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St. Gwladys
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I have a wonderful cleaning lady who also does my ironing - sorry, La Vie, I think you'd be a bit far off her round. She also colours my hair when I'm going grey, and knows more about the goings on at one of our daughter churches than our vicar does, as she cleans for half the congregation!
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Piglet
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I used to have a friend who cleaned the houses of several other friends and acquaintances. Unfortunately her grasp of the meaning of the word "discretion" was a bit shaky, and she sometimes told me things that I really didn't want to know ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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la vie en rouge
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This is probably terrible to admit, but we’ve been burned in the past by church people doing work for us and we kind of don’t trust them anymore. We’d rather hire a heathen with good references.
Anyway, following yesterday’s audition, husband en rouge has hired a nice lady called K for 3 hours of cleaning and 1 hour of ironing once a week on a Friday morning. She’s a Peruvian mother of two who lives round the corner from us and takes cleaning hours to supplement the family income.
No more ironing!! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Piglet
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Excellent - hope it works out for you.
So far it appears to be a beautiful day - not too hot, just nice and sunny. Sadly, there's almost an inch of rain in tomorrow's forecast ...
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Oh, all your talk of hiring cleaners has made me feel really guilty of the fact that I'm hiding on the Ship to avoid going into the kitchen! I shall just scroll down and pretend nobody mentioned housework, shall I?
I'm hoping for good weather tomorrow as I'm filling my "no-income-summer" with a little part time job looking after two small children. Tomorrow sees us going out for the entire day to an adventure playground. Takes me back to when I was first a mummy - especially as they have sparkly blue eyes and curly golden hair, just like the little Smudgelet when he first arrived on the scene. AHhhhhhhhhh
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Housework
(In case Smudgie is scrolling down ![[Smile]](smile.gif) )
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LeRoc
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Always glad to help
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Japes
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I do not recommend end of academic year, moving house and being diagnosed with diabetes within a fortnight of each other as a Good Idea. Especially when it also involves a change of doctor mid-diagnosis process. Though, ultimately, that change would have happened anyway. Until this point I have troubled the medical profession remarkably little,only when Properly Ill, and I did not appreciate it that on the two occasions former doctor had seen me, he made it clear I was wasting his time.... (until blood tests conclusively proved otherwise on both occasions!)
Still, I am more or less recovered from end of academic year, house is gradually taking shape, more furniture arrives tomorrow (bookcases!!!)and health stuff is getting sorted. Nice, nice new doctor appreciated I had a certain amount of understanding as a result of what I have been trained to do at work with students, explained my test results clearly when I asked, (he was horrified by what former doctor had said and, more importantly, not done by way of explaining those results and not done by way of referrals to other healthcare professionals) and, basically, treated me as a reasonable, intelligent human being!
It's probably a good job I'm not due back at Main Job for another five weeks, I might have got all the new routines sorted by then.
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moonfruit
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Yikes, Japes, hope you can rest and relax some these next few weeks!
Following yesterday's parental visit, my flat seems to have passed muster - although I'll see what my sister says after she's spoken to the parents and doubtless heard all about the dust behind the bathroom door.
The Harry Potter Studio Tour was excellent, it's really interesting to see all the real things from the film, and makes you appreciate the amount of detail and work that goes in to something like that - like hand-making and labelling 17,000 wand boxes for Ollivander's shop. Now I want to re-watch all the films, but I have realised that I only possess two on DVD...hmm. Time to scour the charity shops/ amazon.
From tomorrow I'm house/garden/cat sitting for friends for 4 weeks, almost - I'm looking forward to having a nice big house and garden to roam around in, although hoping that I won't miss my little flat too badly. Still, I'm only local, so I can always pop back if I get homesick!
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Lothlorien
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Goodness me, Japes. That is a lot to handle all at once. I can remember diagnosis of ex Mr L with type 2 diabetes. He refused to believe it despite fainting in shower three times one morning. Very difficult to deal with.
Your new doctor sounds like a wonderful change to the previous.
Get some rest in the next few weeks as well as unpacking etc.
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Piglet
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Our what-to-do-with-Wednesday-evenings-when-you-haven't-got-choir-practice restaurant odyssey continues apace: we went to a place called the Red Rock Bar and Grill (nicer than it sounds) for a bite this evening. Haute cuisine it wasn't, but it was all right: D. had little Thai wontons and spicy sauce to start, and I had onion rings (this was possibly a mistake, as the helping was enormous).
Then he had chicken stir-fry and I had prawn and scallop linguine, both of which were fairly all right. Not up to the standard of last week's adventures, but not bad all the same.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I hope you can soon get on top of it, Japes. Both my parents were diabetic and I had gestational diabetes so it's something I am regularly checked for and which I can empathise with.
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Piglet
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Is there a reason why diabetes is so much more prevalent now than it was, say 30 or 40 years ago?
When I was growing up I knew one diabetic, and these days I seem to know dozens.
Is it something to do with modern lifestyles, or modern diagnostics, or [puts cynical hat on] just a desire on the part of pharmaceutical companies to sell those little testing strips? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
A former organ pupil of D's whose son was diagnosed at the age of six or seven said that over here they cost $1 a pop, and you need to use several every day. And, unlike back home, they're not available on the NHS; if you haven't got appropriate medical insurance, you're jiggered.
As predicted, summer has ground to a halt: the view from the corridor window has gone away and it's blowing a gale. If weather like this had happened in America, they'd have given it a name. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I have been musing on the subject of Fireflies - we get them all year but they are most prevalent during monsoon, so about now. I go for a walk around the village most evenings after supper and tonight it was like one tree had those flashing LED fairy lights on it, there were so many of the little creatures flashing merrily away advertising for mates. One night last week one of them attached itself to the flyscreening on an open window in my bedroom - they really are quite bright, I was surprised.
Another thing on my evening walks - just like in UK the male half of the yoof of the village gathers in little groups - here they are not only friendly but they are illuminated by their phone screens - they don't seem to talk much to one another just texting to those that aren't there!
Strange animals!
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Japes
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As I understand it, Piglet, there are a combination of factors including diet/lifestyle choices and hereditary factors. As well as better diagnosis.
Certainly I've been half expecting this since I have a parent with diabetes. He discovered it all most dramatically about eight years ago, and it took a long time to stabilise, but he seems to be very well controlled with it now, though.
At the moment, I'm not being asked to self-test but I'm doing so most days for now, which has helped me a lot to figure out what works. The test strips cost about the same here as in Canada! Fortunately, a pot of 50 will last a couple of months.
It is all settling down and I now feel considerably better, though perversely, I hadn't felt ill, just very tired. Which is perfectly reasonable at the end of term and when packing up to move.... Apparently I should have been feeling very, very unwell and had to promise to call an ambulance if I felt at all unwell overnight between the doctor telling me the test results in the evening and me getting to the doctor first thing the next morning to collect the prescription that she'd really wanted me to have there and then.
In more interesting news, I have bookcases arriving tomorrow. I will feel much, much more at home once the books are out of their boxes!
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Ariel
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
Is there a reason why diabetes is so much more prevalent now than it was, say 30 or 40 years ago?
Difficult to say. I must admit I've often wondered, not about diabetes, but why there seems to be a sudden explosion of people with nut allergies. I don't remember ever meeting anyone with a nut allergy before about 20 years ago.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I don't remember ever meeting anyone with a nut allergy before about 20 years ago.
Maybe they just died and 'unexplained' death?
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Ariel
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I'm assuming they'd probably have gone through the various stages of figuring out that they felt unwell/had a reaction after eating nut products first rather than just dropping down dead the first time they had a peanut. I'm not sure, but wouldn't have thought the first bite first time would kill someone nut-allergic.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Most anaphylaxis doesn't happen on the first time of exposure, at least in medications.
Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle timebomb, and diet is a very big part of that. Some people, like me, are genetically pre-disposed to it but diet will still be a high influencing factor. I try to stick to a low sugar, low starch diet in the hope of warding it off.
My grandfather was diagnosed at least 40 years ago and my father was showing obvious signs when he was diagnosed about 25 years ago.
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I'm assuming they'd probably have gone through the various stages of figuring out that they felt unwell/had a reaction after eating nut products first rather than just dropping down dead the first time they had a peanut. I'm not sure, but wouldn't have thought the first bite first time would kill someone nut-allergic.
Often it is the second time that you are exposed to something that your body mounts the allergic reaction. Many children used to die of anaphylaxis and no one had any idea what had caused it. It was put down, as Boogie said, as an unexplained death.
These days, many parents are careful to introduce the "Big 8" foods one at a time and to watch for reactions. The Big 8 are: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybean.
Many of the children who test positive for an allergy to one of these are kept strictly away from them as a precaution. As they grow and are tested again and again, they can be given permission to attempt a food challenge with the item(s).
I don't know what the statistics are but there are a significant number of children who have tested positive for an allergy, and who need to live as if they have a life-threatening allergy, but who are not actually allergic to the food or are not always going to be allergic to it.
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L'organist
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Can anyone explain why we've got our FOURTH invasion of wild bees in 3 weeks???
Not only is it costing me a fortune in pest control, the smell of decomposing bees and rotting honey in the shed isn't very pleasant ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I'll take care of that for you, shall I? Let's call it "Lavinia."
Crikey! Are we up to the letter "L" already??
For those of you unaffected by tropical storms and hurricanes, there's a Hurricane Centre somewhere in America where they categorise and, if severe enough, give names to hurricanes and tropical storms. They start with the letter A and go through the alphabet alternating between male and female names. Hurricane Igor, which hit Newfoundland particularly badly, struck in September 2010, so being at "L" by late July would be, let's say, unusual.
In a bad year they can get as far as Wilma ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Lamb Chopped
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Nope, it was a random inspiration from Erin's role in the Nativity Play (Jesus' evil twin). Seemed fitting.
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Don't know about hurricanes, though we do tend to get the tail end of them when North America has finished with them (and no, we don't want Lavinia, thank you!) but the Jet Stream seems to be up to funny things.
The south of England, and the Continent are sweltering in hot weather, while us in the north are still wearing our winter woollies! Seems the jet Stream is pushing cold weather and Atlantic depressions across the north of the British Isles.
Was it something we said? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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la vie en rouge
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One theory behind the increase in allergies and asthma is that we live in a much more antiseptic world than previously. Allergies are basically an oversensitive immune system reacting to things it shouldn’t. Back in the day we all used to play in the garden and eat mud. Cleaning products didn’t kill 99.9% of everything. Because we were exposed to more bugs, our immune system developed to be less sensitive and we are less prone to allergies. Or so the theory goes.
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
One theory behind the increase in allergies and asthma is that we live in a much more antiseptic world than previously. Allergies are basically an oversensitive immune system reacting to things it shouldn’t. Back in the day we all used to play in the garden and eat mud. Cleaning products didn’t kill 99.9% of everything. Because we were exposed to more bugs, our immune system developed to be less sensitive and we are less prone to allergies. Or so the theory goes.
I have heard that children who live on farms where animals are raised have a far lower incidence of allergies.
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Piglet
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I suspect you're right, La Vie - we're all just far too clean.
In other news, I became a great-auntie again yesterday; my nephew and his wife had a baby boy, 7lb 15oz, both doing well.
In further other news, when I turned up at w*rk this morning, the place seemed a bit quiet. One of the students called me over and said, "Piglet, you're here". "Shouldn't I be?" I asked, somewhat puzzled. Apparently the University is closed to faculty, staff and students today because of a scare about lead in the water, but as our building is attached to the hospital, we were able to get in. It suits me fine, as it'll be some extra hours to put in the holiday bank.
And it's Friday!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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My Kentwell Hall WW1 re-enactment is tomorrow! I've packed kit bags for me and the youngest and spent several hours ironing starched linens. I've put together some little sewing kits to keep me busy when there are few visitors, they are for Housewife sewing kits and lucky black cats. I've also made a last minute apron for my youngest as he is a servant boy and they may have him cleaning the boots.
[link fixed - WW]
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HA I love visiting Kentwell Hall. I hope the weekend is great fun.
Incidentally my dad always referred to a little folder of needles and thread like the one in your link as a 'hussif'. Thanks for unravelling that mystery!
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Ariel
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Fruit picking in the lunch hour is a summertime tradition at our office and this year we hadn't managed to make it there in time, as there wasn't a day when the group could all get together. So I went by myself.
The strawberries were no longer advertised as they'd come to the end of the season, but there were still plenty, and good big ones to be found. The cherries had suffered from the recent heavy rain. They looked great on the tree, but turned instantly to mush in your hand, and the wasps were very territorial. After the third time of being chased off I gave up, but by then had managed to get a few ounces of fruit. With that and the strawberries, and a home-made ice cream (cappucino) to eat on the way back to the office, I was quite content.
Raspberries are coming into season now, and hopefully plums, so there may be a second excursion next week.
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
One theory behind the increase in allergies and asthma is that we live in a much more antiseptic world than previously.
Could well be. When my cousin moved to South Africa she sterilized pretty well everything and her two small children came down with infection after infection, basically because they weren't getting the chance to build up natural immunity.
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Life continues quiet and peaceful here - I had my first haircut for 2+ years today, which was lovely. I've just been lazy about it, basically, with the result that my hair is now halfway down my back! I only had a trim today, but I'm kind of wishing that I had a bit more taken off, maybe back up to my shoulders. Perhaps next time I'll be a bit braver.
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Diomedes, my father referred to it as a 'hussif' as well but told me that it was a corruption of 'housewife'.
Ariel, where are you that raspberries are just coming into season? Ours are all finished - and the blackcurrants and whitecurrants. Nothing now until the plums, which look as though they still have a good couple of weeks to go.
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St. Gwladys
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Our raspberry canes have been prolific this year, we are running out of room in the freezer. There's still a few more to come, but they're nearly at an end now.
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I expect the raspberries Ariel mentions are an autumn fruiting variety. We have summer and autumn raspberries in our garden. The summer ones are now over but the autumn are just fruiting up.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by M.:
Ariel, where are you that raspberries are just coming into season? Ours are all finished - and the blackcurrants and whitecurrants. Nothing now until the plums, which look as though they still have a good couple of weeks to go.
Mmm... looking at the farm calendar, it looks more like they've been going for a month and are in their stride now. Yes, they do also have autumn varieties.
Things seem to be growing slowly this summer. I expected my allotment courgettes, potatoes and tomatoes to be prolific, but they all seem to be remarkably restrained and very slow to grow. I got four potatoes out of one plant and that was it, but on the plus side, they were in perfect condition with no slug bites. Evidently Kestrel (resistant to slugs) is the way forward.
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Welease Woderwick
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Interesting WW Factoid #2170891:
Underneath all those papers and all that rubbish on my desk I actually found a desk top - mahogany covered with glass. It is so long since I'd seen I wasn't sure if it was still there!
I also found lots of things I had either lost long ago or had completely forgotten that I had!
What do you reckon the chances are of me keeping it tidy?
Yes, I reckoned they are not good, as well.
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Well, a quick glance almost anywhere in the house shows that the girls are home... ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) I'm glad they're back, but already miss the tidy! I'm letting them have this morning to relax, since they're shattered, but this afternoon they're going to have to sort things out! ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
The sun is shining at the moment, so maybe some more laundry this morning, and I might get as far as checking the raspberry canes for progress this afternoon...
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Cherries at my allotment cropped in June, along with the early raspberries (sometimes they've been as early as April), and now the later raspberrie canes are slowly giving their fruit - some years they are prolific, but others (like now) they just about give enough every couple of days for eating then rather than freezing. Blackberries are beginning to ripen, although there is not enough yet for real picking to begin. The grapes are looking promising, as are the peaches and apples.
Slowly doing the last minute garden tidying, baking and packing ready to set off for New Wine tomorrow - it's my first time, and there was a worrying day or so when I discovered that I'd been put into a completely different area to those I am going with and sharing food & some kit with, which could have been interesting. But then we heard that they've been moved to where I am due to water-logging of their original area, so it's worked out OK although not for those who were there for week 1
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... I actually found a desk top ...
What's a "desk top"?
It's still grey and unpromising-looking out there, although the weatherists are telling us that summer is going to happen tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday with temperatures in the low-mid 20s. It's expected to have gone by Wednesday, but that's par for the course as it's Regatta Day.
I'm currently taking refuge on the top floor while Bill the no-longer-absent handyman makes a lot of noise with a drill, which with any luck will result in the broken staircase on the ground floor being mended.
I've set the bread-machine going for the manufacture of French sticks, which will need some attention in a wee while, and when D. comes back from the wedding he's playing for I'm planning a spot of light retail therapy.
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What's a "desk top"?
As soon as I saw mine, I immediately covered it up with a wallpaper I liked. It's still a bit cluttered, and it glows in the dark, but at least it looks a bit better than it did.
Went out today to a farm shop, then a French artisan bakery in a small village. Curiously enough the bloke running it genuinely was a French artisan baker. I came away with a jam and almond tart which I thought would probably be quite ordinary, but turned out to be a cut above the usual, so I'm likely to go back at some point.
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Darllenwr's just picked two tubs of raspberries and says we;re not done yet.
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So this evening there I was, in the kitchen, making garlic butter for some garlic mushrooms, a glass and a half of wine down, and I thought hmmm just a lil taste... And ate the lot, 4 cloves of raw garlic butter. Oh my it was gorgeous but I do feel sorry for anyone I see tomorrow (maybe a pew to myself tomorrow?). Oh yes I did mix a make a but more to add to the mushrooms too.
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There's nothing quite like giving way to temptation!
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Nice hot summer afternoon in the countryside. I was enjoying sitting by a stream watching the dragonflies when there was suddenly a lot of noise - someone's dog had started chasing the sheep and was giving one ewe a hard time. The dog owner didn't seem that bothered (!) but he did call it off, as the landowner rushed out to have an indignant word with him. The ewe galloped off unhurt to rejoin the flock, though looking a bit unsettled.
After that I went off to explore a nearby village. They've started harvesting the fields now - a huge harvesting machine was cutting swathes of what had been rapeseed, bright yellow flowers long gone and seed pods on the verge of splitting. There's always a huge cloud of dust swirling around in the wake of these machines from the stuff being gathered in, but if you're watching this sort of thing, wraparound sunglasses are pretty good for keeping most of it out.
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Things are fairly quiet and peaceful in my corner of the world - I'm currently house, cat and garden sitting for friends, and so enjoying the space of a house that's much larger than my little one bedroom flat - although, so many curtains to go round and close and open! The cats also seem to have realised that I am the one feeding them, and are occasionally appearing to say hello.
I'm also looking forward to going away tomorrow for a few days of retreat time. It will be good to just get away totally from the world, and have a bit of space to think and pray.
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Summer definitely happened here today: a high of 27°!
We went to a pub out of town where they did a "brunch buffet", but I think this may be have been stretching the term. The food was OK, but somewhat basic: a nice platter of cut-up fresh fruit (melon, watermelon and grapes); ham, streaky bacon and sausages; scrambled eggs that had been allowed to get a bit dry; fried potatoes and bread, bagels and a toaster.
No tomatoes, mushrooms or fried bread (they don't seem to have heard of fried bread over here), and only jam or peanut butter for the toast. NO MARMALADE!!! ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) And they really ought to have someone making eggs to order - they don't keep well in those bain-marie thingies.
We decided that before anyone is allowed to open a brunch-buffet, they should be compelled to spend at least a long weekend at the Stakis hotel on the Isle of Man, where the breakfast buffet is a sight for sore eyes (and jaded palates) and contains every breakfast comestible you could think of (and some you probably wouldn't - haggis springs to mind).
In other news, our new curate started today, and sang both the Eucharist and Evensong services beautifully.
He's going to be a Good Thing™.
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Most youth hostels offer a better choice for breakfast than that. The standard option is either cooked or continental. Both offer yoghurt, cereals, fruit, fruit juice, tea and coffee, toast and a variety of jams and marmalade. The cooked usually includes bacon, sausage, baked beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, hash brown and/or fried bread, scrambled or fried egg, with local variations. The continental version comprises cold meats and cheeses with rolls, croissants or toast.
My father would reckon that a proper brunch buffet should include not only fried, poached and scrambled eggs, white and black pudding, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, sausages and bacon but also fried Christmas pudding as part of the fry up. He would also expect porridge, cereal, kedgeree and devilled kidneys as alternative dishes, some of which could be eaten in combination with the above. The fruit selection is also somewhat lacking, I thought grapefruit was fairly standard.
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A proper breakfast (IMO) includes potato cakes with butter melting on them and a sprinkling of salt. You can keep the hash browns, and the fried bread. There should also be soda bread, honey and/or Marmite. And ideally some cheese as well.
"Continental" is always worth asking about – depending on where you stay this can be simply a mug of instant coffee and a croissant or else it can be a delicious and substantial assortment of breads, croissants, cheeses, sliced meats, fruits, yogurts, cereals, pastries, which can be really good value for money. The best I ever had was some years ago in a place in Bath that didn’t do cooked breakfasts, and a tray arrived outside my door the next morning with an amazing and really good quality assortment of things, ordered from a lengthy menu the night before.
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