Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Ah yes, lir's desk. Lost my response to that.

I'd turn it round so that you sit behind it, put it on an angle, and to maintain that angle into the corner, but something with a smaller footprint but taller, behind it. But do do that, the rear of the desk would have to have an aesthetic appeal too.

Its a really tall desk.....:D

A bit Likes this but not as pretty

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5559/8528562_1.jpg?v=8CBB62BE77E9C10

Its a dark wood.

Btw, while looking for images have seen how much value of this furniture has dropped in recent years.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

My food cupboard (sorry, this is as good as photo subjects get at the moment)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-jnyMYZdl9vU/Up8ARjSrYiI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FZb_TleTNUc/w271-h482-no/IMG_20131204_095320255.jpg

You have more dried herbs/spices than I expected. Your description of your diet makes me think that you never use such fripperies. The jars are mostly full though which tells a tale I guess.

Not judging, just saying.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, still undecided about photo uploading. Taken some photos, uploaded some to drive. Drive's no good as you can't see the pictures. Then discovered the auto-backup feature (a Google thing), so pressed that and it seems to have uploaded all later photos to there, but not the early ones. Now haven't seen sight of that option/button since.

Took a few photos outside of leaves and inside of my food cupboard. Nothing interesting .... food cupboard photos are a bit blurry, even though I did hold my breath and wait until I thought it was focussed....

But, still not got to the stage where I can take a photo, click to send it somewhere, share it. Looks like I am being forced down the photobucket route for now, but I hate the way photos on there are a tiny photo in the middle surrounded by 101 other things and adverts.

Hmmm, that's not how it works on macputer app at all.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

You have more dried herbs/spices than I expected. Your description of your diet makes me think that you never use such fripperies. The jars are mostly full though which tells a tale I guess.

Not judging, just saying.

The spices etc are newly collected, unused.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

The spices etc are where I am gathering them..... but most haven't been opened yet. I see a recipe, write down the spices it needs (e.g. donner kebab), eventually track them all down ... and in the cupboard they go.

I actually USE: black pepper, mixed herbs, chilli.

The rest are there so that if I randomly do decide to make something one day I've already got the spices

Dried packets are: rice, pasta, 15p stuffing mix, couscous, instant custard.

I'll get my fridge photo......

You could start using them....adding them to your meals to get used to the flavours one a a time, see which are your favourites, which go together nicely to your palate.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

The thing that I find amusing is when people that are 'allergict to electromagnetic waves' are interviewed about it in a TV studio. I think that was a 90s thing.

I find that sort of quackery dangerous. When I was clearly allergic to something I went for NHS allergy tests. They didn't find any allergies through the standard !!!!!/scratch tests. They recommended an exclusion diet. I couldn't work out what was causing it. I then tried something called a Vega test. This told me that I was allergic to coffee, wheat and dairy. So I cut those out of my diet and became really ill. Little did I know that I was eating more of what I was allergic to.

I finally got a private referral via the NHS (to a clinic that the NHS approved but wouldn't fund as too expensive), had another bank of tests and found out I was allergic to potatoes. Unfortunately when I excluded potatoes I hadn't got better, as I was still eating extra strong mints, which have potato starch in (or did at the time).

PasturesNew

Looking at the food cupboard, it's:
Top shelf: spices, unopened. Just front row - it's a struggle to reach that high up so what you see is it - just a big empty space behind those.

Middle shelf: black pepper/herbs; tinned tomatoes; some chicken/mayo tinned sandwich fillers I bought for 25p each; tin of soup; tin of potatoes; tin of tuna; red kidney beans; Lidl meatballs.

Bottom shelf: Instant gravy and instant curry sauce granules; custard at the back; tin of soup; tin of chickpeas; 3 packs of 15p stuffing mix; couscous at the back; cheapo noodle packs bottom right.. Rice is just out of view. There's also a pack of 15p batter mix in there somewhere.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I find that sort of quackery dangerous. When I was clearly allergic to something I went for NHS allergy tests. They didn't find any allergies through the standard !!!!!/scratch tests. They recommended an exclusion diet. I couldn't work out what was causing it. I then tried something called a Vega test. This told me that I was allergic to coffee, wheat and dairy. So I cut those out of my diet and became really ill. Little did I know that I was eating more of what I was allergic to.

I finally got a private referral via the NHS (to a clinic that the NHS approved but wouldn't fund as too expensive), had another bank of tests and found out I was allergic to potatoes. Unfortunately when I excluded potatoes I hadn't got better, as I was still eating extra strong mints, which have potato starch in (or did at the time).

Viva, honestly, I feel what I am undergoing in normal medicine is pretty quacky ATM.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fridge: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a29XCHEGMsA/Up8CWu2dnfI/AAAAAAAAAL4/ro65f6MTnZM/w344-h482-no/IMG_20131204_095525821.jpg

Top shelf: Cheesecake, sausages and frozen pastry, Heavenly Buttery
Mid shelf: Peas, Philadelphia, 2x red leicester and 1x mature cheddar
Bottom shelf: Cheese triangles, Pepsi, Mayo

Bought the sausages/pastry yesterday thinking "I could just make sausage rolls with that". Pastry was frozen (59p from Lidl) so needs to be done today.

So that's my fridge "pretty full"

It looks nice and clean.

But I keep my meat at the bottom of the fridge. Any one doing different here gets 'the look'. :mad:

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Viva, honestly, I feel what I am undergoing in normal medicine is pretty quacky ATM.

I can understand that viewpoint too.

I just think in terms of most allergies, they are standard stuff. Tests that give false positives are annoying, but quack tests that give false negatives can be deadly. Such things should not be on offer if someone could have - say - anaphalaxys as a result.