Cooking for one (Mark Two)

meg72

suki1964 wrote: »

PN, I don't hate you, I admire you very much and have great respect for you

I don't need you to be diagnosed , I need you the way you are, telling it how it is

Remember I said I'd come and share a bag of chips , sitting on the floor with a plastic fork sharing a cider? I still would any day of the week. You are one of the most interesting intelligent women I know and whilst we have never met in real life and the chances of that happening are very slim, I think of you as a friend

I think you can learn a lot about a person from the thngs they post. I often think I really like someone and would actually like to meet them.

PN you are definetly one of those I would like to meet I like the way you are quick to offer advice and helpto others and I love love your sense of humour.

Irenadler

Hello all

Just had a weird thing happen, tried to thank posters on the previous page, and kept getting a message saying I don't have access....?

Anyway, apologies for those I can't thank, and thank you for the snippets of info I am getting!

Breakfast: same.
Lunch: jacket spud and baked beans as I CBA to try fancy recipe. Yogurt. Who cares if I get a bit windy. The dog doesn't!
Tea: probably white fish and frozen veg, meringue with fruit/yogurt.

Hoping this message actually posts....

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway - fingers crossed it's not flu and that's very well-mannered/considerate of you not to go to your volunteering work if it does turn out to be. More's the pity not everyone takes that view.

I've not got it and am carrying on with Life as normal and keeping fingers crossed not to come across anyone with it. Am certainly noticing there is an obvious difference between those who don't care if they pass it on and those that are trying not to do so. Come across one person sniffing (fingers crossed it was just a cold) and one who has just had it and isnt really very aware/concerned whether they've still got it - but they were both "out and about":eek::eek::eek:.

On the other hand - know of one fellow volunteer at the thing I volunteer at who isnt turning up to do their bit until they are absolutely sure they're clear of it and can't pass it on to anyone else on the other hand:T So they've not turned up to "do their bit" for a couple of weeks now - but that's accepted as "the right thing to do" - and I've pointed out that if it takes them 5/6 weeks to be sure they're clear of it then that's what it takes.

The division between those that have manners/aka consideration and those that don't give a **** is quite clear when there's something like this going around.:cool:

Hollyharvey

Irenadler wrote: »

Hello all

Just had a weird thing happen, tried to thank posters on the previous page, and kept getting a message saying I don't have access....?

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This has been happening to me all day. It also keeps kicking me off threads I am reading, and when I clicked on this thread earlier it said the same thing. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

Hollyharvey

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Farway - fingers crossed it's not flu and that's very well-mannered/considerate of you not to go to your volunteering work if it does turn out to be. More's the pity not everyone takes that view.

I've not got it and am carrying on with Life as normal and keeping fingers crossed not to come across anyone with it. Am certainly noticing there is an obvious difference between those who don't care if they pass it on and those that are trying not to do so. Come across one person sniffing (fingers crossed it was just a cold) and one who has just had it and isnt really very aware/concerned whether they've still got it - but they were both "out and about":eek::eek::eek:.

On the other hand - know of one fellow volunteer at the thing I volunteer at who isnt turning up to do their bit until they are absolutely sure they're clear of it and can't pass it on to anyone else on the other hand:T So they've not turned up to "do their bit" for a couple of weeks now - but that's accepted as "the right thing to do" - and I've pointed out that if it takes them 5/6 weeks to be sure they're clear of it then that's what it takes.

The division between those that have manners/aka consideration and those that don't give a **** is quite clear when there's something like this going around.:cool:

I so agree with this post Money. I just wish people would stay at home rather than pass it around unless it is vital that they go out.

moneyistooshorttomention

I can't think of any circumstances that "vital" actually - though I do sympathise if someone is still earning an income and it's obviously a sight easier for a retired person to stay home & do so. Even so - it is just selfish to go out if one has it basically.

Keeping fingers crossed that I won't land up having my first encounter with Tesco online shopping - rather than going out and physically doing it myself. But if it came to a "needs must" situation - then, as a single (as we know - there is no-one else to do it for us) then I'd have to figure it out.

Thank goodness for things like central heating/the Internet/tv/automatic washing machines - all of which make things so much more "possible" if it comes to it these days.

Hollyharvey

Irenadler wrote: »

Hello all

Just had a weird thing happen, tried to thank posters on the previous page, and kept getting a message saying I don't have access....?

Hoping this message actually posts....

I don't know if it is related to our problems with the site today or not, but another thread has disappeared this evening same as the one earlier in the week.

PasturesNew

Re going out - if there are inconsiderate germy b4st4rds on the loose... slide a pack of antibacterial/similar wet wipes in your bag and keep wiping your hands every time you touch something "the great grubby public" might have touched

Doors/handles, baskets/trolleys ... change from the till.

I always, in any case, wash my hands after going in supermarkets and before unpacking shopping .... since I read somebody post once about rats in warehouses running over packed tins/goods.... even if it's sealed you can't guarantee what's touched it on the outside. It's hard to know when to stop, but I don't wipe all the packs/tins down (yet).

I also never buy "goods that are air-exposed" such as breads/rolls in bakery aisles. God knows who has ever touched/dropped them or coughed on them.

I don't see any of that as ASD, just "regular person a bit over-zealous with one aspect of shops and the public".

moneyistooshorttomention

I remember you saying about the breads etc sitting there loose in the supermarket Pastures - and making a mental note not to buy them in case.

I do buy bread sometimes from a "real" bakery - but I know their breads get put straight by them into paper bags and it's "not the thing" for anyone to try touching them beforehand whilst they sit there cooling.

moneyistooshorttomention

Fingers crossed for our thread not "going missing" - accidentally deleted. Today is the day caron said she'd do a Mark 3 version of it.

A couple more longstanding threads have vanished inexplicably.

My take on it being that "threads going missing" seems to coincide with when spammer attacks are being rather frequent - and I switch on of a morning and think "A spammer has been at it again". I wouldnt be surprised if MSE "ramp up the volume" re whatever-it-is-they-do to deal with the spammers when they're being pretty bad and "catch innocent threads" sometimes in the process and then MSE have to "ramp down the volume" a bit and then another spammer attacks and so we go on....

Fingers crossed we don't have this happen accidentally...

They must deal with these spammers pretty quickly - as I know I can't resist the temptation sometimes if I spot the spam is in a foreign language (as is often the case) to put up a post in case the spammer spots it saying words to effect of "This is a British website - wrong language - we speak English in this country". LOL.