Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

SingleSue

Unfortunately, no rest for the rest of the week, it's pretty full on for the next fortnight and now there is added stress on a week where there was no spare time at all in the first place.

Nikkster

My update for the day. I've just (literally) finished the mini (very mini) section I was aiming to finish on Friday night
I've been winding myself up a treat the past couple of days, which isn't very useful. Sure, it would have been great to get more writing done over the weekend, but I didn't so have to let that go. At least I have finished that flipping section now (it was only writing about that bl00dy diagram).

I had a sandwich for dinner as I couldn't be bothered to cook. it was accompanied by some mini cheese rolls (like sausage rolls, but with cheese) and way too many fake Frazzles.

My treat is now to catch the end of newsnight and go to sleep ready to get up early (for me)

GDB2222

Nikki, well done. I find it very difficult to schedule work, as things take longer than I expect and I also have to factor in very unproductive worry time.

Lydia, I am so pleased for you that the coroner is a decent and efficient man. You really cannot ask for more. Hopefully, it won't take 3 weeks with him in charge.

Chest freezers. For some reason, I keep thinking of having a broken zip on your jacket in winter time. Silly of me.

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

I've compounded the issue by also overdoing things (stress does that to me) by painting my toilet (the room not the actual toilet),

If it helps, this really made me laugh out loud...:)

lemonjelly

Heating isn't on chez new jelly. However, a top is being put on in the evening now.

Walked a few miles today. I also want to start cycling round the area on the bike my brother gave me.

Spent other parts of the day varnishing 2 chairs I'm trying to rescue (the recovering bit comes next...) which were left here. They'll look great in the library I think.

There was also half a kitchen cabinet left ( the top half, with the shelves for displaying plates on IYSWIM?) I've turned it upside down & put it in the summerhouse for use/storage. It has some natty drawers (hence the turning it upside down, as they'd have been on the floor) & I varnished that too.

Off for a beauty sleep prior to meeting my first ever real life NP!

Yorkie1

Glad to hear everything's started OK, Lydia.

I saw the meat programme this evening. It was quite fascinating, exploring the reasons why a) red meat and b) processed meat have such associations with cardiac disease.

It isn't the saturated fat in red meat which is now believed to be the problem - tests have more or less excluded that as a cause. However there's some other element in the meat which interacts with the gut bacteria to produce something which then goes into the arteries and hangs onto fat in the bloodstream.

They illustrated how curing &/or smoking bacon added extra chemicals to the meat (e.g. sodium nitrate?), which could - nothing definite - be the problem with those meats.

But they didn't say how the simple act of cooking a lump of pork in water a la Delia can raise the risk factor - no additional chemicals to be an obvious cause. Bit disappointed about this type of meat as I was really interested in finding out the answer.

Basically, the conclusion was that red meat in moderation (no more than x2 per week) would be OK if you didn't add in the processed meat more than a few times a year.

It didn't explore the sustainability side of things at all. That might be part 2 - next week, I think.

Enjoy the meetup tomorrow, LJ and other NP .

Nikkster

The bacterial one was l-carnitine, and the processed meat one was nitrosamines and something else I think.

They might be completely wrong, I had the programme on in the background as I was dragging the word kicking and screaming onto my screen.

Tahlullah

GDB2222 wrote: »

Lost your roof. That's must have been really frightening. Poor you!

Luckily wasn't in at the time. Came home to find the slate tiles sticking up in the grass like blades. Glad no one was in the garden at the time, would have been nasty.

The roofer who fixed it, 3 months later because of the number of homes affected, told the story of one house where the wind picked the roof up and turned it, before plopping it back down. The whole roof had to be removed and refitted. New build and evidently, the roof wasn't fastened to the house. Not sure if they are supposed to be or do you rely on weight and a chimney holding it in place? I should add that this new build didn't have a chimney.

Anyway, the storms and floods last year did a lot of damage, but it is always really stormy in this bit of Wales. Great in summer, extreme in winter.

Nikkster

reading the other part of your post, yorkie, there don't need to be any added chemicals... The act of cooking will change chemicals (by that I mean the naturally occurring ones, not anything exogenous like antibiotics or whatever else). Many if these changes will be harmless, some may not.

PasturesNew

I did take the photos of the lopper destructions..... and plugged the cameraphone into the USB port ... er, then completely forgot I'd done that to upload them

... but it's work in progress. I'll look and see how the photos came out. It's a tiny leaflet, just a smidge bigger than my phone, probably took photos of about 8 pages, probably 6 are relevant.

Edit: Right, 7 images, need to find somewhere sensible to upload them to now.