A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

wondercollie

De-lurking to say allergies can develop at anytime/age.

In the space of two years I became allergic to bee/wasp stings (epi-pen here I came), penicillin and two other commonly used anti-biotics.

That's why you hear of the odd person dying after eating a stir fry in peanut oil, etc.

You simply don't know when and if it will happen. It can happen with the first or 100th dose of medication.

fuddle

Gawd wondercollie, that's put me on edge. :rotfl: It doesn't take much. I have heard of many people developing allergies through adulthood. It may well be worth seeing the GP about it grandma, that way you'll know for sure and any other allergies may crop up.

Wonderful news vgsmum

I'm awake very early as woke up in a panic that DH's work uniform wasn't dry. I spent so long on my food lists/meal plan last night that I neglected what really needed doing. I cannot wait till I'm uber organised... although I doubt that day will ever come :rotfl:

My mum and sister are coming to visit today and I wish they weren't. I'm just not in the mood for other people's opinions on my house/how I live - positive or otherwise.

I have found my shopping trolley £24 so not super cheap but not expensive. I don't know whether I want polka dots though. I fancy something fun but if it was just black I wouldn't stand out as much. I can see the village news headline now 'mum, early 30's, has shopping trolley!" I don't need it till September so plenty of time.

This Amazon subscribe and save is actually quite handy. I've found my dog's food for cheaper so i'll be buying through there when I need more.

I need to get to the library today too as the preserve's and chutney's book I reserved is in. I fancy doing a ginger preserve. I got some pectin in my AF order so will have a go. I could do with a thermometer but that will have to wait.

Off I go to do the first draft of my assignment. It always my luck that my assignments fall in the school holidays when I have the kids constantly. :eek:

Mrs_Chip

Morning Everyone!

So glad your Dad is home VJ'smum, it is always a worry when older people are in hospital for a long time, y must be relieved he is home.

SDG - thanks for the pulled pork recipe, I have Big Oven'd it and bought a joint yesterday. I will make it over the weekend, it sounds like the sort of thing I could make as a special for the van, I think it would be lovely in nice white baps with salad.

Up early too, got up at 5.30 as I had woken up and started worriting about getting food prepped for tonight, we are working again this evening. I am making southern fried chicken and coleslaw, plus a potato and mushroom curry and tartare sauce (which sells very well but is a bit of a loss leader and a pain to make as everything has to be finely chopped). So cracked on with some of the more quite tasks as OH is still snoring.

It was our 27th wedding anniversary last Friday and we decided that we would buy ourselves decent lounger chairs for the garden rather than presents neither of us really need. So we went to our local independant departmental store yesterday and picked them. They were very expensive (well I thought so !) at £80 each, but are very sturdy (neither of us are leightweights ) which is good as I am always wary of folding furniture, it has a habit of collapsing on me! The are also very comfortable,and I look forward to getting the chance to try them out - not likely in the near future as the weather seems to have skipped a season and we are back into autumn gales! We did get £15 of vouchers for the shop in a promotion, so that was quite good. They have to be spent by the 17th so bought some plants for the garden and have £5 left to spend, we will probably pick up some bird food next week.

We are putting loads of food out at the moment, the garden is full of babies and the bad weather is making them even more hungry. We are still being plagued by the jackdaws so have devised a rather Heath Robinson solution. I have an old speaker and have picked up some cheap speakerwire, enough to run up to the garden. I will connect it to an old mini system we no longer us and when we see the jackdaws descend (we can watch on our cam) we can give them a blast of noise - I will burn a cd of OH shouting, that should do it! Sounds mad, but it is infuriating seeing them scattering seed everywhere and chasing the little birds off.

Right got to go and shred a couple of cabbages - hope the weather is not too bad for everyone, batten down the hatches!

mardatha

That's how I acquired my cat, who has stayed and cuddled me for ten years now. He keeps other cats out of the garden and recently when we had rats he caught 6 young ones and now we have no rats. He's magic and of course you should feed him - he might be old and stiff and appreciate a nice wee feed. xx

GreyQueen

boultdj wrote: »

Sorry to tell you trifles, but it sound's like you'v been picked to be it's new pet:D, I went through the same thing last year, took her 7 month's to get it into mine and OH skull's that we were now her's, At the mo she's asleep on the back of my chair.

Trifles, you've been adopted. You can roll over easy, you can roll over hard, but I'm afraid you've been adopted by that moggie.

People who've never been owned by a cat may be baffled by the statement It just moved in with me as an explanation why a certain feline is on your premises when you certainly didn't choose it. Cats are very good at re-homing themselves. For whatever reason, that cat got separated from its home, has sized up the available options, and chosen you. As boultdj says above, her cat has had to train them for 7 months, but they finally know their place in the cat's scheme of things.

My family already had a cat and certainly weren't in the market for amother. A large black and white mog started loitering in the garden. She wasn't given any food or attention. She loitered more. No one knew where she was from but she was collared and tagged. One day, after seeing her wolf down a slice of stale bread put out for the birds, we realised she must be starving and our nerve broke. Went outside, squatted down, cat came straight over and we read her name tag and it had an address over a mile away.

Feeling virtuous, I biked there and learned that the cat's owner had exchanged her home with a house near ours but no one had changed the disc on the cat's collar. Went to that address, yes, that was her cat, but "it wouldn't stay". Having seen the state of the house, I wasn't surprised, frankly.:p We persisted in taking the cat back and she persisted in coming back to ours. Winter set in. You can't leave a cat out in the cold, can you? Especially when it's sobbing on your doorstep.

I can still recall the day when Dad suddenly decided to go over to the other house and "make it official"; cat was full-stretch on the hearth rug toasting her tummy at the time!:rotfl:The parents currently have two cats are are being wooed by several more, one of which seems to realise that he's a dead ringer for one of theirs and can con us into opening the door.......His tag says he's called "Oliver" and he's always after more! He has a good home 2 doors up but is just an opportunist.

Well, it's a funny old day here at the mo, weather could go any which way, which is basically what it did yesterday. But with added wind. I'm underwhelmed by "summer" thus far. The lottie is growing well. A few people have said something along the lines of What's that stuff growing in your potatoes? as the self-sown chard is a very pale green and is conspicious amongst the darker green of the tatties. I'm getting a little bit sick of eating chard with every meal, tbh. What a luxury it is, to have choices.

Hmm, I shall have to choose to tidy up a chocolate muffin which is cluttering up the kitchen about now......can't imagine how that got on the premises............

Laters, GQ x

meme30

Vjsmum:- Thats great news!

Grandma:- I can second that you can become allergic to things which have never been a problem before. This year I was told I am allergic to Washing Up Liquid! I know! It sounds like a good thing! :rotfl: My fingers have been oddly peeling for a few years now but it got much worse in Feburary. I developed two 5p size holes in my index finger! One very near down to the bone! The doc was worried about Flesh Eating Bug! :eek::eek:
Turns out Washing Up Liquid contains enzymes that eat fats which happens to be the stuff our skin is made of! :eek: Other cleaning stuff is the same.:( I am now the possessor of some lovely rubber gloves and have not had the problem since. How daft is that. I have had my hands in Washing Up Liquid for over fifty years!

I have also ordered some stuff from App Food. I was running out of the Red Thai Paste - Very easy, simple curry to do. They will only let you order one case though.:( I could have had about five!
My T*sco wine bag and Ik*a bag gardens are really coming on! I over filled them with plants- as you do! Salad leaves big enough to pick now and tomato and courgette plants twice the size! Amazing what you get excited about! :rotfl:

Mrs_Chip

We have been going to the same farm in Cornwall twice a year since about 1990. When we started going they had 7 cats. They still have 7 cats :rotfl:. Every time they lose one to old age or disease another one starts to loiter around the farm until it eventually gets taken in, given the snip and integrated with the rest (to a lesser or greater extent!). We once found a little black cat eating the butter in our kitchen in the holiday cottage, he eventually became tame and spent the rest of his life living the life of Reilly. We took a young cat down there that had adopted us at home, but our cat at the time would not have anything to do with her. She is still there, a grand old lady of 19.
They lost a lovely young boy to cancer last year (diagnosed while we were there, it was very sad) and another LBC (current named Little Black Cat) is in the process of taking his place .

We have had four cats - the first three all turned up in the garden as kittens and adopted us, the last came from Cats Protection after our previous cat was killed on the road outside the house, we could not wait for nature to take it's course.

fuddle

I am loving all the cat stories, very clever and very instinctual characters... I'd like to trade my puppy in for one right now and he's just had a slurp out of my camomile tea. Yuk. Down. Drain.

Gammon joint in stock pot (must replace my slow cooker) and some onion chutney on using up some pretty old onions. I've done the recipe by instinct and memory. I used balsamic and red wine vinegar which I think is correct but put dark muscavado sugar in too and something is screaming to me that is not right. Might be a case of the oops.

Putting mince and dumplings on my meal plan but never made dumplings. Are they easy does anyone know? I remember my grandma made them every Wednesday so must have been quite a filling and frugal meal.

Cheapskate

Morning all, and yet again it's dreitch here!

Fuddle - I always put dumplings in any sort of stew. You need SR flour, suet (I use At**a veg suet), half the amount of suet to flour (e.g.8oz flour, 4oz suet), add enough water to make a stiff dough/pastry, then divide into SMALL balls - too big and they take over your stew! Before adding liquid, you can add salt and pepper, any herbs that will go with the stew, spices, anything really. Put them on the top of the stew for about the last 30-40 minutes of cooking. HTH.

It's our WA today, we're having a grown-up dinner when the littlies are in bed tonight, will try to see how much I can buy for how little, if that makes sense!

Got a donated tomato plant and broad bean plant finally outside yesterday before the heavens opened, DD (2.5) sowed her cress, covered the spuds (doing quite well after a slow start) and removed the netting from the onions. Can't say we'll be feeding ourselves all winter, but it's not bad this year. Also got some peas to plant if the rain stops over the next day or so (yeah, right!).

A xo

Dee2012

VJsmum Great news about your dad

All this talk about AF I have decided to have a look and see if there is anything I like, be back later after I have a look.

Miserable here today again.