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lemonjelly

bugslet wrote: »

Er, bacon, take it or leave it - it's the fatty bits I really hate - I thought for some reason you are veggie - or are you veggie with bacon hankerings?

As for Yorkshire Puddings...perhaps in your next life:p

Not a veggie, but I don't eat red meat. I do like quorn (I mention that, as it gets LIR's back up, same way her reading in the bath gets mine...;) ). I love chicken/turkey, a good bit of gammon, ham & bacon. Pork is something I can take or leave.

With bacon I am still fussy, I trim all the rind off before cooking. I eat it very rarely, but love it when I do.

tomterm8

I'm still waiting for the waterproof eReader that you can read in the bath without the pages ending up wet and crinkly. Or frying the eReader, of course.

Come on Amazon... imagine the advertising campaign!

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Not a veggie, but I don't eat red meat. I do like quorn (I mention that, as it gets LIR's back up, same way her reading in the bath gets mine...;) ). I love chicken/turkey, a good bit of gammon, ham & bacon. Pork is something I can take or leave.

With bacon I am still fussy, I trim all the rind off before cooking. I eat it very rarely, but love it when I do.

It doesn't get my back up. I just think its vile, and unnatural toadying stuff. That other people want to eat it is fine I just don't want to! ( fwiw I also dislike gammon, am not that keen on many cold meats in general, oh and not keen on pheasant really). I really like Guinea fowl quite a lot.

Edit...I reckon you'd more ready jump on a bath with a beautiful book reading woman than I would eat quorn from the fork of a good looking person tempting me....

Edit again...I also dislike the misleading sales tactics with quorn, akin to op foods aimed appt children with 'misleading' nutritional benefits ....and the fact that so many people react physically badly too it isn't reported like milk, or gluton or nuts, etc. any natural food product with such high allergy rates would be well reported, I feel its a bit of a 'tesco' of the food product world.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

It doesn't get my back up. I just think its vile, and unnatural toadying stuff. That other people want to eat it is fine I just don't want to! ( fwiw I also dislike gammon, am not that keen on many cold meats in general, oh and not keen on pheasant really). I really like Guinea fowl quite a lot.

Edit...I reckon you'd more ready jump on a bath with a beautiful book reading woman than I would eat quorn from the fork of a good looking person tempting me....

You'd be bang on LIR!:rotfl:

tomterm8

I don't particularly like quorn, personally, it has an odd aftertaste but I'll eat it if it's necessary to be polite to some vegetarian who offers it to me.

Edit: I don't really see why quorn is necessary, there are so many things you can do that are tasty with vegetables that don't require a "meat substitute". Can't see the point. If you like meat, eat meat.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I don't particularly like quorn, personally, it has an odd aftertaste but I'll eat it if it's necessary to be polite to some vegetarian who offers it to me.

Edit: I don't really see why quorn is necessary, there are so many things you can do that are tasty with vegetables that don't require a "meat substitute". Can't see the point. If you like meat, eat meat.

It makes me understand why some people hate mushrooms. It tastes like socks worn for a week. The texture is like sloughed skin, the stomach ache afterwards is like parasites.

I just don't know who likes mince that impact to but fake mince.

I used to have quorn chicken pies a friends mother made when I was younger and tbh I don't remember finding it that bad then, but I much preferred her it roasts and similar. A good nut roast is pretty fantastic food. I don't know why they have a bad reputation.

SingleSue

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Sue, I agree with Lydia, I really think it worth applying for at least the Blue Badge. Though I believe it's harder to get now - unless you're getting mobility disability benefits. Rather think a lot of councils insist on face to face assessment if you don't have DLA HRM or PIP mobility component (though I get the impression that PIP applications are so slow to be looked at that prob lots of people will be applying for badge outside of disability benefits). I don't know what form it takes though, imagine that they might accept medical evidence from your own GP or consultant in a way that it appears ATOS and the other lot don't.

I would be really stuck without the blue badge - means that I can occasionally get to the local shops. eg Before Xmas we went a couple of times to our local Oxfam shop (they do great chocco coins and some nice gift stuff), being able to park really close meant that I could walk to shop without the faff of OH getting wheelchair out of boot. Plus the shop isn't really wheelchair friendly (how many are! :mad: ) Somewhere like IKEA it's helpful to be able to use the disabled parking - close to entrance! No fun being trundled miles in pouring rain and howling wind (it always seems to rain when we have an IKEA trip planned! :rotfl: ).

Really hope you get your wheelchair sorted out soon, Sue. My eBay one is slightly wider than the lightweight one I mostly use. I'm afraid I'm too far away (NW) to deliver it to you if it was a suitable size. Though we're off to a wedding in Cambridge on March 1st, so if that was nearer to you maybe we could manage something? Currently it's just sitting in the loft, we had intended to use it to take MiL for outings, but she's really past being trundled in a collapsible chair now - needs those really upright solid ones.

Aww thanks.

I don't visit the town centre without the boys as the car park is too far away for me to walk through to the high street, so even a nip to a town centre shop is a wheelchair exercise. For the last few weeks, we have been lucky to find 30 minute parking bays and do just a little bit of the high street but the boys are getting bored of this now and want to go back to the much faster option of whizzing me down the road in the wheelchair (it's like being driven by Hamilton or Schumacher!) and doing the entire high street, rather than the current snail pace and a tiny fraction of it.

I'm still ok in the supermarket though, they have hire chairs so if I need to do a big shop, we can borrow one of theirs. Same for going to Ipswich, if we go in via the park and ride, we can hire one of theirs....Norwich in half term will be a problem though but fingers crossed, the local nice man might be able to get something sorted enough to do that trip with my current unhealthy chair.

SingleSue

I don't wear wooly hats and never really have. My mum used to try to keep a hat on my head when I was little but it was off my head pretty quick when she was out of sight.

I do have a wooly hat though, brother and sister in law bought me one for Christmas in the style of a pig.

Posh hats - oh, I had loads when I was younger. Once spent a weeks wages on one for a wedding, loved that hat and it was a sad day when it got ruined at yet another wedding. It was replaced with another hat (also quite expensive) but I never liked that one as much.

CKhalvashi

SingleSue wrote: »

I don't wear wooly hats and never really have. My mum used to try to keep a hat on my head when I was little but it was off my head pretty quick when she was out of sight.

I do have a wooly hat though, brother and sister in law bought me one for Christmas in the style of a pig.

Posh hats - oh, I had loads when I was younger. Once spent a weeks wages on one for a wedding, loved that hat and it was a sad day when it got ruined at yet another wedding. It was replaced with another hat (also quite expensive) but I never liked that one as much.

I don't think I've ever worn a hat out.

I've currently got a lovely warm hoodie on. Will take a pic later, as only paid £7 for it (Primark).

I'm currently trying to negotiate a contract down from 602 to about 500 cycles (a cycle in CK towers is from a band vehicle leaving us, to it coming back) to fit in with other work. I'm amazed we can do what we have as we're quite booked already this year (plus there always being a shortage if band vehicles across Europe each summer). Let's try to beat a 92% booking rate last year!

Currently say at a station, as I need to go into the next town to get my car back (came over here this morning for meeting).

I'm enjoying a slightly more relaxed lifestyle already!

CK

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

I thought the same. I was undecided UNTIL I saw the garden.:)


Boooooo!


Good stuff!:)
It's interesting, as a NP you say thank you, even though there's no real need, as that's what we do for each other... (except PN who remains quite, aside from the occasional posh alert/RM link )

It's important to me to thank people. No idea why. It's just something I do.