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ALSO KNOWN AS "BLESSED MILK THISTLE" IT IS NATIVE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS OF EUROPE, WESTERN ASIA AND NORTHERN AFRICA. TODAY IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE A WEED, AND IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED TO BE CULTIVATED IN OUR GARDENS AS AFTER THE BLOOMS DIE OFF THEIR SPINY FOLIAGE DRIES OUT AND BECOMES UNMANAGEABLE! IN MY WORDS, JUST A GIANT PAIN IN THE ARSE! PLUS, THEIR SPINY FOLIAGE CAN BE VERY PAINFUL WHEN PRICKED BY THEIR WICKED SHARP ENDS ! THEY HAVE SHOWN PROMISE IN THE TREATMENT OF LIVER DISEASES, CANCER, HEPATITIS, HIV, DIABETES AND HIGH CHOLESTEROL! THESE DAYS IT IS SOLD MAINLY AS AN HERB GARDEN OR MEDICINAL PLANT ONLY!
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niccolino59

Hi Monica - this is another beautiful, if vicious, plant! Reading your comments, I sympathise with you. I have fibromyalgia and M.E. which means I get a lot of pain and very tired. I also have Scheuermans disease in my spine and trochanteric bursitis in both hips and knees, as well as the diabetes to contend with! I find that staying of wheat-based products and anything with dairy in it, and avoiding caffeine, alcohol, and also leaving off (strangely) sweeteners like sorbitol and aspartame etc, really helps. Looking after a little one when one has gone ailments like yours isn't easy. My daughter is grown up now, but I find it very difficult to get through chores during the day, and my sleep patterns aren't good - hence I'm up at a quarter past midnight here in England! I really enjoy doing your puzzles - thank you for posting them.

mhughes69

I too am a lady of leisure, ever since I got sick with this muscle disorder I haven't been able to work! I used to work in the mail room at the Rio Hotel and Casino, I did that for years and totally loved it! I miss it terribly and wish that I could go back, but this Fibromyalgia disorder just really kicks my but right into the ground! So to speak! So I sit at my computer and put puzzles together and have really nice conversations with really nice people on jigidi! It's been a lot of fun meeting people from all walks of life! Like yourself, for example! The Rio is where I met my husband Gary! He was and still is their lead Electrician! We both started working for the Rio on the same day and while I was busy running the mail cart all over the casino delivering mail I would run into him occasionally while he was busy fixing some electrical problem! About 3 months later we started dating, 1 week later he asked my son and myself to move into his house with him, then 3 months after that he asked me to marry him! I said yes, and 3 weeks later we got married at the "Little Church of the West". We've been very happily married for 14 years now! I ended up with this Fibromyalgia disorder about a year after we got married! What a nasty surprise for both of us! But, he's been my champion through it all and has never left my side, I love him so very much for that! Anyways, I am still waiting for Gary to retire so that we can spend more time together in the garden too! Oh, I almost forgot, Gary works on call at the M.G.M. also, as their electrician! I say on call, because that is what it is supposed to be, but it really turned out to be nearly full time with them! So, he says that he may never retire completely that he may just retire from the Rio but stay on at the M.G.M. "sigh" Who knows, maybe one day he will retire completely and we'll be able to travel around the world and work in our gardens together too! I would like that immensely! Well, here I've gone on and on once more, think I will get busy on puzzles again! Take care my friend, catch you later... :)))...Bye.

robryan

Hi Monica - I did my nursing training & hated shift work so ,much I never went back to it!!! I hated night shift with a vengeance - mainly because I got engaged & we were part of a big group of very social friends & we had lots of 21st parties & engagements & weddings all in a couple of years!! I did love the babies tho - they were the best to nurse. After our son started school I went & worked retail on & off for years but I haven't worked since 2000 - I'm a lady of leisure!!!!! Now that Chris has retired we just do more gardening, I do Jigidi & read etc. It's not hard to take :))) Catch you later...Bye.

mhughes69

Hello Rob- Sounds like your parents worked very hard to make sure you and your siblings had a good upbringing! It's very hard work to own a business, they say that your practically married to it because you have to spend so much time with it and in it to make sure that it prospers! I have a lot of respect for people that can do it together as a married couple and still remain married through it all! Some day you'll have to tell me some of these stories and gossip about your old teacher, I'm sure glad you and your other classmates didn't end up all screwed up because of him and his drinking! L.O.L. I do envy you your 3-week beach holidays, I can just imagine all of the fun that you and your family had during those times. I'm really happy for you that you had such a wonderful childhood whilst growing up! Some day when we have more time, I'll have to tell you some stories of my childhood and what it was like for me to grow up in the city whilst growing up! My high school class graduated with several 100s of pupils and it took many hours to get through the whole graduation ceremony! Ugh! So, your a nurse and you work with small children, what an exciting and very honorable profession for you to have chosen for yourself! I think that's absolutely wonderful of you! Our children need people like you! Do you mainly work with babies, or with toddlers too? Well, here I've gone and done it again, what started out once more as a note ended up being a letter! Gotta go for now- got lot's of puzzles to catch up on! Cheers and hugs too, Monica.

robryan

Hi Monica - I guess we lived the country lifestyle without the hardships that farmers experience - like drought, bushfires, animal poo :))) We didn't mind our old teacher - he was real happy on Thursdays & Fridays & stone cold sober on Mondays!! It didn't do any of us any lasting harm - just made for good stories & gossip!
Mum & Dad had the store for 32 years & worked very hard. My younger sister & brother & I used to help out here & there on school holidays, but we had a terrific upbringing. We used to go to Sydney(about 4 hours drive) to visit our Grand-parents, so we had a nice mix of experiences. We also used to have 3 weeks beach holidays with 2 other families each year, & that was a ton of fun.
When I graduated from High School there was 32 of us in my class & 400 pupils overall in the school. I went to Sydney & did my nursing training in a paediatric hospital after that & it was in Sydney that I met Chris. Better move it - I've got a few things I should be doing!! Cheers!

mhughes69

Hello Rob - I would give just about anything to experience the life you had as a child growing up! I all sounds so very dreamy so, magical! It's sounds exactly like the childhood I always dreamed of living! Yes, I grew up as a city girl and always hated it, I've never been one for the city as I'm a country girl at heart! I wanted to grow up on a farm and do all of the things that one does on a farm! That includes milking cows, feeding the chickens, riding horses, all of it, even all the dirty chores like cleaning out the horses stalls, you name it I would have loved doing it no matter how hard it was, I didn't care because I've always felt that that was the life for me! Good grief! I'm starting to sound like that show that used to be on t.v. long ago called, "Green Acres" L.O.L. But, that's me in a nut shell! I'm a country girl who got stuck in the city and couldn't get out! To the country that is! How very exciting it must have been for you to go along with your dad on some of his errands and to own a general store and a bakery, and to have a dad who baked! Wow, it sounds like your parents lived a very busy and fruitful life! Do you have any brothers or sisters? I have one child, a boy who is 30 years old soon to be 31 come this May! He and I are extremely close and he visits us often, he says he misses my cooking but I think he's a momma's boy and misses me but won't admit it! L.O.L. I'm truly sorry to hear about your mother's passing, how very sad you must be, I don't look forward to when that day comes for my mother, as she and I are super, super close! So, your 1st teacher was a heavy drinker huh? That must have been just awful for you kids, you can't learn very much from someone like that, I'm glad that they brought in a new and younger teacher for you kids! How many kids graduated from your high school? Wow, I guess I better get on with the rest of the other comments or I'll never have any time left to put some puzzles together! Thanks so much Rob, I feel that this made us that much closer to each other! I like that very much!...Cheers and hugs too! :)))

robryan

Hi Monica - most people on Jigidi know I'm a 'she' - Laurajane asked me one day, so most people that I comment with/on are in the know :))
I have my husband Chris, who retired 1 year ago & a son who is 38yo. And Layla cat, of course!!
We grew up in a little village 14 miles from the nearest town & Mum & Dad had the general store, petrol pumps & Dad was the baker too. He had a wood-fired oven in the bakery, which was behind the house & shop. It was a terrific friendly country life where we knew everyone.
Dad used to deliver big drums of fuel to the farmers & also grocery orders to the farms. We used to go with him in the school holidays & one of my favourite things was to go with him when he delivered the shearing shed grocery orders.
The school teacher was an old bloke at first who wasn't at the reunion - I don't think he was still alive - he liked a drink or three!!. Then we had a slightly younger man whose wife was a teacher at the high school I went to. I'm still friends with one girl from primary school - I see her when I go down south & email regularly. After Mum passed away 1 year ago I don't have a reason to go there as often now as it is about 1,200kms - over 700miles - away. The town is called Young & it's a lovely small town of about 6,00 people & has cherries, wine grapes, wheat, and sheep & cattle farms as the main industries.
It's about 4 hours drive from Sydney & a very nice & friendly country town.
Did you grow up as a town or city kid? It sounds like it!
I better get on with my puzzles so will catch you later...Cheers!

mhughes69

Well hello there Rob the girl! O.M.G. I am sitting here right now with my jaw hanging down to about my kneecaps, in shock!! All this time I thought you were a guy! I don't know why, maybe it is because of all of the bugs, but I could swear at one time or another that you said something about having a wife, so I just assumed that you were a guy, also, your avatar says robryan so once again I assumed, that ryan was your middle name! I am very truly sorry for that Rob (Robyn) I will not be making that mistake again, I promise you! I am sooooo embarrassed! Would you like it if I told everyone else that your not a guy but a girl? I will if you want me to! :D Anyways, i'm so happy to meet you Robyn! I guess you would consider me a 1959 vintage! L.O.L. I always wondered what it would have been like to attend a one room country school, like the one you attended! That must have been quite an experience learning everything from one teacher! How is it that you got into posting bugs of all things? Inquiring minds and all that! L.O.L. How much fun that must have been for you to go back after all those years and revisit all of those people that you hadn't seen in all that time! How exciting for you! Did you see any of your old school chums? How about your teacher, did he/she live long enough to attend this 150th Anniversary too? That would be the first person that I would want to revisit after all of that time, the teacher. Oh please Rob, you must tell me everything! What it was like to grow up that way, about the reunion, all of it! I really get into stuff like that, it's so very exciting to me, you've lived in a time and gone to a school that I have always been so curious about! It sort of reminds me a little bit of that show many years ago called, "Little house on the Prairie" I loved and watched that show faithfully because it was a time that I had always been so fascinated about! I've always felt that I was born in the wrong era as a matter of fact! Pretty weird huh? L.O.L. There's not that many years between us, I know that, I don't mean to make it sound as if you lived in a different era than me, but you did live in a different way than me! That's why I'm so curious about your past history as a child O.K. now I am just going on and on about this and you probably think me strange, but please know, I am just as normal as the next person! I just want to pick your brain so to speak, about your past! Thanks so much for setting me straight! L.O.L. I'll chat with you later, oh, and looking forward to your next set of bugs too! L.O.L. again!

robryan

Hi Monica - I'm a she, not a he :))) Rob as in Robyn!! A few people have decided that I'm a boy on Jigidi - not sure why, but I don't get upset about it - I actually have a bit of a laugh about it!!! Maybe it's because I post creepy bugs etc - I don't know :)))
We used to leave the prickle cutting to the boys - and it was a tiny country school with only about 25 pupils all in one classroom with one teacher.I'm a 1948 vintage - a good year to be born I reckon!!! In 2010 we went back for our school's 150 th Anniversary & saw people for the 1st time in over 50 years. Cheers...Rob:)))

mhughes69

Hey there Rob! I kind of like the name, it sounds silly! L.O.L. I know, I wouldn't want to prick myself on those prickles! You sound like you were a very naughty boy waaayyyyy back then! You sound like an old man! L.O.L. Oh please, you can't be that much older than myself! But then again, you went to a tiny primary school so who knows? L.O.L. again! Sounds like you and your school mates had a lot of fun back in the good ol' days! Did you ever get pricked by those awful thistles while you were busy cutting them away? So happy that I was able to bring back some of those fun memories for you! Thanks again my friend for your comments, as I do love receiving them! Have a good one Rob!

robryan

What a strange name!!! Wicked looking prickles there too. We used to have a paddock next to the tiny primary school that I attended.... way back!!! It used to be covered in thistles & the boys cut pathways through it & we used to hide from the teacher when the bell rang!!! All good fun & memories!! Thanks Monica.

mhughes69

Sandy- Hello there my friend! Being that purple is my favorite color, I couldn't agree with you more! I love it that they caught the bee in the shot it just makes it that much more beautiful. Thanks so much for your comment Sandy, I'm so glad that you liked this flower!

Ank- Why Hello there Ank, how are you today? I wouldn't imagine any thistle would be nice to touch! L.O.L. OUCH! Thanks so much for your comment, I do love hearing from you!

Pinknblack- First of all, I wanted to thank you for a very lovely story! I have Scottish blood in me also, so your story was really quite touching! See, there's another thing we have in common with each other! You must be so very proud to be the owner of this Brooch, that you described so beautifully by the way! Aw, the stories that Brooch could tell if it were able to! I should love to hear them all! I will have to go out and buy the soundtrack to Braveheart just so that I too, can hear the "The Gift of the Thistle". I wish I were able to visit Scotland in August or September so that I could see all of this Thistle that grows in profusion! My friend, I'm so very happy that you liked my pic of this Thistle and that I did your heart proud! That makes me feel so good inside my own heart. Thank you for that.

Gnt1041- Hello there my good friend! L.O.L. You say the nicest things to me! I wished he had smiled for this pic, that would have made for a much nicer pic, imagine a smiling bee! L.O.L. Thanks so much for your lovely comment gnt, I so do love hearing from you! Have a good day/night.

gnt1041

great pic of that little honey bee......If he had known he would most likely have smiled for U LOL

pinknblack

Aw, to me roots! My Drysdale Scottish ancesters Tara Brooch, or Celtic Ring Brooch has a hand reaching to a thistle and the Celtic word, "always to a friend in need." It is beautifully hand wroght in silver and is a family treasure, now in my hands.
Thistle is the national emblem of Scotland. The story tells of alone thistle, said to have saved an entire Scottish army. A thousand years ago, during the Vikings invasion of Scotland, an advancing enemy warrior stepped on a thistle and cried out in pain inadvertently waking the sleeping Scotsmen. Scottish King Kenneth III was so grateful that he adopted the thistle as his nation's emblem.
Knowing the history of the Scottish Thistle made the Braveheart movie more meaningful to one who knew that when young Murron gave William the thistle, in addition to the straightforward gesture of sympathy and affection, she was symbolically placing the future of Scotland in his charge. He carried it with him always.
"The Gift of the Thistle" on the Braveheart soundtrack is very touching.
Thistles grow wild throughout Scotland and bloom in profusion in August and September, always stirring patriotic reverence for Scotland's proud heritage. Other names for this plant include blessed milk thistle, Marian Thistle, Mary Thistle, Saint Mary's Thistle, Mediterranean Milk Thistle, Variegated Thistle and Scotch Thistle.
Didn't mean to go on, but you did my heart proud this morning. Thanks, Monica.

puzzeljac

The flower looks a lot like our Thistle, but the leave is different, but also ours is not lovely to touch.

chickiemama

It's very pretty and we get a bonus on top. : ) I love the brilliant lavendar of thistle flowers.

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