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mumoftwins

OliveOyl wrote: »

Is your hip arthritus MoT?
In which case I sympathise - there is no comfortable position is there?

Not arthritis yet (I hope!) its Trochanteric Burstis and drives me crazy!! Along with the scoliosis which the bursitis has aggravated, all in all I feel a hundred years old and I'm way off that .

Still, got an appointment to see a back specialist at St A City Hospital on March 4th so we'll see what he has to say

mumoftwins

beanielou wrote: »

Dibley sounds fab MOT
Hope that you got on ok at the hospital with DS Mot.

Olive~Hope you are ok

Hi beanie!

Dibley is great, he's going to be castrated next week though so don't think he'll be very happy with me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DS hospital appointment was cancelled yesterday due to the snow :mad: and he really could have done with seeing the paedatrician, so now got to wait for another appointment to come through.

I went out to Asda first thing yesterday to get some milk and bits with the idea of taking DS to appointment straight after, DD phoned to say appt was cxlld so picked my friend and her daughter up to bring them back to stay during this snowy episode.

Anyway, was driving along the road I live on and went to turn left up the hill at the side of my house to where my drive is and got stuck :eek: couldn't get up the hill!! So, had the kids and a passer by pushing the car until the tyres got a grip and I managed to limp into my driveway!

So, I'm not going out today as the car would just slide down the hill into someones car or a brick wall :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hope everyone is ok and that work isn't getting you down too much Olive :grouphug:

ampersand

Hello mot, morning all(remembering this is oliveoyl's Thread après tout) -

Just adding my 'everyone be careful' note re: driving - shall try my own car again in a while.

Yes, oo - you can feel the groundswell of opinion concerning your work situ.
Unhealthy for all and, as you say, in a small specialised field gossip flies faster and exaggerates exponentially. Heed Popeye, if only to start a quiet scan of other possiblities for work. It may come to this. While your loyalty to and concern for boss is worthy, it must not be the deciding factor for your working wellbeing and security.

Back and hip pain seems so much part of people's personal misery and incapacity these days that I can only wish you all well and safe movement, be it on wheels or toes, until the freezy stuff is gone.

OliveOyl_2

Funnily enough after confessing on here I slept really well last night :rotfl:
The drive to work was a bit hairy as it's -2 out there, but as I'm the nearest to the office I have no excuse. Today I know that one colleague won't make it, although he made it yesterday, so I'll only have moaning in ONE ear :rotfl:

And I fell over in my drive :rotfl: I was taking the recycling out and had my hands full and on the doorstep went WOOOSH to the floor. There was no-one about so I scrabbled about trying not to be too embarrassed about the stuff I'd thrown everywhere. And I thought about when I was a child (in the 1970's ) my neighbours all cleared their drives when there was snow. Nowadays, not only am I out at work for the whole day so don't have time in the daylight, but I am concerned that I can be sued if I clear my drive and somoene slips, but not if I have done nothing......and they call this progress????

And now I know I'm old when I type remarks such as that. :rotfl:

ampersand

Not old, olive, but reflectively wise and metaphysically cogitative....all in all a worthy wearer of the purple in the making.

Hope you weren't too shaken up - falls are nasty.

I was sure it would happen to me walking back with a dozen eggs hier, but all was well.

OliveOyl_2

ampersand wrote: »

Not old, olive, but reflectively wise and metaphysically cogitative....all in all a worthy wearer of the purple in the making.

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That sounds like me

ampersand

Here's today's little recette for the mser:rolleyes: in everyone - it's from the local French paper(contradiction in terms, surely?) I receive online daily:
[I'll add that foie gras is ordinary enough in this neck of woods - and please don't begin a for/against polemic)
Mille-feuilles de kiwis et de foie gras poêl!s



DDM

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Pour 6 personnes
Ingr!dients

3 kiwi
5 tranches de foie gras de canard cru,
sel
1 cuillère à caf! de gingembre râp!,
poivre au moulin.
Pr!paration

Peler les kiwis avec un couteau bien tranchant et les coupers en lamelles dans le sens de la longueur. R!server.
Couper chaque tranche de foie gras cru en deux. Poivrer et saler les tranches sur les 2 faces. Faire chauffer une poêle à feu vif et saisir les tranches de foie gras cru 1 mn de chaque côt!. R!server dans une assiette très chaude le temps de pr!parer les kiwis.
Faire revenir les kiwis dans la graisse rendue par le foie gras additionn!e à du gingembre râp!, garder quelques pluches pour la d!coration.
Faire cuire 3 min en retournant à mi-cuisson pour que les kiwis ne se ramollissent pas trop.
Dresser des petites soucoupes individuelles en alternant lamelles de kiwis et de foie gras. D!corer de quelques pluches de gingembre. Servir aussitôt.

shaun40400

morning oliveoyl its snowing still in dublin but thawing as well!!!!
ampersand any chance of a translation??????
we dont speak french ,only irish,english rusian,lithuainian.spanish,turkish,georgian,
bit's of latvian,italian
thats just the mrs
me....only speeky english
but cant spell in english....!!

OliveOyl_2

You are tres cruel to us non linguists Ampersand :rotfl:
I've Babelfished it:

For 6 people (with you so far...) Ingredients 3 kiwi (the fruit???) 5 sections of believed (I love this, what happens if we don't believe?) duck foie gras, salt 1 spoon with CIF! (struggling here, Cif is a cleaner isn't it?) of ginger râp! (black dancer?) , pepper with the mill. (nice description -got that) Preparation To peel well kiwis (You DO mean the fruit, oh well) with a knife edge and the coupers in plates in the direction length (:rotfl: :rotfl: cut in lengthways strips doesn't sound as good does it?). Reserve. To cut each section of foie gras believed (:rotfl: )in two. To pepper and salt the sections on the 2 faces. To make heat a frying pan with sharp fire (so much more descriptive) and seize (obviously seen me cooking) the sections of foie gras believed 1 mn of each côt!. Reserve in a very hot plate the Pr (ah, can't work this bit out...) time! to avoid kiwis (I usually do). To make return kiwis in the grease (makes it sound yeuch!) returned by the foie gras addition! E with ginger râp! , to keep some pluches for Decoration. To make cook 3 min while turning over to semi-cooking so that kiwis did not soften too much. To draw up small individual saucers by alternating plates of kiwis and foie gras. D! corer of some pluches of ginger. To be useful (:D ) at once.

I think I can understand it, but find it hard to believe Foie Gras is DFW......
Though I think I have a bit stashed from a previous visit to france.....

ampersand

Okay Shaun - just tried car again and nostarties toujours.
This is a working rewrite, rather than a word-by-word translation.

For 6 people, peel and cut 3 kiwis lengthwise.
Take 5 slices of foie gras(uncooked)and cut each in two. Salt and freshly milled pepper on both sides.
In a hot good pan, seal the fg on both sides for one minute, then keep them on a hot plate while preparing the kiwis.
Grate a coffee spoon of fresh ginger into the hot fat/juice in the fg pan and
cook the kiwis - one and a half minutes each side. Don't let them over-soften.
Layer fg/kiwi up in individual dishes and decorate with a few curls of ginger(I think la mâche/lamb's lettuce would be nice)

p.s. - I think it should read 6 slices of foie gras; makes the serving of 6 personnes un peu difficile autrement.

What a wonderful polyglot you are Shaun!