As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

ceridwen

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

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suzitiger - ceridwen is a poster on this thread, not an ingredient :eek:. Not sure how she'll react to "ceridwen's cauldren" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Hmmm....:think: - Well...I have a large jam preserving pan I could always use as a makeshift cauldron - would that do?:D ...and the nearest I've come to cosmetics in that sense is I sometimes make my own. I've duly followed a link from another poster today and made up a new version of moisturizer - so will be checking out what thats like tomorrow:).

Reet - off to check out possibilities re some more food experiments - I sorta whirl around between food/gardening/cosmetic/natural remedies experiments. More nettle stings yesterday - and I couldnae be assed to head out looking for some plantain to use on them - so decided I must have summat in that I could use instead and checked it out and I now know lavender essential oil works on nettle stings:).

redlady_1

I can lend you my broomstick and FK if you like Cerwiden??

Lizzy - i have another 4 doors and frames to do, plus the front door and the stairs. I will be sick of it by the end. Then it is decorating the living room!

Now where do I get that tv???!

VJsmum

Thanks GQ re Morrisons. It reminds me, i was in there tonight and they were selling Cathedral City Cheddar £3.95, or 2 for £4!

suzitiger

hahaha well yes if ur making your own lotions and potions in it Ceridwen then I guess it is a kind of cauldren. How fitting. that's a great talent to have. I'd love to have a go at making my own remidies and that kind of thing. Chamomile is also great for stings and bites but u probably know that already. yeah lavender is good because it takes away the itch or sting and sooths redness, it is also antiseptic. All this I learn from Lush, I learn new things every day and i love it

suzitiger

In my house though tumshie was a less than flattering word for people with a lack of common sense.


Hahah I actually didn't realise Swedes and Turnips were the same thing until I moved to newcastle. Down South my Mum called them swedes, and here they are turnips I like Tumshie though, and down south when I was at school it was not uncommon to call someone a turnip for the same effect

JIL

do you remember the England football manager Graham Taylor being nicknamed turnip head by the sun because his team lost to the Swedes?

silvasava

I always thought Turnips & Swedes were different 'animals' Swedes have orangy flesh & turnips have white - or are they different varieties of the same thing??? Or am I just being a 'doh'

Larumbelle

Hi Suzitiger! I have to admit, every time I see Ceridwen's Cauldron in the Lush newsletter I feel a little glow for our Ceridwen

Turnips, swedes... they are all bad and wrong. Not Swedes obviously, but the ones with the little 's'... turnips or rutabaga or whatever they're called. You know what I mean :cool:

The friend of mine who nearly got conned has gone off on holiday to Corfu - just like that - texted me today and she's got a last minute self-catering villa and she's already on her way! I certainly admire her guts :rotfl: but I do hope she's not running away from herself. She's a bit messed up at the moment and it hurts me to say but she's a little naive.

OH's uncle has invited us to go stay on his yacht with him in Scotland once I am well again Apparently you don't get seasick on yachts because they don't 'roll'.

Oh, and I am doing all sorts of things to avoid thinking about my health or Wednesday. It was working great until OH started going on about it

Huge hugs to all :grouphug:

auntymabel

ceridwen wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Hmmm....:think: - Well...I have a large jam preserving pan I could always use as a makeshift cauldron - would that do?:D ...and the nearest I've come to cosmetics in that sense is I sometimes make my own. I've duly followed a link from another poster today and made up a new version of moisturizer - so will be checking out what thats like tomorrow:).

Reet - off to check out possibilities re some more food experiments - I sorta whirl around between food/gardening/cosmetic/natural remedies experiments. More nettle stings yesterday - and I couldnae be assed to head out looking for some plantain to use on them - so decided I must have summat in that I could use instead and checked it out and I now know lavender essential oil works on nettle stings:).

Just popping out of lurkdom to say that I heard on a Radio 4 sciency-type programme a few weeks ago that the best thing for nettle stings was the sap of the nettles themselves. (You'd obviously want to go and find some gloves before you attempted to get at the sap!)

Winchelsea

I LOVE SWEDES! (The orangey yellow things aka neeps or rutabagas)

Lovely roasted or steamed, or in a hot pot, but best of all mashed up with butter and pepper! (I am easily pleased!)