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Precisely. One could also then persuade the government to subsidise
the project as a new approach to sustainable transport - after all,
they don't seem to have any ideas that are even as plausible.

Got to be military before you have much chance of that.

See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/temp/halbritter/

There's a bit more - to go straight to the pics in question,

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/28.jpg
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/29.jpg

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Draven wrote:

Get a bigger and faster tortoise?

The bigger they are the slower they get. IME.

Be more imaginative. Get a Galapagos one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

There's a bit more - to go straight to the pics in question,

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/28.jpg
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/29.jpg

Thanks. Being on dial-up, I was disinclined to search the site,
useful as it looks. Those pictures are more like it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

There's a bit more - to go straight to the pics in question,

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/28.jpg
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/...britter/29.jpg

Thanks. Being on dial-up, I was disinclined to search the site,
useful as it looks. Those pictures are more like it.

I put them up on dial-up...

When I did that the main difference was that I included the cover and
just the two pics, linked. I'm going to put the whole book up, but for
copyright reasons I won't be linking it from my main page.

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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:39:08 +0100, pammyT thought a bit, then had this to
say:

Eat it yourself :0) It was brought over by the Romans as a food source.
When in Brittanicus, do as the Romans do .

We have lots of bindweed and didn't know it could be eaten by human beings.
How is it eaten - raw or cooked ?

AFAIK bindweed is poisonous to folk.

We were discussing ground elder.

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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:15:47 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades thought a bit, then
had this to say:

AFAIK bindweed is poisonous to folk.

We were discussing ground elder.

Thank goodness I asked then - phew! Thank you.

Some forms of Ipomoea are eaten in the Far East, and they are fairly
closely related. I suspect that bindweed would only give you mild
indigestion. The families to watch out for are the Solanaceae and
the Fabaceae/Leguminosae/Papilonaceae - the potato and pea families.
A good 50% of them are deadly, despite the fact that a huge number
of food plants belong to them.

Search for previous threads on black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) to
get seriously confused between what is a food plant and what is a
poisonous weed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Search for previous threads on black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) to
get seriously confused between what is a food plant and what is a
poisonous weed.

Or which parts of an allegedly poisonous plant are edible - and then -
is it manioc root? Poisonous, but the starch is extracted and used for
tapioca.

And the wild arum lily - I once tried a very small piece of a very small
leaf - and regretted it mightily - it felt as if my throat was closing
up, along with a burning sensation. But the starch is extracted from the
roots to make Portland sago.

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On 9 Jul 2005 14:08:16 GMT, Nick Maclaren thought a bit, then had this to
say:

Search for previous threads on black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) to
get seriously confused between what is a food plant and what is a
poisonous weed.

I will, thanks

Black nightshade fanciers should be aware that even well-boiled bottled
berries ferment and blow the bottles' lids unless a fair amount od sugar
is added. I now add some tartaric acid too.

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In article ,
Aries wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:15:47 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades thought a bit, then
had this to say:

AFAIK bindweed is poisonous to folk.

We were discussing ground elder.

Thank goodness I asked then - phew! Thank you.

Some forms of Ipomoea are eaten in the Far East, and they are fairly
closely related. I suspect that bindweed would only give you mild
indigestion. The families to watch out for are the Solanaceae and
the Fabaceae/Leguminosae/Papilonaceae - the potato and pea families.
A good 50% of them are deadly, despite the fact that a huge number
of food plants belong to them.

Also Apiaceae/Umbelliferae?

Search for previous threads on black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) to
get seriously confused between what is a food plant and what is a
poisonous weed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Draven wrote:

Get a bigger and faster tortoise?

The bigger they are the slower they get. IME.

Be more imaginative. Get a Galapagos one.
ITYM Galloping

In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

Some forms of Ipomoea are eaten in the Far East, and they are fairly
closely related. I suspect that bindweed would only give you mild
indigestion. The families to watch out for are the Solanaceae and
the Fabaceae/Leguminosae/Papilonaceae - the potato and pea families.
A good 50% of them are deadly, despite the fact that a huge number
of food plants belong to them.

Also Apiaceae/Umbelliferae?

Right. It doesn't seem to have the same density of poisonous plants
as the the two I mentioned, but isn't short of them ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

Some forms of Ipomoea are eaten in the Far East, and they are fairly
closely related. I suspect that bindweed would only give you mild
indigestion. The families to watch out for are the Solanaceae and
the Fabaceae/Leguminosae/Papilonaceae - the potato and pea families.
A good 50% of them are deadly, despite the fact that a huge number
of food plants belong to them.

Also Apiaceae/Umbelliferae?

Right. It doesn't seem to have the same density of poisonous plants
as the the two I mentioned, but isn't short of them ....

My goats used to like it too when I had goats. I understood from an old
book that it was useful in cases of diarrhoeah as it would help 'bind' the
motions.
Funny enouh the tortoise was indeed ill when I got him and he had
diarrhoeah so perhaps he knows what to eat which will help him?

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Funny enouh the tortoise was indeed ill when I got him and he had
diarrhoeah so perhaps he knows what to eat which will help him?

Creatures very often seem to. My goats used to go nuts for ivy if they
were unwell.

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