It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

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mardatha

Redlady - when you've got ME after having been fine all your life, you try so hard to prove you're ok. I was in Mensa too and since I got ME some days I can't dial a phone number properly. Stop trying fight it and chill oot woman. You're pushing your body too hard and thats what I did. Until I fell apart. LOL

mardatha

Kittie you're another one!! Reading this forum is bloody knackering. I'm off for a read & a knit!

Charis

greenbee wrote: »

Forgot to say - pasta machine - get an imperia

Thank you greenbee. I'd looked at the user comments on a few sites and that one seemed fairly popular.

Ceridwen, I did notice that a couple of comments on the Lakeland pasta machine said that the handle kept coming off.

ginnyknit

Right everyone...stop and...breathe... We all seem to be running round trying to fit everything in. I made a list put on the table and came in my little office to escape with a brew for a minute.

My neighbour left a bag of new potatoes on the step for me, kind soul she is - so need to tackle them when I do my big bake in.

washing machine on, one lot on line.
50 more wedding favours to finish
pots done
kitchen clean - early morning fur ball off cat no 1

Now I have to search the craft boxes for ribbon I know I have in stock for favours - searched bedroom and craft room at 1 am - no luck

Am staying home today come hell or high water as I can't walk or bend today :mad: taken everything I can to push arthiritis into submission. Will just have to have a day off from the excercise regime.

Redlady, Im amazed you didnt fall asleep in the exam, you have a lot on your plate hunny but Im sure you will pass re-sits.:)

Bonnie B well doe for getting results on your washing machine survey. I keep a spare old machine 'borrowed' from son till he moves house - thats how I keep the washer karma going, they don't break if you have a spare :rotfl:

GQ I have heard so many times people struggling with ME ( I had it many years ago, or was it a bug???) and the story is still the same now , doctors just don't understand it so pooh pooh the idea it exists. But its hell for you sufferers and so many seem to be women??

greenbee

kittie wrote: »

Oh that is the one I have. Inspire me please, it sits on a top shelf that I never reach into

Use it for anything you'd normally use pasta for, just make it fresh (and you don't have to use egg dough, although if you have chickens its a good way of using them up). Egg-free pasta can be dried and stored in jars and tins, egg pasta frozen. You can add veg to pasta too. I found I mostly made lasagne or tagliatelle.... But ravioli are nice if you have visitors (or something that needs using up and will make good filling).

Lots of recipes on the Internet... Just get into the habit of making pasta when you want to eat it and have the time, and as with everything else, do extra each time so you have some frozen or dried for when you CBA...

redlady_1

You lot are just bloody amazing! When the chips are down, you guys come up with a new way of cooking potatoes! xxx

Thanks so much because this morning I really was at a very low ebb. But tomorrow I will be better!!!

Tonight will be spent at the gym and then planting out the rest of the cabbages in my garden. I also have some elderberries but not enough for wine. Any suggestions oh wise Sages of MSE

smileyt_2

Redlady, hugs to you. I am so sorry to hear that your work colleagues will delight in your exam failure. But really, you should pity them - they must be so warped, how can they ever get any real pleasure from their lives? Hold your head up high and tell them it was just a practice run.

Ginnyknit, sorry to hear your arthritis is bad. I had a feeling you would suffer after I saw you standing up all afternoon on Saturday. I have no words of wisdom to offer, sadly.

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mardatha wrote: »

Redlady - when you've got ME after having been fine all your life, you try so hard to prove you're ok. I was in Mensa too and since I got ME some days I can't dial a phone number properly. Stop trying fight it and chill oot woman. You're pushing your body too hard and thats what I did. Until I fell apart. LOL

My friend had ME when she was younger when we were in our 20s.. she turned up to see me before she knew she had something and was so tired she had to leave as soon as she turned up.. told me that when it hit she couldnt lift a spoon in her cereal bowl Poor girl. Luckily she is much better soon and at least now it is recognised.