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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Annb said:
That really brightened my day as well Ian. Thanks so much for that. I not only enjoy traditional carols but a lot of music from the middle ages to the 1800's. Somehow, it all goes wrong for me around the early 1900's. Great Christmas present. I shall keep playing it from now on.
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Don't thank me, thank @Muddy Cyclist - he is also an amazingly talented artist. I'm glad you liked it though.
 
@DJC3 - the experiment to make the salve a little more solid is a triumph. Hardly any mess, even though it was a learning curve.

Here are the results. I still have plenty salve in a couple of little pots, but this is easier to manage. IMG_1607791101.054141.jpg

One may feel more experiments coming along.

This morning at our local market there was a young woman selling all sorts of body butters, wax melts and so on, so I may have picked up a few ideas.
 
DCUKMod said:
@DJC3 - the experiment to make the salve a little more solid is a triumph. Hardly any mess, even though it was a learning curve.

Here are the results. I still have plenty salve in a couple of little pots, but this is easier to manage. View attachment 46199

One may feel more experiments coming along.

This morning at our local market there was a young woman selling all sorts of body butters, wax melts and so on, so I may have picked up a few ideas.
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Those little pots look super. We finished ours today too- decanted quickly into a few old pots we had kicking around. Those little jam jars hotels have at breakfast are just right.
It sets quickly once the melted beeswax is mixed in doesn’t it? We had to remelt the mixture first time as the wax set in lumps dispersed through the chilli oil.
Daughter tried some on a stiff neck and reported a positive tingling sensation. I’m almost sad not to be in any sort of pain at the moment!
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DJC3 said:
Those little pots look super. We finished ours today too- decanted quickly into a few old pots we had kicking around. Those little jam jars hotels have at breakfast are just right.
It sets quickly once the melted beeswax is mixed in doesn’t it? We had to remelt the mixture first time as the wax set in lumps dispersed through the chilli oil.
Daughter tried some on a stiff neck and reported a positive tingling sensation. I’m almost sad not to be in any sort of pain at the moment!
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Both my thumbs are very sore at the moment, so you would be very welcome to borrow at least one of them for as long as you like? Being ambithingy, you can choose either hand. :)

The tubes came from Amazon. I bought 5 (smallest package) as I wasn't sure how it'd work, but I'm going to create a HM version of the Compeed Anti-Blister Stick next, just using shea butter and beeswax.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07H5JYFMD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Should I mention I bought 100 next time, just shoot me! As it is we have 10 rollerball blanks, but they will be used as they are a bit of a triumph too for a mixture of E45, Tea tree Oil and Betnovate cream we both use very sparingly, and they will have anti-mosi liquid in in summer.

I think I may be getting to know the beekeeper in the next road.
 
DJC3 said:
Hahaha I hadn’t even noticed the lid - trust you! It was found lurking at the back of a drawer and smelled horrible so we scooped it out and threw it away to keep the pot.
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I must admit, when I did the initial make, I also had a trawl through the drawers, and ditched some potions that'd gone out of favour too.
 
Dull day here - weather about the same. Fatt bar Coconut and Macadamia monstrosity binned and Coffee and Walnut tried. If either of those ingredients were present they win the prize for camouflage - one would never notice. Plan is for belly pork to gwapple me gwapenuts today, gwanny. If I have to eat warm food the LC way that’s probably as good as it gets just now. If I'm generous it is a 6 ish/10 at its best. I'm not expecting much any more. I'll take this WOE performing outstandingly in 3+ of my (9?) key areas to offset the sub optimal pleasure and faff of anything cooked. Nowhere near there yet - it is rarely getting out of 3rd gear atm. This despite the Food Fairy going several extra miles. I lucked out with that gel. I don't like getting in touch with my softer side.
 
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@Annb I wouldn't dream of thinking the worse of you for your taste in music. I never really liked jazz but I love saxophone music. I like country music and watched Ken Burns documentary on the history of country music and a Rich Hall's quirky documentary on the same topic. Don't really like much Elvis.
 
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ianpspurs said:
@Annb I wouldn't dream of thinking the worse of you for your taste in music. I never really liked jazz but I love saxophone music. I like country music and watched Ken Burns documentary on the history of country music and a Rich Hall's quirky documentary on the same topic. Don't really like much Elvis.
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I can remember the day when I did like Elvis (Presley, that is) but I was young (early teens) and that was before I went along to a jazz club in Canterbury and enjoyed trad jazz. I think I grew out of Elvis when I was about 15 so I won't hold it against myself. Don't watch much TV so didn't see either of those documentaries.
 
So annoying when you 'lose' a thread!
I just had a quick scroll through the missing days to reach the reply box to tell you about my upcoming adventure despite our new lockdown, which is stricter than any we've had before.

I'll be picking up 4 fully grown turkeys tomorrow with my friend and her one year old daughter. In my trusty little Citroën C3 :hilarious:
It started out because my friend had got in her head she wanted to have a suckling pig over a fire for christmas. Which was impossible, way too expensive, especially with the allowed very small group of people, even if you don't count the people very precise.
Then she said she wanted a turkey, upon which the friend with the garden to be used told her there was no way she would be able to find a live turkey on such short notice.
Always in for a challenge, she found live turkeys at 20 euros each in the next village within 5 minutes!
And then this friend with the big garden said he wanted 4 for his garden, so we go pick them up tomorrow :D.

Only thing left is figuring out what to have for our christmas dinner, because I have a feeling those turkeys will live in my neighbour's garden until they die from old age :happy:.

I have a tendency to become hermit like, but as long as I have friends like this I guess I'm quite safe on that part!
This is the same friend who told me last spring to empty my car to pick up my birthday present. Worked out well, so a few turkeys can't be a problem :)
Very much looking forward to tomorrow, I expect it's going to be wonderful and hilarious!

Picture of my birthday present, tomorrow you'll get an update on our turkey adventure!

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@shelley262 - I don't know if you saw Dr Rosemary Leonard on Breakfast this morning, suggesting if you have elderly visiting for Christmas, they should be registered as a temp patient at your GP, so that they will not miss their opportunity for the COVID vaccine.

How, thinking that through, I can imagine many GPs hurling mugs and sharp implements at their TVs in reaction to adding an unquantifiable to their already nightmare logistics. I do wonder it that then means has to stay where they had their first dose, to receive the second, of how their GP will know when they need the second (21 days later).

Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there if you missed it.
 
Antje77 said:
Picture of my birthday present, tomorrow you'll get an update on our turkey adventure!
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This was a lovely day!
I picked up my friend, her daughter and her dog (close family to my own 2 dogs) who will be staying with me for a few days. I'm always happy with sleepover dogs so I forgot to ask why or how long his sleepover will be :hilarious:.

The turkeys lived in a very large pen and they very much didn't want to get caught. So the friendly old man who owned them offered to catch them after they went to sleep and then bring them to us. You'd expect he would've thought of this yesterday so he could have kept them locked in this morning, but I suspect the stroke he had some years ago has messed a bit with the logical planning part of his brain.

So 4 turkeys were promptly delivered at 6PM tonight :)

It's also impressive how much bigger turkeys suddenly become whe you look at them from an 'I need to catch you and put you in my car' point of view! :D

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Antje77 said:
This was a lovely day!
I picked up my friend, her daughter and her dog (close family to my own 2 dogs) who will be staying with me for a few days. I'm always happy with sleepover dogs so I forgot to ask why or how long his sleepover will be :hilarious:.

The turkeys lived in a very large pen and they very much didn't want to get caught. So the friendly old man who owned them offered to catch them after they went to sleep and then bring them to us. You'd expect he would've thought of this yesterday so he could have kept them locked in this morning, but I suspect the stroke he had some years ago has messed a bit with the logical planning part of his brain.

So 4 turkeys were promptly delivered at 6PM tonight :)

It's also impressive how much bigger turkeys suddenly become whe you look at them from an 'I need to catch you and put you in my car' point of view! :D

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I can't see those ending up on any dinner plate any time soon!
 
Annb said:
I can't see those ending up on any dinner plate any time soon!
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I'm not so sure about that, knowing my friend and my neighbour... I do fear there will be only 3 turkeys left after christmas.

I couldn't do it, and I don't want to witness the converting from ridiculous but cool bird to christmas dinner.
But I very much approve of meat which has lived a wonderful free life as opposed to virtually all store bought meat, no matter how many 'green', 'biological', 'free range' and 'better life' stars it has. So I will enjoy dinner and spend some thoughts on the unlucky turkey who happened to be caught first.
 
Antje77 said:
I'm not so sure about that, knowing my friend and my neighbour... I do fear there will be only 3 turkeys left after christmas.

I couldn't do it, and I don't want to witness the converting from ridiculous but cool bird to christmas dinner.
But I very much approve of meat which has lived a wonderful free life as opposed to virtually all store bought meat, no matter how many 'green', 'biological', 'free range' and 'better life' stars it has. So I will enjoy dinner and spend some thoughts on the unlucky turkey who happened to be caught first.
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I know it's daft (and probably wrong headed) but, having looked it in the eye, I wouldn't be able to eat it.

I have a friend who started farming sheep in his 20's but when it came to slaughtering them - he could take them to the abattoir, but couldn't face eating his own lamb, so he would exchange the slaughtered animal for one somebody else had raised and slaughtered. I'm told that was not uncommon amongst crofters here.

When I was a child my father bought some rabbits for us to raise for meat, but he couldn't kill them, so had to sell them off, or give them away. I must take after my Dad. Neil doesn't eat meat, but he certainly wouldn't raise animals for the pot (anyone's) but No 2 son can reasonably comfortably kill and eat their own chickens. We're all different. I know, if we eat meat, we should be able to kill it, but I can't.
 
BGs at present are pretty ridiculous ranging between 10 and 17, despite insulin and Metformin. It might be the extra Furosimide causing it - I'm advised by the GP to take 80 mg a day (recently been on 40 mg) for the next week or 2 to try to stop my legs swelling quite so much - not working so far and I have no idea what other effects it might be having. Soldier on though and we'll see...

Tried to get some tincture of iodine at the pharmacy this afternoon - Neil read that it is good for getting rid of skin tags (and that there is some kind of link between skin tags and insulin resistance) so I thought that there'd be no harm in trying, even if no-one else knows about it. The pharmacist (who is quite young) says she doesn't know when she last saw tincture of iodine. Neil's pretty sure he bought some about 4 years ago and thought he still had some, but can't find it. I guess it's just too old-fashioned a remedy.

I was hungry this morning so I had a roll with fried egg on it - despite already high BG. So it's TMAD instead of one.
 
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@DJC3 - Are there your bottles (as opposed to the 500ml verison): https://www.lakeland.co.uk/18335/Lakeland-Lidded-Glass-Milk-Bottle-250ml?

Have you encountered this before?: https://recipesfromapantry.com/inst...IJF4VLXFP3di8_0gL5GdVC377pfZBOwp7NeA5daCTFk0Q
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Yes they’re the ones. You can buy separate lids too if you happen to lose them. They’re a useful size fir all sorts of things and the wide neck makes them easier to fill than regular bottles.
Not seen the infused water thing but I’m going to have a go. It’s a good way to use up the orange flesh after I’ve zested to make gin!
 
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