Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Nah. You drink the gunk and then sit on an uncomfortable chair in a room full of proles for 2 hours while it gets around your system.

Believe me, I'd rather drink 2 pints of Matteus Ros! than go through this.

Still, to look on the bright side I might have to have radiotherapy again.:T

I don't really understand why but this is free at least.

I've had the other way of taking in barium. You learn what it must be like to be a hovercraft

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I've had the other way of taking in barium. You learn what it must be like to be a hovercraft

Yuck.

Back home for boiled eggs and a cuppa.

vivatifosi

Hope you are feeling a bit better Gen.

More than anything though, hoping that all is ok and this is just a sensible precaution. Also hope you manage to get some sleep after last night.

gfplux

All this talk of food....yummy. There are very, very few foods I don't like and those few are more from ignorance than flavour.
Over 30 years ago my wife introduced me to Cous Cous. The first time I did not like it. A few months later she tried again and from then on I LOVE it.
Yesterday lunch I ate Aïoli For only the second time in my life. Granted the setting was rather nice, at a beach restaurant looking at the Med. the first time I could hardly cope, yesterday I fell in love....with Aïoli.
I don't know why but perhaps when you get older all foods taste better?

Now I just have to build up the courage to try Cancoillotte cheese that my wife loves and is in the house often and I have never tasted!

From Wikipedia.... Aïoli
In Provence, aioli or, more formally, le grand aïoli, aioli garni, or aïoli monstre also designates a complete dish consisting of various boiled vegetables (usually carrots, potatoes, artichokes, and green beans), poached fish (normally soaked salt cod), snails, canned tuna, other seafood, and boiled eggs, served with the aioli sauce.[6] Other commonly used vegetables are beets, fennel, celery, zucchini, cauliflower, chick peas, and raw tomato.[7][5]

SingleSue

All this talk of food....when I am on a diet!

Think I am trying to do more than my body can cope with right now, I now have two beggered shoulders which of course, includes my crutch arm and at the beginning of the week, I somehow managed to trap a nerve between my shoulder blades which made movement and even breathing rather uncomfortable.

Oh and a hip that keeps painfully partially dislocating and then locking out of place instead of just slipping right back in again as it would normally do.

On top of this, I have had to revert to my old wheelchair again, the new one is a pile of poo and support from the company is pretty awful, currently in 'discussions' with them about the quality of the item and the fact I cannot use it due to a possible manufacturing flaw/crapness of it.

Generali

Aoili is just mayonnaise with extra garlic IIRC.

We had The Boy's soccer barbie this afternoon. Lots of fun. The kids played against the other under 10s side and then the parents of the under 10s played as well, including some of the mums that had never played football before ("So you're not meant to touch the ball with you hand then").


Sausage sizzle and tons of water. I'm now laid up with a beggured back.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

My mum had a phrase: "Old age doesn't come alone"

Well that's the thing with aging: the alternative is worse.

michaels

I discovered I am now allergic to peaches last night. A quick google suggests it is not unusual given I am allergic to birch pollen. Strange though that nectarines which I always thought were just peaches without the fury skin are fine. Luckily apples which I love and are in the same group of problem foods are still fine.

I also seem to have a virus again for the second time in two weeks, I guess getting soaked through at Chessington wasn't a good idea.

Still compared to other NP I am just a whinger.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have to talk about it as I can't eat much of it. More than 1200 calories/day and I gain weight

I do far more thinking/talking about it than actual eating.

Yesterday I had 2 bits of toast, then 250g of nuked chips ... and about 10pm my belly was rumbling - so I decided to "go large" and have an ENTIRE tin of beans/sausages on toast - as I figured if I didn't overeat then I'd just end up nibbling/picking even more food. Obviously, a normal portion is (max) half a tin. I struggled to get to the end of it ... really struggled .... and, having finished it, I then slept for 6 hours

Woke up/got up at 4am this morning. Very annoying.

Snap, I dream about all the foods I would like but the reality is somewhat different.

I put weight on at about 1000 calories, such is the pain of not being very mobile and having a sluggish metabolism. It's actually quite annoying when people assume I have been stuffing my face because I am a larger lady when in fact for the last 5 or 6 years, I have eaten far less than the average person.

For my diet, it is a tightrope between not having too many calories so I can lose weight and having enough of the right things for nutrition so that I don't end up being malnourished. I can't up my exercise, so can't achieve weightloss that way, so pretty much stuck with a very restricted diet.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

I discovered I am now allergic to peaches last night. A quick google suggests it is not unusual given I am allergic to birch pollen. Strange though that nectarines which I always thought were just peaches without the fury skin are fine. Luckily apples which I love and are in the same group of problem foods are still fine.

I also seem to have a virus again for the second time in two weeks, I guess getting soaked through at Chessington wasn't a good idea.

Still compared to other NP I am just a whinger.

That's okay, you're a Pom. It's your birthright.