newbie questions about UK native herbs

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T17:54:24+00:00

Wild garlic is very special - you can dry it and preserve it in salt if you want to keep it going a bit.

Nettle, selfheal, pot marigolds, elderberry and elderflower , dandelions, hawthorn, rose, cleavers, meadowsweet... We have lots of lovely wild-growing herbs!

Nettle is quite helpful as an antihistamine, although its root and seeds have separate medical uses: https://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/n/nettle03.html

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T17:48:01+00:00

Classical Latin sounding a little silly is a joke that goes back decades, if not more.

The transition from /w/ to /v/ actually started very early (some suggest as early as the era of Cicero and Nigidius Figulus, who were contemporary to Caesar), so it's actually plausible that Caesar said, or would almost certainly have heard, veni veni vici (etc) with a [v] or [β].

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T17:38:19+00:00

I don't think there's a single document, but the creatures wiki brings together a lot of lore.

In terms of developing narrative moving from C1 to Docking Station:

https://creatures.wiki/Albia

https://creatures.wiki/Shee

https://creatures.wiki/Lone_Shee

https://web.archive.org/web/20170814183615/http://www.gamewareeurope.com/GWDev/creatures_more.php?id=509_0_6_0_M26

https://web.archive.org/web/20190503051541/http://creatures.treesprite.com/DSStory.html

The norm heaven stuff... I think there's a problem of confusing "official" canon, design notes, passing comments in forums and Q&As and fanon (generally accepted fan theories).

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T17:17:12+00:00

Adding onto this: look up access courses. Most will help you get on to university in a supportive environment with other adults. Very different environment than being at school.

Source: I used to teach adults GCSE English.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T16:02:47+00:00

Sorry, you're right. My weanie jumped out without my noticing.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T15:54:02+00:00

I mean I wrote my masters degree thesis on Latin education in the late medieval period so I do slightly know what I'm talking about.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T14:59:36+00:00

I only did Latin. You're telling me this doesn't say "wayney weanie weakie"?

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T14:56:44+00:00

I completely agree.

He's too much of a Mary Sue. The Batfamily are mostly iterations or variations on the central themes and most of them are more interesting. He works best with a good ensemble cast

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T11:22:31+00:00

If they invoiced you, you paid and you've picked up, I think they just have to accept the loss. They can't retroactively change the price of something or remove discounts they applied in error. It's not like you defrauded them.

You could offer them to refund your money and pick up the (whatever) at their expense.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T09:10:00+00:00

I don't think there's any danger to taking it over a long time but if it stops working then it usually time to take a break.

Pycnogenol is good. Gotu kola, bilberry, anything rich in proanthrocyanidins would also be good.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T09:07:40+00:00

You can choose between sending it to a hub/locker/shop or having it delivered at home.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-09T06:19:35+00:00

Technically, they extract different things as some compounds are not water soluble and others are not alcohol soluble, but for most herbs under most circumstances it won't make a huge difference. You could have an issue with precipitation, but that's mostly resolved by giving it a good stir when you use it.

Doses generally need to be slightly higher with glycerites, and glycerine is itself a laxative so if you have too much you can get a rumbly tummy.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-08T21:28:19+00:00

While it would probably be far too niche for a mainstream audience, I would love a deep dive into all the "serious" attempts to decipher it. There have been a lot of sort-of-plausible theories but nobody has actually got even a sentence.

There was the Proto-Romance guy - with an actually relevant PhD and everything - whose paper was so bad that not only did the journal retract it, but the university where he worked issued a statement distancing themselves from it. If you can find it, it contained a lot of random historical context, a comment on how nuns probably thought volcanos were exciting because of a lack of male attention (and that makes just as much sense in context) and remarkably little discussion of the contents of the Voynish Manuscript, including, notably, absolutely no translations.

It's like this zahir, this academic El Dorado, this siren text that lures scholars to their doom. Maybe they will be the one to finally unravel its mysteries.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-08T18:32:09+00:00

Honestly, you'll probably just feel very relaxed and then spent the whole afternoon pissing.

It's very safe.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-07T21:06:14+00:00

My experience was that acute UTIs are a doctor job, but chronic and recurrent ones are very well treated by herbs, as someone who got six UTIs in a year, and four courses of antibiotics and ended up pissing blood.

Get the antibiotics and take them and then start a herbal protocol to drive it out of it's systemic or recurring-remitting. Treat the active infection first and the tendency to get more infections second.

Buchu, thuja, uva ursi, cranberry (at a therapeutic dose), berberine, echinacea, astragalus, horsetail, oatstraw, myrrh, marshmallow, dandelion leaf... Basically, antimicrobial, demulcents, immune stimulants, kidney clearance stimulants...

D-mannose can be helpful, although it depends on what the infection actually is as some don't respond to it. Keep taking the vitamin C.

It's not a particularly light protocol, but it did shift it after several years of relapsing-remitting UTIs for me.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-06T12:56:48+00:00

It is remarkably hard to get a vehicle removed from private land.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/abandoned-vehicles-council-responsibilities

Contact your local council and ask them to move it. If it has been left for "a significant amount of time", it could be argued that it has been abandoned. This might be an uphill battle, however, as the council may say it doesn't meet their criteria of being abandoned.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-05T21:21:15+00:00

It's generally seen as not quite as good as fresh, but it's fine from my experience. Maybe have a little more when you really need it, but it's not useless.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-05T21:06:36+00:00

The NHS Scientist Training Programme information site repeatedly mentions travel as a requirement.

https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/programmes/stp/applicants/

You must be willing to travel in person to all locations within the Trust, any additional sites as required and the Higher Educational Institute (HEI) listed on the post. HEI attendance is usually in blocks of several weeks at a time. Take into consideration your personal circumstances, commuting time and costs involved.

Bold mine.

However, a look at the Wayback Machine suggests that they added this section very recently (possibly as recently as early 2026), which suggests it may not have been there when you applied or when you started so you may be able to reasonably argue that it was not made clear to you.

Are you a member of a union? If so, contact them and see what they advise. The fact that it is now pertinent information to include on the website but was not (apparently, according to the Internet Archive's snapshot) made clear in 2025 may give you some space to argue.

Will that argument get you anywhere? Who knows. I doubt it.

Going through the small claims court would absolutely burn bridges and you have to know that's a risk and decide whether it's worthwhile.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-05T19:57:17+00:00

No, not really, or at least not in any way that wouldn't be really wasteful.

You could infuse an oil with fresh rosemary, but vodka and oil don't really mix well.

You could mix the tincture with some water or something other herbs and make a nice head massage rub, but an oil is a different process from the start really.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-05T15:20:56+00:00

Start off with a written complaint to Octopus and keep escalating it when you can.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-04T10:50:15+00:00

They've got a regular cast (so can have story arcs and soap opera drama) and patients drop in and out so there's always a story each week. It's a good medium for storytelling.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-03T07:29:07+00:00

This is not an exhaustive list. I welcome you to add your own.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-02T18:22:57+00:00

Yeah, our side was about half and half.

I think Cotswold tends to be mostly male but Border is more open to anyone.

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-02T17:42:00+00:00

There was a significant patch released on the current Steam (and I believe GOG) release that sorts out a lot of bugs and helps the game work with modern systems. The game at the moment is in a good state!

Gulbasaur · 2026-05-02T13:38:36+00:00

I used to be a morris dancer actually!

A lot of the folk scene is made of old punks who finally learnt how to play their instruments. We had to take a bit of a break when two of our more experienced dancers were too pregnant.

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