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right then...what is a lentil weaver? Your thoughts please

224 replies

Fillyjonk · 27/01/2007 16:52

Do you need to fondle crystals

or it is enough to just be obsessive about good nutrition?

is there a particular dress code?

is it inconsistant with a reasonable appreciation of science?

thoughts please

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Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:41

Step MIL also has a hand made statue of the mother goddess in her car for protection. That has to be worth 10 points

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:42

Peruvian knitware for children....10 points but minus 5 for the carbon footprint in importing them

TooTicky · 27/01/2007 21:42

No, Spidermama, yours is humbling. I can't imagine what that must be like but your presence of mind must have been great.

PinkTulips · 27/01/2007 21:43

whoops, sorry 397

maths was never my stong point!

WideWebWitch · 27/01/2007 21:43

lol, my dad congratulated me and told ALL HIS FRIENDS my periods had started in a 'celebration of being a woman' kind of way, I was mortified, I was only 11.

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:43

ROFL about the menstruation sweat lodge ceremoney MartianBishop. God the mortification. My dd is embarrassed enough that I sometimes sing in earshot of her friends. A seat lodge to celebrate her menstruation would scar her for life.

Though personally I can totally relate to it, naturally.

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:44

TT it was massively helpful for the grieving. It really worked and I was able to move on without resorting to crystals or charkra clearance.

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:45

My mother told all my aunties, and that was bad enoght. A group of aging amercan hippies making me dance with them, while tied to my mother would have had me retching with horror!

I'm not making this up honest!

I haven't got that twisted an imagination

PinkTulips · 27/01/2007 21:46

o wow... spider! that really is humbling.... that must have taken so much strength, i was always a gibbering wreck when i miscarried and i was never more than 6/8 weeks.

what did you kids think, did it help them to see it?

harpsichordcarrier · 27/01/2007 21:50

lololololol at the red cord ceremony

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:51

I believe you MB.

My dh always says I'm that type and that he saves me from extremism. I was in the tree top road protests in the 90s and Reclaimed the Streets etc. My dh is pretty straight in comparison so I often wonder how I would have turned out without his stable influence.

I still look on with intrigue yet stifling massive snorts when women in wode dance naked at festivals or chant in sweat lodges.

There but for the grace of gaia go I.

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:52

Since you are all amused I will elaborate.

Mother and daughter danced until the mother was too tired to dance any more. And then the cord was cut and the daughter danced on alone!

Cosmic maaaannnnnn

StepMIL is very nice, if rather wacky.

It took all my concentration not to LOL and say WTF when she told me this!

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:53

My kids were almost blase about it Pinktulips. My ds, who was 5 at the time, was really interested and wanted to have a close look. None of them was disgusted. They had a brief look then wandered off about their business.

harpsichordcarrier · 27/01/2007 21:53

Spidermama that's really interesting to read.
something very similar happened to me. It was actually a very lovely experience, especially compared to the grim hosptialised mc's I have experienced before. to be able to see and hold the sac, and show it to dh, and to bury it,was hugely comforting.

TooTicky · 27/01/2007 21:54

Mb, how did the daughter feel about it?

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:55

MB I wonder if she looks on in amazement when you talk about your sciency stuff thinking, 'Wow. Martianbishop is on another planet. Ah well. She's a nice woman and it takes all sorts'.

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 21:56

Absolutely Harpsi. It feels like the most natural thing.

I also had a MC in hospital which was grim. Perhaps that's what made me do the second one on my own.

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:56

Goodness knows, as she was raised a Mormon, before the family embrased the mother godess.

Seriously, I hope she had fun.

I'd have crawled under a rock if it had ben me!

Blandmum · 27/01/2007 21:57

Step MIL writes computer manuels for a living!

A curious mix. As I say very nice.

harpsichordcarrier · 27/01/2007 21:58

people are complicated aren't they?
and interesting

harpsichordcarrier · 27/01/2007 22:02

sorry, have killed it with my trite banalities

moondog · 27/01/2007 22:04

MB she sounds suspiciously like an American of my acquaintance who used to bus over to my house from uni (she was doing a PHD in Arthurian legends or some such folderol) to give me books of menstrual poetry.

Gaahh!!

PinkTulips · 27/01/2007 22:35

lol... it's good to know no matter how hippy i get there'll always be someone out there madder than me though

btw.. there's no mention of eco friendly laundry washing options on the list... i should get points for my soapnut

Spidermama · 27/01/2007 22:54

Yes. When you mention 'people more hippyish than me' I have vivid pictures of a handful of women I've seen at various events.

I'll never forget the long haired woman in her fifties. naked but for a necklace of fresh flowers and painted from head to foot in blue wode. (sp?) She was standing in front of a line of policemen as they stood at the edges of a Reclaim the Streets event in Hammersmith, dancing slowly and waving her arms around them.

I always remember her when I'm checking myself for unacceptable levels of lunacy.

chopchopbusybusy · 27/01/2007 23:25

10 points for ownership of rooboscihssadlj tea. 0 - can't stand the stuff

10 points for each other obscure tea in house 70 - at least DH is a collector

10 points if you have ever cooked with millet 10

10 points if you have ever cooked anything you grew yourself 10 -but does each item count? eg courgettes, chillies, peppers, potatoes, coriander, mint, basil, strawberries, raspberries, plums, apples 110

30 points for each placenta buried 0 Yeuchh! happy for the hospital to put it in hazardous waste thank you very much

20 points for extended bfding or desire thereof (crap happens) 20

20 points if you know what BLW stands for

10 points for mooncup use and extra 15 if bought from franny 0 thanks to mirena - no need very big

20 points if you have made a wnaky basket (NB for Newbies, that is what Cod calls a Treasure basket) 0

10 points if you carried your baby round in a sling past 6 weeks old 10

10 points if you favour natural fibres 10 (at least theoretically)

20 points if you make your own anything (clothes/bread/wall hangings from pubic hair) 20,

10 points if your children will eat quinoa 10

10 points for using washable STs 0

30 points for using menstrual stock to water the plants 0 Noooo! that is just taking it to extreme

*75 points for a lotus birth 0

80 points for cooking the placenta ( 20 bonus points for getting non family members to eat it)* 0 - just no comment

10 points if you are vegetarian (save for said placenta eating) 10

20 point if your whole immendiate family are also vegetarian - 20

10 points if you subscribe to alternative eco/green/earth magazines 10

10 points if you belong to Greenpeace (and an extra 10 if you have been on a protest march} 0

40 for any home educating credentials

25 for any other alternative education tendancies 0

15 for the belief that Natural is Best even in the face of all evidence 0

Hmm - 300 quite lentilly methinks - but I also allow my children to drink diet coke and FRUIT SHOOTS - deducts 300 points and slinks towards the back of the room in shame.