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balaam
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By shamwari
Damn and blast. My e mail address book was hacked into and all manner of people got spam.
Never post your email address online where a web robot can read it. And never use the same password for your email as you do for the rest of the web (I know this from having my email used for distributing hardcore gay porn ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ).
If you pubicise you email address a form similar to shamwari AT emailprovider DOT com works as web robots ignore it.
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Happy St. David's Day - Dydd Dewi Sant - tomorrow
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Further evidence surfaces of the distorting effect this place has on reality.
Today, while a hole in the ground was being dug in our road, they had temporary traffic lights put up. Leading up to some more temporary traffic lights... which are replacing the original set of temporary traffic lights on the bridge as wot have blown up!
Recursive temporary traffic lights... whatever next?
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Happy St. David's Day - Dydd Dewi Sant - tomorrow
Same to you, St. G., and all our other Welsh chums. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Happy St David's Day indeed!
I have a cold, I am a lousy patient, I feel absolutely crap! It is all the fault of 14 year old neighbour boy who had a cold last week and has obviously passed it on with malicious intent - when I blamed him yesterday he just giggled. We were going out for the day today but I have managed to b****r up everybody's plans. I shall now go back to bed and feel magnificently sorry for myself - I'm very practiced at that.
Happily it promises to be a shortlived event and I should be back to being my usual sweet and lovely self in a day or two.
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I have a cold, I am a lousy patient, I feel absolutely crap! ...
Happily it promises to be a shortlived event and I should be back to being my usual sweet and lovely self in a day or two.
I hope you're right about the short-lived thing! Husband and I have had nasty colds for a week now - mine turned into a sticky cough and his turned into a gummy nose. It's been quite a pest as we should be job hunting, flat hunting and exploring Bristol...
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Lots of red shirts etc and our team leader made about four dozen Welsh Cakes to mark St Davids day.
Praise be though, that the canteen isn't trying to make a big deal of it, as they usually do so badly that true Welshmen and women cry.
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Further evidence surfaces of the distorting effect this place has on reality.
Today, while a hole in the ground was being dug in our road, they had temporary traffic lights put up.
You have temporary lights? Luxury!
New lights are being put in near here. This means that both roads meeting the major road are closed. And there's no holes been made, just the old lights removed and the kerb lowered - no sign of any poles for new lights yet, but they've only been there four weeks.
So roads are closed with no work being done to the road surface at all.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Lots of red shirts etc and our team leader made about four dozen Welsh Cakes to mark St Davids day.
Just to prove that social workers aren't quite thoroughly hard bitten and cynical, one of my colleagues brought in a couple of packs of welshcakes and a bunch of daffodils.
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Lots of sympathy to those of you with colds - I'm at the tail-end of a minor sniffle kept in check by Piglet's Patent Cold Remedy™ (lem-sip or similar made palatable with Manuka honey, lemon juice and a wee drop of whisky).
EJ, if you're anything like me, you'll probably pick up more colds than usual in the first wee while after moving to a new place with new bugs. I had several just after we moved to Belfast (and hardly any for the next 14 years) and another several when we moved to Newfoundland; I now seem to be down to about 1½ a year.
I made some red-pepper jelly yesterday; do help yourselves (there's some Philly cheese in the fridge and crackers in the box).
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A full day of rest and lazing about and sleeping [a lot] yesterday and today I am loads better - but it looks like Pete is getting it now!
Off for haircuts soon.
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Thanks Piglet - a good thought as I'm normally proudly resistant to colds. It's just your wretched new British bugs!
And on another matter... how come they're allowed to close the M5?! We were flabbergasted and appalled last night to be toddling off slowly down an A road (with lorries parked up all each side) 'cos they'd gone and closed the M5! We were sick and tired and it was late... just wanted to blat home down the motorway, but no.
(Normally English roads are much better than NZ roads. It is a bit disconcerting that they're not really lit at all, but otherwise...)
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It takes me about 18 months to acclimatise to the germs in a new place - but I'm a pathetic asthmatic who works with children / teenagers. And for the first 18 months after I've moved I'm hanging on to that thought.
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After our trip to the village this morning both Pete and I answer to the name Shaun! It feels so much nicer when it is all lopped off - I'll probably have it done again just before I head for Blighty in May; I treated myself to the luxury of a professional shave at the same time - BLISS!
How much is a trim in a barber over there these days? Go on, let me know just so I can feel smug about paying less than a quid for a haircut AND a shave!
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(Normally English roads are much better than NZ roads. It is a bit disconcerting that they're not really lit at all, but otherwise...)
There is nothing wrong with British roads, it's the volume of traffic that causes the chaos - one little bump and major disruption ensues. Our town was totally gridlocked yesterday, many journeys abandoned. My husband teaches piano on the other side of town - he had to cancel.
The disruption was due to a bump on the motorway, traffic was diverted, it was rush hour - so that was it, nothing moved!
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So why was it called rush hour? - there wasn't much rushing going on, it seems!
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That's a good point, BT - I never really thought about it before, but the slowest driving one ever does is during rush-hour, isn't it?
For those of you in need of comfort, there's cherry CAKE ready for virtual tasting - help yourselves.
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Welease Woderwick
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I rarely seem to make cake these days since HWMBO became diabetic so a sample of yours is most welcome!
End of school year exams start on Monday, with the big ones, for Standards X, XI & XII a week later - lots of kids heading off to the temple this morning as we did our walk, hoping for Divine intervention, perhaps.
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I love cherry cake, so thank you kindly Piglet!
I don't make cakes now, as Mr. N is diabetic. But my cherry cakes used to turn out more cherry layer cakes, with the cherries all lying on the bottom, leaving plain cake above!
It was amusing to see how various family members ate it a) neatly sliced with a bit of plain and a bit of cherry in each slice, b) eating cherries first and fiddling with plain cake afterwards or c) eating plain cake and saving cherries till last.
I'm sure it was all psychologically significant! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Ah yes, my cherry cakes have all the cherries at the bottom, even if I flour them first. That, and the jaunty angle of the cake, make them quite, er, distinctive.
Morning all. I have been very absent. I'm sort of here, but in a lurking way. All this ongoing folderol with the medical stuff means my brain is coping best with being vaguely intelligible in just one place, rather than lots of message boards at once, IFYSWIM. But reatment is still working, so I'm not complaining.
Been rushing about like a mad thing this week, with visits to Parliament, English Heritage, Riding for the Disabled and Dogs for the Disabled to set up autism guidance and training etc. Brilliant fun! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) but probably not quite what my specialists had in mind when suggesting I take life a bit easy... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) (Can't do a thing with me...!)
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Originally posted by piglet:
Lots of sympathy to those of you with colds - I'm at the tail-end of a minor sniffle kept in check by Piglet's Patent Cold Remedy™ (lem-sip or similar made palatable with Manuka honey, lemon juice and a wee drop of whisky).
I'd say that's three ingredients too many. Only the last one is essential.
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I've been taking zinc diligently for two years now - NO colds NONE!, and I work with primary aged children who cough and sneeze all over the place.
I often get a 'tickle' - then it goes away after a few hours - another one fought off.
Go zinc!
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Hi Amber - great to see you here, even if you cherry cakes are a little short of vertical!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
You do seem to have been rather busy for someone who has been told to take it easy! When I read your post I thought at first that the dogs had autism.
But, on the other hand, that could explain the way our dog is!
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I've never actually had cherry cake, but it sounds good. Maybe I can have a go at making one when we've got a proper kitchen etc...
Also, British weather rocks! They keep saying it's going to rain then it doesn't. It's only rained about twice in the last month. In New Zealand it pretty much rains for about three months in winter/spring (at least it did in my part of it).
But your cold bugs suck. *Still* resting and getting ever so slowly better...
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Ah yes, my cherry cakes have all the cherries at the bottom, even if I flour them first.
I'd turn the cake out of the cake tin when done, apply icing over what would normally be the bottom side of it, stick some extra large glace cherries on top in a pleasing pattern and tell people it's a cherry-upside-down cake.
There is actually a dodge for getting the cherries to distribute themselves throughout the cake mix so they don't all sink, but I can't remember what it is. It might be taking the cake tin out of the oven a few minutes after it's gone in and stirring the mixture, but I can't swear to it.
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How nice to hear from you, Amber!
Cherry cake = good, wherever the cherries are in the mixture!
Is there any left? I've just come back in from singing (among other things) Durufle's Requiem, and I'm Quite Pickish...
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Hello Amber! **waves** Good to see you back!
There's plenty of CAKE left, and the cherries are actually not too badly distributed - coating them in flour certainly helps. I used glacé cherries this time (the recipe calls for maraschino) but D. had been shopping at the Bulk Barn and brought a tub - his way of saying "it's time you made some CAKE".
There's also a pot of chilli con carne bubbling away on the stove, if anyone wants something a bit more savoury.
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Oh dear - my pooch Callum has had a stroke in the night. He is OK, but it's another sign of how old they both are and that they're not far from the rainbow bridge :-(
When we got him the breeder said 'I want you to have this one' - I replied 'I can't afford another' She said 'No, I want you to HAVE him, he's got serious heart problems and will only live 18 months at the most' That was 12 years ago.
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Poor little dog, glad he's OK, but hope he feels better very soon ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Snowing here, in amidst the heavy rain, but not settling. Bitterly cold, yet another Sunday when the weather puts you off going anywhere.
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Snowing here too! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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No sign of snow here ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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No snow here either
Yesterday I was chatting with my father-in-law who was telling me that they were having a beautiful day (in Herefordshire), whilst we were stuck with grey and wet mizzly yuckiness. Today we have blue skies and sunshine, and on fb and here I am reading of snow down south. I am beginning to wonder if the UK has turned itself upside down overnight.
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Well, the weather has prompted me to open a bottle of wine, have some hot buttered fruit scones with jam, and spend a very pleasant afternoon in the kitchen cooking a few things that will mean I don't have to cook anything for the next 2-3 days.
I wouldn't have done any of that if it had been warm and sunny, I'd have felt obliged to go out somewhere instead. The sky looks quite ominous in the east at the moment, so it might be time for another scone.
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for Callum - poor wee dog.
It's been quite a nice day here - it was 5° and really quite spring-like at lunch-time. D. and I went to a downtown restaurant for lunch and had a nice walk along the street on the way to and from where we'd parked, which is something we haven't really done for a while.
Mind you., they're forecasting sn*w ane then freezing rain overnight - probably not quite enough to justify a sn*w-day.
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I don't know where all this snow is coming from... it's a bit chillier here but fine and certainly nowhere near snow (as far as I can tell from my limited experience).
I think we chose a good bit of England to live in, weather-wise. It was one of the key factors as I get a bit down with overcast grey skies.
Boogie... my sympathies for the dog situation. It's hard when they get older...
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Bright sunny day here...bit breezy, but as long as the sun is shining, I don't mind.
One of our Elderly cats who has been being treated for kidney disease is looking very sad and withdrawn. I love my cats, but don't enjoy this stage of their lives...
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St Everild for your poor old cat.
Thanks all, for your sympathy for Callum. He was unable to walk for a while, but he seems to be back to normal now. Apparently strokes are nothing like as serious in dogs as in humans (Because they don't have a Cortex?)
Sunny and chilly here. Coffee/tea and newly baked bread on offer.
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... I'm at the tail-end of a minor sniffle ...
Unfortunately said minor sniffle has found a boomerang and come back with a vengeance. Is a computer virus when you communicate with people on the interweb and then get their colds (MENTIONING NO NAMES ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) )?
Tea, sympathy and GIN will all be appreciated.
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Sorry about your cold, piglet - everybody else here now has, or has had, the one I had last week!
A great day yesterday, we were whisked off to see the new Church of St Thomas at Malayatoor - a splendid Syro-Malabar Catholic church on the banks of the Periyar river. It is quite stunning inside. During Holy Week it will be packed out with pilgrims who will then head off to climb to the other church on top of the mountain and past the 12 Stations of the Cross.
We had lunch on the way back then I slept most of the afternoon
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Originally posted by piglet:
... I'm at the tail-end of a minor sniffle ...
Unfortunately said minor sniffle has found a boomerang and come back with a vengeance. Is a computer virus when you communicate with people on the interweb and then get their colds (MENTIONING NO NAMES )?
Tea, sympathy and GIN will all be appreciated.
snuffly piglet
Ooops, hope that wasn't me! I'm still sinus-y but SO pleased to able to get out of the house and walk about without being too exhausted and sick.
Anyhoo, seeing as it's virtual, have some tea with a chaser of GIN from me! The sympathy is real.
Cheers,
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Not sure I like the sound of tea with a gin chaser...gin goes better with tonic and a dash of bitters...
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Plenty of tonic, ice and a slice of lemon in the GIN for me - thanks EJ.
If the weather forecasters are right, I may well get the chance to sleep off some of my cold, as we're due to have a blizzard overnight and in the morning, which is expected to dump about a foot of sn*w on us; that should be enough to justify a sn*w-day.
It's now 10:45 p.m. and nothing's happened yet though ...
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Dear Piglet
Given that Canada is pretty near the Arctic, which means snow, ice etc. for quite a few months, do they actually go to work in the winter??
Just wondering!
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amber - you inspired me to make a cherry cake! The cherries are evenly spaced, I used Delia'sadvice. (But didn't cook it as long - more like 40 mins)
I also have choc chip cake - I'll leave both on the side for you to help yourselves.
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Could I have a bit of each, Boogie???
Lucky its virtual cake! But they sound delicious. Do the choc chips stay where they are supposed to??
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Hehe - yes they did! Here is a photo of it - the cake tin liner didn't fit so the cake has frilly edges, I've glazed it with orangy stuff.
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Hehe - yes they did! Here is a photo of it - the cake tin liner didn't fit so the cake has frilly edges, I've glazed it with orangy stuff.
Yum! That looks delicious! I propose a shipmeet at Boogie's house (though I guess it'd be prohibitively expensive to get there...)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Nicodemia:
Dear Piglet
Given that Canada is pretty near the Arctic, which means snow, ice etc. for quite a few months, do they actually go to work in the winter?? ...
Dear Nicodemia,
Latitude of St. John's, Newfoundland: 47°N
Latitude of Manchester: 53°N
Who's close to the Arctic now?
It's true that there are bits of Canada that are very close to the Arctic, but St. John's isn't one of them; we're actually about the same latitude as the north of France. The reason we don't get their weather is they've got the Gulf Stream and we've got the Labrador Current. We got about a foot of snow last night and yes, I did get a snow-day.
Was v. sad today to learn that a former choral scholar had taken his own life. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Ariel
Shipmate
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Piglet, sorry to hear about your friend - may he rest in peace.
On a lighter note, it's International Women's Day today. Some of us are wearing pink, and some have brought in pink cakes, to help us celebrate our inner (and outer) femininity. Enjoy the day, however you spend it - hope it's a good one for you!
Cake (OK, it's not particularly pink but it's one of our office favourites.)
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Nicodemia
WYSIWYG
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quote:Eleanor Jane posted:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Hehe - yes they did! Here is a photo of it - the cake tin liner didn't fit so the cake has frilly edges, I've glazed it with orangy stuff.
Yum! That looks delicious! I propose a shipmeet at Boogie's house (though I guess it'd be prohibitively expensive to get there...)
I could get there - take a while, but I am sure there is a bus/tram/train or all three that would do it!!
Looks scrumptious, Boogie. Wish Mr. N could eat cake (he's diabetic) I love baking.
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