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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Does he have very small feet? Wilkie Collins had such tiny feet, he could only get women's shoes to fit.
And/or is he a cheapskate? I recollect an old chap used to dot about in traditional Scottish dress - except that it wasn't a kilt, it was a lassie's tartan miniskirt (complete with net petticoat) that he'd bought out of a charity shop.
Or maybe he just is a transvestite and the shoes are the outward and visible sign of the stockings, suspender belt, frilly knickers etc that he wearing under his sou'wester and oilskins.
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Then again, if he's spent that long at sea, anything could be possible. Maybe he shot an albatross?
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Maybe so. I knew the Ship wouldn't fail me.
It did cross my mind that maybe he'd made a vow to his dying wife not to let her good shoes go to waste, but . . .
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
Surely putting stuff on to protect the skin from water makes putting her in the water a bit pointless? (Don't know if that makes sense as to why I am puzzled but its puzzling me!)
I suspect this is an explanation for something that works in quite a complex way.
Firstly I am suspicious that it partly works by loosening the dirt before you put teacup in the water, so the dirt can simply be wiped off, rather like a pre wash stain treatment.
I also suspect it might be hydrophobic, water repellent, but if my understanding is right this will only be effective until soap is added, when I suspect it will readily dissolve in the water taking the dirt with it.
Finally I suspect it will leave a moisturising residual on tea-cup. I say this as someone who often finds hand cream too greasy and washes it off, yet still appears to benefit from it.
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As an adult eczema / psoriasis sufferer, I am supposed to use aqueous cream to wash with in the bath and one of the oils - Balneum or Oilatum - in the bath water. I don't and I can prove the eczema. It makes a very nasty mess of the bath and I do more damage to my hands cleaning the bath afterwards.
Ideally, I'd shower using aqueous cream, but that's not possible here. But you're trying to protect fragile skin from damage, and no I am not supposed to use soap either.
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I'm neither a meteorologist nor a volcanologist so can someone tell me in good old British rain will lessen the effect of the ash from Iceland. Could it make it settle, in grubby form, but at least get the stuff out of the atmosphere where it is buggering up air travel?
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We have just cooked tea (well I say "we", that'd be the royal "we" as I just ate the results ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) and used a mystery vegetable we haven't been able to identify. We bought it in our local Asian supermarket and thought it was a giant okra - it certainly looks like okra on the outside, except that it was about a foot and a half/two feet long. But when cut into, it had 3 segments rather than 5, no little seeds and no icky snotty gooey stuff like okra does. When cooked the outside remained hard (and in fact inedible) and the flesh inside was relatively tasteless. Any ideas what we've just eaten?
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Thanks Ariel, that's exactly it. Hooray for the internet! (now off to search out recipes and instructions for cooking it properly ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ).
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
Thanks Ariel, that's exactly it. Hooray for the internet! (now off to search out recipes and instructions for cooking it properly ).
Don't. It's called a drumstick for the best of reasons. Buy a drum.
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Uncle Pete
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The outer bit remains hard. The trick is to suck out the inside and discard the shell. Have a plate on the table for remnants. Serve with a spiced curry.
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Uncle Pete
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Calling Brits to answer this question.
I have two small parcels to post off when I am briefly in the UK on my way home on Saturday.
I note that Heathrow boasts of a post office in terminal 2. Could you confirm that it does
a) sell mailing boxes
b) is actually open on Saturday and what hours.
Thanks muchly.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by PeteC:
The outer bit remains hard. The trick is to suck out the inside and discard the shell. Have a plate on the table for remnants. Serve with a spiced curry.
It's really seriously yummy stuff with a delicate flavour so don't over-spice it - a chef friend calls it the Indian asparagus - but beware of eating too much as it can have a laxative effect.
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Wesley J
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To b): see here, Terminal 2:
It is open on a Saturday, and from 09.00 to 17.30.
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Which leaves a) - a negative answer means that I might as well not make the trip over from Terminal 3 after I check in.
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This page says that the Terminal Two Post Office offers 'all the usual services', so I would be astonished if it didn't sell mailing boxes.
This page shows the boxes normally sold by Post Offices - although the page is for Royal Mail online, you would normally expect these to be on offer in any Post Office.
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But this page says that "Terminal 2 closed in November 2009 while modernisation works are taking place."
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Advice needed – can anyone suggest where I can go for advice in the following. Sorry I can’t be very specific but it deals with matters told to me in confidence.
A muslim woman acquaintance of mine asked if I knew where she could go for help. She is married, to a muslim man born in a middle east country. She was born in the UK. They have small children. She believes he is about to abandon her to go back to his home country and marry a local woman. She is of course terrified of this and especially that he will abduct the children and take them abroad. Although they are married and still living together she says he is giving her hardly any money to live on and keep the children on. She doesn’t work and stays at home all day looking after the children.
All I was able to say when she first told me was to suggest Relate as a first step, but obviously there must be organisations out there dedicated to helping muslim women in similar situations. Can anyone advise?
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Jengie jon
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I would try Ashiana for a starting point. They do run refuges but I think their outreach work would cover the women you describe even if there isn't physical abuse.
You might also try Rights of Women which will help her sort out her legal situation.
Jengie
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Wesley J
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Originally posted by Peter Owen:
But this page says that "Terminal 2 closed in November 2009 while modernisation works are taking place."
Quite. Ooops. However, www.heathrowairport.com has this information:
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The airport post office is on the first floor of the Terminal 3 departures building, in the public area before security (it's near the security control entrance).
Again and somewhat surprisingly, there are no further details regarding opening hours or mailing boxes on that site, so you might want to check with Royal Mail on 08457 223344. The only Heathrow post office I see on their post office finder is in the World Cargo Centre, which I suppose is not exactly in Terminal 3 (www.royalmail.com).
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Peter Owen
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If you feed the partial postcode TW6 into the Post Office Branch finder you will get two results. One is the office in Terminal 3 with Saturday opening hours of 09:00 to 17:30. But there is no list of facilities.
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Wesley J
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Brilliant teamwork there! So it seems that they've got the same opening hours and probably the same services as they had in in T2.
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
....there must be organisations out there dedicated to helping muslim women in similar situations. Can anyone advise?
Try Karma Nirvana, set up specifically for situations like this by Jasvinder Sanghera (author of "Shame" and "Daughters of Shame" that a friend from a similar background game me to read so I could see a bit of her own story)
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So I've about used up/beat up the Moleskine notebook I've taken all my class notes in for the last two years. I need a new one.
So the real questions:
Hardcover or soft? My old one has a soft cover that makes it less bulky (and lets it fit a bit more easily into my pocket), but sturdiness is kind of an issue.
Black, red, or other? I'm in kind of a conservative department, so a shockingly red notebook might attract attention, but, at the same time, it'd make it really easy to find in the recessed of my satchel/book explosion that is my room at the end of the term!
Pocket sized or letter-paper sized? The current one is a pocket notebook; however, I have gotten comments on how tiny my chicken-scratch handwriting is as I try to cram two hours worth of notes into something less than six pages. Then again, small takes up less space in the bag . . .
Ruled or plain paper? True, ruled would be neater, but it also kinda keeps me from writing tiny, illegible chicken-scratch notes that won't do me any good when I'm 45 . . .
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I use A5, black, ruled, soft cover. Write in pencil or fountain pen.
I love it. Tactile, easily carried, no transformer to lose.
Shame it doesn't have a search function.
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Sparrow
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Is it still possible to get Filofaxes? I'm thinking of going back to them.
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Wesley J
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Originally posted by Sparrow:
Is it still possible to get Filofaxes? I'm thinking of going back to them.
Yup.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Try the Muslim Women's Helpline. They should be able to advise.
Contacting her MP is another possibility -- they do a lot of casework and will have contacts (sometimes faster lines than the publich numbers)
Though obviously the middle of a general election campaign isn't the best time for this.
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Problem solved. Forget the trendy Chinese-made hipster gear; it's time for my writing geek cred to come out!
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Gracious rebel
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Got a little chip on the windscreen, no bigger than a 1p piece, sort of star shaped, and rumour has it that its getting bigger (my son first noticed it about 3 weeks ago).
We don't have fully comp insurance on this car (it would have cost too much when we added 18yo son on recently) so would have to pay for this if we got it fixed. I got a quote today and its about £160 + VAT for a replacement windscreen (it cannot be repaired, as its an electrically heated windsceen, so drilling into the glass would damage the heating elements).
My question is - how necessary and how urgent is this windscreen replacement? What is the consequence of not getting it done? Is it likely to develop into a massive crack, or cause any other problem?
We are the sort of people that drive around with big dents in the car that I have obtained from bollards in car parks - I see no point in getting something fixed if its only cosmetic. But a problem with the engine would be different. I just don't know where a small windsceen chip falls on the scale of things genuinely worth doing vs things that only make the car look better.
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Carys:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Try the Muslim Women's Helpline. They should be able to advise.
Contacting her MP is another possibility -- they do a lot of casework and will have contacts (sometimes faster lines than the publich numbers)
Though obviously the middle of a general election campaign isn't the best time for this.
Carys
Yes indeed, I did think of that and I actually do know my MP socially, but this week is obviously not a good time.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
My question is - how necessary and how urgent is this windscreen replacement? What is the consequence of not getting it done? Is it likely to develop into a massive crack, or cause any other problem?
Did you ask the windscreen people if they could stabilise it rather than repairing it? (Assuming that it isn't in a position that would cause a problem with your MOT, and therefore roadworthiness.)
We had a small nick in our windscreen a few years ago which developed into a crack and then grew, and grew, although that was a crack rather than being star-shaped. I'd have thought that you would be able to tell if (when) it was getting to be unstable, but the bottom line is that it is a functional and roadworthiness issue and not just cosmetic.
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Windscreen chips can develop into cracks, and this can be prevented by having the chip 'repaired' by injecting resin into the chip. Here is some advice from the AA. Autoglass are probably one of the most prominent repairers. Glass doctor advertise themselves as original (and best). It really does seem to be a case of a stitch in time...
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Gracious rebel
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The trouble is this chip can't be repaired, because of the heating elements in the windcreen. I think I will just moniter it for now, watch if it gets any bigger etc.
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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
The trouble is this chip can't be repaired, because of the heating elements in the windcreen. I think I will just moniter it for now, watch if it gets any bigger etc.
OK, fair enough. The Glass Doctor website seemed to suggest that you can't always trust a 'can't be repaired' verdict - but then they have a product to sell...
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Get it looked at quickly. Dents in the car are unsightly, but that's all. Chips and cracks in the windscreen are potentially dangerous and should not be ignored.
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Some cars are designed to treat the windshield as a structural element, allowing them to make the A-pillars thinner for improved visibility. If yours is such a car, the likelihood of a chip turning into a large and growing crack is increased.
If your windshield is laminated safety glass (as is most common), a large crack might not seem too terribly dangerous. Unfortunately, having such a defect directly in the line of sight is dangerously distracting. Almost hypnotic (though, not as bad as high beams in a snow storm).
If your windshield is tempered glass (as is possible in many places), the transition from chip to crack proceeds along a catastrophically rapid course. The whole windshield is turned suddenly opaque as it succumbs to a fine network of stress cracks. Very very dangerous indeed.
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I was listening to Radio 4 the other week and they had a small piece on the consequences of damage to the Catholic church's reputation around Europe. The reporter in Germany (I think) said that town halls (I think) were expecting queues of people rushing to "de-register" themselves from their Catholic churches; and that this would have a significant financial impact on the churches.
The piece implied that, in Germany, (1) You have to be officially registered at the town hall to be a church member (i.e. more state-based than the UK electoral roll system); and that (2) There was some kind of monthly subscription paid as part of this registration.
Is anyone familiar with this? Does it work like this or have I got the wrong end of the stick? How much do you have to pay? What if you are just visiting? Is it just for Catholics or does it apply to all churches?
I'd never come across it before so very curious!
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Regarding the windscreen question; even if the windscreen is not a structural element of the car body, one should perhaps consider its own structural integrity.
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Hi - very wierd question, so where else to go but the internet.
Can anyone recommend some stomach/core strengthening exercises which a.) don't require any equipment other than you might expect anyone to have in their house anyway (I'm thinking chairs, bed, etc as possible props), and b.) don't exert any strain whatever on the neck. I can't do sit-ups because it puts my neck out, and even the 'variants' on such which are supposedly easier on the back/neck, still affect my neck.
I realise this is a difficult thing to address in text form and much easier if you are in the room and can just lie down on the floor and say 'you do it like this', but give it a shot anyway!
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Lie on your back, stick your legs straight up (so at 90 degrees to your body). Write the whole alphabet with both feet together, then each foot in turn (keeping the other one up and still).
If that's easy peasy, lower your legs slightly so they're at 110 degrees to your body, and repeat - keeping legs straight. Continue increasing the angle until legs are still straight but only just don't touch the floor while being waved around.
It hurts. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Jengie jon
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Yoga has at least two, one a variant of Hennah's. Just lie on the floor and lift your feet off a couple of inches and hold for a while, while breathing normally. Its a strong stretch so do not expect to do it for a long time right at the start. The other is Navasana or Boat pose. You will need your legs bent to start with. I still do.
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Jengie jon
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Question:
I have noticed that I have not known a Muslim family that kept a pet, particularly kept a dog. Does anyone know if I have just an odd selection of Muslim families or if there is a particular reason, or if it is purely cultural?
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Wesley J
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An excellent question, quite striking really, and well observed.
I did a quick web search with "muslim family pet", and it seems that dogs are not supposed to be kept as pets, and only allowed for guarding and other outside purposes.
I didn't check about other pets though, and am looking forward to some clarification, just like you. Interesting, this!
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There was a programme on Radio 4 at least a year ago about blind Muslims with Guide dogs - some Muslims regard dogs as purely "outdoor" animals, guard dogs, herd dogs etc, and object to them being allowed inside. (Can't remember if there was a specific religious reason). One father was able to get round his local community's opposition to his blind son's Guide dog by having a senior Muslim classify the dog as a "herd-dog" for herding his son. I can't remember the details, but it was a fascinating programme.
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Here it is.
Can anyone tell me why the details of the radio programme are hazy, but I can clearly remember that I heard it on the car radio whilst driving up the A90, and that the programme finished when I was passing Stonehaven?
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
I have noticed that I have not known a Muslim family that kept a pet, particularly kept a dog. Does anyone know if I have just an odd selection of Muslim families or if there is a particular reason, or if it is purely cultural?
Dogs are considered particularly unclean animals, almost as bad as pigs. "Angels will not enter a house where there is a dog." A Muslim can really only keep them as guard dogs, or herd dogs, not pets. If it licks you, you need to wash. Its saliva is extremely unclean.
Cats, however, are OK. The Prophet loved cats (the story goes that he once went without his cloak because his favourite cat had curled up asleep on it, and he didn't want to disturb it).
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Jengie jon
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Thank you very much.
Now to think how to tell the locals that as most the kids in the local playground are Muslim, letting your dogs in is NOT a good idea.
Dog are not permitted but some people choose to ignore the notices.
Jengie
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Zoey
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Can anyone tell me why the details of the radio programme are hazy, but I can clearly remember that I heard it on the car radio whilst driving up the A90, and that the programme finished when I was passing Stonehaven?
I'm no expert at all, but since nobody else has had a go at answering this question ...
Maybe something to do with how the brain responds to sensory input? If driving up the A90 to Stonehaven is not something you do regularly, then you were getting lots of interesting new visual stimulation at the same time as the interesting info coming to you aurally from the radio - your memory stored the experience as a whole pretty vividly, but not the minutiae from the one type of sensory input (aural input from the radio)?
Sort of like the issue - why is it often so much easier to remember the complete lyrics to one's favourite pop song / hymn than to remember half a page of basic written information for an important exam? - (where some theories are that the fact sound is involved so more senses/ bits of the brain are involved is why the songs easier to remember)
I'm no neuroscientist or pyschologist. I might be talking completely out of my arse. But sensory processing and integration in the brain would be my first line of enquiry if I were trying to research an academically-robust answer to your question, NEQ.
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I'm sure the ability to remember things precisely is helped by being able to link inputs so that when one is stimulated, the others get "woken up": a place on a journey, or a unusual vehicle could trigger a phrase heard and, in the case of a song, the tune, the place you heard it first or someone you associate with it, can help to get the words in order.
Just my 2d.
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