patch of weeds

Goats, chickens, garden, off grid hobby farm. Australian. Sustainable living, wildlife / nature conservationist. We only have one planet.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

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[Dana Parish @danaparish]

🚩 I keep coming back to this 2002 article: Teen Michael J. Fox caught a virus on set of a sitcom in the late 1970s. Years later, he and 3 coworkers from the same show all developed Parkinson’s.

Japanese researchers found a virulent flu strain can invade the same brain region Parkinson’s destroys…

Pathogens = neurodegeneration

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In 1969 you could walk into Harrods and buy a lion. Two Australians did. What happened to the man who set that lion free is the part nobody tells.

George Adamson was already a legend by 1970. His wife Joy had written Born Free about Elsa, an orphaned lioness they raised and released into the wild. The book sold millions. The film won two Oscars. George was known across Kenya as "Baba ya Simba," Father of Lions. He lived in a collection of earthen-floored huts at Kora National Reserve, a 500-square-mile stretch of sun-scorched bush that nobody else wanted. He paid £750 a year to rent it. He wore shorts and sandals while walking among wild lions and sometimes went years without entering a city.

So when two 20-something Australians showed up with a lion cub they'd bought at Harrods for 250 guineas, Adamson said yes. The cub's name was Christian. He was fifth-generation zoo-bred, born at a small zoo in Devon, sold to Harrods' pet department, and purchased on impulse by John Rendall and Ace Bourke. They raised him in the basement of their furniture shop on King's Road in Chelsea. The shop was called Sophistocat. Christian rode around London in the back of a Mercedes convertible, played in a church graveyard because a local vicar gave permission, and became such a fixture that Rendall earned the nickname "The Lion Man of Chelsea."

The connection to Adamson happened by pure accident. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the actors who played George and Joy in Born Free, walked into Sophistocat one afternoon looking for pine furniture. They saw a lion in the basement. They made the call.

Adamson didn't just release Christian. He spent months at Kora building a pride around him, introducing him to wild lionesses named Mona and Lisa, teaching a lion who'd been raised on King's Road how to survive in the African bush. When Rendall and Bourke flew back a year later, Adamson warned them Christian was fully wild now and might not recognize them. The documentary camera was rolling when Christian spotted them from a distance, paused, then sprinted and leapt onto both men, standing on his hind legs, wrapping his front legs around their shoulders. His wild lionesses, who had never been near a human, walked up and accepted them too.

That footage sat in a drawer for 35 years. In 2008, a girl found it on an obscure Japanese blog, added Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," and posted it to YouTube. 45 million views in months. One of the top viral videos of the year. A 1971 reunion, reborn because someone paired it with a power ballad.

Joy Adamson was murdered at her camp in 1980 by a former employee she'd fired. George kept working alone at Kora for nine more years, rehabilitating lions nobody else would take. On the night of August 19, 1989, something strange happened. He hadn't seen or heard his lions in months. That night the entire pride gathered around his camp and roared until dawn. The next morning, Somali bandits with AK-47s ambushed his truck while he was driving to rescue a young tourist. He was 83.

John Rendall died of COVID complications in January 2022. Ace Bourke lives in Sydney with two house cats.

Christian was last seen in early 1973, heading north. He would have been three and a half. Fully wild. Leading a pride in the same reserve where the man who taught him to be a lion is now buried, between his brother and two of his favorite lions.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Someone made a paper mache owl to scare away the magpies… they started worshipping it instead 😅

[GALAXY-2:20 VIDEO🔌 @GalaxyTwoTwenty]

In 1992, Swallows built a nest inside this family's living room. Thirty-four years later, their great-great-grandchildren still use it in the summer when they emigrate from Europe to South Africa between late September and October. ❤️

[FixTechStuff 🛠️ @FixTechStuff1]

@washghost1 You’d be surprised at how many things you can eat.
Supermarkets have made us all soft.

Puffballs and bidens pilosa / cobbler pegs are two that grow just about anywhere.

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

It was the accent that made me watch but can we really eat “weeds” that grow in our yards

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@Pinochetist1 @MarhelmData @Aristos_Revenge Getting out of the bus there and then would be incredibly stupid.

[Jimmy Barnes @JimmyBarnes]

Got to jump on stage to play a couple songs with one of my favourite bands over the weekend. Thanks for having me @thelivingendaus.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

The best way to see if your pet has ever been mistreated.

[vegastar @vegastarr]

Did you know… 🧥
Wool becomes warmer when it gets wet 💦
Nature built insulation before humans built tech.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@JeffDaw09911702 @ribzoftiktok Could feed them to dogs, or keep them penned and on good feed to fatten them up for a while.

[Ribz of Tik Tok @ribzoftiktok]

More exciting than gambling

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@TychaelA @ribzoftiktok It depends if you like eating food or not.
If farmers did nothing about animals eating their crops billions of us would not be here.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@IanCopeland5 The utter lunacy where the dumbest people in the room were given a voice on the internet and millions died well before their time.

It’s a severe cold like the flu that kills people, the last thing anyone should listen to is randoms on the internet and their idiot opinions.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@volcaholic1 👍👍

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

A green patch. 🐐🐐🐐

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@Reapers__au @frankstonkumar @goodfoodgal She is more likely of Christian / atheist heritage just like most Aussies, but that is besides the point.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@DrNeilStone Wife and I came home together, so no here too.

[patch of weeds @patchofweeds]

@OldHollowTree For years I’ve been telling my son to fight back when the rooster attacks him, finally yesterday he did, gave the attacking creature the boot and…. 🪦
Oops!
Fortunately he’s only 11 and was just defending himself.