Category: Garden

I think Jesus is going to do something very wonderful.

1/24/2017

I began to get vey worried before Christmas about that ice sheet in Antarctica shearing off. I was worried because it would slow down or stop the Atlantic gyre. Also that I have lovingly with Gods help planted and grown Five large olive trees in my garden.

I felt God wanted me to buy these sick and choked up Olive trees, and learn how to get them better, so we can grow our own Olives. I was horrified and have chatted to God a lot about climate change, and then asked him how my trees will survive such harsh winters if the world where I live became so cold in winter.

My Olive trees are doing fine and in faith I have not covered them, nor mulched them up with garedening fleece, as it is costly, and the trees should be fine down to minus 10 degrees without protection. Below that I think I would lose them.

strangely I have self seeded parsley a lovely herb to have in winter self seeded coming up. They did catch a frost some mornings but soon perk up during the day. I used some last night.

I have been watching the weather patterns, they are amazing to say the least.

I asked God, in the name of Jesus to protect us from harsh weather. I have also asked God in the name of Jesus to rejoin that deep rift in the ice in Antarctica, re-freeze the Arctic, and sort out that permafrost. I thought melting permafrost would release a lot of greenhouse gas.

I want us all to survive. I want us all to value one another and be good neighbours to each other.

I want all of Gods Creation, and his Creative Process to be honoured and valued.

This is my prayer for me, and for you if you are reading.

May you be truly blessed in the knowledge and power of God,

And come to know a personal relationship with God, through the loving sacrifice that Jesus made, so we could come to our Heavenly Father as co-heirs with Jesus Christ.

May you also be filled with the Spirit of the Living God, Who revealed himself through Jesus and The Prophets, so that you are equipped to live a life that is full of praise and wonderment each day.

For the mighty and wonderful work he does in this world, and in each and every one of us who chooses to follow a path of peace for his names sake.

May you be blessed richly in love and reassurance of His wonderful plan.

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Still snivelling

3/18/2012

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It hasn't been very sunny weather the last couple of days. I was still sleeping too much, I suppose to be honest I still didn't feel brilliant. Today has been a real Jersey Sunny Day, and spent the afternoon digging about in the Garden. We have both been out there. My Husband pruning, and cutting back hedges, and I got that third raised bed finished.

I am going to put the pictures of my scruffy raised beds on the mad gardening blog page. I think they look more like a fly tip at the moment, but if the seeds I put in actually grow perhaps they won't look so bad.

There is a hopefulness about growing things. An expectancy of success tinged with a sort of anxiety that I haven't got a clue what I am doing. Most of my seeds were out of date or going to be within a few months so I just chucked the lot in. I just thought if they do come up I can thin them out.

I am going to grow all the salad stuff in growbags. That was realy easy last year. Also It was easy to do the succession bit by starting a new growbag about every three to four weeks. I just grow all the salads on a cut and come basis. I put the last years growbags on top of the ground I cleared for the raised beds and planted into them. I suppose I should stop chuntering on about my gardening efforts here and put up the picture I just took of the fly tip on the mad gardening blog.

Got a lovely small pork joint in on slow roast, I will crackle up the crackling once it's cooked through. I just can't help thinking about other people who are suffering war and famine in the back of my mind, when we have such a life of solitude and peace.

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Jesus and The Red Cow.

7/5/2011

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I have been following Reb Jeff's blog. I feel a bit of a scoundrel really. I can't help myself getting involved and chirping bits in. It's just that I find it very inspiring, thought provoking, and a good challenge.

I feel very secure in my 'Christian' perspective, which is pretty dangerous. The thing that always strikes me as bizarre is how far Christian exegesis has divorced itself from the Torah, and the Jewish exegesis, which frankly is far more interesting. It resonates with me anyway.

I have only started skimming the surface, I think I feel a bit like that Fish Eagle in the last post. To get the Fish Eagles to come, you throw bait out from the boat that attracts the Seagulls. When the Fish Eagles spot the Seagulls in a feeding frenzy, they come and see what the fuss is. Then the big fish are thrown out for the Eagles. They are a bit too big for the Seagulls, so the Fish Eagles swoop for them. Clever for the tourist's enjoyment! So I guess to follow that allegory through I am being a tourist!

Anyway I am savouring my 'Reflections on Exodus'. I was in pages 454 to 456 last night. So much going on... I am writing in the margins which is most unlike me! It is in pencil though.

I got myself involved in Reb Jeff's; 'Red Cow' post. It has been syphoning it's way through my mind for a few days now. It struck me this morning that many of the things that seem to make a Jewish person ritually unclean are 'services' performed for others. Like laying out dead bodies.

It's just I did something bizarre over the last week. I attacked this very neglected border in the garden. The wierd thing was that during this week of digging, sifting earth and re-planting, I only took one shower. Well, I wash and iron the sheets, and I took the shower because I was going out!

The interesting thing was, i got used to being filthy. It didn't kill me! The bath I took when the job was done was a joy. Full scrub down with Dead Sea Salt and Greek refined Olive Oil first, washed that off with some home made soap that gets all the dirt out of fingers and toes, and emulsifies the oils in the bath. Showered that off and cleaned the Bath, then had a second bath with the Rose and Geranium, and a final scrub with the Dead Sea Mud exfoliator and a shower down after. Watered the plants with the water.

Put the sheets in to wash first, got them on the washing line between first and second bath, then ironed them and made the beds again when I was clean. So this was a getting filthy, and getting clean ritual over about five days! Phew!

I also got rather foul mouthed as I was exhausted, frustrated, felt filthy, and couldn't believe how much I hated doing this job. Still it's done. Thankfully I have a Husband who allows me to have tirades and tantrums. I got very 'blameful' that there wasn't anyone who could help me. My Husband is a Saint. Just kept me fed, and generally stayed away as much as possible. He was incredibly helpfull when press-ganged into assistance as well.

What's the point? not sure really! Somehow sifting the ground I was meditating and mediating on all these differences of perspective. Something is making me like this. It's as though something has been dug up that reminds me of a trauma. Something that I feel very connected to but can't name. Something that involves a huge obligation, yet the extant of which is buried in some kind of subconcious subterrainian oblivian. I also feel that this is a physical artefact.

My Husband is a Blue Badge Guide, and does a lecture on the German Occupation in Jersey.
A guest collector that has many artefacts belonging to Hitler, Eva Braun, and the Generals, passes these artefacts to the tourists on this lecture tour to handle. The thought of this makes me feel sick.

It's as though this feeling of sickness is amplified. It feels like something obscenely relevent to me has been 'dug up'. Like a memory of something has been disturbed, and someone has handled an artefact that has triggered a response. Yet it's something I need to 'digest'. Like eating the dust from my border, having it in my head, nails, feet, and festering in all the little scratches from the roses.

This morning it occured to me that The Red Cow, that Reb Jeff describes is a very interesting allegory when placed in the context of The Ressurection of Jesu.

When The Red Cow ritual was done, it was the person who swept the ashes up very carefully who was made ritually unclean. This is the 'service for others' aspect of the process. It wasn't the Red Cow Ashes themselves which had some kind of 'magic making clean' properties, it was the sacrifice of the person who was prepared to touch the 'Ashes of Sorrow' for others, when in a state of God Given Grace.

The 'Ashes of Sorrow' mediated their 'Cleansing' by one person's Grace who was prepared to 'Touch' and visit death for others. Even if it was done by casting lots for the Red Cow ashes, it was done by choice and an acceptance of this bitter cup by Jesus.

To the many who would not 'touch' the object of abject abhorrance, preferring to delegate and thereby remaining 'untouched' and 'ritually clean' perhaps the paradox is that they remain fixated in a systematic cycle of repetitive avoidance of a truth, that is only truly accessed by assimilation.

Perhaps when we view artefacts, we must remember that Moses made the Israelites drink the burned and ground down golden calf. 'The Bitter Cup'. No artefact can be divorced from our desire for 'proof'. Yet what 'proof' are we attaching to the artifact? What significance? Would most artefacts then simply be a voyeristic curiosity?

In a similar vein to the Golden Calf we collect artefacts, or make them and attach significance to them. Having done some Orthodox Iconography is good for my understanding. This ensures that an object as viewed in it's mediation capacity, not as an object of 'Worship' in itself. Reverence for something 'Holy', is about the understanding the object evokes.

When I think of something like the Turin Shroud, and the headcloth, which i am satisfied are both authentic, I see them as the last and First remaining artefacts to be in contact with the 'Body of The Risen Christ'. All other artefacts such as the mythic 'Holy Grail', bits of wooden cross or nails that may or may not be 'real', are all a bit spurious. I get the feeling there are too many of them floating about, and I also don't like the fact that they were used for commercial purposes throughout Christian history. (Get a good relic to draw the pilgrims!).

So where do the Red Cow and Jesus come together? For me, Jesus was crucified so that i can enter into this crucifiction with Him. To be cruicified to my own passions and desires. This is an ongoing process for me. Each time I am visiting His crucifiction, I am redeemed in new Ressurection with Christ.

In Christianity, we partake of the Bread, which symbolises the crucifiction of self - to become selfless, as Christ became self-sacrificed and selfless on the crossed purposes of others misunderstanding.

I suppose in Greek thought, that's the passions and desires of the flesh. Even this is not right, because we are not 'flesh' and 'spirit'. I prefer to think of myself as 'Spirit Fleshed Out'. How can one drink a cup of wine, without the cup? Even straight from the bottle with a clever spout, it still needs to be fermented and contained! Perhaps a reference to Jesus' first miracle of turning water into wine, is that the water did not undergo the process of fermentation. It was instantly wine. It did not become wine until it was drawn from the containers to be served.

The Wine of Christian sacrement, symbolises the new life that flows into our lives through God giving His Spirit, into the cavities of 'death to self'. The renewal of our bodies and minds, the indwelling of God's Spirit in our lives. The symbolic 'Blood of Christ' that courses in the veins of every Saint. (By the way, the definition of a Saint is; a very good Sinner).

Well, very high minded but unless this is a living reality within a person, which is a painful traumatic process of letting go, and discovering anew, scoffing some bread and a sip of wine is a bit of lip service!

However, when something touches our lips, and we digest it there is also an elemental faith that this, even if not ever fully comprehended has fed and nourished that which we do comprehend.

I found two old Horse shoes in my border, and broke the toepiece of my Sketchers sandles. I spent £55 quid to buy a new pair of Fit Flops. Then I rescued the old Sketchers from the dustbin and decided to have a go at sticking them together with No More Nails! I could do with a scruffy pair for the garden, and keep the new sparkly ones for going out... sometime.

Nope, the Horse shoes are a reminder that life was very different when a man ploughed an acre a day with a Shire horse. Although these are not Shire shoes because they aren't big enough. The broken sandle? A reminder that my Dad stuck new soles on our shoes. They were good leather our shoes, and worth TLC and new soles. I just got brought up like that.

What is wonderful, is that right at this moment of finishing here... My Husband tells me it has started to rain!

Thank God, we haven't had rain for weeks, and I used up half the water in my underground cystern to get to this point! Another thought is that I had to use the water in the cystern, before it could be replenished. A full cystern will not contain more water. So the pouring out of oneself is the very process by which God can move in a person or a situation in a new way.

I did just check up on Red Cows. Apparantly there was a 'nearly red cow' a few years back in Israel. It seems very sad that in order to build a new Temple, that will undoubtedly cause terrible repercussions a little red cow is needed for slaughter. I kind of think this misses the point of the Golden Calf episode.

Surely with the history of exiles, learning that God doesn't need a Temple to be worshipped in heart and mind, and that one's home and family is where God's Temple resides are the lessons to learn from the history and exegesis of Old and New Testaments. I kind of think that if all that Red Cow stuff has to be done in order to build a Temple fitting for God's return the concept is a bit back to front.

I think getting a Temple built in trust that God will provide the sacrifice, is probably the more sensible way of doing things. Perhaps the Temple itself has become the 'Golden Calf', the desire to return to old ways and former 'glory'.

If I am picking all this up from the internet, am able to follow Reb Jeff's weekly posts and dwell on them, and post my own comments in 'my own bit of back yard', perhaps the real Temple is the worldwide thought sharing machine we are accessing right now. A virtual Temple.

I almost feel if a new Temple was built in Jerusalem it would be a Circus. Trying to emulate and recreate the whole antiquarian worship structure, with all it's power struggles, Fancy clothes and ritualistic worship, burning of animals, re-instating what exactly? There are enough people mourning over the loss of the last Temple, you don't think someone would have a go at blowing up the new one if it got built? What then... Global Neuclear War no doubt!

Why not just build the tent version and send it round the world to everybody in the Diaspora? The great idea would be to teach about it, re-enact the whole Moses story, get the kids involved and generally have a good time with everyone else. I would want a ticket!

My Husband and I went to Oberammegau last August, it was sensational. The standard of production, the dedication, the commitment, and such a great atmosphere was an unforgettable experience.

Jesus was, and is Jewish through and through. He is the Red Heifer. The one who touched and tasted death, to redeem those who were and are 'unclean'. No matter how hard I scrub to get the dirt off the outside, only God knows my heart and mind. I let Him decide if I am fit for His purpose. He will either use me or lay me aside, raise me up or cast me into the depths. It's all the same when nothing can separate me from the love of God, or more importantly, God's love for me.

Just so everyone knows where I stand on this at this moment in time, Jesus of Nazareth, born of Mary, (regardless of immaculate conception as I think this is a red herring and smacks of getting mixed up with other forms of deistic thinking), walked among us as the Spirit of God incarnate. Took a lot of slapping about on our behalf, got the fullest endorsement from God at the Transfiguration to go get himself sacrificed so that the whole world (The Created Order) could be redeemed.

Pinned to the Cross, Jesus of Nazareth became the Messiah of Judaism. In the same way that Moses was placed in a cleft in a rock in a cave so that there was nothing left but 'go through with it'.

In Ressurection Jesus of Nazareth became The Christ of Christianity.

The wonderful thing about The Ressurection is that it completely blows away the whole idea of needing 'relics' and 'ashes'. There just aren't any!

I feel better now I got this off my chest!

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Been Busy doing everything but what I 'should' be doing!

6/14/2011

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I am the master of procrastination. Spent the morning on my friends picture... again!

Then I decided to move the strawberries. I have wanted to build a tower for them for years now. well today was the day.

I will post it to the gardening blog tomorrow. The dog was hovering about and snatching even the green strawberries, the little bandersnatch!

I actually used two large plastic tubs that the chemicals come in for our water treatment. I built it so I can add the next tub when it's empty.

Once the strawbs are moved I can put a raised bed in their place. I have some sad whitecurrant bushes that should have been planted last year to go in that plot.

I have been giving Tuppeny Bear and Penny Lion's next adventure a lot of thought. We have to get Tuppeny counting up to ten!

Sweet dreams and peaceful rest, it's bedtime ...

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Well here goes, the full random natural nature of my brain!

5/10/2011

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Since getting mildly interested in looking at the Jewish perspective on God, I started reading an excellent modern commetary by Aviva Gotlieb Zornberg (hope I spelt this correctly because I left my books in France, obviously needed a break as I was getting pretty spaced out). I started reading these after finding Reb Jeff's blog on Jewish Joy.

Then the dreams, and the recognition started. I have never realy looked at the Jewish alphabet, or their commentaries before.

I also hadn't seen, or hadn't wanted to see the Seriphot diagrams. Well the last couple of months have been a bit mind blowing. The whole thing sent me manic! Probably why I tend to stay well clear of too much of the esoteric stuff. It makes me difficult to live with.

First dream was the inside out Ark of the covenant, and then worked out the equasions and dimensions from the Bible account of setting up the Tabernacle.

Then started digging around in some of my previous sermons, thankfully I have a few that were saved to a memory stick. The Hovis sermon I just remembered. (With some help from Lovejoy).

Then lots of little snippets, just things like birdsong, (and their flying) thoughts, seeing things, doing things.... everything.

When I was re-organising the green house yesterday I disturbed a huge ant nest. Full of lovely large white eggs. I like ants in the greenhouse, because they also keep the aphids under control. Besides I realy like Ants! I was horrified to think I had disturbed their home. So I thought about it, then decided to put some grass at the bottom of a huge growing tub, (so they wouldn't fall out of the holes at the bottom) and carefully swept all the earth and eggs and ants up with a dustpan and brush. There were loads of them trying to crawl up the wall, and then they were falling off back to the ground, so I swept up the ones on the wall too. Then put them all in the tub until I could put them back.

When I put them in the tub they were completely off their heads about having their fairly flat universe turned into a bucket! One of them bit me on the hand, so I brushed it off into the bucket and within a few minutes they were all quietened down, and hiding in the earth. Pretty amazing!

I got all the path prepared, then made sure the flagstones had enough gap underneath to take the ants again. Then carefully put the earth in the bucket under the new path! Had to spead them out. The Ant's know their eggs from their smell, so they will have to reorganise looking after them in their new locations. Ants are pretty amazing.

Then I got bitten on the bum. Unfortunately by the time I got hold of the little critter he was a bit squashed, so I had to end him.

Well that was Fun...

Now earlier in the morning the (Esteemed) Husband was trying to mow the field without picking up the long grass he had mown on the previous Wednesday. It has rained heavily since and it was rotting on top, wet and cloggy, and he couldn't mow his meadow!

So the only thing to do was rake all the Grass up. Never in a million years would (Esteemed) Husband put his hand to this, so I did it.

Never waste a good moment to sort out your head!

I realised about half way through doing this I had better stay in 'the zone'. I was working out where all those Hebrew letters are placed around the Universe. They are also co-ordinates in a space-time/sub atomic relationship.

They also have corresponding co-ordinates on the Earth. Look for rocks that have a high degree of quartz like this one!

So how do I know this...

Because I have a smokey quart's crystal that I decided to take for a visit to some standing stones!

The first time I gave it an outing it cleared considerably in colour, and the very tip of it became crystal clear.

It also gave me one of it's crystals, and set it into the top of my quartz.

The next time I took it to visit it's friends, the whole quartz changed shape on one side, so that it can now fit into the wooden stand in two positions.

One position on it's lateral axis, and one position on it's vertical axis. (It has a golden coloured 'schism' through it). You only need the energy vibrations not the actual crystal! By the way I would like my 'Sun' glass back!

Actually it can stay in never never... I started painted a whole new set a couple of weeks ago! See at the bottom of this post.

Anyway, I did a similar thing about a month ago during a wierd ceromony at home. I used objects and icons and set them out in a kind of wierd trance on the coffee table. During this time I was burning incence from Ettal Monastary in one of those stoneware cup things.

I was already on my third lump of charcol... Surprising how much incence I used, but there was no smoke in the house! Guess God must have been snaffling it all! I had the bowl rested on a lump of rose quartz to stop it from burning a hole in anything.

Anyway, I was in this trance like state, and picked up the bowl! Now these things get hot! Only it wasn't hot at all. So I put it on my left palm, and put my right on under it, and made a circle in front of the coffee table 'Alter' anticlockwise, Then swapped it over and did it the other way round with my right hand. actually I am not sure which way round I did this because I was pretty spaced out.

It just started to feel hot at the end, so I put it down quick!

I took photos of the layout once the 'ceremonial' aspect of it was finished. It was important to take them from compass points, except for two, which must be just off East.

I think that the layout of St Mary de Hura Church in Sussex is what all those Rosslyn Chapel people should be looking at. The East Trancept fell down, but the stone is still there in the churchyard. Bet there are some plans of it somewhere!

Actually I loved being a Shepherd, because we actually got beards stuck on with gum. They were fun to pull off, but we had to get wiped with spirit to clean up properly.

Thanks to Patric Moore, had the privilege of meeting him as a child. Got a nice picture of me as the Angel Gabriel in the Sunday School Nativity thanks to Him!

I am not sharing any of those 'ceremonial' photos, because they are very private!

I took pictures all over the garden to make sure I got the co-ordinates of my grass mounds before my Husband cleared them up!

I can't get this picture to load if I turn it around, so it can stay like this!

Ho hum.... better think about getting my accounts up to date so I can get closure on this years Tax.

The Seriphot diagram and spiritual practice is probably also a port-hole matrix.

Well that's a load off my mind!

It's a set of eight glasses given to us by a dear friend.

My Husband didn't like them untill I painted them!

I made one for me with just the Sun and a wavy pattern underneath it, so I can drink any color wine out of it.

My favorite wine is a Cellier des Templiar rose which is what I made the glass for!

My Husband likes Red wine, so His has his name on it.

The other six are all different but have this basic symbol below in various forms.

Noy going to bother turning this one round either or I will be here till doomesday waitng for it to load...

Well, I need to get other things done so I'm off

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Had a Great 'Liberation Day' in the Garden today!

5/9/2011

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My Husband and I got into sorting out some Gardening. Heres a nice couple of pictures of two lovely little pansies that have seeded themselves outside our door. It always amazes me how little plants find something to cling on to...

Then I noticed the stamens on the right flower wiggling about in a wierd way, so I got closer...

What a lovely thing to be able to do!

Very exotic flower!

Very intoxicated Ant!

Hoefully we will get some more of these, I must keep an eye on them and watch for them to go to seed.

This is what my greenhouse looked like this morning. I had a slight mishap falling off a Horse and slightly cracked my sacral bone, and whacked a few other spinal bits too, (about eighteen months ago), so I didn't do any gardening at all last year.

I dug out a trench path a couple of years ago, It worked realy well except all the plants on the right side don't get enough light, so I decided to move the path.

This is as far as I got today, because I was helping my Husband as well!

That patch of tall weeds in the background is my veg plot!

It has been left to it's own devices for 2 years! I do have some very nice globe artchokes in it that will be ready to start eating next week.

I also got one perfect Asparagus shoot a couple of days ago! I cut it in four and steamed it for about a minute, and made a quiche for lunch and proudly decorated the quiche with it!

It was perfect!

The srawberries are doing well, they are just behind the far end wall of the greenhouse. They are getting huge, so again need to be on slug duty, (see Fantastic Fungus page for the beasties in the greenhouse!)

I am going to do a lot more to the greenhouse. I want to see if I can grow Ocra, as I realy enjoy them and they are very expensive here.

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Rather Bizarre

5/7/2011

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I just did a search to find a page I altered this afternoon had loaded OK, and typed in... Arty Bits seeing... and before I could get anything else typed in I got this result...

584,000,000 pages in 0.14 seconds and it was listed at the top!

Was it that reference to dried mint leaves I accidently rolled into my smoke the other day? (Catnip has some interesting uses)

Does this mean everyone is busy growing mint?

Does this mean there isn't any point in drug trafficking?

I haven't a clue how 'safe' it is! Just don't drive or operate heavy machinery!

Have fun! I prefer a glass of wine myself!

I just decided to go back and research Galen

Links to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galenic_formulation

Seems generally nothing wrong with smoking dried mint leaves. They have a soothing/calming effect allegedly.
I have to admit I was all over the place, and having a high, but then I don't need to take anything to get like that!

Just research about mint leaves, and medicinal uses. They are one of the basic culinary herbs and can be used for so many things.. other than smoking them!

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I think Jesus is going to do something very wonderful.

Still snivelling

Jesus and The Red Cow.

Been Busy doing everything but what I 'should' be doing!

Well here goes, the full random natural nature of my brain!

Had a Great 'Liberation Day' in the Garden today!

Rather Bizarre

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I think Jesus is going to do something very wonderful.

Still snivelling

Jesus and The Red Cow.

Been Busy doing everything but what I 'should' be doing!

Well here goes, the full random natural nature of my brain!

Had a Great 'Liberation Day' in the Garden today!

Rather Bizarre

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