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I dipped in here just being nosey; I'm glad I did, it was +30C today and much too hot for me, and it's good to be reminded of winter misery so as to appreciate the summer a little more.
I have a massive pile of cut firewood at work which is proving hard to give away at this time of year, in case any of you happen to be passing with a van or big trailer ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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On a brighter note, I am heading West in a week, and lunch with Jugular, Rexory, Dark Knight and AdamPater is duly arranged.
We won't talk about you, honest.
Mr Curly
Well, I hope it is a bit warmer in the west, Mr Curly. I hear Jugular is temporarily a bionicle...am thinking there might be some movie roles around for him if he keeps being accident prone. At least a new stage play with a Robot Priest in it, anyway. Between the two of you I am sure you could come up with a script!
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Originally posted by mark_in_manchester:
... it was +30C today ...
In Manchester??? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Zappa, maybe you should try Cyprus. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
PS Sorry about the link to the Daily Fail, but it was sent by a friend on Facebook.
[ 06. July 2017, 23:38: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Galloping Granny
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The heatable gel pack sounds good – how long does it stay warm? I have a wheat pack, basically for pain, and that doesn't keep its heat like a hottie. And yes, I have had a hottie leak or burst in the bed, once or twice over the years.
The bed and my clothing are keeping me warm, with a starting boost from the wheat pack.
I understand that in rest homes they use wheat packs as less likely to be too hot for oldies, but an extra half minute in the microwave can make the wheat pack dangerously hot.
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Lothlorien
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Not feeling brilliant today although it is beautifully sunny, so have not looked up link. Gel packs are safer than wheat packs. There have been cases here reported by Fire brigade where a wheat pack was heated long than recommended. Place under bed clothes it smouldered and set bedding on fire. Gel packs can be quite hot, but at least should not do that.
Obviously care is needed, whatever the product.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
There have been cases here reported by Fire brigade where a wheat pack was heated long than recommended. Place under bed clothes it smouldered and set bedding on fire. Gel packs can be quite hot, but at least should not do that.
I once overheated a gel pack in the microwave, and it started leaking in the microwave.
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Originally posted by Moo:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
There have been cases here reported by Fire brigade where a wheat pack was heated long than recommended. Place under bed clothes it smouldered and set bedding on fire. Gel packs can be quite hot, but at least should not do that.
I once overheated a gel pack in the microwave, and it started leaking in the microwave.
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The bedroom is the preserve of the cat, not the dog. It's currently cat-under-blanket weather; early in life she tried getting right under the doona too but was advised otherwise.
Our current essential is the fan heater in the walk-in wardrobe. Getting dressed without it would not be pleasant.
Looking forward to the (relative) warmth of Sydney this weekend.
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Dogs can leak too ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
I mislaid my purple possum and Merino beanie, ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) so I bought another one. One less possum predating on our native birds. I do have other warm hats that I enjoy wearing, but this design really hugs my head and doesn't set my hearing aids screaming with feedback. When it's really cold I have been known to wear a close fitting, very thin merino beanie under it. The trouble is that when I go into a shop or the library it's so warm I have to strip off a few layers - but I always keep a careful count ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) .
I have flannelette sheets on my bed and a warm blanket between them and the duvet. I find that without that blanket the cotton covered duvet takes longer to warm up. I also put a really soft artificial fibre throw in my bed so I can snuggle my feet into it as I find bedsocks too confining. That way I manage without an extra heat source(except on really cold nights when I have a purring one.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Here is Fire Brigade advice for the safe use of wheatpacks.
I'm surprised that they don't mention always having a cup of water in the microwave with the wheat bag.
The one time I could have caused a fire I'd put it in without the water, and it had gone on to 30.00 instead of 3.00. Fortunately it smelt hot quite quickly.
However the present one is looking a bit scorched, so maybe it's time for a new one.
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Lothlorien
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Yes I also use water in microwave for things like this. Actually I no longer have wheat pack type warmer pad. The one I had was many years old and seams frayed till it was beyond repair. Have not used anything this year so far, although temperatures here have been almost zero here.
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Slightly warmer here, hovering around 2 degrees Celsius.
Making my fail-proof heal-all chicken soup for my neighbour's father-in-law who is very ill with cancer. I don't know him but large pots of chicken and vegetable soup are always welcome in winter. I shall make him a mug of beef tea next week -- in another life I would have specialised in invalid cookery because it is something I enjoy doing and appreciate when I am ill myself.
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Home-made soup isn't just therapeutic for the eater - I find it's very therapeutic to make as well.
Prayers ascending for the gentleman concerned. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Yes, prayers as Piglet says and I echo her thoughts on the therapeutic properties of both making and eating soup.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Home-made soup isn't just therapeutic for the eater - I find it's very therapeutic to make as well.
Prayers ascending for the gentleman concerned.
You need bread to go with soup and few things are more rewarding than home made bread.
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Banner Lady
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Obviously in need of comfort food up at Mum's aged care facility too - a Food Matters meeting between residents and suppliers saw lots of requests for hearty soups and rice puddings. I ended up leaving them a recipe for a simple condensed milk and rice favourite of my MIL.
Also on the must try list is Ice cream sweetbread - just 4 cups full cream ice cream (any flavour) mixed with 3 cups SR flour and baked slow for an hour. Sounds too easy to be wonderful but as I do not enjoy spending time in the kitchen, I'm willing to try all short cuts available. Apparently it is popular in Singapore, where melted ice cream is a fact of life.
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Lothlorien
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I back the call for soup, I love it and used to make a wide range when I was feeding a number of people.I still make it fpor myself, although I have trouble getting quantoties right and so some is usually frozen.
Rice pudding? Not for me thanks and never has been. Once, newly married I was cooking rice for a savoury dish. It did not taste right so twice I added salt from the bulk packet of common salt, marked CS. Unfortunately , the shopkeeper had marked caster sugar as CS. It was revolting. It became rice pudding for my husband for about a week. Not to my taste at all.
Your mention of condensed milk reminded me of my aunt's mayonnaise. Condensed milk, vinegar and mustard. Adjust quantities to suit your taste. Not my favourite at all.
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Condensed milk and vinegar sounds completely revolting!
Do you take it to facilitate a visit to the vomitorium?
The mere thought has been sending shivers down my spine.
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Lothlorien
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Here is a Recipe My mother did not make this but her sister did, as did many other home cooks of years ago.
I don't like it, but it is not as bad as you may think. It is sweet from the milk.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
You need bread to go with soup and few things are more rewarding than home made bread.
Absolutely - further Kitchen Therapy™.
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Here is a Recipe My mother did not make this but her sister did, as did many other home cooks of years ago.
I don't like it, but it is not as bad as you may think. It is sweet from the milk.
I had this once, in Cairns, many years ago I didn't realise it was more widespread than that. I went to a cafe/restaurant with my Aunt and she said they have really nice mayonnaise here, I tasted it and immediately detected condensed milk, she responded with "of course, that's how you make mayonnaise". News to this southerner. I agree though Loth, it isn't as bad as it sounds, I just found it too sweet-can't say I noticed the taste of vinegar in it.
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Yes to the suggestion that homemade bread is therapeutic, anything that involves kneading brings out the soulful and cathartic, and processes the odd resentment. I have tried no-knead breads once or twice but always go back to kneading by hand.
Thank you for the prayers for my neighbour's father-in-law. He is calm and resigned but weakening by the day and not able to swallow much, not even strained soup. I am thinking of salt-free consommes and more beef tea, egg flips etc. His wife has never learned to cook and burns everything from toast to a boiled egg. Her nerves are shattered and I think she needs soup more than her husband!
Lothlorien, your faux mayonnaise is called sweet and creamy salad dressing or salad cream out here and was very popular in the 1950s. (Plenty of old cookbook recipes around.) I don't know I could face it.
BannerLady, rice pudding -- I've made one with coconut milk, basmati rice, lime zest and cardamom, aromatic and Asian-inspired. Very popular with dinner guests but I wasn't crazy about it. Years ago in a vegetarian restaurant called The Granary, I had a wonderful rice pudding with honey and brown rice -- not heavy or too sweet, but I haven't seen any recipes for that.
And thanks too for those here who prayed for my friend Jenny M, who died peacefully yesterday, family with her.
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I could now pop in for a kneadless pun, but I reckon I shan't.
Always good to read from you Upside-Downers, and what's going on in your neck of the wood! Please carry on.
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... I have tried no-knead breads once or twice but always go back to kneading by hand ...
Um ... I use a machine ...
Kneading by hand doesn't appeal to me in the least (I have quite small hands, which is my excuse and I'm sticking to it ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) but I find rolling and shaping the loaves (usually French sticks) very therapeutic.
Not to mention the feeling of satisfaction when you take them out of the oven!
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Huia
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Condensed milk and vinegar sounds completely revolting!
It is! When I was a child this was the main salad dressing used in my family until my middle brother did a cooking class at High School and introduced us to French and Italian dressings and (best of all)... Garlic! I have a feeling that bell peppers were introduced to our family at the same time. I'm so glad he didn't take woodwork or metalwork, which was what most boys took at that time. The programme was called Wider Horizons and it certainly widened ours.
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How about the miracle that has seen [former] Archbishop Pell make it back to Australia to face trial in connection with long-ago child abuse scandals in the Australian RCC. It's only last year (IIRC) that his doctor's claimed he was unable to make such a journey, so that he could give his witness testimony only by video link from Rome. Perhaps he's bene to Lourdes in the meantime.
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Perhaps you could invent some wired up, battery operated warm underwear. Your own personal electric blanket. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Meanwhile I am immersed in NBN plans. I checked a while ago and the waiting period was a couple of years. Personal letter from my ISP now says three months, as does NBN site.
I have been very happy with the mob I now use, not a problem of any sort in over six years. However they now suggest another $10 a month for same benefits. Benefits for my current payment are not as good as I have now. I will set IT son to find me best deal with a large amount of knowledge.
The only problem I have had here was caused by our largest mob who boast of service and coveraqge. They went into theroom downstairs devoted to such wiring and cut my connection wires as they could not be bothered re-routing some of their wiring. that was a week after all was connected when I moved here. Once that was fixed by T-----a, all has been fine
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Commiserations Zappa. Feels like -2 here. Snow on the hills (about 2 metres away and the wind is blowing off them). Major panic this morning when I mislaid the remote for the heat pump, but then I found I was looking at its underside.
Bad timing on my part, but blood tests revealed an underactive thyroid, which had led to me being underactive and sensitive to the cold . Yesterday I had 6 layers of clothing on, including slink lambskin gloves, and Zappa, you were right, adding more layers is not as comfortable.
I rang my power company because I'm a bit worried about a cost blow out, but so far I'm OK. I am on a "level pay" system where they average out my year's bills, so no great spikes in winter or savings in summer. In addition they let me know if I need to top it up, or they need to drop the amount I pay. Peace of mind for the easily bewildered
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Very thin knit silk underwear does a great job of helping keep you warm without bulking you up.
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Lothlorien
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Good suggestion, Moo. I have a thin thermal top on underneath today and should have done it yesterday. Weather is not as cold in Sydney as elswwhere mentioned, but still cold. We have had overnight minimums in my suburb of 1. Yesterday was grey and damp and downright unpleasant all day. Iturned the heater on several hours earlier than usual and left it on.
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Also thermal clothing "skins" - used by active people in the cold. Soldiers wear them under uniforms. Military and sports shops stock them. Textile technology has come a long way since waffle weave.
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Bit chilly in the Alps. Not surprising really!
Frost everywhere outside this morning. Snow up further, but not here thankfully.
You never really get used to it. You just wear warmer clothes!
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Welcome back Rowen - how are you?
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Slightly warmer here, hovering around 2 degrees Celsius.
Making my fail-proof heal-all chicken soup for my neighbour's father-in-law who is very ill with cancer. I don't know him but large pots of chicken and vegetable soup are always welcome in winter. I shall make him a mug of beef tea next week -- in another life I would have specialised in invalid cookery because it is something I enjoy doing and appreciate when I am ill myself.
I've had a huge pot of brilliant soup from one neighbour for me to freeze and eat when I come home from hospital (I don't have a date for surgery yet) – enough for eight lunches, frozen in pottles.
Another neighbour brought some great thick soup that has given me two days' lunch.
All I've made lately was cupcakes, because I was longing for some, but I shared those.
The dear soul near our Coromandel place sends me grapefruit from her neighbour's tree – with permission. Having sworn I would not waste the time while I wait for surgery, I let her post as usual eleven fruit in a NZ Post size 2 box. I made the first dozen jars today, when I had someone here to help.
I've just been hearing that lovely 'ping' as some of the jars cooled and the lids proved they were sealed.
Marmalade, anybody?
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Thank you but no marmalade for me. I think I am the only one in the family who does not like it. Except the lim and ginger which I like because of the ginger.
I actually like raw peel, lemon or orange or mandarine and will happily eat any of those. But marmalade? No. You have done well to get it made. Please let us know when there is a date for the surgery.
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Love marmalade, especially homemade. I'm not good at making jams or preserves myself although I have made jars of fig jams and figs in syrup (here called konfyt) because I have two fig trees that produce brown figs and white Genoa figs in such abundance each autumn.
GG, I'm happy to hear you have such thoughtful neighbours.
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Birdbath has been frozen solid for the last two days. But at least there is some pale sun and no wind. TP showed me an old picture of one of our local retired clergy back in the day he was hosting the ABC at a bush church. The communion wine had to be kept in a thermos to keep it from boiling, because the summer was so hot. Can't imagine how the Archbishop of Canterbury would cope without aircon, in vestments, and 45 degree temps. Probably lucky it didn't kill him.
But anyway - there's a good tip for our clergy to remember as the world is globally warmed - pack a thermos for the wine!
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Marmalade, anybody?
Ooh, yes please. On toast.
I've never tried making marmalade; D. isn't wild about it*, so there wouldn't be much point in making jars and jars of the stuff. My preserving skills extend to red-pepper jelly (dead easy) and plum chutney (when someone gave me a load of plums).
* It's one of those things, like port, that he feels he ought to like, but doesn't.
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Love marmalade, especially homemade. I'm not good at making jams or preserves myself although I have made jars of fig jams and figs in syrup (here called konfyt) because I have two fig trees that produce brown figs and white Genoa figs in such abundance each autumn.
GG, I'm happy to hear you have such thoughtful neighbours.
A friend fond some funny fruit on a bush in the back corner of his house and asked if I could identify them. Cape gooseberry, I said, and made a pot of jam for a friend who came many years ago from South Africa. MaryLouise, you can imagine his joy, whether or not you fancy cape gooseberry jam.
My son has a fig tree – he just loves eating the figs.
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Bumped into Orfeo at the airport tonight while waiting for family to arrive. Denmark obviously agrees with him. He was looking most cosmopolitan.
We have new wheels. Our first SUV, so we have gone up in the world. It is very easy to drive, and TP and his arthritic knees are enjoying the extra space and height in the vehicle. I guess we are finally beginning to look like retirees.
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Health to drive it, BL!
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MaryLouise
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Lovely story GG, and cape gooseberries grow like crazy in the garden, self-seeding and coming up everywhere. I've never made jam or even used them in dessert, I just eat them by the handful when the papery capes show they are ripe. For a long time I thought they were named after the Cape in South Africa but they originate in Latin America and are named for the capes around the berry. English gooseberries are completely different, I love them too but as a novelty.
Homesickness so often shows itself in longing for particular foods -- I have South African friends in the UK and Antipodes who write about craving biltong, bobotie, Mrs Ball's Chutney and boerewors (a spiced sausage). The taste of home.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Homesickness so often shows itself in longing for particular foods -- I have South African friends in the UK and Antipodes who write about craving biltong, bobotie, Mrs Ball's Chutney and boerewors (a spiced sausage). The taste of home.
When one son moved to central coast here, he was overjoyed to find South African butcher making such things. Unfortunately, he closed with some family problems but my son patronised his businees for over a year and butcher was always pleased to see him walk in.
Several suburbs down the line from GeeD there is a busy delicatessen run by a Jewish family from SA. Always busy, especially at Passover as they kept separate fridges etc for kosher food.
My niece arrived home yesterday from Capetown. She has spent time there before but had about a week this time round after riding in Zambia and Botswana. She enjoyed it.
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