'supporting each other through really tough times'

2tonsils

Food is viewed quite differently here...veggies such as warm beetroot or Horta (wild greens) are often served as a dish on their own as they are viewed as worthy of it. If you order a steak you will get salad or home made chips with it but rarely any veg unless you order them to be added to the plate.

Bread is always served before the main meal to put you on as you will have to wait for it to be cooked from fresh. Some meals such as casseroles will be slow cooked for hours and if you are not sure what to have they will take you into the kitchen and explain what everything is.

Puddings are rarely served after a meal in a Greek restaurant to locals. If they are in a tourist area they may have walnut cake or ice cream...or what is described as apple pie, when confusingly it is actually an apple cake to us. Baklava is sometimes served which is a sickly pastry soaked in honey with nuts and about a million calories a slice. Near to Easter Halva is served which is a hard loaf made from honey and sesame seeds. The restaurant I go to serves seasonal fruit (melon in the summer and quince in the winter ) drizzled with honey and sprinkled with cinnamon, or apple and pear drizzled with Creme de menthe.

2tonsils

unixgirluk wrote: »

Rose and Violet tea sounds lovely 2T. I got quite into Kuwaiti tea (not sure if this is widely drank but my friend's family loved it), Liptons yellow label tea brewed with a little saffron and lots of sugar!

Yellow label tea is sold here....saffron is dirt cheap in Greece as its produced here...the saffron crocus grows wild and it makes hell of a mess on your clothes if you brush against one when you are out walking!

fuddle

There's a college along the river, ill look into that 2t! Ta

Speaking of tea I tasted ringtons traditional tea yesterday and it was blooming lovely. You can buy it online or get fortnightly deliveries by. Neither appeal as postage sticks in me throat for online and I'd spend more than I need to with fortnightly calls

Kidcat, looks like we're off out for a pub meal (wahooooo!) instead I had thought of a finger buffet but any food lying around is carte blanch for ill behaved doggie antics, I'd be stressed. Katie, Alfie hasn't been chewing his feet but narls at his legs for some reason, actuall yeah I have seen the daft thing sucking in his feet!

kidcat

fuddle - definitely less stressful, doggie disasters are the reason we still have baby gates, means I can herd said doggie into areas when required.

am sitting shredding documents still, its taking ages and I am sort of regretting starting it now. BUt the box has moved with us twice, its ridiculous and taking valuable space so I decided to have a go hours ago.
My friend has just said I would have been better buying a metal bin and burning the lot, would have been finished hours ago!

Byatt

Kidcat, you could save it for your multi burner...I had a great time the other night burning some old paperwork, I don't do it often, mostly a one off.

kidcat

Byatt I can see the multi burner being spring before we get it done, we will apparently still need consent for changing the "appearance" which takes months, someone told me last week it took them 18 months to get permission to change their garage door so am not rushing.:)

sevenup01

(((Jem) hope your mouth feels better soon.
All this talk of yummy sounding cakes - i have only just had dinner and dessert but its making me feel hungry again!
I second using a local college for hair cuts. One of my cousins studied hair dressing at our local college and i was a frequent model for her as i have long hair so she could be assessed on plaits etc but i also have a lot of white hair which i like to be dyed. A wash, cut, dye and then blow dry was less than £15 so an absolute bargain.

Softstuff

kidcat wrote: »

am sitting shredding documents still, its taking ages and I am sort of regretting starting it now. BUt the box has moved with us twice, its ridiculous and taking valuable space so I decided to have a go hours ago.
My friend has just said I would have been better buying a metal bin and burning the lot, would have been finished hours ago!

When Dad died I had the opportunity to test both methods. He had kept every pay slip he'd had since being in his last job (which had ended some years before he died). I tried burning, but the smoke got to me and to ensure that each bit was burned I either had to put it in bit by bit or stir it all with a stick. Shredding was easier. I kept shredding with a cross cut during the ad breaks on telly! That gave long enough for a shredder binful and also long enough for the shredder to cool down without overheating. If you think you have a lot of shredding, by the end of dealing with all his old documents I had 6 large black bin bags full of shred.

missrlr

Re dogs licking paws and legs coud be salt from roads and pavements, it's bad for them. Try washing legs and paws in water (my boy's precious so it's warm!) then drying off after (whisper) w ......

katieowl_2

missrlr wrote: »

Re dogs licking paws and legs coud be salt from roads and pavements, it's bad for them. Try washing legs and paws in water (my boy's precious so it's warm!) then drying off after (whisper) w ......

I did dip her, elbow deep, in a bath of very warm water after her walkies today, and she's been much better this evening, but that might just be because I'm sitting on the sofa, and she's wedged in next to me nice and snug, oh and she's on the 'fire' side of the sofa!

Kate