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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I have officially been a numpty not once, but twice today.

Firstly, I bought a sewing pattern and lovely fabric to make a funnel neck tunic (Tilly & the Buttons - Coco), only the fabric I bought was correct for a plain variant, not the variant with the funnel neck and turned back cuffs. Oooop.

The one I have the fabric for is also fine, but just not so cosy for a chilly person like me.

Then, this afternoon, I went online to order nitrous capsules for my infusions. At the checkout I was certain I had checked out properly, but somehow I was taken back to my basket, still with my purchase in it. I toddled off to do a couple of things, whilst I awaited the confirmation email. It hadn't arrived 30 minutes later, so I ordered "again".

Yes, you got it. I have 2 orders. 48 cannisters is a lot of infusion, or whipped cream, but it'll be fine.

Yes, not one of my finer days.

How did your order from Cream Supplies work, @Annb ?

Has anyone heard anything from @maglil55 ? I haven't noticed her around for a few days. I do hope all's well in her world.
 
The Cream Supplies order worked well. Delivery date given was quite long, but the capsules arrived earlier than expected. The packs were not cheap, when packaging was added so Neil's soda water is quite a lot dearer these days, but still under £1 a litre and so, cheaper than the supermarket ones when available.

Maglil doesn't seem to have posted for a few days now, nor has zauberflote. Missing them.
 

For soda water, it's just the carbon dioxide capsules you need. I have those, but also the nitrous for the infusions (or whipped cream). I haven't bought carbon dioxide for a while, as I bought loads last time, but I always check what the going rate is before ordering, and find Cream Supplies to be pretty reliable, and decent (not always the absolute best) for price.

Glad it came though OK though.
 

Yes - that's the ones. Neil makes soda water using the CO2 capsules.
 
MrsA2 said:
@zauberflote did pop up briefly on another thread a couple of days ago. She's just very busy I think, and hope
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@zauberflote is rating posts and we have exchanged a PM. Busy life rather than anything untoward health wise. I now have a fitbit working again - just needed a new charging lead. Spent days looking at left wrist wondering why nothing showed up. Doubt if anything as simple will ever work for woe and bg. @maglil55 your recent woes sound horrible so take care of yourself as well as everyone else.
 
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Thanks for the concern. I briefly explained what was going on but kept it to a minimum. Eldest grandson has been "anxious" since he was 3. What happened was he developed what I can only describe as a "terror" of a particular teacher at nursery. It took us a few weeks to work it out as the other staff didn't talk about things. Even now we still don't know the full story. We do know she belittled him as I caught her when she wasn't aware I'd come in. He had a problem with his ears and wasn't hearing properly so didn't say much at all. He did though keep saying things like "I'm a rubbish boy, I'm a wicked boy" which we discovered later came from her. We quickly removed him and yes, complaints were made to the school & the council which prompted other parents to do the same. They did remove her from the nursery but, to our horror, all they did was move her to the Primary as she was close to retirement. Anyway, he settled really quickly in a private nursery which was a very loving environment.
Everything was fine until the transition days to primary and the terrors and anxiety returned. When I say terrors he shakes and it's difficult to get him to do anything. It turned out that he was convinced "she" would be there to terrorise him again. Once he was assured she wasn't he settled again but his reaction was so strong it was decided it would be a good idea to refer him to CAMHS to deal with this anxiety.
All was peaceful until he was 7 and we passed the gate of the school where "she" had been. Shuddering again but he announced "that's where that mean person was that got in my face, screamed in my ear and it hurt" (due to ear problems he'd since had surgery to fix). He did settle again but I should add we still cannot pass that school with him.
We had heard nothing from CAMHS despite reminders. We have still heard nothing from them - 18 weeks waiting period they say! Try 6 years and counting.
Situation became drastic 3 weeks ago. As you know, he was really anxious about going back to school after lockdown but we got him through that. 3 weeks ago we had an infection confirmed, just one case, but that resulted in 3 Classes (close to 100 children) self isolating. We have very large classes you see. He started to get nervous again and to add to the problem his usual assistant Class teacher was also self isolating as she had 2 children in the self isolating classes. This meant a new one came in and unfortunately, something about her has acted as a trigger to these deep rooted memories of "her" and he is terrified again. School is not "safe". First week he did go to school but I could sense something was building in him. Second week I had to go and collect him on the Tuesday early. He'd had a bit of a cold but he was really distressed. He gets so anxious he makes himself ill. Kept him off a couple of days but then on the Friday he came with me to school but would not go in - it wasn't safe. I had to take him away again.
Can't get an answer from CAMHS, called GP for an emergency appointment (was offered a call back at the end of January!!) - after threatening hell & damnation eventually was offered a call back on the Tuesday. We were left with no other choice other than to get an emergency appointment with a private child therapist. Costs an arm and a leg but his health is more important. He's now had 3 sessions and it's come out this new teacher is a trigger. They believe she has triggered the fears of "her". They said it might be she has a similar hairstyle, resemble her or it could be as simple as a word that has caused the fears to come to the surface. It's not her fault but now he associates her with everything that happened 7 years ago.
We have made progress this week. We have managed to get him into school part of the morning but currently they have to keep this teacher well away. He does work then I take the rest home and we do it there. He will talk to me and thankfully he's eating again.
We're all physically drained and I will never forgive "her" for this. Goodness knows how many other children she damaged.
To really cap things off I came back to the news that we're going into full lockdown on Boxing Day because there are 17 cases of this variant in Glasgow and schools won't go back as planned?? Seriously, this is going to feed his concerns even more. Add in that we are on edge waiting to hear the verdict on my brother and you can probably guess my stress levels are through the roof.
We still have heard nothing from CAMHS but he's getting private treatment now. Perhaps I should send she who cut the funding to CAMHS the bill for the private treatment? 18 weeks?? I have some sympathy because their funding was slashed but 6 years is a joke.
So that's why I disappeared. Catching up on myself a bit now but it also means that my DIL will have to shut down her clinic again.
 

My goodness, what can that woman have been like? I used to complain about some of the teachers Neil and his brother suffered under but their school life pales into insignificance at this awful story and I thought that some of the teachers here in the Western Isles and their attitudes came antediluvian. If it weren't for that person, he may well have felt more confident in school despite the current covid problems. I do hope that time and support will heal all his wounds and he will feel more able to give his trust.

I do also hope that your brother has good results from his doctors.

Just remember that, although we here can't physically support you, our thoughts and best wishes are with you and all your family.
 
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Read up on EFT or tapping therapy. It works really well and often sorts something traumatic in just a couple of sessions. Worked for me and a trauma I'd had for 30 years. Is good for kids too
 
@maglil55 that woman has an awful lot to answer for. What a distressing situation for all concerned. I’m glad you’ve found some private treatment. Sending thoughts and hugs.
 
MrsA2 said:
@maglil55
Read up on EFT or tapping therapy. It works really well and often sorts something traumatic in just a couple of sessions. Worked for me and a trauma I'd had for 30 years. Is good for kids too
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The therapist is giving him various coping mechanisms. A new one is counting. He has to focus on something simple and count how many he can see. He's used green things. Another was these huge bins they have at flats. He's also doing one with his feet - raising & lowering. The latest one is interesting. Due to his love of sci-fi, she noticed his horror if he feels someone in invading his space so, she now has him creating his force field if he feels someone is too close. It lets him make it into a game. He knows he can break the field (eg to hug us) then reinstate it in seconds. I've also seen him tapping but currently it seems to be these new techniques. Going to try to get him to swimming today. It's in a school campus so again we are getting the association between school & "her". We'll see how it goes but it's important since (with the exception of the WI, Orkney & Shetland) the entire country goes into lockdown on Boxing Day so everything will close again. Once Wales announced lockdown there was nothing surer that the same would happen here regardless of the evidence.
 
Odd sort of day today. Yesterday, Neil decided to check out a plumbing job to remove the water supply to an old bidet we were taking out and to check on some electrical thingy - don't understand what it was and realised that something wasn't quite right, so he decided to check the 40+ year old wiring in this house. He found things that horrified him and shouldn't have been done even under 40 year old regulations. So, the old fuse box had to be taken out and replaced with a new consumer unit which he had in his store, some of the wiring circuits replaced and earth wires put where they aught to have been in the first place. We have had professional electricians working on the wiring over the past 30 odd years, but nobody actually mentioned it or made things better. Some seem to have made it worse!

It also didn't help that most of the problem wiring was contained in a little cupboard shared with much of the water supply and the big supports for our old cantilevered bidet on the other side of the wall. There was condensation in that cupboard.

So the power has been off most of the day and it has been cold and wet. Managed to make a couple of small slices of toast (GF, seeded loaf) with butter.

Lunch was crackers and some cottage cheese.

Evening meal was reheated duck breast and Brussels sprouts.

One cup of tea this morning but cold water ever since.

Meant to do some Christmas baking today but, obviously that didn't happen. Maybe tomorrow.

The power is now back on but we still need some parts to replace junction boxes that were cracked and some other bits and pieces (conduit, more appropriate cable etc). Some might be available in Stornoway, others will have to be bought online. But it's been cobbled together for tonight and we not only have power, but we have an internet connection as well! Hurrah. Neil, of course, is not a professional, or qualified, electrician, but he knows more than many of the electricians we have come across. Once it's all done, we'll have to get a "professional" in to sign it off.
 
@maglil55 sending virtual hugs your way for all your worries at the moment. You wonder how an adult teacher can be so horrible to little children, how evil of her. I hope your brother is doing ok. Please do remember to take good care of yourself x
 
Anyone else having problems with this website tonight - I keep getting a message saying there is a critical error on this website and I don't know if it is posting what I put on or not? It is not working as it usually does
 
Mrs T 123 said:
Anyone else having problems with this website tonight - I keep getting a message saying there is a critical error on this website and I don't know if it is posting what I put on or not? It is not working as it usually does
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I haven't noticed anything wrong. Can you make a screenshot if it happens again?
 
I think I must have offended someone again. My last post on the other "What have you eaten.." has been removed, Not sure why - just a humorous response, I thought. But there you go. Maybe just stick to this thread in future. I feel as though I'm not wanted there. Just touchy I guess, but maybe it's the circumstances of life these days and maybe a not very happy day today.
 
Another not-very-good day today. Just feeling sore and shaky and my insides playing up again. Spent most of the day in the big kitchen chair with a blanket over me. Was meant to be going shopping with Neil early in the day, but neither of us felt like it.

Decided I'd better have some porridge with cream around noon - to try to mollify my innards. Didn't work so just dozed and felt sorry for myself until Em arrived from school. She came from the school party with one of those selection boxes and tried to feed some of the chocolate to me. Didn't think that was a good idea, so she's gone home with it now, having given her (also T2) mum the little Crunchie bar out of it. She does like to share her good fortune.

I might have some chickpea pasta, if I can be bothered a bit later on, with some ragout from the freezer. I feel as though I ought to be hungry, but, at the same time, could very well do without any more food today. Have to up the fluid though - been a bit remiss on that.
 
I bought some "fresh" jalapenos from Amazon. I was hoping they would be like the illustration and be kind of short and fat - I wanted to stuff and then fry them. But they arrived yesterday and they are long and thin and they are far from fresh (probably too long in the post). So I salvaged what I could, froze larger chunks for grating and made jalapeno vinegar with smaller salvaged bits. The mouldy and soft bits are in the compost bin.

I also order some jalapeno "candied" peppers - just to see what they are. What they are is a disappointment. Not candied, just in a rather too sweet syrup. Might try to dehydrate them.
 
Annb said:
I bought some "fresh" jalapenos from Amazon. I was hoping they would be like the illustration and be kind of short and fat - I wanted to stuff and then fry them.
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Are UK jalapenos something different from ours? I like to eat spicy food, but a whole chopped jalapeno in two days worth of food makes me breathe fire!
How do you eat a stuffed jalapeno?
 
Antje77 said:
Are UK jalapenos something different from ours? I like to eat spicy food, but a whole chopped jalapeno in two days worth of food makes me breathe fire!
How do you eat a stuffed jalapeno?
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Probably not any different. They are hot but I rather fancied the idea of filling them with a cream cheese filling, dipping them in a very light batter and deep frying them, or baking them without the batter. I have to admit I haven't tried them but have seen it done and thought it worth trying. But not with these ones. They'll do fine just grated over food directly from the freezer.
 
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