Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

In gets bunged up quite a bit

Always a nuisance. If it were emulsion you could thin it down a bit .... on the other hand, the looser it is the more potential it has to seep through to the other side, which you are trying to avoid.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Always a nuisance. If it were emulsion you could thin it down a bit .... on the other hand, the looser it is the more potential it has to seep through to the other side, which you are trying to avoid.

We still water it down, won't work at full thickness, annoyingly. RIGHT, off to see how many of the remaining we can knock of the list today.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Thankfully I can still eat ok. My mouth has a funny taste in it but food still tastes roughly normal. In fact, when I eat my mouth doesn't taste so yucky.

I have to be careful with food being hot or spicy as the inside of my mouth is burnt and I am super sensitive to those things. I quite fancied some pineapple today but decided against it as the acid mightn't be helpful.

Sorry to hear about the side effects. gen. If you fancy pineapple it has to be tinned I'd think. There's ghastly enzymes in fresh that'll play havoc with your gums if you overdo it. Lots of fruit's acidic to keep the germs away but whether that would be good for you I don't know.

I find it redicuiously easy to burn the inside of my mouth eating anything cooked with tomatoes or beans and I've no idea why. Do you have to avoid mouldy food or anythng with live cultures in it like cheeses?

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh that IS sturdy!

Ahem, this is the NP thread PN

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I find it redicuiously easy to burn the inside of my mouth eating anything cooked with tomatoes or beans and I've no idea why.

I'm always doing it ... even the sausages/root mash I had the other night managed to produce a blister on the roof of my mouth!

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Ahem, this is the NP thread PN

Oops..... faux pas.
What I meant was...... no, I'll stop here... I tried to complete this sentence and just dug a bigger hole.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the side effects. gen. If you fancy pineapple it has to be tinned I'd think. There's ghastly enzymes in fresh that'll play havoc with your gums if you overdo it. Lots of fruit's acidic to keep the germs away but whether that would be good for you I don't know.

I find it redicuiously easy to burn the inside of my mouth eating anything cooked with tomatoes or beans and I've no idea why. Do you have to avoid mouldy food or anythng with live cultures in it like cheeses?

Tomatoes and cheese have both been fine so far. Cheese is a very industrial product over here: cheese made from unpasturised milk is mostly illegal and you just don't get farmhouse cheeses like you do in France, Italy, the UK and Ireland.

Beans is a new one on me. I can't think why they'd be problematic. For me they are about the easiest food to digest I reckon.

I've become a pineapple convert since I came to Aus and tend to eat a whole pineapple at a sitting. If I do I end up with a burned tongue so with my mouth in its current state I'll avoid completely. Fruit has been mostly out of season so I've not had much. However, the first QLD fruit is just starting to come through: our local supermarket had Strawberries at about a quarter of the price they were a couple of weeks ago today.

I just want this to end. I'm fed up with not being able to do the things that I like and want to do like cycling and eating fruit.

ETA: Ah, do you mean that you make the tomatoes/beans too hot and then burn your mouth? I almost always burn my mouth on baked beans or grilled, whole tomatoes.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

It hadn't occurred to me... had some bad experiences with trying to get them to look at mum's smoke alarm in the past, which ended up as yet another faffy task on the list (that only happened to then occur when she was in Hospital and we happened to be next door to her house and saw them arrive without an appointment).

I know my escape routes. Even now, having the washing machine on and feeling confident nothing's going to go wrong I've: waited until a dry day, it's daylight, next door are in..... my front door chain is off, the hallway is clear of trip hazards, storage room door is closed, patio door's unlocked, bag is "packed" and ready to grab ... and "essential items/paperwork" are identified and by the patio door.

They (FB) were brilliant with us. As I previously mentioned, the new advice is to get a fire alarm installed in every room that's not a kitchen, bathroom or toilet. You can pick up those cheap multipacks pretty much everywhere.

My husband has also done a lot of the work here as he trains people to fight fire for his job (and has been trained by proper firies). If you are going to get fire extinguishers the key thing is to know what they can do and how to use them. So you need to know which ones are the best ones for general household use, where to hold them and where to point them (at the base of the fire). For minor kitchen fires, a fire blanket is much better than an extinguisher in most cases, easier to use and makes less mess.

When we met the FB, the advice re washing machines was not that we needed to be in the same room. What they did say though is that we shouldn't put washing in and leave the house, nor should we use the delay programme that we have on our washing machine so that it comes on while asleep and use cheap electricity. They were quite happy that we could be in the next room.

There's more good advice here:
http://www.notts-fire.gov.uk/5A35AAC1E45D48A5A266B05D4AC95FC4.asp

Most of which I'm pretty sure you already do.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

We are using a spray thingy.

Its better than a brush in some ways but not others.

Sorry, shouldn't have been teaching my Granny to suck (paint) eggs!

Best of luck, hope you get loads done today.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

firies

The Strayan in you really does come out now and again.:rotfl: