Seems having an aphid infestation in the elderberry bush has its benefits, lots of ladybirds. As well as wasps, but they are keeping to themselves mostly.

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Seems having an aphid infestation in the elderberry bush has its benefits, lots of ladybirds. As well as wasps, but they are keeping to themselves mostly.

(c) K Wicks
All of the following films mostly are mentioned in my article Timing, and The Machine of Time, but that was looking at the psychological aspect of it, partly at the mechanism and the themes of the films. This one is more for the mechanics behind the process and the method of ‘travel’ in each of them.
Bill and Ted – the ‘phone box’ being their time machine, dialling into the century you would like to go to, using technology to manipulate the streams of time.
Doctor Who – also with a phone box of sorts, but not machine. A living ship no less, which reminds of that random show a few years ago called Farscape, with a living ship.
Quantum leap – Al with his little keypad type thing called Ziggy, calculating the chances, the mission, the next leap. And the energy of Same would be transposed somewhere else, in someone else and in some other time. Random, but with purpose.
The Time Machine – a contraption to take the seated occupant to the future or the past. Being a witness and spectator to it rising and falling around you until you reach your destination.
Back to the Future – a car was used for this one, and was a great watch in its ‘time’. With extra hints at things that can happen when you meddle with time.
Harry Potter 3 – there was a watch, fitting piece of technology for its purpose, and the only one out of the lot to actually pick a timepiece, and with an extra layer, they had to return to the clock tower on the twelfth chime before the mechanism ‘wore off’. This one also being different as it showed the travellers being duplicated by this process and existing in more than one time simultaneously. The film looper also had a cross-over of timelines for the same person, another strange aspect to the idea.
All machines involved in the ‘journey’ forwards or backwards. But there are others, where it was an object and then mental projection that caused the time travel. Somewhere in Time, Weeping Angels (Dr Who episode) and The Butterfly Effect. So, are we only stuck in this time because we think we are? Mostly being taught that a) time travel as a reality is ridiculous and b) that you would need to build a machine to make it happen it if was possible. Such a ridiculous idea, that it gets mulled over again and again, as in the above stories and films, and surely too in the odd mind of a ‘scientist’, but also in the minds of people giving thought to times past and what is to come.
And this is where I will mention Chronesthesia again (having previously mentioned it in my article about Hyperphantasia, Chronesthesia being the name given to what they have called mental time travel. “In psychology, mental time travel is the capacity to mentally reconstruct personal events from the past as well as to imagine possible scenarios in the future”. I thought everyone did this, or at least could, but it turns out that is an incorrect assessment, and it varies greatly amongst the population. So, do we need a ‘machine’ at all I wonder, or is that we have built-in abilities for such possibilities that we almost can’t even accept them, let alone know how to access or harness them. Perhaps, or maybe we are just beholden to the straight, forward-facing line of time, only going one way and getting pulled along whether we like it or not. But maybe, just maybe, there is something else, behind the ‘face of time’, waiting for us to work it out…

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With the strawberry plants now spreading and back in force, thought I would try a strawberry leaf tea. And since the lemon balm has survived and needs trimming, added some of that too, and a few blueberries for colour.

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As well as trying to get better and more proficient in baking and making healthier food, I decided along the way to try and use other homemade things. It’s not just food and drink that goes into our systems, it’s what we also put on our skin. So, thought it might be useful to have alongside my MKW Recipes for food, that I should have a handy post for the cosmetics, as well as the one I already have for dandelion infused ones. As with the food one, i’ll add to this as I find new combos or ideas.
Handy Dandelion – for dandelion salve and moisturiser recipes
Mango Butter Moisturiser Recipe

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It’s an insidious chain like many other things, but people ask the question of why so many seem to blindly seek ‘help’ for what seems to be a basic thing. Whether it be health, finance, education, or safety. And like with many things, it’s not just repeated generational conditioning. It actually needed real physical steps to encourage, entice, and ultimately force people to do it.
“Why would people go to the doctor for a cold?” Was the question I saw, and in itself it’s not the question that made me think, it was the answer. Of needing a sick note for an employer (and another answer of wanting attention, but that’s a different kettle of fish). And there it was, the tie in. Many people wouldn’t go to the doctor for many things, which is why that probably started, or people knew how to remedy lots of things back in the days before big pharma. But for work purposes, and to be paid while off being ill they required that extra middleman to ‘sign off’ on it, by signing you off. Of course, they’ll blame people being dishonest first, saying it’s to prevent fraud or people taking the piss. But as we see today, mass fraud is and has been facilitated for the longest time in the bowels of the establishment. They just wanted you to judge each other, and grass up each other, and ultimately make you think ill of the people around you. Distracting you from what you should really be concerned about and who is actually taking the piss.
But it’s a well-laid plan and trap, and appears that many people have tried to avoid, side-step or completely ignore the intrusive policies and procedures that have crept into most aspects of daily life. From the start to the end of it, ‘from cradle to grave’ as is their mantra. Requirements for health checks, jabs, screening, tests, education, rules and regulations to put your children through before they are even tall enough to go on a fairground ride. Institutions to put them into and comply with, and if you notice the weirdness, or try to go your own way, well, they invent laws and monetary fines to deal with that kind of individual responsibility or thinking. For the masses anyway, a few slip through the net fortunately.
Then come the labels to divide people up even more, to then be able to break them down and put them into ‘programs’. Social ones, medical ones, education ones, and so on, until you upgrade to corporate and industrial ones. Funnelling people into groups and avenues they wouldn’t normally be subject to. And it all ties back to you having to go, cap in hand, to the authorities and ask for help at some point. Not to your family, neighbour, friend or community, no, they get in the way of needing extra authority assistance. So, that has been slowly destroyed too, separating people and their mindset. They want all your time being monitored and accounted for (banking, data and tax), your personal history and belongings to be recorded (social security number and insurance). Your health and ills, even wanting to monitor you when in good health, just for ‘check-ups’ and ‘routine screening’.
All making money for someone along the line, but it also gets you in the system and into the swing of ‘checking in’ with your overseer so they can keep tabs on you. And as we know, once you’re in, the Hydra works very hard to keep you. Systems of health, education, debt and finance, more rules, laws and regulations to make sure you need them. Or at least to think you do. All the while those systems make it so you need them, because if you didn’t need them they wouldn’t exist, right? Convincing people they need those systems is paramount. Through infantilising, trauma and consistent propaganda, they have made people believe it is for more than just convenience we accept how it is, it’s necessity. Because it now seems as though it is more than convenience, for many people truly seem to believe that without government and the authorities, people would be worse off. As they are meant to, but from what we see now, that couldn’t be further from the truth…

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