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gocat

Claire1972 wrote: »

How many syns please?

Oh don't know sorry. I had to go out, so gave up looking

Enterprise_1701C

What we do with excess fruit is make wine with it, currently have redcurrant wine on the go and OH will be making blackberry wine and raspberry wine. We have about 10lbs of blackberries in the freezer waiting to be dealt with and about 8lbs of raspberries (and increasing!). Problem is they are currently taking up a lot of the freezer :eek:

Dippydoo

redfraggle wrote: »

Hi, you can have it sent to another address, I had an order at my sisters once

thankyou:)

gocat

Munqui wrote: »

Are these the right ones ?

John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Soy & Ginger with Mushroom Couscous (285g made up) 8
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Coriander & Cumin with Lime & Coriander Couscous (285g made up) 9
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Basil with Sun-dried Tomato Couscous (285g made up) 9½
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Chilli & Garlic with Spicy Red Pepper Couscous (285g made up) 8½
John West Steam Pots Tuna Infusion Lemon & Thyme with Tomato & Black Olive Couscous (285g made up) 9½

Thanks Munqui :eek:

lookinforabargain

Thanks DeeDee :beer:

I did a couple of shops for the Dove earlier and just got my APG's back
Think once my DD is in bed I'll nip out and do another couple of shops.

mrsmac10

HUGE thanks again to deedee for both posting and sharing

You really are a star and an:A

Leothecat

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

Drink 'em!

Plum wine is fab with a splash of cold lemonade :beer:

Interesting.....off to google wine recipes! :beer:

Leothecat

henrik777 wrote: »

Try the foodbanks direct (i know they normally won't take perishable stuff!)

Try the local school/hospital canteens etc

Dump them in an open box/container near your least favourite supermarket and invite people to help themselves.

Go to your local MPs house and take aim.

Some goods there....thanks! I might ring round the food banks tomorrow.
Lol.....if only I knew where our local councillors lived!!

diluvsdiscounts

Leothecat wrote: »

My bro has a HUGE garden with plum and apple trees.....so much fruit we can't even give it away! Last year he had a BBQ where everyone filled bags upon bags and there are still loads left over! Any ideas what to do with them? Seems such a shame to let them rot....:(

I made this today. Bought seven packs of diced pork last night in Netto @ £1 a pack so used up 18 plums! Still got two trees full but someone e at DH work is going to take one tree full to make wine. We always leave a few for the birds they love them.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12841/braised-pork-with-plums

Savvybuyer

About my autism as it affects me (namely, the way in which it affects me).

I know that I've now apparently contradicted myself, on the one hand saying I was context-blind and then recognising a single asterisk being used in a certain context (provision of a footnote). However, it's "context-blind" to a certain extent or only in certain ways (and not in others). I had also originally used "context-blind" with a ":p", suggesting I was being tongue-in-cheek and that was the, erm, context there.

It's more "context-blind" in the sense of not seeing the gist. I can see different contexts to certain things, although the "trouble" (or maybe it's not a trouble but is a delightful thing) is that we each think different things are appropriate in whatever we see as the context for us - and different people will not agree as to what the "context" is. Clearly there are things most people (other than a deviant minority) accept are wrong, or wrong in "certain contexts", but beyond that there is a lot of variance in opinion. As an Asperger, of course, where there's a variance of opinion I often fall down being unable to decide and have any objective view about anything where I see two or more equally valid opinions. I tend to be rational and objective. However, that doesn't mean I'm emotionless - indeed absolutely far from it (and emotion is, from the objective sense, "irrational" and "illogical" - though it may be perfectly understandable in the subjective circumstances and therefore "logical" when assessed by reference to that).

Regarding songs on the radio or television, I can probably see context (although I never get a "storyline" from a song unless it is pointed out to me or a read a review etc. - might explain why I don't "get" emotional love songs that go on about a story of the artist - instead I enjoy singing along with music (where I can sing naturally along at the speed they're doing - modern pop is the wrong speed for me - just can't sing along to it like I could to early 90s and 80s hits and before). I never know what they were on about as a whole, instead I do see the meanings of individual phrases and pick up on each of the sentences in turn, where they are sung distinctively - sometimes I mishear lyrics and get a totally different message:rotfl:). Then again words can cause offence regardless of the context to some of us - the only "context" is that a certain word or variant of was used or meant and the "context" is that we were listening with parents, nothing to do with the "context" of the actual song. I don't know whether, as an autistic person, I interpret music differently from the vast majority of people, since I have never seen any other interpretation but my own and it's impossible to perceive how other people hear it.

However, I suspect my interpretation is not vastly at odds with other people's and indeed I'm not the only person that has complained about bleeped versions - or, more accurately, about something "similar" although, importantly, completely different to me.

Oh dear - this link is now going to be censored as the computer system does not see the innocent context. I'm trying to refer to the Wikipedia article about a song called "Beep" by a popular group whose last word in their name is "Dolls". It's going to come out as exclamation times 5 cat Dolls. Stupid system:rotfl:. Google the phrase "Wikipedia" and then the name of the group that many of you will know and then "Beep". I'm not trying the link anymore: I suspect it won't go through to the URL when this site most likely partially censors it (and even then ineffectually as we all still know what word was in the place of the exclamations). My "policy" is never to use anything that the system censors, so I will not try to subvert it.

Right, having been diverted well off my point, now back to what I was trying to link to and say, which is that I have been known to miss the point completely in the past. The song is a parody, about media censorship, which never used any offensive language in the first place. Unfortunately, I did not know this when I heard it and I was getting all sorts of things from the bleeped song and felt entirely uncomfortable (offence) by the end. (Even if I had known, I still feel I would not have been entirely comfortable because of the association. That would have been ok if I had still been at home - even with my mum present as she was when, in 1995(?), I heard Smokie feat. Roy "Chubby" Brown on the radio chart - as it was funny and, in a way, because of its "subversiveness" - not sure our mum really liked it - but, by this time (the song called "Beep" in 2005/6), unfortunately I was in a place with strangers and I suspect the concept of the word itself is offensive to me there.) Always the worst possible word it could be in the context of the surrounding material. I'm not the only one that has complained in the past - years before, someone contacted the old Broadcasting Standards Council about a bleeped programme on children's television. In fact, the BBC said (and I remember all this!) that innocent words were bleeped out, unfortunately the person was caused offence and I think the BSC upheld the complaint. As if you would think children's TV would contain bleeped out actual swearing. The Badly Bleeped TV segment on BBC Radio 1 got discontinued after someone's complaint.

Indeed, Ofcom research found that, in some contexts, people generally appeared to think a programme with bleeping was unacceptable (a programme that featured one of the Osbournes on Channel 4 - it wasn't her 'normal' show but an unexpected genre) and Ofcom concluded from it that 'bleeping does not always make it acceptable' (not an exact quote, hence the single quotations). This was three years or so after I had been complaining - so, yet again, I turn out, all along, to have been right years before. A song by Khia got seven people (plus me I assume) that complained about its broadcast on a music television channel. That also came across as "worse" than the original to me - a "mild" variant word - I later discovered the original lyrics - turning into putting in my mind the same stronger one each time. She was far more "explicit" in the "clean" version - and she still is, even after I know the true lyrics. A mine of information I am as usual.