Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Baking always is a good move. It makes the world a controllable place...even when you only bake for the freezer. I like to step into a new week armed against antagonism with cake and biscuits to feed the antagonists with.


We've notice the whole in my meal plans...which is tonight. We have plenty but its all frozen. This opens up a word of choice. I've assured DH I can't get the venison defrosted marinated and cooked by tonight...but he's dithering over a pasta dish with the last of the (froozen) Christmas ham or some fish while bringing me in some more logs.

The baking I want to do cannot be frozen. It's melting moments (but not the British ones), the American one with cornflour in it and covered in icing sugar.

mmmmmm venison

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

My neighbour has Bell's palsy. The doctor palmed him off with "it'll be gone in 2 weeks" 6 weeks ago. He's lost some hearing in one ear and his eye keeps getting infected through the tear duct not working properly and leaving his eye dry. All temporary problems but he's been really knocked back by it.

Its a very frightening thing to have. Despite it usually not being ''serious'' its a big deal getting about dribbling, slurring and looking pretty odd. It akes one feel very vulnerable and self conscious.

I've not had an episode lasting that long...not seriously. I get a bit of mouth droop only I and my mother can see, but if I get a ''Droop'' seriously I ask for the intravenous steroid treatment. I had that the forst time and was ''normal'' looking...unless you were huntng or it....with in two weeks I think. Certainly nothing like 6 weeks. I'm glad I had that treatment because I know its want I want again as it was effective for me.


i lost hearing in ear too at the same tie, and the eardrum then perforated....so an ear infection must have been involved (I had had a bloody awful flu that month...really bad) putting pressure on the nerve. Later doctors have complained it wasn't looked into more throuroughly at the time...but tbh I think its not an oversight by the doctor at the time...it resolved swiftly and its not that rare......the second time however.....

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

The baking I want to do cannot be frozen. It's melting moments (but not the British ones), the American one with cornflour in it and covered in icing sugar.

mmmmmm venison

Can you bake a half batch? woll you see people who need sweetening tomorrow?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Baking always is a good move. It makes the world a controllable place...even when you only bake for the freezer. I like to step into a new week armed against antagonism with cake and biscuits to feed the antagonists with.


We've notice the whole in my meal plans...which is tonight. We have plenty but its all frozen. This opens up a word of choice. I've assured DH I can't get the venison defrosted marinated and cooked by tonight...but he's dithering over a pasta dish with the last of the (froozen) Christmas ham or some fish while bringing me in some more logs.

You are posh .... I'll probably have a cheese sandwich, I had beans on toast for lunch

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3015954

amcluesent in a happy mood. Just so that no one can say it never happens.

I'm not sure what shocked me the most, the fact that amc is in a happy mood, or the fact he lives near so many of us. Nice to hear that the glass is sometimes half full though.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

The baking I want to do cannot be frozen. It's melting moments (but not the British ones), the American one with cornflour in it and covered in icing sugar.

mmmmmm venison

I've no idea what a melting moment is, never had one.... so the fact there are two types goes right over my head.

Can you make half the amount? Or leave half unbaked in the fridge in a tupperware pot until tomorrow/Tuesday?

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I'm sure the razor looking necklace can be marketed as gothic.

Without seeing it, I'm sure it's an acceptable style.

Alternatives are: add more bits into it, bulking it out, possibly using head pins; remove 3/4 of the bits and chuck in some spacers; learn how to make twists and do a big twisty thing.... and pray it doesn't look like rolls of barbed wire round minefields.

LydiaJ

We have made a token gesture towards moving by delivering all the Christmas decorations to the new house and leaving them there. There are small green things coming up all over the flower bed outside the living room window. I think they are going to be snowdrops, but it's a bit too soon to tell. There are also some bigger things that I think are going to be daffodils.

Now to go and tackle the earthquake zone that is the playroom here in my rented house. I have been putting it off for ages, but I have removals people coming to quote tomorrow, so the deadline is finally close enough to kick me into action. Hold me to that, please!!

ETA (a couple of hours later)
Shelves still chaotic but floor now clear and vacuumed!! :j

The shelves will wait for another day. Just about to take another boot-load of stuff over: small desk and plastic kitchen that have never really fitted in the tiny playroom here but will have plenty of space in the new place because they kids' domain is nearly twice the size of what we have at the moment. Also another pile of dead cardboard boxes to go for recycling, and half a black sack of rubbish (from the playroom) destined for the new place's wheelie bin because ours is full and I don't think they'll take more than we can fit in it.

Meanwhile DD's bedroom floor (which was empty and clean yesterday evening) is unspeakable again. :mad:

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Without seeing it, I'm sure it's an acceptable style.

Alternatives are: add more bits into it, bulking it out, possibly using head pins; remove 3/4 of the bits and chuck in some spacers; learn how to make twists and do a big twisty thing.... and pray it doesn't look like rolls of barbed wire round minefields.

Or maybe give up and sell it to Goths.

tomterm8

Oh, and the daffodils I planted last autumn... I didn't kill them off! They are peaking up out of the grass!