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Galloping Granny
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Off to Matarangi on Thursday for a two-week 'mental health' break. I counted up – I've had 18 hospital appointments since February including surgery, and the Grandad must have had almost as many. Now waiting for an MRI scan which I know will be pointless, but the pain is kept at bay, and a surgeon has expressed an interest in the Grandad's complicated surgery so we hope that won't have to wait for months.
Not complaining – but prayers are always welcome.
(A kind friend at Matarangi has posted me ten grapefruit for marmalade. She doesn't know I'm on my way there. I shall shred some and freeze them, leave some in the fridge for eating when we get back, and take some with us to eat there. My year's ration of marmalading energy is pretty well used up.)
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GG, have a really good break. Hospital visits, appointments etc are wearying enough for one person. Much more so when you are both involved.
I hope the change of scenery and the air prove recuperative for you both.
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Huia
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GG - I'm glad you're getting a break, and in such a lovely place.
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First real warmth of the season, - I love it when there is finally a 2 in front of the temperature number. The cherry blossoms are out, Floriade (local flower festival) has begun and so has Spring cleaning. I have spent the last few days making new sheer curtains and counting the painting jobs necessary for a refresh over the warmer months.
Getting up and down to hang my new work is going to be difficult today as I think I must have overstretched an achilles tendon while playing with the grandchildren yesterday. So I shall be hobbling into the warmer weather rather than bouncing into it - but it is still wonderful not to have to dress in five layers of clothing.
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
... I love it when there is finally a 2 in front of the temperature number ...
... and I love it when there stops being a 2 in front of the temperature number ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
GG, hope you have a nice, rejuvenating break. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Gee D
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Yes, GG, have a good rest - and make sure that none of the problems follows you as you travel. Is marmalade making not like knitting, sewing or making cumquat brandy - a bit of a task, but such a break from usual activities as to be restful?
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Huia
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I just googled a medicine I was prescribed about 4 weeks ago and note dizziness is a known side effect which may account for my falling over. The trouble with just getting blister packs of medication is you don't get the patient information that is usually available in the packs of medication. In addition it's possibly the culprit with the various other small things.
I seem to be prone to bad side effects of medication, along with not actually making the connection about what might be causing the new problem. I think a visit to both the Doctor and Pharmacist this week is indicated. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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... Is marmalade making not ... restful?
I don't know about marmalade making, but I've just had my first go at chutney-making and while it wasn't exactly onerous, it took a hell of a lot longer than I expected* - it didn't seem to want to gel ...
* The recipe said 2-3 hours of simmering; mine took more like six. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Gee D
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We aren't really chutney makers, brandying or spicing cumquats and tangelos being more within our limitations, but that does seem an extraordinary time. Perhaps being late in the season has some sort of impact on the time necessary.
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Welease Woderwick
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Possibly Granny Smith's contain less pectin than Bramleys - I'll be seeing moonlitdoor this week and try to remember to ask him, he is a veritable fund of info like that.
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Lothlorien
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Supermarkets here sell pectin if needed.* The riper the fruit, the less pectin it contains. Lemon juice can help. As Gee D says, that time seems excessive. Did you have the right amount of liquid, if any, added? Plums are very juicy.
We don't have the range of apples and I would have used granny smiths, but sour ones. Quite a range of sweet apples, but not much in the tart taste type.
Gee D, brandied peaches are very good but more for a dessert than anything to keep a long time.
* The pectin marketed here is called Jamsetta and comes from Fowlers Vacola who make bottling supplies for fruit, jams etc. You may have to do a bit of research to find what is available in your locality.
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Huia
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I always intend to brandy some peaches, but never actually do it. I think one of my brothers would appreciate them as a present.
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Banner Lady
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TP's first big lemons off the lemon tree are heavenly. The aroma actually fills the kitchen when he cuts one open. Rhubarb is cheap at the moment - so he is making lots of rhubarb and apple to freeze. We have some planted, but it is not moving much yet. Bought peaches and mangoes for the first time this season - a sign that things are improving weatherwise. Woohoo!
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A few months ago, I planted a dwarf lemon tree. My balcony has two enormous rectangular tubs on the outside of the balcony wall where they can't be used as steps to climb on. All four had originally been planted with lillipillis but they died in two pots.
I have now picked three superb full size lemons. More are on the way. The dwarf lime I planted is not as happy but still grows. I have now forgotten the name change for the lime but I use leaves in Thai dishes.
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Possibly Granny Smith's contain less pectin than Bramleys ...
That was my thought too, WW - we really don't seem to have an equivalent of Bramleys here, and GS seemed like the best option. The other factor is that I haven't got one of those wide-topped preserving-pans; I used the biggest pot I have - a pasta cooking pot with the drainer thingy removed.
Gee D - I don't know that it is all that late in the season here; apart from anything else, we got very little summer to speak of (and precious little sunshine) until the start of August, so the whole ripening process might well have been somewhat buggered-about.
Nothing I can do about it now anyway: it's all bottled up in jars, labelled and stored in a Cool Dark Place as per instructions, and all will be revealed in mid-December ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Yes, GG, have a good rest - and make sure that none of the problems follows you as you travel. Is marmalade making not like knitting, sewing or making cumquat brandy - a bit of a task, but such a break from usual activities as to be restful?
Jelly or marmalade – neither is as complicated as people assume when I produce them. Jellies are a simple case of 'bung them in' – stew the fruit plus a chopped up lemon with no other preparation, tip it into a square of muslin in a bucket and hoist fruit in muslin up to hang from the bar in an empty wardrobe; bring juice to the boil in the 16 litre pot and stir the sugar in, and bottle when it's ready. I do keep a packet of Jam setting mix for emergencies but haven't used it this season. Easy!– only with an Essential Tremor I'll have to get someone next year to help skim the scum.
Marmalade: the Grandad squeezes the fruit with an electric juicer and I chop the skins with my lovely old Scots shredder. That's the only part that takes energy. Simmer for 20 minutes or so with 4 parts juice/water to one part shreds, add sugar, and if it's greenish fruit it will set quite soon. Stir in butter to remove the scum, let it stand five minutes or the shreds will float to the top. Nothing complicated.
And the rows of jars of clear jewel-like jellies or nicely set marmalade are the reward – and the money that goes to Christian World Service.
Any such rewarding activity is no problem – but I have a good lie-down afterwards.
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Did you have the right amount of liquid, if any, added? Plums are very juicy.
My kind friend may have frozen guavas for me. The recipe for guava jelly said to stew the fruit with a cupful of water – crab apples or quinces (chopped) or japonicas you cover with water.
*I once took the art teacher some half-ripe greeny-yellow grapefruit for his wife to make marmalade. The colours were so interesting that he arranged them for his students to paint. I don't know whether they ever reached his wife.
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Gee D
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We have cumquat trees, but no peaches. Hence no brandied peaches. And were not into preserving. Preserved tangelos are like preserved lemons, very easy to do, safe, keep for ages and are very useful. Great cooked into such things as Persian spiced chicken, and so forth.
From Lothlorien's brother, a dozen or more years ago, comes this very simple but delicious and stylish dessert. All it needs is a few minutes and a bit of forward planning. Take a packet of dried figs, break them apart and place in a glass jar with a plastic lid. Sprinkle in a bit of sugar and fill with port. Shake a bit every day for a few days to dissolve the sugar, and leave at least a fortnight. Serve a couple to each person with either home-made coffee ice-cream or the very best bought one you can get.
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Tony Abbott to the back benches, DV. I have no love of Turnbull, but Abbott is a shocker in all and any respects (and I'm a constituent of his).
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I think Tony is deserving of thanks and honour for his time in the high office of Prime Minister. Why must Australians be so vindictive of such people? We seem to enjoy cutting down the tall poppies, but fail to nourish them.
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It is kind of hard to thank and honour people who are basically skipping in and out of a revolving door.
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Tony Abbott to the back benches, DV. I have no love of Turnbull, but Abbott is a shocker in all and any respects (and I'm a constituent of his).
I would say that I have a grudging respect for the way Australians remove their leaders. In the UK we've had a four month election for Leader of the Labour Party (in opposition), and the Liberal Democrats (now merely 8 MPs) took about three months to decide who would lead the remaining few. But in Canberra, Turnbull has removed Abbott and put himself in charge in about 12 hours, AFAICT. No campaigns, no debates, just a quick knife to the back (or the front seems more popular) and it's "The PM is dead - Long live the PM!"
(Clearly, our own Julia Gillard didn't make sure that Kevin Rudd was completely dead, as he came back from the grave to her kill off. Not that it did him much good, as he was political worm food as well within a few weeks.)
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Huia
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Now that was a surprise to me, but then my knowledge of Australian politics is miniscule.
The temperature is forecast to reach 20c here today ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) mainly due to a Nor'west wind. Spring is sprung. I'm loving the light in the mornings, but Daylight Saving, which (I think) comes in October will put paid to that for a while.
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Hi ho, hi ho...Tony Abbott had to go. Orfeo said in February to tune in again in springtime for the second and probably successful push. Writing has been on the wall for some time - but spare a thought for us here in the National Capitol. There will be nothing else on local news but comment, counter comment and dissection for the next week unless some global disaster happens to put everything back in perspective.
I do wish people would remember the party can choose whoever it likes to lead - it's not like a president has been shot. Get a grip, folks.
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Not just in Canberra though, BL. Here ad nauseam.
I knew Turnbull in his Bar days, but have barely seen him since. He may well no longer be the man as I knew him, as he clearly has the support now of a majority in the party room. Did not know Abbott at all, and as he's not our local MHR, I'm unlikely to meet him now. There are bits of a Jesuit education that do not seem to have reached him.
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Almost as bad as the French in the 50's.
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Banner Lady
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The winds of change are certainly blowing strongly in Canberra today. Strong gusts have blown all the cherry blossom away, leaving the streets littered in pink and white confetti - presumably carpeting the way for the incoming PM.
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Gee D
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I rather think he would like to have petals strewn for him to walk upon.
The headlines suggest that he is changing nothing!!!! Why all the angst, let alone the cost to the public purse of the meeting if nothing is to change.
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Banner Lady
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Well, sometimes the best cure is to be given a large dose of what one really desires. I expect he will not find it possible to change much at all. I'm guessing one needs a strongly combative personality to be a productive politician. We shall see soon enough.
Amused that even the rainbow over parliament house yesterday morning featured in the news.
Hmmm... rainbows and flower petals. I'm now looking around for the unicorn.....
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Originally posted by Zappa:
The procession of Australian prime ministers is almost worthy of Israel and Italy
Italy changes government though, there's a big difference between changing government and changing PMs. I just don't get this notion of "instability" when the democratic process continues.
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I think Tony is deserving of thanks and honour for his time in the high office of Prime Minister. Why must Australians be so vindictive of such people? We seem to enjoy cutting down the tall poppies, but fail to nourish them.
Probably because he was vile and hateful, rejoiced in and cheered on the spectacular collapse to infighting of the Labor Party, acted as cheerleader to the Murdoch lynching of Julia Gillard, then whinged about his own character being assassinated (that was rich, even for Tony), had an immoral and probably illegal asylum seeker policy that made me feel ashamed to be Australian, was backward looking - and belligerently so - on coal, climate change, windfarms, women in the workforce, women in politics, same sex marriage, the monarchy, wanted to hollow out public goods such as health, universities and schools, was about as economically competent (even with his blatantly ideological economic "rationalism") as a five year old with too many Snakes Alive and not enough hours to eat them all, called Rupert Murdoch (one of the most despicable human beings still somehow alive) a "Great Australian" (he is neither), and was about to send our planes to bomb the living shit out of Syria, a captain's call.
That's not even an exhaustive list. But that's why most of us are very happy he is gone, amazed we survived him, and wary that nothing will change with Mal.
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Welease Woderwick
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We're getting close to Purgatory territory here, and have been for a few days now - please be aware, everybody.
Thanks.
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Glad to hear it, Zappa.
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In response to hostly prompts I have opened a thread in Purgatory on Austrlian Politics
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Thanks Tukai.
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Banner Lady
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Cool again this week. More snow falling in the Australian alps. I expect Rowen will be shivering in her shawls.
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Rowen shivers a lot.
Rowen despairs of ever taking off the winter warm bedding and using the summer warm bedding instead. Yes, we refer to the summer doona and blankets as warm necessary bedding.
Rowen owns two overcoats, the winter and summer....
We DO have a tiny hot summer but it is short.
Will the El Nino affect it this year? Who knows. Our winter is longer and colder than normal.
21 at church today. First day back after vacation. Nice to be welcomed.
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Lovely to catch up with Foaming Draught, Clarence, AdamPater, Jimmy B, Evensong, and rexory yesterday at Chez Pater. I was pretty unwell, and probably sat there looking like a stunned mullet most of the time, but it was still great to see so many shippies, and to celebrate Evensong's birthday.
And something about football teams making finals ...
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Thanks for posting that Dark Knight, for some reason I was thinking about Jimmy the other day, wondering how he is and whether anyone had seen him.
We have gone back to winter weather here too and next weekend our clocks go back an hour, so it will feel like winter again getting up in the dark, but at least the evenings will be lighter. Hopefully it will mean Georgie-Porgy holds off waking me until 6a.m, which would be a bit more civilised.
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Thanks for posting that Dark Knight, for some reason I was thinking about Jimmy the other day, wondering how he is and whether anyone had seen him.
We have gone back to winter weather here too and next weekend our clocks go back an hour, so it will feel like winter again getting up in the dark, but at least the evenings will be lighter. Hopefully it will mean Georgie-Porgy holds off waking me until 6a.m, which would be a bit more civilised.
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Lovely to catch up with Foaming Draught, Clarence, AdamPater, Jimmy B, Evensong, and rexory yesterday at Chez Pater. ...
It was indeed a very good event. And FD, Clarence and AP came to Eucharist at my church Sunday morning, followed by a superb brunch. And Mass at AP's Church in the evening. A Ship-intensive weekend
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Thanks for posting that Dark Knight, for some reason I was thinking about Jimmy the other day, wondering how he is and whether anyone had seen him.
We have gone back to winter weather here too and next weekend our clocks go back an hour, gso it will feel like winter again getting up in the dark, but at least the evenings will be lighter. Hopefully it will mean Georgie-Porgy holds off waking me until 6a.m, which would be a bit more civilised.
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Back or forward? I identify Daylight Saving as the time when yo,u say at 7am 'Of course it's really only 6o'clock'. I'm taking the service on Sunday so I'd better get it right!
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Spring forward, fall back - was the rule I was taught. Over the Labour Day weekend here, I think. So weekend after next.
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I wondered about that - in the northern hemisphere it's "spring forward, fall back", but because I can never get my head round these things anyway, I thought maybe it was the other way round down your way.
I'm really rubbish at geography and that sort of thing ...
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Huia
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Thank heavens the computer and cellphone do their own changing or I would end up 2 hours different from the rest of the country ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) . I hate the actual change and the first couple of weeks, but I'm OK with it after that.
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Banner Lady
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I love daylight saving and the long warm evenings it brings, where it is still light enough to be outside at the end of the day.
Mornings are always cool in these parts, and I guess it sucks if you are a sports fanatic who trains at dawn, but I am looking forward to the time change very much.
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Gee D
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Agreed, BL - but also some of the early daylight saving evenings when it's still fresh but also bright and clear until late. For safety, we now check the time on our phones before changing the clocks.
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