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FairyPrincessk

nursemaggie wrote: »

FPK
I thought the EU banned trans fats. Your fellow countrymen always use the EU when trying to ban trans fats.

Unfortunately not. I thought the ban had passed in the UK but apparently ministers preferred to merely request that companies voluntarily reduce them. Only a couple of places in the states have banned them.

I've long hated the labels. I remember trying to help my grandmother address a fatty liver and her being totally confused that low fat mayo was worse for her than full fat because it had more sugar. I'm a careful label reader because I know most of it is nonsense which is why I think I was so furious that I'd still managed to fall for it.:o

FairyPrincessk

Floss, yes, just for spreading on the odd piece of toast. I haven't really been baking as I haven't had the time to make the substitutes for 'healthier' baking like apple puree etc.

I haven't tried olivio, I might do that next. I shall be reading labels again at the supermarket this weekend.

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Small word of warning, we've just had a call purportedly from BT telling us to press 1 or our broadband would be cut off. Luckily we have a display phone that flagged up it was an international call so we didn't, just cut it off. It has to be some sort of dodgieness as I'm still here and we still have broadband. I'm not at all anxious to find out what type of dodgieness though so I'll ignore instructions to do anything!

Islandmaid

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Small word of warning, we've just had a call purportedly from BT telling us to press 1 or our broadband would be cut off. Luckily we have a display phone that flagged up it was an international call so we didn't, just cut it off. It has to be some sort of dodgieness as I'm still here and we still have broadband. I'm not at all anxious to find out what type of dodgieness though so I'll ignore instructions to do anything!

I had a call this week, nice chap from our bank telling me our computer had been compromised, then asked me to confirm my bank details, to avoid fraudulent activity :cool: - he hung up when I innocently advised him, I don't use computers and don't own one (white lie, I use an iPad) tricky little wot-nots :mad:

monnagran

Lyn and Islandmaid, I have had a spate of calls recently purporting to come from BT telling me, in a very foreign accent, that I will lose my broadband within 24 hours if I don't .........................I've never heard what they want me to do because I've put the phone down before we even get to that stage.

Islandmaid, I also had someone in a foreign accent tell me that there is a problem with my computer to which I said that I had no computers in the house. Haven't heard from them recently.

Morons,

Elona_2

monna

If I get any of these "your computer is at risk" calls I innocently tell them I have an Apple and did not think they could be compromised. They then hang up! (I don't have an Apple needless to say!

Hard_Up_Hester

I always used to say I hadn't got a computer too when I got those calls.

I went round to drop the payment off at my lovely plumbers house today, I think he is Muslim so I changed out of my strappy summer dress and wore something that covered more of me.

It's nearly time to collect CHS from work, I need to allow its of time as the canal bridge is being opened to let all the hire boats through and the level crossing wait can be up to 30 minutes.

I treated myself to a bottle of gin today and some tonic, I just hopes CHS is feeling strong enough to carry it from the car.

monnagran

Hester, it was very thoughtful of you not to offend your lovely plumber. I take it that your tenants will have to soldier on with the current bathroom suite.
Don't, for heaven's sake, entrust your precious bottle of gin to CHS. Something is bound to happen and you just know that it will be your fault. Tie it to you. Shove it down your bra if there's room. Stow it in a baby sling round your neck. Anything but putting into CHS's hot little hand.

Sorry if my previous post was a bit disjointed. I was also listening to DS1 on the phone droning on about football in general and the world cup in particular. 50 minutes of it.:eek:
I often think that if I had listened to and taken in every subject that had bent my ear over the years, I would be a walking encyclopedia on the subjects of cricket, football, the internal combustion engine, the vagaries of the pop charts. I could even, at a push, tune a church pipe organ. (don't ask.)

Fortunately, I have perfected the art of murmuring, "mmmm" at precisely the right moment and thus remain in blissful ignorance on all these fascinating subjects, although I do enjoy watching cricket. But that's my shameful secret.

fuddle

2 1/2 hours in the blazing sun. Primary School Sports Days I detest thee. My blooming hives has raised it's ugly pimpled head and saw me to my bed with throbbing upper arms.

Far too long to be out in this heat and I have a DD who is suffering from poorly hayfever even with the whole protective shebang.

I guess I don't like someone else calling the shots. I needed to be in shelter and my DD needed to be off the grass.

I'm in a foul mood.:mad::o

monnagran

Fuddle I feel for you. I used to pray for rain on sports days.

My DS1 used to suffer horribly from hay fever and summer sports were a misery. Such a shame because he was a brilliant sportsman and even while in the throes of hay fever used to win cups and trophies both at school and county level. once he represented the school at the County Athletics and their hurdler sprained his ankle, so Tom stepped in and although hurdling was fairly new to him, he won. I don't know how because his eyelids looked like ping-pong balls, his eyes and nose were running, his mouth and throat were ulcerated and he was doped up with Piriton. In those days there was only the drowsy sort.

So, so sorry about that. I don't approve of 'Proud Mummy' stories. Especially when the offspring involved are nudging 50.