Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I believe that Georgia is the undiscovered Great Cuisine. Everyone knows that Japan and France and Italy and China and Thailand can have amazing food. Georgia is every bit as good apparently with amazing wine too.

I don't think its that unwritten about though perhaps a little 'rarefied ' in uk. I have recipe for pheasant I want to make, but um, not with pheasant and we made khachapuri at Christmas. I remember having Georgian food in the early eighties as a kid in London, where as I wasm't lucky enough to try Thai food till much later. ( Thai food I love the tastes but makes me sick, without fail...its like a roman feast, I eat then have to excuse ). I'm not great on Chinese cooking but trying to get better, japenese cooking doesn't really do it for me that much tbh. I like the kind of waggamamma food, noodles, soups, even the odd bit of teriyaki. I do not like stuff like katsu. Sushi/ and korean Kimbab I like, Kimchi I do not....

Food writers, British ones, have been banging o a bout Georgian food since I've been buying cook books.

ladeeda

Morning nice people

A few (quite a few) pages ago, the NP's were discussing not having any body from Ireland on this thread. You do now! I live in NI. County Down, just outside Hillsborough. It's a beautiful part of the country. My back garden view consists of hills, cows, buzzards and the occasional pheasant. Unfortunately I have to move. Marriage break up last year has depleted the bank and I can no longer justify staying here. Going to rent in Belfast for a while - see what life chucks at me in the big smoke.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Just over 2 hours sleep again last night. I feel for anyone I come into contact with today...

I have spent many days feeling like this, and as a consequence of trying not to over react to simple situations, I have instead under reacted. Balance is key. Easier said than done though...
Hope you get the sleeping sorted soon.

lostinrates wrote: »

It occurred to me that in a situation where some one older and depressed were to have a granddaughter who took an interest on learning family recipes and needed some to try a spoon to see if they were just right......but may be had not hit it on the nose the first few spoons......

Some times people go a stage further for grandchildren....as an interim measure...

Grandchildren are blessed with an amazing ability to fuel energy, interest and life into their grandparents. I watched my mum's state change every time my son sat with her, chattering and laughing forcing her to engage even towards her final hours. Quite a gift these young'uns have...

tomterm8 wrote: »

https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=643&q=adze&oq=adze&gs_l=img.3..0l10.2422.3939.0.4794.4.4.0.0.0.0.125.444.0j4.4.0....0...1ac.1.34.img..0.4.441.zVxMCIOoIjk#q=grubbing+mattock&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=hrR8Fj9cvJl4ZM%253A%3BOXIa7gmhy_ngxM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.fhwa.dot.gov%252Fenvironment%252Frecreational_trails%252Fpublications%252Ffs_publications%252F07232806%252Fmatt.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.fhwa.dot.gov%252Fenvironment%252Frecreational_trails%252Fpublications%252Ffs_publications%252F07232806%252Fpage15.cfm%3B175%3B245

The one they describe as a pick mattock is generally known as a grubbing mattock in most parts of the uk. You use it to get stones out of the ground. You use the other one to cut large roots.

Billhook:
http://shop.visatools.co.uk/ekmps/shops/visatoolsltd/images/174.jpg

oh I am so glad you linked this - thank you - I had no idea what you were talking about but now I think I need one. No matter where I decide to live I will have a garden.

There is a yellow thing in the sky today - I think its called the sun. I'm gonna go out and see if I can get myself some of it.

Have as good a day as is possible folks.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't have a red button. It's very annoying when telly tells you to press the red button and your remote's got red buttons and you press them, to try/see, but nothing happens.

I've never seen what happens when people who have a red button press it.

On my remote, a red button turns off the freeview box - and the other red button ... hang on, what's all this? I just pressed it and something's happened.

Looks like I DO have a red button... I always thought that one was something to do with teletext!

So, now not sure if I have a red button or not, or what's happening on my telly, but I have the Olympics ... old ones being rerun

Clear evidence that you do not live in a paralell universe!

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yes, I think it must be more common than I realised. Her taste buds are shot to ribbons, so she can't taste anything. We give her the sort of food that she generally likes - well, liked! If she were a teenager, the medics would treat her as an anorexic, but as she's old they just take it as routine.

I'm sorry to hear about your situation, GDB.

As tomterm8 says, loss of sense of smell in elderly people is worth checking out/mentioning to the doc.

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://neverendingplaylist.com/#!/artists/lemon-jelly/AR5BPPP1187B9ACB9B

:cool::cool::cool::cool::):):):):):cool::cool::cool::cool:

It's quite the thing, isn't it!

Generali wrote: »

It's amazing, I could swear that this is written in English yet I barely understand a word.

It's a tool for clearing wallabies out from your billabong. I reckon.

ladeeda

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yes, I think it must be more common than I realised. Her taste buds are shot to ribbons, so she can't taste anything. We give her the sort of food that she generally likes - well, liked! If she were a teenager, the medics would treat her as an anorexic, but as she's old they just take it as routine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23051270

http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/092208p54.shtml

I hope it's okay me adding these links GDB2222 - Extensive chemo resulted in my mum losing her sense of smell and depleted her taste buds considerably. Her life long favorite foods were of no interest to her and she was rapidly losing weight. We experimented with foods that she would not have eaten previously, all with much stronger spices, flavorings, aroma's and worked at making meals colorful and appealing to her sight. It was a delicate balance between finding foods that were powerful enough to be tasted while not hijacking the digestive system. Somebody mentioned Fortisip - excellent, I used them as a back up. I asked the doctor to write me a prescription for them which he did.
Expecting an older person (anybody really) to change their lifetime eating habits is a task in itself. In my mums case her new favourite became baked apples with cinnamon (so much of it that I couldn't them) and pulped vegetable soup with lemon grass (disgusting). I remember how helpless I felt, feeling that I was struggling to provide even the most basic of needs, like food. With the benefit of hindsight, I feel that the most important ingredient of care, is the love that keeps you trying to care.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

It's quite the thing, isn't it!



It's a tool for clearing wallabies out from your billabong. I reckon.

A fishing net is probably better for the removal of wallabies from one's billabong. Maybe it would be useful for removing a jolly swagman from a ballabong whilst ensuring he didn't leg it from the squatters.

Squatter is an interesting word. Of course you all know what it means in English English.

However in Australian English the squatters were people who grazed large areas of unclaimed land and got very rich as a result: the great cost of farming is the cost of land in a pre-mechanised society. If you can reduce the cost of land to $0 then you have a head start.

lostinrates

There is a cherry picker here just about to swap my electricity over. .

Lets hope they wired me up right .


They are having trouble reaching far enough on the picker ATM.


Edit : nope, no go. They are gonna leave it for now.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a cherry picker here just about to swap my electricity over. .

Lets hope they wired me up right .


They are having trouble reaching far enough on the picker ATM.


Edit : nope, no go. They are gonna leave it for now.

*smug* see, I told you. Electricity companies.

purch

Generali wrote: »

It's amazing, I could swear that this is written in English yet I barely understand a word.

I get that with about 75% of the posts on this board :eek: