Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Waves_and_Smiles

It is raining in Iceland and they have all of the wind in the world. Fact.

I have been trying to get a game to work on my laptop and I have spoken to the head of the publishing company so much that we chat about our different countries now. This makes me very happy because I love learning about different places, I would talk to people from different countries all over the world if I could. Fortunately he doesn't seem to think I am weirdo for asking about his country, he is going to send me a recipe of Icelandic food to try. Things like this make WaS excited.

(I am not weird).

(Much).

codemonkey

WaS, you're welcome to ask whatever you want about Scotland. I know it's not all the exotic though.

Waves_and_Smiles

Oooh, thank you code! The first guy I dated was scottish and I stayed with his family in Glasgow and had a trip to Edinburgh back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. He was very used to life in London though so I didn't learn much about traditions. Something I found very odd though was one of his 9 year old cousins asked me if I was Protestant or Catholic. I had never been asked that in my life and was quite shocked that it would be important to a child. Apparently his last girlfriend was hated because she was Catholic, I am still confused...

What is a good scottish dish other than the typical haggis that everyone talks about? I have never cooked anything scottish to my knowledge and would really like to try a meal. Oh, oh and what do you do on Burns night? I am thinking of incorporating it into my yearly celebrations! I could look it up online but I find asking people about personal traditions far more helpful.

I get hugely excited about people from other countries, its because I don't go out so everything to me is exotic. My teacher friend lives on the border of Wales and I drown him in questions on a regular basis.

Flybaby

Code - full of admiration...........not sure I would have sat next to you all day if I had known how skinny you are getting!!! I was looking at the joe browns catalogue that came through the door today and thought how lovely it would be to be able to buy some of their clothes, so maybe that should be my weight goal, to lose enough to be able to at least buy a size 18 joe browns item. Can you give us some tips?? Although I have done slimming world and should know the stuff, I am struggling to get started on healthy eating again.


Red sauce on bacon sarnie, brown sauce on sausage sarnie.......


Piggles - feel free to PM me if you would like help with the letter.


Welly - big hugs for mummy........is it posibble to put some vicks vapo rub in a bowl of hot water nearish her ( safely of course)? I have a facial steamer that has never been used for anything beautifying and is only rolled out when we have colds, but I think the vapo rub in it is better than olbas oil. That said I don't go anywhere without an olbas sniffer doofer as I often seem to have headaches that are sinus based. Anyhoo, melting bit of vaporub in hot water near her may help a little and is better than putting olbas oil or vapo rub on or near her (I think as it prevents them accidentally rolling on it and rubbing it in eyes.)


**squishes**

piggles1

Wellyboots6 wrote: »

Piggles, maybe you could word it differently? Rather than putting that you don't think he listened (it's hard to criticise someone), maybe put at the start something about you having written a list of symptoms to make sure you don't miss anything out as sometimes you feel you haven't been understood properly? That doesn't place blame on either side, but should encourage him to pay closer attention to what you say.

Thanks Welly don't worry I wasn't going to word it saying he didn't listen to me, but the bit you said about I haven't been understood properly is a good suggestion. I hate doing things like this.

Fireworks are going off all over here and making me nervous. I think I'll watch some telly.

ETA: thanks Flybaby. I'll have a go at getting to the end tomorrow, even if it means I write what I want to say, not what I'll have to say..

whitewing

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codemonkey

Ah, the whole Catholic v Protestant thing is a West Coast thing linked to Celtic and Rangers football club rather than actual religion. It's a bit of a shameful thing really.

Traditional Scottish foods other than haggis, tatties and neeps are things like stovies which can be made with corned beef or leftover roast beef, leek and potato soup, cockaleekie soup , skirlie (a sort of fried oatmeal type dish with onions ), black pudding, white pudding, tattie scones (amazing with fried eggs and square sausage), bridies (a meat pastry), mInce and tatties, cullen skink and aberdeen butteries. There's also a lot of fresh seafood and meat. Also more updated take on haggis like haggis pakora and haggis pizza.

Then there's deep fried stuff like deep fried pizza (called a pizza crunch and surprisingly tasty) and deep fried Mars bars.

For Burns Night, you eat haggis, tatties and neeps (swede). The haggis is brought to the table intact and traditionally the clan chieftain, or the host would address it by receiting 'To a Haggis'.

Waves_and_Smiles

Oh, and hugs and squishes and warm handshakes to everyone! Please forgive me, I am all over the place today. I am slightly unwell in that I was awake half the night with auditory hallucinations and now its Bonfire Night and I need to prepare a special meal and use my indoor fireworks! I will be fine, it's just rushing thoughts and the attention span of a gnat that's the problem. I will catch up properly with everyone tomorrow after I manage some proper sleep.

calleyw

Evening My Lovelies,

Going to hang my head in shame have binged ate this evening. But I did walk two miles and out of town after work to return something. In the rain I might add :rotfl:

Mad I know. Looks like work might want me to the end of next week :j and pay day tomorrow.

All broken electronics are now back to working order. Husband said the tv remote needed a heart transplant aka new charged batteries. Strange I know the remote let him change channel.

Also finally bought a new battery charger as my other one is rubbish.

Right Flybaby you will be ok. It's a massive change from what you have been doing. take it slow and steady and you will be fine I am sure.

Melly I hope that you managed to get something to eat and drink. And I know its disheartening but the way two think about it is they have no other option than to stall as they know they are in the wrong. Pain in the bum for you but you got them on the ropes.

Code going to hang my head if shame never been to scotland. Been to Australia but not to the other end of the country. V bad I really want to go and as I know there are some breath taking views and stunning countryside.

Yours

Calley

Waves_and_Smiles

Those foods all sound so nice, code! Thank you! They sound like proper winter comfort meals. I have decided that I am going to attempt stovies! WaSp will like that because he suffers if a dish doesn't have a lot of meat in it. Is it meant to be a kind of stew? Also, when you say corned beef I presume you don't mean what comes out of a can? Or do you?

I tried haggis once and loved it. I have also always wanted to try a deep fried Mars bar but they seem to be unobtainable down here sadly. I think I also have to try cullen skink just because I love the name!