bit of pain and went walking miles across the Moors looking for “the Blue Man in the Moss”! About 8 weeks later my knee completely gave way leaving me hanging on a bush, swelled up like an elephant and I ended up being off work for 6 months! When I could eventually get around but the knee prevented normal walking a physio said my knee wasn’t tracking properly. Exercises didn’t help much so her boss referred me to surgery where I was diagnosed by MRI with a meniscus tear and then eventually osteoarthritis and told I needed a knee replacement but that I was too young which they’ve now been saying for about 12 years. I put on loads of weight and literally became chair shaped!!! I now have problems with both legs and my left shoulder. My last physio said he couldn’t help me so signed me off. I’ve researched online and found exercises that have helped a tiny bit (but they always concentrate on just one area rather than relating it to a full picture) and Bowen Therapy used to be useful but my practitioner moved to Ecuador! Even though I have knowledge in other areas and have helped a lot of people on their health journeys I think I labelled myself ignorant about structural stuff, even though everything is connected, and I’ve discovered in my own body experience how strengthening other areas of the body (chair gardening) helps my knees and balance slightly. I actually joined AV because I have so much more I want to learn in general rather than thinking it might help me personally. I saw this athletics and fitness group, thought it might be very “sporty” but decided that if I lurked in a corner I may pick up the odd snippet of info useful to my knee etc. It’s kind of bizarre but wonderful that it’s actually opened with the dream thread for my situation. I’ve always ignored my body and dragged it along as long as my head was working but I’m now being nudged to deal with myself first and my head is whirring as the information you’ve all shared is sending me off into some new exciting areas of research. A very BIG thankyou!!

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