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Littlestone Jan 26, 2006 17:01:14
Replying to moss

And don't forget the wabbits that damage everything (nice avatar by the way :-)

Talking about wildflowers, one day I'll rekindle an old interest in herbs and edible mushrooms. The Koreans got me going on it yonks ago. A trip into the mountains with an old Korean lady years ago resulted in a basket of weird but indescribably yummy mushrooms and succulent leaves that she 'chillied up' later for dinner. Remember her crashing about in the undergrowth before emerging with two very purple and very evil looking little mushrooms. With a big grin on her wrinkled old face she said, "These monk's mushrooms. We have in soup tonight." Needless to say when said soup was served I told her to go first :-) After a discrete and cowardly wait of five minutes or so I took the plunge on the soup - gotta be one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted. The Koreans are the great herbalists of the Far East; like the Irish they've have had it tough from their dastardly neighbours but have come through with a great sense of humour and optimism.

Damn... seem to have gone completely OT again...

C cropredy
cropredy Jan 26, 2006 22:12:33
Replying to Littlestone

Seeing as it is you that has done the subverting.
If you really want to find mushrooms, or toadstools, take a pair of dowsing rods with you, they KNOW even better than the trees, where the most energy is, they live precisely in line with the earths energy.
The trees are capacitors, able to use this energy, they flourish on it, use your brains and think where you see lots of trees, stop trying to put people like me down and think, naturally sewn trees seem to germinate precisely in line and where there is an abundance of energy, hence the yews in church yards.
K.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jan 27, 2006 16:22:55
Replying to Littlestone

Just stumbled on this which may be of interest to museum and gallery lovers.

As of October 2005 South Korea now has a new museum in Seoul that looks pretty impressive.* Also worth a visit if you're in that neck of the woods is the amazing museum of Chinese art in Shanghai. Flying time from Osaka, Japan, is only a couple of hours to either city so Osaka (or Kyoto) is a good base to explore some of the finest museums and art galleries of the Far East (food's fantastic too :-)

* http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20051215a1.htm

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20051215a1.htm