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Piglet
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... I have a box of [Stollen] in the cupboard - my secret store!
Not exactly secret now, is it? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
We were heading to the Cathedral today for D's weekly organ recital when we noticed that someone had left a small drawer unit outside their house; people do that here, in the hope that someone will take it away, so we did. It's exactly what we need for the kitchen/dining-room, and with a lick of paint and some new drawer-handles it'll be just right. I'd never really thought about the existence or otherwise of Father Christmas, but now I'm not so sure ... ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
There's a pot of veggie soup on the stove if anyone's in need of Inner Comfort.
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The veggie soup sounds yummy but we have just partaken in a light lunch of some freshly baked baps with rashers of smoked venison topped with Stilton (goat's cheese for the youngest who, rather oddly, doesn't share the same blue cheese genes as the rest of us), served with baby salad and accompanied by sparking organic orange and lemon juice. It felt quite relaxed and almost healthy compared with the large dinners over the last couple of days.
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
... baby salad and ... organic orange and lemon juice ...
Oh for goodness' sake! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I'm just back from a 60th birthday/retirement bash for one of the tenors in our choir. There was an open bar (he likes his wine) and a huge buffet done by a local Chinese restaurant.
Good food, good drink and excellent company.
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For the first time in too long we had friends round in a vain attempt to polish off the Xmas leftovers. Some hope for these reasons:
- Mrs Sioni buys more stuff
- Guests bring their own leftovers
- Some guests misunderstand and eat beforehand
- Turkey the size of a cow
Kitchen now resembles the field after the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
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I think our invitation must have got lost in the post, Sioni. I have a very handy teenage boy which sort of makes leftovers a thing of the past. Though we do still have some Stollen hidden away ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Taking cat to the vet's for a checkup today. He's doing rather well for a cat that's so poorly so I am confident he'll be coming home with us, though it looks like our daily routine of me sticking my fingers in his mouth, liberally spread with butter and tablets, and him making tiny incisions into them with his razor sharp teeeth, will be continuing for a while.
Rather nice to discover I'm on annual leave today. Hadn't expected that on my first day back after sick leave!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by piglet:
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
... baby salad and ... organic orange and lemon juice ...
Oh for goodness' sake!
I'm making up for it now with bacon, eggs, sausages and bubble and squeak
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These Twixmas days are turning out to be very pleasant and productive - today I've had a major potter with results that really belong on the Decluttering Support thread and that included de-gunking the street gutter and (hic) bottling this year's blackberry wine ready for next Christmas - anyone fancy having an early sample of it?
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Piglet
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I don't know - I think blackberry wine sounds rather scary. My dad used to make blackcurrant wine which was a very pretty rosé colour, and tasted sort of OK-ish but engendered a hangover with a half-life of about a fortnight. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Absolutely filthy day here today - it sn*wed for a good bit of the morning, but it didn't really accumulate very much and then turned to rain. Serious rain. We went to the local shopping centre and after we'd had a bite to eat and a wee look round D. left me to get on with it. I got soaked just walking from the main building to one of the "box stores" across the car-park - a raft wouldn't have been a bad idea.
Still, you don't have to shovel rain.
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Boogie
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Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
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Hope you soon feel better, Boogie, and that it doesn't turn into the dreaded Norovirus!
With the weather as it is here, under the duvet sounds like a good idea!
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Ah, Boogie. That's probably my fault as I was up in boogieland over Christmas and had the cold then. I introduced the germs I think.
Sorry...
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Had a lovely afternoon with the boys at the Fitzwilliam museum (we even had a contest to count willies in the Greek section). Afterwards we popped into a small Japanese restaurant for an early dinner which we finished off with deep fried green tea ice cream. When we got back home we played Carcassone before watching 'How to train your dragon'. A lovely family day and it was good to get out of the house for a few hours.
I hope you're feeling better Boogie and the rest of you are having a good week
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey. Then go to bed.
I've had a moderately busy day today - I was acting as the verger for a wedding (money ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) ). Fortunately the mounds of snow with which we were being threatened didn't materialise, and they were even able to have a few photographs taken outside the West doors - the bride very sensibly had a fur-lined cape to put on over her dress.
I've made my potato salad for the Choir party, which is after the carol service tomorrow night, and the spinach, mushroom and orange one is just a last-minute assembly job.
quite organised piglet ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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We had a couple of hours of heavy and much needed rain overnight, the only problem being that a sack of cement got soaked so we may have to buy another one - ah well, it's only money.
Now if we could have the same every night for the next couple of weeks we'd be well happy, though doubtless the farmers would find something to complain about.
Off to the local equivalent of a stag night this afternoon a few kms up the road.
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You want rain? Have some of ours. About to get up for church for the last time this year.
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Originally posted by piglet:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Duvet day for me today - stinking cough - grrrr!
Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey.
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Add to that the wonder-ingredient - a good pinch (or small teaspoon) of turmeric. It really helps.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by piglet:
Here, have some whisky. Add it to a large cup of Lem-sip or similar made up according to the instructions, with a couple of teaspoons each of lemon juice and Manuka honey. Then go to bed.
Thank you. It did help
You can tell I was poorly - I didn't visit he Ship all day after that!
Glad the snow stayed away for piglet and the rain came down for WW.
Remember me whinging in Hell about the hosepipe ban and that it falls out of the sky and (in the UK) if it isn't doing so now it will soon? I was right. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Much as I appreciate the good advice being shared about cold remedies, I have to say that the best thing I read all winter was the advisory remedy for post-viral cough. I was getting quite fed up of my post-viral cough until I realised that the best known cure for it was.... believe it or not.... chocolate *cough cough*
Now I'm almost disappointed that it's getting better!
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HALLELUJAH!
I mean, good to know.
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I usually recommend a good strong curry in such cases - works for me, though not everyone likes curry.
Sunny this morning - very odd and unusual. We're back to normal weather later. Meanwhile am enjoying some lovely old black and white films - "Notorious" with Claude Rains, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman was on TV recently which was pretty good, am thinking of getting a DVD of it. You can't beat the old classics - "Casablanca" and "Brief Encounter" are still good, and I'll watch anything with Leslie Howard in it.
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Jack the Lass
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I once tried to make a home-made remedy when I had a cold - I found all the hottest spices, sauces etc I could find and fried them up with onions, garlic etc. It all looked a bit unpalatable, so I decided to make it a bit more bearable and mixed it with baked beans. I don't think I even finished the plate before I needed an urgent loo visit (let's just say I would have left Usain Bolt standing) and any cold-curing goodness exited way before it could do any good. I had that cold for weeks! Chocolate sounds far more sensible
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Uncle Pete
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Sorry.
Once I had a chest cold and I needed not to have a cold. It was the evening before my first university graduation (way back in the dark ages).
I had about 6 ounces of white rum the night before. I slept like a baby. On wakening, I coughed once, and appeared to bring up one whole lung. But I didn't have a cold.
The only reason I went to graduation was because my mother wanted to see me graduate. I never told her that she had come close to seeing an empty seat.
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Boogie
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My son is home for Christmas and brought a few bottles of Underberg - well, it certainly tastes like cough medicine!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Remember me whinging in Hell about the hosepipe ban and that it falls out of the sky and (in the UK) if it isn't doing so now it will soon? I was right.
Another government u-turn, they declare a drought and then it rains for most of the year.
A cold but dry day here, quite sunny. After church we played games again, we're trying to limit the computer a bit during the holidays as my kids are somewhat obsessed ( my 12 year old already does some programming and is designing basic games).
Handmade (but not by me) ham and leek pie with baby salad for tea.
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What the heck is a "baby salad" and aren't the neighbours suspicious, yet?
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Originally posted by PeteC:
Sorry.
Once I had a chest cold and I needed not to have a cold. It was the evening before my first university graduation (way back in the dark ages).
I had about 6 ounces of white rum the night before. I slept like a baby. On wakening, I coughed once, and appeared to bring up one whole lung. But I didn't have a cold.
The only reason I went to graduation was because my mother wanted to see me graduate. I never told her that she had come close to seeing an empty seat.
I wish I'd known that for my second (PhD) graduation! I had a terrible sore throat and when it came to singing the National Anthem (do they still do that?) I stood up, opened my mouth and no sound came out! Not wishing to be taken for a republican, not because that's a terrible thing but just because I'm not one, I ended up miming like a Top of the Pops star. After that the day just went downhill. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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What the heck is a "baby salad" and aren't the neighbours suspicious, yet?
should be baby leaf salad, you know, spinach, radish leaf etc. But I was typing whilst pretending to join in the family conversation at dinner ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Just making some snowballs if anybody would like one. Maraschino cherries are optional.
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No, but Wodders, Boogie and Balaam could probably do with one.
I don't understand the principle of chocolate for a cough. Don't get me wrong - I love chocolate - but it's the last thing I want if I have to sing: it dries my throat up something horrid.
Talking of singing, I'm back from our Nine Lessons and Carols, which went very well indeed - much Decanal Grinning™ and the punters (of whom there were more than usual) seemed to enjoy it.
Afterwards we had the Choir party, which was a slightly less liquid affair than usual: it was held in the Cathedral crypt, and there wasn't the same free-flowing wine as there used to be when we had it at somebody's house. Very enjoyable all the same - a nicely-balanced pot-luck supper and good company.
When I got home I decided I fancied another drink, and opened a bottle of home-made "Chardonnay" that was left in the song-room for D. (without any indication who it was from) and I have to say it's really rather nice - not oaky or oily the way "real" Chardonnay sometimes is.
I wonder who it was from ...
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Originally posted by Boogie:
My son is home for Christmas and brought a few bottles of Underberg - well, it certainly tastes like cough medicine!
We have an American friend who adores Underberg, and Mr. S always used to have to take some when he travelled there. Jagermeister is another thing that tastes like cough medicine would, if it had been compounded by Severus Snape!*
*Can you tell I watched the first Deathly Hallows film with Miss S,on Boxing Day?
Mrs. S, sticking to white wine or GIN
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Welease Woderwick
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Ominously the charging light in the jeep didn't quite go out yesterday on the way back from the marriage thingy so first thing this morning we went to the auto-electrician - having first checked and discovered the battery [a great clunking thing as it is a diesel] is just a month out of warranty! Jeep batteries are not exactly cheap and we feared the worse. The very helpful guy pronounced the battery to be quite sound but the alternator was faulty. Happily here they repair things rather than demand the purchase of a whole new thing - an hour and about 12 quid later we drove off with it all working just fine and with the alternator having been taken out, taken apart, a part replaced and the rest cleaned and serviced, put back together and so on.
Excellent!
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Uncle Pete
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What would I do without Doris to transport me and my luggage from the aeroport?
Stay well, Doris! Pats her rump, fondly.
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Welease Woderwick
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What would I do without Doris to transport me and my luggage from the aeroport?...
You'd probably take a taxi which would be a lot easier to get into!
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No, but Wodders, Boogie and Balaam could probably do with one.
The hills are not tall enough, unfortunately, to stop the rain coming over from where it belongs — L*nc*sh*re — if it's this bad here Boogie must be snorkelling over on the wet side of the hills. quote:
I don't understand the principle of chocolate for a cough. Don't get me wrong - I love chocolate - but it's the last thing I want if I have to sing: it dries my throat up something horrid.
Grapefruit juice. Don't shake the carton. The thick stuff in the last glassfull is great for coating the tonsils. quote:
When I got home I decided I fancied another drink, and opened a bottle of home-made "Chardonnay" that was left in the song-room for D. (without any indication who it was from) and I have to say it's really rather nice - not oaky or oily the way "real" Chardonnay sometimes is.
I prefer the oaky stuff. LRP (who reads this thread, so no talking behind her back) likes unoaked. Vive la diference.
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What would I do without Doris to transport me and my luggage from the aeroport?...
You'd probably take a taxi which would be a lot easier to get into!
Chugging up to the house with my wheelchair and my bags tied to the top of a three wheeler?
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Welease Woderwick
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That's fine, no need for us to come and meet you, then.
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Uncle Pete
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No-one to hear the invective I toss at all and sundry when I see what they've done to my wheelchair?
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Welease Woderwick
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Just remember that the arrivals hall is like a barn with a BIG echo and a shout of "WHAT THE F***!!!" can be heard all over.
[even this Host can't code properly!]
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Are we getting a shiny new thread for 2013? Who (apart from the Host In Charge) will be the last person to post on this one?!
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I suggest something more positive as none of the posters here are at all perfidious that I know of. Something along the lines of 'the English, the English, the English are best, I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.'
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I know it's early, so I certainly won't be the last, but a very happy new year to all my perfidious shipmates! Here's to another year of weather,food and general goings on.
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We have already had "This sceptre'd isle", haven't we?
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How about 'Mad dogs and Englishmen...[and women]'?
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I think we were Mad Dogs and Englishmen etc a couple of years ago, IIRC.
Plus although there is a Scottish thread (isn't devolution marvellous? ), MD&E doesn't exactly cover the whole UK.
Not that I can think of anytihng better, mind you
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I was vaguely aware of both points. But then nor does Albion. The problem of finding a UK-inclusive title is the same as finding UK-specific patriotic songs: apart from the horrendously jingoistic Rule Britannia (let no-one suggest that...!) there ain't much.
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Crowd: We're all individuals!
Lone voice: I'm not!
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Angloid
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I'd go with 'Land of Hopeless Tories...' but it might be felt a tad partisan.
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Jack the Lass
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Haha - I'd go with that too!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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The suspense is over - it's here.
And a Happy New Year.
Firenze
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