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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 15 September 25 07:51 BST (UK)
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Good morning everyone
A very chilly morning, I have been up since 5am and the lounge is very cold, I feel the heating will be on soon and it is still on September.
Mare, we both have a banana every day, helped with migraine in the past, not so much now, think we have grown out of it, thank goodness.
Our grandaughter is home from a holiday in Turkey, starts the second year of her graduate job, has to do a 3 hours travel away so she might have to get a B& B for a couple of nights each week then come home, she can't afford to leave home just yet.
I won't make to much comment but I am beginning to feel as if the whole world has gone mad, I have stopped watching the news, think I am a bit of an ostrich.
Take care
LM
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Husband's dad had a banana a day all his life that I know of, certainly since marriage anyway and recall one time when boats didn't come in and there was a shortage, M-i-l drove all over the city to find any! He was known among teaching colleagues for bringing one every day for his lunch and jokes and poems etc ensued when he changed schools :D
And yes, an overload of world news to be avoided!
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Morning.. bright and sunny.. so far.. but very windy no sign of rain but had a good lot yesterday..
Off to first Pilates class today after laser and cataract surgery 4 weeks ago so hoping all will be ok… eyes taken a long time for bloodshot to go but vision sooo much better… opticians on Thursday to see exactly how much better it is!
I have half a banana every day with other fruit and natural yogurt I love them.
Goodness Mare that was dedication on your M-I-l’s part.
I can only watch one news a day but as OH records it so we fast forward a lot as it’s too depressing…
Hope everyone has a better week, stays warm, dry and well..
Caroline
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Good morning folks, well a severe yellow weather warning here - we had a cloudburst on Saturday ,our road,at the foot of Holcombe Hill, is steep and it was just like a raging torrent after a cloudburst !
Son back but computer not sorted out ,disagreement re which department is
liable!
I can’t have bananas and I love them ,too much Potassium it seems ,not good with one of my medicines .
Well there is very little we can do re all the problems in the world, watched a programme this morning -Afghanistan ,how the only maternity clinic has closed .Women and babies dying ,thanks to the Taliban.
Oh if only women ruled the world, then you think of Mrs Marcos!
Glad your eyes are improving Caw, hope things go O.K at the opticians.
Aren’t young people brave today, all that travel for your grand daughter L.M.
Well baby Lily is looking as if she is considering starting to crawl.
It is so important for future development that they crawl ,she is a bonny bouncy baby ,no lightweight which might have contributed to the delay.
Latest video is her sucking her toes! Really enjoying it!
Well no Bargain Hunt today, flipping athletics !
Must say the women’s Rugby ,England vScotland was good,
So little fouling in the women’s games -football too.
Hope all are safe,but knowing quite a few have health issues I wish you all have some improvement .
Cheerio.Viktoria.
P.S. reading a book from the charity shop ,a lovely coloured photograph fell out ,a llittle boy ,so lovely .Someone will be very sad, there was also a transatlantic plane ticket ,used as a bookmark I think .
I will take the photograph to the shop , perhaps they could put it up so if the donor of the books goes in again they would see it and could get it back.
A very new photo, no creases or marks at all.
Well cool here today so must get moving .
Thanks for the news .look after yourselves .
Cheerio,Viktoria.
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I've been on a bit of a journey in doing a friend's tree :D
He was born in Southport.
Father was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Paternal Grandfather was born in India; children born Guernsey.
Paternal Grandmother came from Belfast.
Maternal grandfather born in Jamaica.
Maternal great-grand uncle was a priest in Panama and British Honduras.
Maternal grand-aunt emigrated, and died in USA.
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Sounds like a wonderful round the world trip KG! Bet that’s been fun finding and looking up lots of wonderful records…
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Husband's dad had a banana a day all his life that I know of, certainly since marriage anyway and recall one time when boats didn't come in and there was a shortage, M-i-l drove all over the city to find any! He was known among teaching colleagues for bringing one every day for his lunch and jokes and poems etc ensued when he changed schools :D
And yes, an overload of world news to be avoided!
I can remember when bananas came back in my parents green grocery shop, after the war had finished.
Canary bananas still on the stalks, in long boxes ,Elder and Fyffes ,
A scorpion scrambled out of one, Dad killed it with the poker!
Viktoria.
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But do you remember dried bananas? My mother used to buy them for us at the health food shop and we loved them. Very sweet, of course, like all dried fruit.
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I loved the dried bananas in the war but thought the fresh ones were horrible when they became available, I love them now and used to buy them every week. Unfortunately they are now an occasional treat as I have to limit my potassium intake. It’s Murphy’s law that the things one really enjoy are what end up being restricted. I love grapefruits but haven’t been able to have one for over ten years because of the medication I’m on.
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Perpetuating the subject somewhat! ... I don't recall having dried bananas as a child though have bought them occasionally and have dried trays of various fruits in the dehydrator over the years, including said bananas :)
Amazing the number of products featuring bananas as well, F-i-l could attest to that, cards, wrapping papers, boxer shorts :P etc ... some cards hand made by our children. I still have a couple of glass display bananas and a wooden one made of Huon pine in Australia that were gifts to him from family originally.
Also now recalled a foolish episode early years of our marriage ... half a century ago :D We were renting a flat next to the house of the local milkman, occasionally he would gift us a loaf of bread from his friend the baker 8) other than that we didn't know them well, she was a youngish stay at home mum who seemed to love playing silly jokes like making odd noises and hiding among other things. It wasn't often then that we saw bananas in our shops in bunches but one time we had several boxes of them offered to staff at work and I brought home a bunch for us and one for them. They had a very young banana palm only a few feet high along their side path that I could see from my kitchen window, it was getting dark when I got home and I thought I would jokingly tie the bunch to their palm....oooops, in the morning I could see that the weight was way to much for it and it was prone to the path! .... she never actually questioned it ... though I did my sanity! We moved to our own place in another suburb not long after and I still feel bad when I think of it.
Cuppa break over, best spring back into action with bit more kitchen spring cleaning before dinner time :) Husband has suddenly decided on updating car again and disappeared for a couple of hours ...
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Talking oif bananas was it not Max Miller who was once peeling one in his act............... "One skin, two skin, three skin................banana!"
Naughty! :o :o :o :o
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It took me a minute or two to get that!
Viktoria.
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I can't believe how cold it is today, almost put the heating on yet tomorrow we are expecting 23 degrees, weather, please make your mind up !!
Yes Jeff, naughty
L M
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Hi All
Oh Bananas LM, I toast my brown sugar and sweetener free wholemeal slices, put butter on and have a banana sliced between two slices and done this ritual for years. Occasionally deviating to scrambled egg or sardines on toast for tea with a tomato.
An apple, kiwi fruit, most days, raspberries and strawberries until used up and next delivery, 1 or 2 squares of 90% dark chocolate, with a palmful of walnuts and half a dozen whole almonds
Unfortunate Viktoria, because Bananas are a good food. I'm not so quick either! But the penny did drop in the end.
Grapefruit is another, as you say Jebber to be avoided on certain meds.
Caroline, they say natural yogurt is very good for the gut microbiome.
Gillg, I only remember dried bananas in breakfasts like Alpen, or whatever it was.
Mare, living in a climate where they grow in your garden on trees.
Take care everyone and if under the weather, I hope you feel much improved soon, Mark
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A terrible week - A Funeral one day, long journey in really foul weather. Medical issues for OH next day, got to get rid of one car as OH not driving any longer - no idea best way to set about it - spent one full day weeding in garden, another day housecleaning. nearly a day spent trying to get satnav in his car to work..... roll on next week.
TY
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What an awful week TY! I do hope next week and beyond are more pleasant for you.
It's warm and sunny today and people are wearing summer clothes again. We are busy planning for our long-delayed holiday abroad, now that I can get holiday insurance, also for a visit from some old friends. This morning I hopped onto the bus taking me to our nearest city in order to exchange a sweater which I bought last week in my usual size from a shop I use regularly. When I got home that day I tried it on and found it to be enormous :o, so had to make the return trip to exchange it. It must have been the style or something, because I found that the size that fitted me now was two sizes smaller than the size I had originally bought. It's a very long time since I was wearing clothes labelled that size!
Planning for our friends' visit ( we are offering a light lunch) I am going to give them a Greek salad with fried feta cheese and various nice breads, followed by German Apfelkuchen (apple cake - there are plenty of apples around) with whipped cream. (I'm trying to keep up with Viktoria's menu reports).
My son and his wife have just returned from a holiday in Turkey and while they were away we have been feeding their cat. We were rewarded with a large box of Turkish Delight - not the pink and yellow stuff you can buy here, though, this has all sorts of colours and nut fillings and is very fancy. This is the real Turkish Delight, he says. I don't think it will last very long.
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Oooh!,, my daughter and her husband are due home from Turkey midnight tonight, in between we have to feed the cat and try to keep her in, I took in a parcel for my son in law this week, he asked if I like Turkish delight, so I am assuming I might get some, last delight I had was from Cyprus which I called Cyprus delight having seen it made.
Today has been a beautiful day after a not so very good week, I am in Lewes tomorrow, weather at the moment predicted rain till about midday, probably arrive about that time, then sun till about 5 when I expect we will be back at the pavilion, I am just a seat person, don't bowl but pay for a seat which helps to the cost.
Enjoy your weekend folks and hope the weather is kind.
LM
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A query for the cooks!
Chips. I have noticed recently when cooking chips that when the fat is hot enough and I put the chips into it I get a lot of froth- see picture 2. And then as the chips continue to fry the froth recedes.
Is this due to the nature of then potatoes which I use or perhaps the size of the smaller pan. I don'd need as large a pan these days just cooking for one. We always, well when they were readily available used Maris Piper potatoes but I cannot get them in our local shop any more. Those I get always seem quite "wet" when I cut them up for chips. Any thoughts? rj
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Hello Jeff
When my late Mum used to do homemade chips. She would cut them up and soak them in water for an hour or two, to get rid of the starch. Put them in the frying basket and let all the water drain off.
When my Mrs P was around she did similar to get the starch out, then use an Air Fryer and spray them with a little Frylite spray.
I do miss either of the above and if buy a nice large freshly fried cod from the next village, I never buy chips.
Nothing compares to homemade chips!
Mark
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Can't remember how many decades it may have been since I made deep fried chips, basket rested and drained above oil pot after first dip and down for a second. Always nice and did a bit back then with family at home before deciding oven wedges were easier :) These days for the 2 of us or when the grandchildren are staying, I have a bag of frozen oven chips tucked away if need be and the potato at least is always good with those. I still make a tray of wedges or oven chips occasionally if we have company, perhaps to have with drinks outside etc. We also earlier this year bought a very small air-fryer with a basket just big enough to prepare enough of anything for the two of us and takes up about as much room on the bench as a kettle which was a factor as didn't want anything as big as our coffee machine!
Hope your week has improved somewhat TY and that your OH is OK. Our weekend just ending better than last one where we had two rather unexpected funerals of friends, one our age and one too young again sadly. Fair to middling Spring weather here and a bit 'breezy' but a nice outing in new car today and lunch out, pleasant way to while away a Sunday.
Perhaps you Gillg and LM will finish the week on a happy Turkish delight note :D ... Cheers again all, be well ...
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The Turkish Delight proved to be a bit too much for me - very fancy with things like various nuts and rose petals in it and rolled in coconut, which I really dislike. It's nothing like the old Fry's Turkish Delight!
Although we have escaped much of the rain felt by other areas this week today is rather chilly. The sun has popped out from time to time from behind the clouds, but although we are forecast to have a dry week ahead, we are told that the temperature will be around 16 degrees. Time for the central heating to go on, I fear.
Panic set in least night when the internet was down and it was still down this morning. We do a lot of things online, including banking, but Plusnet were very helpful and manged to restore it via the phone. They are sending an engineer round tomorrow to see what the problem might have been, though they suspect it may be the router. It's frightening to see how much we depend on the internet these days.
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I would be a bit anxious putting wet chips in to hot fat ,the chip pan could boil over !
In Belgium they cook the chips until just soft enough,take the basket out of the oil, get that really hot and flash the basket back in for a couple of seconds and then drain well.
They are lovely and not too greasy.
A sunny but cold day here.
Flood warnings ,probably at Stubbins further up river where there iis a device which sends warnings to a flood station .
The land is high on one side but very low on the other.
The park in Ramsbottom is low lying and does flood fairly often as the river has a big meander there .
Well, The Duchess of York seems to be mixed up with Epstein now!
Honestly -such wealth and privilege and yet huge debts and scandals—
Well another week, they do fly by .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
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Hi Viktoria
Thanks, I agree, wet chips in hot oil, as you say can boil over.
Yes being famous or well known, has its drawbacks, the Press are not far away on your shirt tails.
Turkish Delight, is a big NO from me these days owing to sugar, but many years ago I did love Fry's Turkish Delight.
Take Care All.
Mark
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Well folks my Turkish delight arrived this afternoon,
mixed fruits with rose, Lemon, Orange and mixed flavours, daren't read the ingredients.
Even quite a nice pleasant day after a not so nice day in Lewes yesterday, never felt so exhausted as I did after the hills.
Last time I cooked chips the pan caught alight, never cooked them since, oven chips suit me now.
Collected a few conquers today and as a consequence have been bitten by midges, what an itchy nuisance.
New week tomorrow, doesn't time fly?
LM
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Hello All
Really cold outside early on, but sunny here.
I went for a walk yesterday and caught my shoe in some thorny bramble creeper, next I couldn't hold my balance, reached out and managed to slow the landing on my ribs, but in the final motion my head went forward and forehead struck the dirt path.
It hasn't helped my pre-existing belly and digestion issues.
At home, very minor, wounds were cleaned with a Detol like Dr Johnson's substitute, had a shower and retreated.
Yesterday's clothes were put on a long wash cycle and now hanging in the sun.
Mark
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Glad it wasn’t much worse Bushinn,I fell at my grand daughter’s wedding ,in the marquee ,over a tripod foot that was holding up a heater or light .
Soft landing as it was ion grass with a thick floor covering .
However I fell on my Rt hip, no problems but now a month later I have a lot of pain going down my leg and in hip joint.
I can walk round the house but it is really painful at night.
I must enquire as having a pacemaker in October and maybe Xrays are to be avoided then
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Sunny but crisp here, washing on the line and ironing to do but T,V is down ,I like to watch whilst ironing .
Hope you feel better soon .
Viktoria.
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It seems to be so much easier to fall as we grow older. :( I'm on blood thinners and was told that if I fell and hit my head I must go to A&E in case there was a bleed on the brain! Of course it did happen and we went off to our nearest hospital and spent 6 hours there waiting for various people to see us. They then told me that they didn't find anything to worry about and sent us home.
Viktoria and Mark
So sorry to hear that you fell and hope that you will soon recover. It's the shock/embarrassment of it, as well as the pain, of course. I was once entertaining some friends in our tiny sitting room and managed to trip over someone's feet and go headlong onto the floor, which is tiled and rather hard, as I discovered. One of my guests remarked that I should have fallen onto him, as I would then have had a soft landing! (He is quite a plump fellow!)
Lovely sunny day today, but rather chilly. I have washed the bedding and it's soon going to be dry enough to iron. The sheet label says that you don't need to iron them, but I can see that that's not true, so I'll be ironing out the obvious creases. I do like a smooth bedsheet. The engineer has called to deal with our computer and thinks he has solved the problem, but wasn't over confident about it. At least the internet is working at the moment.
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Oh dear, more water with it folks!,
LM
Off to the new diary in case we get shut down