Preparedness for when

ivyleaf

greenbee wrote: »

ivyleaf - when my iron is low my 'normal' temperature is low too. So you need to know what is normal for you and then think about how much it is up or down by. This means taking your temperature regularly for several weeks and keeping a record.

Thanks greenbee Mine is usually about 36.2.

ivyleaf

pineapple wrote: »

I've just discovered the wild garlic down by the river and had a load chopped up in scrambled egg. At least I think it was garlic.....:eek:

I took DGS to the park after school and saw what I think was some beside the little river that runs through there I couldn't be certain because it was on the opposite bank. Hope you're still all right?

nuatha

pineapple wrote: »

I've just discovered the wild garlic down by the river and had a load chopped up in scrambled egg. At least I think it was garlic.....:eek:

If it tasted of spring onions and mild garlic it would be ramsons.
The usual mistaked plant is lily of the valley, which has a sweet scent, unlike ramsons which have a heavy garlic scent - if in doubt crush a couple of leaves, ramsons will smell of garlic, lily of the valley is quite astringent - you do not want to eat lily of the valley, its potentially lethal (whereas ramsons may be mildly anti-social).

nuatha

milasavesmoney wrote: »

GQ we elect our deputy sheriff to run the county sheriffs office, but the head of our police is hired.
I think that is a fairly standard practice across the US.

Until 4 years ago the oversight of the police was a committee of elected officials (elected onto county/metropolital councils, not directly elected) Our police service is organised in separate geographical areas, each run "independently." The Conservative party decided a directly elected commissioner was a more democratic system - the reality being it gave central government more control over the police forces by having a single person to exert pressure on.
The same ethos is causing problems in the education system, which used to be accountable to local people via their elected local councillors - though I've just read of a u-turn on the every school to be an academy promise recently announced by the government.

maryb

Thank you everyone for the good wishes. I was WARM today - I was able to take my jumper off for a few hours and it felt sooo good.

Had a phone call from the surgery to say I need to speak to the GP about the results of my bone density scan. I already know what it's going to say - I have lost another half an inch in height since the accident which kinda suggests my bones are a bit crumbly. Which surprises me because I have always walked everywhere rather than driving - and when I was working I used to powerwalk 20 mins to the station in the morning. If that's not enough, I wonder what is.

DDs don't know whether to feel sorry for me for being a little old lady or chuffed that they are now taller than me, little beasts.

GreyQueen

Sorry to hear that, maryb. I have been on steroids for 20 years and have DEXA scans every 5 years because bone loss is real risk for me. I must walk more, too, and perhaps cycle less.

Lady I used to know in her late forties made regular use of one of those little circular rebounder trampolines to mitigate against bone loss - she'd had anorexia for a few years as a young woman and had thin bones as a result.

It's supposed to be helpful, perhaps something to discuss with your GP?

Thoroughly enjoying the warm dry weather, it's been such a cold wet spring that it's put me slightly behind schedule with my gardening. Not too much, because I keep pecking away over the winter months, averaging 10 hours per month over 4-5 visits. I can't garden more than 2-3 hours per day due to ME. Yesterday evening, I peacefully pottered about up there for just over an hour until back of 7 pm and it was lovely.

Lots of other people obviously thought so, too, because the place was very busy.

pineapple

nuatha wrote: »

If it tasted of spring onions and mild garlic it would be ramsons.
The usual mistaked plant is lily of the valley, which has a sweet scent, unlike ramsons which have a heavy garlic scent - if in doubt crush a couple of leaves, ramsons will smell of garlic, lily of the valley is quite astringent - you do not want to eat lily of the valley, its potentially lethal (whereas ramsons may be mildly anti-social).

Well it smelled of garlic and tasted of garlic and gave a lovely mild aromatic flavour to some scrambled egg and a stew. But I was a bit paranoid till it was confirmed today by the owner of the adjacent woodland that it is indeed wild garlic/ramsoms. An Appleby butcher is selling his own sausage made with wild garlic and it is out of this world. Just looking on the net at ways of preserving it. Apparently it is best harvested before the flowers open which, where we are, is now.
I feel an anti social period coming on...

Karmacat

pineapple wrote: »

. An Appleby butcher is selling his own sausage made with wild garlic and it is out of this world. Just looking on the net at ways of preserving it. Apparently it is best harvested before the flowers open which, where we are, is now.

Bother, mine's well-flowered :rotfl:

I was just going to bung it in the dehydrator with chives and a bit of rosemary and lots of lemon balm ... I'd better investigate further, hadn't I ... I might collect the seeds this year, and sow in a different place, try to spread it about.

NewShadow

GAHHHHRRRR!!!

OKAY.

I needed that.

Right.

Now, any advice on how to get clothes out of a washing machine when you don't care about damaging the machine and it's built in and you can't physically get it out from under the unit to get at the top due to some stupid idiots putting the facing units too close and it's got all your knickers in it...

*breathes*

Right.

I tried the string around the door trick, but iI think the catch faces the wrong way and the door is built into a recess so I can't thread it through to pull the other way.

I've also tried prying it open - I bent my spoon.

And I kicked it - I hurt my foot

ETA: I need talking out of disassembling the offending opposite units as the landlord would be unimpressed at me doing so with my axe.


Opinions appreciated

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/laundry/washing-machines/logik-l814wm16-washing-machine-white-10140689-pdt.html

GreyQueen

If you can't yell online, where can you yell?!

What's happened, has it broken down mid-wash and the door won't open or has something else gone wrong?