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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Zhnyaka said:
"the telephne box" sounds like something from the last century How old is your son?
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In the early 60's, the only phone we had access to was a phone box at the end of our road. Tom had a phone box directly opposite his house. He lived in Ayrshire, I lived in Kent - about 700 miles apart. So we had a regular "date" at those phone boxes - piles of coins at the ready.
 
Good luck with the family get together, Antje. You're well in control of your diabetes anyway, so just enjoy it all. One day "behaving badly" isn't going to have too much of an effect.

The pork chop looks yummy.
 
Zhnyaka said:
Good luck, @Antje77! Have a good time and remember that one day off range is nothing to worry about.

By the way, @Annb, the cabbage and apples were delicious. I think I'll cook it sometimes instead of the usual recipe.
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Glad you enjoyed the cabbage. I just saw a cookery programme (Rick Stein) who was making a recipe using cabbage and minced lamb. It was a Greek recipe but I can't remember what it was called, or exactly what was in it. It was just fried off onion, garlic and lamb mince, cooked for a short time and then a pile of white cabbage put in the pan, then cooked until the cabbage was done. There might have been something else in it though. I'll have to experiment with that and see how it works out.

PS had a quick look on the internet and found the recipe. Still don't know what it is called. I'll definitely have a go at that.
 
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Over 21,000 steps today
Hours dog walk
Then an hour walk round a town ancestors used to live in
Then 2 hours exploring a hilly historical site
Then another 90 minute dog walk,
But also had about 3 hours in a car. Not too sure these step monitors are very accurate

Breakfast was chicken breast with mayo and yoghurt dressing and cucumber.
L was nut bar
16:30 a chunk of cheese
D 1 lowish carb cracker (but libre disagreed it was lc), lamb chop, broccoli, courgette hm tzatsiki. A crust of bread. 2 glasses red wine. 1 lc jelly yoghurt
 
MrsA2 said:
But the breakfast buffet is often the easiest for low carb!
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It isn't if you absolutely love bread, milk, and fresh orange juice, and you're only in a hotel once a year...
Usually those things don't stare (and smell!) me right in the face when I have my bacon and eggs or slices of ham and cheese.
 
RosemaryJackson said:
I;m 87 in June and my son is 61 Haven't you ever seen a red telephone box. There are one or two left. And yes, they were from another century lol!!
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No, I've never seen it. I remember landlines, but even that seems like the last century with the advent of the mobile age
 
Zhnyaka said:
No, I've never seen it. I remember landlines, but even that seems like the last century with the advent of the mobile age
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We still use a landline. I do have a mobile phone for emergencies - like when the power goes down and so our landline no longer works but mostly we use the landline.

The first phone we had in the family was one my mother insisted on having installed because I was had moved away when I married. That was in 1964. I still know lots of people who have landlines, but must admit they don't really use them any more.
 
Who remembers Dial a Disc where you could ring up and listen to a hit song? If you didn't have a landline you had to use the phone box. Even if you had a landlines parents did not like paying the bill so we used to be sent to the phone box instead. Crammed at least 3 or 4 of us to listen as best we could

Do you remember Dial-A-Disc?

Dial-a-Disc was a telephone service provided by the Post Office for 25 years, from 1966 until 1991. It enabled callers to hear the latest hit records - it could be seen as the first iteration of on-demand music streaming.How did it work?After dialling either 16 or 160, you would be connected to...
atlasrecords.co.uk
 
B: 2 scrambled eggs with cheese
L: cheese and crackers. A yoghurt jelly
Mid afternoon a small tub ice cream at the cinema
D: 2 90% sausages with buttered leeks and courgettes. 2 glasses red wine.
Later, bit more cheese
Only 1 dog walk today but still did 13000 steps.
 
That should have read Defibrillator. I prefer my landline to the mobile. In the music shops there were little kiosks where you could listen to records through earphones too before you bought it. Does anyone remember the 'dollying' of the washing? Wash day was always Mondays and took the whole day!! We have come such a long way!
 
I have a stool made from a washing "dolly" but never actually used one. My mother hand washed everything that couldn't be boiled in a gas heated "copper". Then it all went through a wringer before hanging on the line, or on clothes horses around the house. Before Tom and I got a washing machine, everything not hand washed was put into a bath of water with soap flakes or detergent and we took it in turns to walk up and down the bath (like treading grapes). It worked well and we had very clean feet.

I remember squeezing into a kiosk at the local music shop, with a friend, to listen to the latest releases and even, occasionally buying a 45 rpm disc ("Running Bear" was one I remember and something by Lonnie Donegan but the rest have disappeared from my memory).
 

Oh, you've unlocked my childhood memory.: My mom used to do her laundry with a washboard

her hands were constantly inflamed (I'm not sure if it was due to contact with detergent)

I'm glad that by the age when people start doing their own laundry. clothes, my parents already had a washing machine . And I'm so happy that I can just throw the laundry in the washing machine!

but I'm sorry that I didn't find the time when I had to call somewhere to listen to music. It must have been a lot of fun. The Internet has devalued a lot of things
 
I'd forgotten the old washboard. Thanks for reminding me. I think many women at that time had red, dry hands due to the constant work by hand that they had to do - washing, ironing, cooking, cleaning, dish-washing, all done by hand and not a pair of Marigolds in sight.

Eventually my mother bought a 2nd hand Ewbank carpet sweeper to avoid having to take rugs outside on dry days to beat the dust (and fibre) out of them, and she bought a twin tub washing machine from a door to door salesman, then a sewing machine from another door to door salesman (which led to an explosion of pretty dresses for me - before that it took a week to make a hand-sewn summer dress for me, probably two for the rare one in her own size).

Things became so much easier for my generation. Even the washing in the bath method was easier than the hand washing she did and didn't last all that long. Neil being born and the need to wash old-fashioned nappies led to the purchase of a very good 2nd hand single tub with a wringer attached. My first vacuum cleaner was a 21st birthday present a few months before Neil was born, so we could get a fitted carpet. The phone didn't enter our house until just after Alistair was born and, other than the occasion when he dialled 999 just after he started to walk, was a boon. At that point we did change from a table model to a wall-mounted one though.

Nowadays I couldn't manage without my dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, vacuum cleaner, fridge, freezer and all the rest of the modern gadgets that make housekeeping so much easier. What I need now is a gadget that will sweep the floor for me without me standing up to operate it. I did employ a cleaner which was an ideal solution, but she has a back injury and can't work any more in that capacity. Saves me £30 a week, but I struggle to do the sweeping and Neil has to do it occasionally. I was thinking about one of those little round robots but there are too many things in the way for it to be a success. Still considering it though.

Oh the changes over these last few years. After all, technology isn't all that bad - just computers!
 
I guess this will confuse folks, but my father played a washboard in a skiffle band in the 1960s. He had thimbles on his fingers to make the sound.
 
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