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Molly41

GreyQueen wrote: »

I don't take anything, I get a hot bottle and rest it on my tum. Sorts it out in about 30 mins and it's so comforting. I've also found hugging a hottie to my tum is useful on those occasional evenings when I feel a bit poorly and out of sorts; take a hottie to bed. That extra bit of radiant heat on your tummy really seems to soothe the mind as well as the body.



Laters, GQ xx

Im another who uses a hot water bottle or wheat bag for my tummy cramps - works wonders.

Mrs_Chip

I'll third that - my lady complaint meant I was in pain much of the time, and I did not go any where without my hottie or wheat bag - including work!

monnagran

I just love hot water bottles. Nothing to beat them when you are
feeling tired and a bit mizz. Makes everything feel better.

2tonsils: that sounds worrying. Fingers crossed for you.

Got most of my bread problems sorted, the ones I haven't sorted today will be gone by tomorrow when I intend to spend the day making vats of bread pudding. The callers at the drop-in on Sunday can take chunks of it away with them.

Me for an early night tucked up with my hottie and a good book.

BLISS!

x

lilmisskitkat

I have IBS, related to my Fibromyalgia and i am lucky in that i have very few trigger foods (white bread/pasta/rice and coffee mainly) but mine is heavily affected by stress. So as well as a food diary Fuddle i'd recommend keeping an 'emotional' diary too, if you have certain times of stress or worry (and who doesn't at the moment?!) and see if this co-incides with symptoms.

I've been a worry-wart today, fretting over money, bills, rising prices etc. Sensibly i know we are a lot better off than some, we manage ok on one wage and have a way to go before 'breaking point' as it were but i'm a natural born worrier and having one of my 'days'. Silly girl

Added a few more items to my stock cupboard, Asda's Smartprice dried mixed fruit is 64p a pack but no doubt it will go up soon so i got 6 packets today. Smartprice corned beef though is down from £2 to £1.54, same as Lidl's so thats a bonus as my lot love their Corned Beef Hash in winter . More tins of tomatoes and tinned fruit too, waiting for the weekend to get Lidl's half price offer of Branston beans 4 for £1. I feel better as i see it stacking up.

Watching Wartime Farm - fascinating Missed last weeks and still waiting to catch up with it on iplayer, i crave some peace and quiet sometimes lol. Oh and i managed to reserve both Hovel in the Hills by Elizabeth West and Croft in the hills by Katherine Stewart (i think!) from the library so i'm looking forward to getting stuck into them

Does anyone else read certain books only at certain times of year? Or is it just me? I have 'winter' books and 'summer' books and can't read things at the 'wrong' time of year. I'm peculiar i admit!

Take care all

K xx

lilmisskitkat

On the plus side i kept my hands busy whilst i was doing my worrying - a new pencil pot (well it's an old jam jar!) cover for DD1 to match her newly decorated room



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GreyQueen

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

Does anyone else read certain books only at certain times of year? Or is it just me? I have 'winter' books and 'summer' books and can't read things at the 'wrong' time of year. I'm peculiar i admit!

Take care all

K xx

Not that I've noticed, and I'm pretty darned peculiar if I say so myself. Although I guess a "beach read" would seem pretty weird in winter. I know people who theme their holiday reading (and holiday music) to their destination but I'm far too disorganised for that.

I can't do certain crafts in summer thought; knitting in summer is unimaginable.

fuddle

Hay box! I love the idea of a hay box but I think I'll not experiment with that one. At least I know how to do it if I need to.

From what the doctor was saying it looks like I have IBS with constipation so I suspect I'll have to up some fibre. I don't know, I don't understand it yet.

Thanks though, you're always a support and a dear reader who PM'd me too.

I don't tend to read much in the summer months if I'm honest but come the darker nights I'm always reading something, although not always fiction - I like a good how-to or cookery book to peruse.

Magazines? Luxury now for me. I would always get House Beautiful and Good Food. Now I don't get any but I do miss getting lost in a good mag.

lilmisskitcat love the pencil holder! Another idea to cover my tins. I remember reading Attic24 a while ago where Lucy covered tuna tins like that for plant pot holders. They're good aren't they. I haven't picked up my crochet hook in a long while now.

meanmarie

Really enjoyed the wartime farm programme....even OH was interested so that means there will be no hassle watching it from now on! Have downloaded book from OU, will read to-morrow when I have more time.

I read anything at any time of the year.

Fuddle....modern haybox can be made with packaging and/or pillows.

Marie

katieowl_2

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Anyroad, this isn't getting a kettle boiled. I shall eat the last of the GF snacks I bought yesterday on YS for 20p. Shop lady said they're gluten free as I went to pick them up, as if that was a deal-breaker and I grinned and said never mind, just so long as they're not sugar free! taste fine to me........

Some of you may have seen a vegan chocolate called (I think) Plamil in the healthfood shop. I highly (dis)commend it as one of the nastiest things you will ever taste.

Laters, GQ xx[/QUOTE]

You'd be amazed how the tag GLUTEN FREE puts people off on the stall, which is why I try and have cake of all sorts. I've just labelled our latest brownie "Our best ever brownies, which just happen to be gluten free!" I'm forever telling people that I won't sell anything GF that I don't think passes the taste test 100% it has to be at least as good as 'ordinary' cake, but the things we make like the Date/apricot/apple slices are made with oats (GF certified) and GF flour and quite 'normal' they are just GF?

Re Plamil - agreed. I can't see why vegan choccie is so vile??? Anyway how is it VEGAN?? I thought something like 5% of the choccie crop was allowed to be critters (shudder - I try not to think about that when tucking in)

Kate

Softstuff

Possession wrote: »

Softstuff it was about 6 months ago so not sure now, but there were haribo-type sweets, rainbow drops-type things (multi-coloured puffed rice), some really yukky puffed snack thing i'd never heard of, some kind of lollipop, a cheap version of cola, some cheap chocolate and a couple of other things. Make of it what you will, LOL! I didn't feel very lucky, but then it was only £1.

Well, I might have used the puffed rice and cheap chocolate to make a version of chocolate hedgehog slice, the haribo-type sweets I would have eaten, cheap lollipops can be used to make the stained glass middle on stained glass cookies.... cheap cola should be thrown out of the nearest window :rotfl: All in all, I'd take the junk and make more attractive junk Bit late now though.

That food from around the world thing was interesting/horrifying/disgusting all at the same time for me. The excess of some of them compared to the lack of others. I don't think we compare to any of those, though I heavily envy the German spend, that's almost double our food budget for the month. It'd be lovely to see some MSE examples photographed on tables. I'd volunteer but I shop very oddly so it wouldn't be possible.

Shegar *hugs* sorry that's as much help as we can be. I'm thinking of you and wishing you both well.

Fuddle, try not to worry about the IBS, since that can be the biggest trigger. I've always found pearl barley very comforting, even when I've been ill, so I'd hope you'd be fine with it. I'd add a vote for a hot water bottle too, I love mine so much he has a name (Monsieur Rubbere ). If you're a bit constipated don't forget to drink lots of water.