'supporting each other through really tough times'

Popperwell

From the description given I probably do(the clue of the Chiliean Father)and I think live very near me. I say I know as I had alway guessed S. American. It really is a small world to use a cliche.

Your meal sounds lovely...I have been mainly eating salads these past few days(well in B rolls)but may do something hot tonight and may have a bowl of soup too.

I don't often suffer colds(even if I have other problems)but am shaking off a head cold and small cough. So far so good if it gets no worse and it may go as quick as it came. My cure so far has been staying warm and cosy in bed and sleeping.

I think it is working whatever I am doing. I don't think there is much else you can do with colds, they go when they are ready. It snook up on me.

I eat lots of vegetables and have my vitamin/mineral suppliments...that include vitamin C, zinc and garlic. I have some Echinacea for the first time but never got around to taking it and it may be too late now.

If anyone has any ideas that I have missed out on that may ease the symtoms, give me a shout. So far I have avoided throat lozenges and taking a cough mixture. Mainly it is a blocked nose.

I have nothing to buy foodwise, I have no reason to go out or to spend money so I am staying put.

GreyQueen

Nargleblast wrote: »

Greyqueen - and there was me thinking computers worked by having a little man in the cellar shoving a bucket of coal on the fire......

Nah, it's the hamsters, deffo the hamsters.

The Wiz snorted with laughter when I told him that TVL have "launched an investigation" into me for the heinous crime of not having a telly license for the telly I don't have. He's telly-less too, but told them he'd happily wait in for them to come and check, as long as they paid his daily rate in advance (it was £250 a day when he offered them this, a decade ago). Funnily enough, they didn't take him up on his offer and they have never been in touch since............:rotfl:I clearly need to emulate him, but my daily rate is two shirt-buttons and as many biros as I can eat.*

Today I have taken the Jiffy trolley out on the town and bought some heavy groceries and my seed spuds for this year. Couldn't get Kestrel without going out of town which is a PITA on the pushbike so have bought 2 lots of Maris Peer and one lot of Desiree (these are the whopping great ones with pink skins and yellowish flesh.....actually that could be a description of me ).

Very glad not to have had 7.5 kg spuds and 6 kg milk dragging my arms off.

Been batch cooking, attending to the domestic arts, and reading a murder mystery today as well as the shopping. Lovely to hear Stiltwalker's good news. There are so many lovely people in this world, it makes you feel all warm on the inside to hear something like that.

Right, onward and outward. There are some counters in my kitchen which haven't seen the light of day for a week. But I did refill the salt cellar and the vinegar bottle; wouldn't want you to think that I was slack in the housekeeping dept.

* Akshully, this is a fabrication; we bring our own cheap biros into work as we can never find any in what is humourously called the stationery cupboard. We don't really use stationery, it's all on pooters and the pixies print our letters out overnight.**

** I assume it's pixies. You never can tell in these days of stringent cutbacks. We may have downbranded to gnomes....

mcculloch29

Thanks Pops, I had a feeling you would know who I meant. There was a little Chilean community established here some 40 years ago following the military coup and overthrow of the democratically elected Government in Chile. A couple of the guys have died or moved away, but C. is still there.

Re your cold, you seem to be doing all the right things. I don't get many colds but I seem to knock them on the head quickly with lots of vitamin C and fluids.

Popperwell

Thanks for the advice Good to know I seem to be doing the right things...from what I understand "All" colds are viruses and are caught mainly from touching things(so the supermarket)is probably where as that is usually the only place I mainly frequent.

Exciting life I lead:pI went out last night just because I had to have a break from home...a SM on a Saturday night but forgetting about money I was thinking how little there is to do.

I returned home and tried the TV but couldn't find much to interest even though I am quite easy to please me. In these difficult times I tried Ant & Dec for some light entertainment and thought "I won't be watching that again"

Today I am just listening to easy music on the radio or internet.

I did not know about the Chilean community here on town...can always learn something.

Funnily enough for the first time ever around the time Aldi's opened here I found myself talking to him and his wife...I think we were discussing the difference it would make and how Tesco's seemed to have reduced some of their products in price as a kind of spoiler...

ginnyknit

Thank you for the laughter GQ, your daily input has me in stitches - I agree on the hamsters

I actually cleared one of my work surfaces today - how much carp can one woman fit on a small work surface? We have also had a working dining table for a few weeks now :eek: Mainly cos I bought Oh a jigsaw case so he can do a jiggy and then pack it away without bits sticking to the cats tail and ending up next to the cat flap. So the table has to be ready to take the aforementioned case when he wants to do a bit of the jiggy. If I dont move my craft stuff off there he moves it to random places round the living room and I lose things :mad:

have all my seeds sorted for when we get spring...October? and just have to move the big plastic greenhouse to its new site where theres more light. Since losing those damned hedges on 2 sides of the garden its going to be much lighter and easier to set up all my pots. My strawberry runners have all taken and I now have 25 plants ready to go into one of the beds at the back now that I have admitted defeat on growing veg up there. My 3 little greenhouses are going on the wall of the house in a neat row - we got the last one out of a skip still sealed in the box, yes I checked it was ok to have it Just hoping I can save up and get a small apple tree now and Im set for when we have all the lovely weather!

Possession

Funnily enough I was in Pets at Home on Friday at a hamster workshop (best not to ask) and it did occur to me that they would be very good behind the scenes in a desktop situation. Particularly the Syrian hamsters. Not the Russians, they hissed when the cage was open so I don't like to think what they do to my backup files.

mcculloch29

Russians, are on the whole, miserable little beggars. You could rely on them to do some underhand corruption of files when your back was turned.
Give me a lovely cuddly Syrian any day, so much nicer.

fuddle

Feeling frustrated. Took my electricity readings for my account and to see what my consumption has been. My account wouldn't accept my readings as my reading was an error an too low. Went out, checked it again, my reading correct. Checked my account to find 'meter reader' recorded a reading if 01258 37 days ago, my reading 37 days later is 01187 no where near that previous number yet! I am so cross that a 3rd party can access my account and do so in error. I've emailed my supplier but still stewing, especially as I don't know what my accurate usage is. Grrrr!

About to make mince and onion pie (less mince and more carrot my chicken soup wasn't very nice don't know what I've done wrong.

Possession

I find chicken soups can go a bit grainy if there's a lot of meat in them Fuddle, was that the problem?
McCulloch my friend's DCs are getting Chinese ones, nice and docile and easy to handle.

GreyQueen

Fuddle, I was once doing casework for a lady whose gas meter was seemingly whizzing like a mad thing and using totally-improbable amounts of juice considering that it was just running a stove. She wasn't getting anywhere with PowerGen so I girded my loins, called them up and got them to admit that their meter readings were nonsensical. Between two of their own readings, the meter had been going backwards, according to them.

I asked the poor call centre guy if they had a "weird cases dept" to which he could refer my client's account and they did, but it had a complicated euphemistic name which I can't for the life of me recall.

The resolution was that they worked out what the typical gas cooker user would be using for that amount of time and charged her that, which was shedloads less than what they were trying to get her to pay for.

ginnyknit, glad I make you laff, and well done on the mini greenhouses. Specially the new one. I was just chatting to Mum on the phone when what I thought was SuperGran's knock on the door, told Mum I'd call her back.

Here at the Towers, if you've got the sense of a day-old chick, you don't open the door unless you know who it is, so sang out SG's given name and no reply. Could see a silhouette and realised far taller than her. Sang out that if they didn't say who they were ........and it was the Labour Party.

Said no thanks. Honestly, bugging people at home coming up to Sunday teatime when there isn't even a local election on. We get Lab, LibDems (mimes spitting) and Greens. Never ever saw a Tory canvasser down in this council block in a deprived area..... hmmmm, wonder why that could be.....:rotfl:

Hokay, first lot of batch cooking done, going to get some tea on and mebbe do a pot of chili later. I have sweet potatoes as part of my haul from the Magic Greengrocer. I shall ovenbake, and serve with whoopsied butter......... nomnomnom.