Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

Sorry to hear that Viva. Is it always your hips or do other joints go as well?

This is the first time with my hip, which is part of the reason it was such a big problem - I didn't know what it was or how to deal with it. It's normally my knees. I go to turn and they stay where they are. My problem is that I stand in a hypermobile position with my knees back so I've spent years with my hips aligned incorrectly. It's my default standing position and the one I find comfortable, but it's biting me back now. It was great when I was dancing Latin though, lovely lines through the hip.

lostinrates

My friends used to go mad when I was a kid me telling them not to hyper extend their knees. It was drummed into me through all my various activities that it would mean trouble later.

Ironically, of course, I have knackered joints now anyway, lol!

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

A filter tap? What the blooming nora is one of those?

It's a POSH ALERT!!

PasturesNew

Right .... water comes out of taps and into mugs..... I'm not a consumer of NHS services (wasn't even born using them) .... and ... IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!



I've got 6 goujons and 2 pitta breads left over from last night's shopping trip - so that's tea and I'm just about to go and turn my goujons over....

lostinrates

Sure buying gluons is a posh alert? The truely humble among us just cut a chicken breast (butchered at home) into 'strips'



I just took the dogs out into the front garden for their after supper 'widdle ly wee wee' and that SPF of a puppy shot through the gate out into the road. A car was coming and catching him ATM is not always reliable so I had to lunge after him and because he wriggled I couldn't catch him so had to swat him into the ditch instead.


He thinks it was a big hoot, while my heart is beating ten to the dozen.

While typing he has found a knee length sock about the same colour as him, which he has laid on the floor and curled up on.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

No, I sometimes use a Brita jug, but otherwise draw and leave to lose its weird taste.

silvercar wrote: »

No but the fridge has a filter on it for cold water and ice.

But we don't change the filter as often as recommended.:o

Looking at my kitchen lights, I have 13 (mad - not my design) lights on 1 switch. Mum's kitchen has all the lights bar one on one switch and a single light on the other switch. Much more sensible when you are just going in the kitchen to fetch something.

Does anyone know how difficult it would be to get one rewired onto its own switch?

After I came to London, I got a filter jug, but learned that if you don't change the filter you get a biofilm of bacteria inside that starts to add to any further water you put through later.

Cut one open once and never again. I'd only use one if filters were really cheap. Feel bottled water's a scam in a developed country.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Youngest off school today, on tenterhooks now as he has come down with a horrible cold and is wheezing badly already.

The coming down with a cold probably played a part with what happened yesterday because being unsettled, having a cold and autism do not go together too well. A cold with autism is not too bad if he is settled but add in the unsettled state and it becomes a volatile mix

Oh no. Hope he's better soon, Sue.

SingleSue wrote: »

A filter tap? What the blooming nora is one of those?

I just turn the tap on and drink, no gizmos, just plain water from the tap...although sometimes I will put it in a bottle and stick it in the fridge for that extra coldness.
That said, the tap water in Dorset was pretty eurgh, we used to get bottled water for drinking down there.

Edit - Text just in, middle son got a B in an end of unit physics assessment.

I just drink it straight from the tap, too. I do run the tap until it's really cold, though.

Well done to middle son.

Spirit wrote: »

Did any NP vote in the PCC elections?

I did not. I would like to say it is because I have been ill however I suspect I may not have been all that motivated to. I did however know who two of the candidates were (lab and con) .

I expect I will come to value this democratic right at some point but it has not been something I have had on my list of priorities.

I did. I voted for the independent candidate in our area - the only one with actual police experience - and he won.
It's odd. Anything party political and I never tell anyone who I voted for - it's a secret ballot and all that - but I don't mind telling anybody who I voted for for this.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Sure buying gluons is a posh alert? The truely humble among us just cut a chicken breast (butchered at home) into 'strips'

14 Tesco goujons ... £1.44, 335grams. Not much of a posh alert. Making your own involves (apart from being able to touch raw meat) equipment (sharp knife), other stuff (milk, breadcrumbs). So, buying goujons for 3 meals for £1.44 and just having to bung them in the oven is easier/quicker ... and probably cheaper than getting everything else ... and making a mess to clear up

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

After I came to London, I got a filter jug, but learned that if you don't change the filter you get a biofilm of bacteria inside that starts to add to any further water you put through later.

Cut one open once and never again. I'd only use one if filters were really cheap. Feel bottled water's a scam in a developed country.

Bottled water isn't a scam, if you know what you are buying and why IMO.


I can taste the difference between brands of water, and tap waters in different places.

I am quite happy with a jug of tap.....like I am happy with 'bread and butter' but sometimes one wants jam. Or especially tasty water.

I used to drink a lot more bottled water. ATM I am meant to be drinking four litres minimum a day, but I am not, because the bloody pills are diuretics, and there is no access to a downstairs loo.

Today I feel great, but that right leg is going again, and it would be 'difficult' for me to keep getting to the upstairs loo and down stairs again, so I just don't drink enough,

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Bottled water isn't a scam, if you know what you are buying and why IMO.


I can taste the difference between brands of water, and tap waters in different places.

I am quite happy with a jug of tap.....like I am happy with 'bread and butter' but sometimes one wants jam. Or especially tasty water.

I used to drink a lot more bottled water. ATM I am meant to be drinking four litres minimum a day, but I am not, because the bloody pills are diuretics, and there is no access to a downstairs loo.

Today I feel great, but that right leg is going again, and it would be 'difficult' for me to keep getting to the upstairs loo and down stairs again, so I just don't drink enough,

It's fair enough, but there's a million people out there quoting random factoids about how much "water" we need to consume.

I don't drink a drop, and haven't in years. Drink squash, tea, coffee, soups, add milk to porridge, etc. and stay hydrated no problem. When I go to soft water areas and see shelves stacked with bottled water indistinguishable from what comes out of the tap, I just have to shake my head.


Mind you i once taught someone with kidney failure who couldn't drink more than a few mls at a time. Basically could only drink as fast as she perspired, and couldn't eat anything like salty or spicy food in case it made her thirsty. Should count my blessings.