Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

I did! I would have ordered those normally because I love marshmallows and WaSp doesn't so they are all mine! I bought the two other things in the packet, too! One is a dal, at least I know what that is! I have two packets of gingerbread men mix, too so I think that is the next baking experiment.

DUKE

Pyxis wrote: »

Sorry, Duke, didn't realise you'd had it before! Strange you'd be in longer with the epidural than with the GA! I wonder why?

No need to apologise Pyxis This'll be the 6th time now for this procedure, people say I should be used to it by now, but I still get scared. I think they said that getting the feeling back in your legs would take an extra few hours, compared to a GA. If I couldn't move my legs I'd be waving my arms about or doing something as equally ridiculous

Oh I do ask questions WaS. The problem is they start examining you & very few of them say what they're doing & why. They look quite taken back by the very fact that I dare speak :eek:

Pyxis

duke, I was trying to remember how long it took my epidural to wear off, but it was 30+ years ago! and I had other things to think about at the time, like I was totally knackered after a 26hour labour!
Anyway, I can't remember. I do know that it took me a long time to get over a GA, due to throwing up constantly, and just wanting to sleep.

Now WaS, I really, really love liquorice, and I do like chilli, but I've never ever heard of chilli liquorice! What would you use it for? And what's it like?

Now, you know you do not have a packet of gingerbread men mix, do you? You have a packet of gingerbread anyshapeotherthanhumanoranimals, don't you? Otherwise you'll make them and not be able to eat them!
Or you could make 'men' scowling, or with angry faces, and then you could gobble them up with relish!

jobbingmusician

You could make just gingerbread with decoration on top... but there is a cutter in the box to make gingerbread men. Mine came out a bit like gingerbread monsters after my hopeless attempt at the recipe, but actually tasted delicious!

elsien

One day I'll work out how to resize these.

lostinrates

Lots of things make a round cutter if you don't have one.

Glasses for example. Triangles and squares are easy to cut.

Its too early for Christmas, but if you can leave them , or one of them, you can cut a little hole out and thread a ribbon through and ice them with white and make gingerbread baubles. .

You could try and cut leaves and have gingerbread autumn leaves....perfect colour! But would be hard......

Pyxis

OR.................



A Gingerbread PUG!!!







:eek: not the face! Not the face!

elsien

If anyone wants a laugh, I've just been trying to work out bra size using an online calculator involving taking measurements in different positions. Not as easy as it sounds when there's very little to measure.

Gitdog thought this was a brilliant game, especially trying to measure while lying down. It's not easy to read a tape measure when you're flat on the floor with a dog bouncing off your head. This running lark has a lot to answer for.

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahahaha! Noooo, no gingerbread pugs! I can manage gingerbread men usually if I don't give them a face! Then they are just man shaped objects rather than little people who might sob as they see my open mouth and scream "Nooo, don't eat me!" I'll shut up.

On that note my parents really did panic at one stage. I had watched a news programme when I was around 7 that showed tomatoes screamed when you pulled them from the plant. The result was me hysterically sobbing and saying I was no longer eating meat, fruit or vegetables as everything was suffering! I managed to keep it up for a day which isn't bad for a 7 year old. Now I just don't think too much about these things although I did silently apologise to my tomato plant whenever I took one off... It reached a point where my dad would run to the TV everytime a programme came on about food production, it just wasn't safe for me to watch. I remember him telling me meat died of natural causes, so it made the animal feel useful not to have died in vain, fruit all fell from the trees by itself and vegetables needed to be removed from plants because they were too heavy for the plant to carry. He had to be inventive! (I still secretly tell myself those things).

On a more serious note it shows how easy it is to influence a child negatively. My mother had a long stay in a psychiatric hospital when I was 4 and another when I was 6. Before both of those she spent a month or two telling me I was trying to kill her and I was sent to earth by the Devil to torture her and cause her death. I remember her staring at me when I was 6 with the typical glassy-eyed psychotic expression telling me that she knew that I wanted to kill her. That combined with her telling me that I hurt things like pencils if I broke them and that the pencil was crying did me no favours at all. It completely influenced me to believe that I was responsible for the death and pain of anything living (or not) so I tried to save everything, and it stayed with me all of my life. Oh well, it makes for some amusing stories and at least I can differentiate now. Sometimes.

I love the gingerbread penguins, I couldn't eat those, find a way to preserve them and keep them forever, possibly. I shall keep a packet of gingerbread mix until Christmas! I also love the idea of decorations for my tree! I dried orange slices for it once and they were wonderful, they made the room smell nice too.

Git dog was trying to help, elsien! He would have held the end of the tape measure for you, honest!

I fell asleep at 8pm, wide awake now at 4.30am. Errr, morning everyone!

dibuzz

I did 9 till 12 then 2 till 5 and had some of the weirdest dreams.
I was actually glad to wake up.