Inge Leonora-den Ouden

Burra Maluca wrote:

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote: I have very good hearing (was the result of the test), but if there's a lot of noise, I can't concentrate on what someone is saying. That's why I don't 'hear' it.
I already knew I had concentration problems (since my childhood). Maybe there are practices that can help me ...

I never realised it at the time, but when I was younger I had super-sensitive hearing and I could never hear a thing people said in a noisy environment.  Even these days when my hearing has deteriorated to being not much better than most people's ever were, I still prefer a very quiet environment.

I haven't been tempted to buy any yet, mostly because I'm such a hermit I don't think I could justify the expense for the number of times I'd use them, but I did stumble across some earplugs which claim to be able to filter out background noise whilst allowing speech to be heard clearly. Here's the link  - Loop Engage earplugs

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Thank you. Maybe someone will be interested to buy those. Not me. I have my own solutions for the problem. They do not always work, but it's okay.

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In my opinion 'it depends'. It all depends on why you have bad hearing (or eyesight). There can be so many different causes.

Some causes are in the inner ear itself, and even there, in those tiny thingies inside your head different things can go wrong. And then there can be something in the brain, or between the brain and the inner ear. And the cause of the bad hearing can be mental/psychical too!

What helps is at least as different as the causes too. A device or method that helps for one person can be ineffective/wrong for another person.

Not so long ago I accompanied a friend who went to an Ear Specialist. She asked me because she thought she might not hear everything the specialist would say. Okay, she didn't have to be afraid, the specialist was used to people with bad hearing and knew how to speak to them.
There I found out how it goes before you get a 'hearing aid' (device). There's a test first at the Audicien (Hearing Care Professional). Then you have to fill in questionaires. Then you go to the Ear (or ENT) Specialist. After some time you get your first hearing aid, but it is to try it out. Maybe you need a different one, or something needs to be adjusted. It takes time, and adjusting, to get good results from that device. You do not just hear better at the moment you put in that device.

With those tests and questionaires the Specialists get to know if your 'bad hearing' doesn't have a different cause, a cause that can't be helped with a 'hearing aid'. Like my problem: I have very good hearing (was the result of the test), but if there's a lot of noise, I can't concentrate on what someone is saying. That's why I don't 'hear' it.
I already knew I had concentration problems (since my childhood). Maybe there are practices that can help me ...

Hi. I posted several times in this thread.
I have been totally 'poo-less' (and soap-less') for many years. I'm sure it's over ten years, but don't know exactly.

The least two years I was growing my hair longer and longer. But I found out it became harder to 'wash' my scalp really clean under the shower. I have very thick hair.
Some days ago I finally made the decision: I want my hair short again. For the reason mentioned above, and more reasons.

So I went to the hairdressers, yesterday. She first cut off the ponytail. And then she started combing and deviding my hair in locks. She said it was hard to get the comb through, it was very fatty. Myself I never had problems with combing, but my wooden comb is not that fine.
Anyway: she cut it nice and short. See photo:  ...

... And then she started washing my hair! With shampoo!
I asked myself: what will this do to my hair and my scalp??? I hope it doesn't do any harm. At the other side it did feel 'nice and clean' and the shampoo had a good smell (like coconut).

I don't want to return to washing my hair weekly with store-bought shampoo. But maybe there is something I can make myself, from natural ingredients, to use when my scalp feels fatty or itchy?

John Weiland wrote:

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:.......They are very proud to have harvested peanuts last year ... for 10 jars of peanutbutter :-o

Perhaps the agricultural university in Wageningen could contract with Joseph Lofthouse to landrace-breed some peanuts for the Netherlands and like situations.  They could provide him with room, boarding fees, research plots and hired staff, free rail and automotive rental vouchers, ...... and a 15 year contract.  :-)  If he get's homesick for the mountains, a few excursions to the Scottish Highlands or Swiss Alps might ease the discomfort.... Ha!   I can't recall what seed source I used to try to grow peanuts outside of Fargo, ND.....it did not go so well and I did not stick with the attempts.

Joseph Lofthouse at Wageningen University? I think he'll be homesick much too soon. And the Alps or Highlands are too far away .... ;-)

... a name for this rock

Paul Rocks!

Welcome Tracy! (and Sean)

Those screens with dandelion leaves look like works of art

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The peanut strain developed for Netherlands climate would also be great to learn about.

What I found so far is disappointing. Some seed webshops sell peanuts for planting, but the info tells to grow them in pots, so you can put them indoors when it's cold. So those aren't special peanuts for this climate at all.
Then there are some reports on one farmer who is/was growing peanuts (next to potatoes and onions) in the south of the Netherlands. They are very proud to have harvested peanuts last year ... for 10 jars of peanutbutter :-o
I can't find anymore what I thought I saw before.

Not so long ago I read that there's now a cultivar of peanuts for growing in my climate (in the Netherlands). If I can find out where to buy these 'seed peanuts' (organic), I'd like to try them.
Then I can make peanut butter and 'peanut sauce' (from a Surinam or Indonesian recipe) from my own peanuts! <3

tuffy monteverdi wrote:I’ve always had a really hard time keeping indoor plants healthy.
I think it’s too dark in my current place (tho my previous places were not), but also I feel bad for them, not having real sun and outside air?

Are there plants that grow well indoors in north facing / tree covered windows?

Sure there are houseplants that don't want/need much light, f.e. all kinds of Epipremnum  (known as 'Pothos') and Monstera, both being plants originally from tropical rainforests. And ferns, like Nephrolepis and Adianthum.

I'm listening Pauls' most recent podcast. More than once he talks about 'walking onions' (and the boots in their BEL threads mention them too).
I ask myself: are those 'walking onions' they have in Montana the same species I have growing at the allotment garden? When I 'inherited' that allotment plot, the former two renters before me already applied Permaculture (in fact, the first one designed the garden as an example of a Permaculture garden, but he moved on to a different plot. The second one was more a lazy gardener who liked to 'let nature do its thing'). There were all kinds of interesting perennials. shrubs and trees growing there. One of these was a walking onion plant.
That one walking onion plant is still there. It had bulbils, which I planted. Where I planted them there's now one tiny plant growing. That isn't what I expected. I thought there would be many more walking onions now growing there. Did I do it wrong? Is the climate or the soil here wrong??? What can be the problem?