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WuTwo said:
Neither of us is that keen on quorn. I have The Quorn Cookbook (bought from their site) but everywhere they use quorn I use other products - there are substitutes available for all of them but the book itself is really quite good.

Also I see there is a new product out. Only available in Tesco and Holland & Barrett right now, but advertised in the mags and it has a site. Called Oumph and I shall take a wander round town on Wednesday and get some. The only big Tesco near us is appallingly claustrophobic and we both refuse to go there - towering stacks of products lining narrow aisles crowded with bad tempered people (who were doubtless perfectly happy when they went in). Just dreadful. So Holland & Barrett it is. Anyway I get 10% off all shopping I do there as a member of the Vegan Society :)
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Oh no, my bf and I enjoyed their vegan fishless fingers which he found the name to be quite amusing. I’ve tried thinly slicing extra firm tofu, season it in bacon type spices and seasoning, frying it in oil and it is quite yummy.

I feel my supermarkets near me haven’t quite updated to the latest choices. I have yet to find those Sainsbury’s shroomdogs.

Let us know if Oumph is any goos :)
 
MeiChanski said:
I’ve tried thinly slicing extra firm tofu, season it in bacon type spices and seasoning, frying it in oil and it is quite yummy.
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That sounds interesting. I make really very extra firm tofu most weeks and have a boxful in the fridge. Might give it a go for brekkie!
 
WuTwo said:
I don't use it, but I don't have Facebook either. I refuse point blank to contribute to that *insert really bad swear word of choice* Zuckerberg whom I utterly despise. As soon as he swallows an app or company, I delete it from my machines. I know it limits me but I really don't care.
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Skype is owned by Microsoft, not Zuckerberg, so you can use it if you can find anybody not using facetime :-)

The business equivalent is quite popular for work - we use it all the time.
 
evilclive said:
Skype is owned by Microsoft, not Zuckerberg, so you can use it if you can find anybody not using facetime :)

The business equivalent is quite popular for work - we use it all the time.
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Yeah - that's why I mentioned it to Fairygodmother. I forgot that other people use Facetime :hilarious::hilarious:
 
We used to use Skype years ago when we all had android tech - it was fantastic when daughters were at opposite sides of the earth but younger daughter’s work uses iOS and we have iPads and iPhones so we’ve gone with FaceTime. If we could get away from all the rotten Zuckerberg types in the world I’d think we’d arrived in Eden, one with kind and honest snakes.
 
A great 150th birthday day at Sainsbury's, it was hectic at times, but the event went really well, with lots of happy customer's, I'm cream crackerd now, so a wallow in the bath, then a chilled out evening.
Hope you've all had a great day too :)
 
It's most odd doing the physical activity known as gardening/cutting the grass without being supervised at a distance by the 2nd nearest neighbour. It's also most odd walking back up the road after a day out walking and not having him check how many miles I've done. It's even odder knowing I won't be having his older primary school aged child hurtling over to see if a walk to the park with me is OK when here during weekends and holidays anymore! Because Dad wasn't ever really well enough to do it, his child needed that kind of activity and he needed the rest from this much loved, but very over-active, child as well.

Even knowing all this we all got a massive shock this end of my little road when he died very suddenly last week and none of us have quite got our heads around the concept yet.

Given I did the day's walking, then cut my grass, and I've been hovering between 4.1 and 5.3 every time I checked all day, apart from the first one of the day which was an outrageously higher than usual fasting one, I've decided not to push my luck and do the fiddly bits of quiet gardening as well as the grass cutting.

But, in honour of the last conversation me and my neighbour ever had, I will sneak over to cut his front garden grass when I get a chance. One of his much older adult children used to come to do it and take the cuttings away, and the last thing I'd said to my neighbour was "Tell M, if there's space in my garden waste bin, it's fine to add your little bit of grass cuttings!"
 
That’s a very sad thing for you all to have happen @Japes, and even more sad for his children. They’ll miss their time with you too. Grief’s rotten. Hugs
 
Fairygodmother said:
That’s a very sad thing for you all to have happen @Japes, and even more sad for his children. They’ll miss their time with you too. Grief’s rotten. Hugs
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I don't really know the older ones as they don't live close by, but the little one I do know well. It's a sad, sad story all round, really.
 
Japes said:
It's most odd doing the physical activity known as gardening/cutting the grass without being supervised at a distance by the 2nd nearest neighbour. It's also most odd walking back up the road after a day out walking and not having him check how many miles I've done. It's even odder knowing I won't be having his older primary school aged child hurtling over to see if a walk to the park with me is OK when here during weekends and holidays anymore! Because Dad wasn't ever really well enough to do it, his child needed that kind of activity and he needed the rest from this much loved, but very over-active, child as well.

Even knowing all this we all got a massive shock this end of my little road when he died very suddenly last week and none of us have quite got our heads around the concept yet.

Given I did the day's walking, then cut my grass, and I've been hovering between 4.1 and 5.3 every time I checked all day, apart from the first one of the day which was an outrageously higher than usual fasting one, I've decided not to push my luck and do the fiddly bits of quiet gardening as well as the grass cutting.

But, in honour of the last conversation me and my neighbour ever had, I will sneak over to cut his front garden grass when I get a chance. One of his much older adult children used to come to do it and take the cuttings away, and the last thing I'd said to my neighbour was "Tell M, if there's space in my garden waste bin, it's fine to add your little bit of grass cuttings!"
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Sending hugs xx
 
Started building the app for my Loop system today, pretty daunting stuff! So far I’ve had to hack the OS on my aged MacBook with a patch, and do some weird programmy things. And while I was waiting for that to happen, I made a custom icon for the Loop phone app with Octopussy :)

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Next stage is to get the specific bits to work with Spike and MiaoMiao as it’s designed to work with Dexcom. Retiring now as my brain melted! Night all x
 
@Japes I'm so sorry, lots of hugs going in your direction :)
@Mel dCP aged macbook eh? I have yet to convince my bf to buy the fancy ipad pro ;) I've been hinting since last year. Octopussy looks fab, any accessories for her? she is looking bare and fluffy.
@helensaramay I hope you're okay! was it a day of eating jelly babies? :(
 
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