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Post by tetsabb on Sept 18, 2024 15:09:38 GMT
I have felt slightly fluish yesterday and today. I feel as if my limbs have been stretched on the rack, and my brain is very... foggy. A neighbour had put out some apples from her tree in a basket for passers by. I decided to do a crumble. And prepare a shepherd's pie at the same time. So, on went apples in one pan, shepherd filling in another. I prepared spuds and put them on while tge apples cooled. While the spuds simmered, I prepared the crumble. Now the really tricky bit... get the right topping on the right dish. I got it right.. I think. 😄😉 I expect shepherd filling with crumble tip might be OK, but apples covered in mash... not so sure...
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Post by suze on Sept 18, 2024 17:20:08 GMT
Should a shepherd's pie suitable for vegetarians be called a scarecrow's pie or something?
Conventional crumble topping on a shepherd's pie would be too sweet for my liking, although I have encountered an entirely acceptable crumble topping that used cheese instead of the sugar. An apple filling with mashed potato on top is not a delightful thought, although mashed potato-based desserts do appear on Masterchef once in a while. I have never felt the need to attempt to reproduce them.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 18, 2024 19:47:17 GMT
A day for a few problems. My Hello Fresh box had just arrived before I left to go to Bath. As usual, I checked I'd got all the ingredients. For one of the three recipes (Recipe 6) I'd got the prawns and peas in the insulated bag with the ice blocks, but the other ingredients in the main bag were totally incorrect. Then I realised someone in packing had misread the 9 on the bag as a 6! After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing just now I've got some money off next week's box and I might be able to cobble something together with the wrong stuff yet. I drove to Bath and parked in the Lansdown park and ride got into the town in nice time to meet up with some of my volunteering colleagues before the meeting in the Assembly Rooms. Unfortunately, we ended up sitting on one of the furthest tables from the front, my ears are rather bunged up and the lady taking notes' writing is rather small, so I missed out on quite a bit. Ironically, it was titled a a "Listening Meeting" - though that was more about staff listening to volunteers. When we came out however, there was a broken-down bus blocking the hill back to Lansdown. We got sent further down the hill to pick up a replacement bus, which then took a seriously round-about route to get to the park and ride. What should have taken 5 - 10 minutes ended up a the best part of an hour! By then the traffic was dreadful all the way home.
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Post by jenny on Sept 18, 2024 20:54:46 GMT
I had a haircut this morning. I really like my hairdresser and we always have a good chat, so that always makes me feel good. Then I had lunch at a Subway with my husband, who was working at a rental property today, so that was nice too. Now I have to think what I'm making for dinner. I rather fancy having something lentilish, and I have the makings for my corn and tomato chowder, so I think I'm going to try substituting lentils for potatoes and see how it turns out.
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Post by efros on Sept 19, 2024 7:50:01 GMT
Visit to the doctor yesterday about the ongoing rheumatoid arthritis and what can be done to control flare ups. Doctor was very helpful and told me that the preferred option would be methotrexate taken orally but because that was a cancer treatment it wasn't prescribed by Primary care physicians (think that is BS) but that I had to wait for the availability of a rheumatologist (rarer than rocking horse crap in this part of Maine). In the meantime they're converting me to a MAGA Covid sufferer and dosing me with Hydroxychloroquine. Which apart from dealing with the inflammation also deals with malaria, take that you pesky mozzies! It doesn't, cue the wails of the MAGA, do anything for Covid but increase it's chance of fatality.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 19, 2024 8:59:27 GMT
It doesn't do anything for Covid but increase it's chance of fatality. I'm not a doctor, but that seems to be to be something of a suboptimal result......
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Post by efros on Sept 19, 2024 9:42:41 GMT
Yeah neither was Trump, only marginally better than injecting yourself with bleach, or getting sunlight inside of you... Whatever the hell that meant.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 19, 2024 11:23:42 GMT
Well, the meter engineer actually showed up, ahead of time! Delightful chap, fellow Sherlockian, Springsteen fan and would be biker. Unfortunately, he couldn't fix the problem, but he is reporting back, and another engineer will be out to replace the whole shebang...
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Post by amanda on Sept 19, 2024 12:12:11 GMT
My final day at the school for this time of employment. I have moved the old history books off the shelf to be deleted, (sign on them in a trolley in the office area) and moved the remaining books along, leaving a uniform size gap at the ends. And cleaned those shelves, as my father would have said 'sehr schmutzig!' Also found three dead moths on the shelves.
And I heard his voice saying 'Händewaschen!'
Had the end of term assembly today rather than tomorrow for the tech college kids who won't be there tomorrow. Some of them got awards as the Year 12's officially finish in week 3 of next term, then have exams. Those not sitting exams are then done.
A teacher performed 'can't help falling in love' on his cello, playing the backing music. Two electric guitar students and a singing student performed a Black Sabbath item (and the singer and one guitarist have the appropriate longish curly hair to 'throw' their heads around.
The cellist was then interviewed a bit and the heavens opened, on the tin roof, couldn't hear a thing. But with bits of blue sky I hoped I'd be ok for my bus trip home. Saw a great rainbow over the school oval a bit later, put the photo in my locally based skies FB group and it won photo of the day!
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 19, 2024 12:50:03 GMT
A busy and tiring day, and it's only 1:30.
Got up at 7:30 IN THE MORNING because I had to make an early dentist's appointment. Second try at a temporary patch for this broken tooth, and let's hope it lasts longer than 24 hours this time! I'll be returning in October for a last-ditch attempt at fixing it permanently with a filling, but if the filling doesn't take, the only alternative is a crown.
From the dentist into the town centre and doing some business at the bank. I was intending to do some shopping as well, arthritic knee willing. Well, the knee was willing, but nothing else was. I had no reserves whatsoever, and was having to sit down every hundred yards to rest up and catch my breath. I'll have to do something about building up my stamina. Anyway, from there back home, with a stop along the way to pick up my prescriptions for the month, as well as a quick visit to the corner shop to get some ham for sandwiches. And a cup of coffee, which is here at my elbow.
Once I've caught up with myself and de-sweatified a bit, I'll have to sort out the prescriptions for this week, put the new dental appointment in my planner, and then I might just have a nap. I only had about four hours' sleep last night, and am feeling a bit too glazed to trust myself with any proper work.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 19, 2024 15:04:16 GMT
A run down to Lewes to meet up with the fab Janine Booth, poet, lefty troublemaker, and all round fab person. We sat in a pub and chatted, set the world to rights, and I made friends with her lovely dog. Most pleasant
She now lives in Kirby Muxloe, near Leicester, and was heading back up their with more stuff from her previous home in Lewes.
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Post by suze on Sept 19, 2024 17:11:28 GMT
A teacher performed 'can't help falling in love' on his cello, playing the backing music. Two electric guitar students and a singing student performed a Black Sabbath item (and the singer and one guitarist have the appropriate longish curly hair to 'throw' their heads around.
Black Sabbath have made nineteen albums, so the number of songs in their repertoire must be around 200. Even so, I'd be willing to have really quite a large wager that the song those guys performed was Paranoid.
Having come to that conclusion, I then wondered whether anyone has ever mixed the two acts you saw together and played Paranoid on a cello. Yes, of course they have!
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Post by crissdee on Sept 19, 2024 19:29:57 GMT
Forgot to mention, after the multiple emails reminding me about the engineer visit, I also got a text message offering me the chance to track his location. However, I did not require that, as all I had to do when it arrived was look in my kitchen, where I could see him sitting in front of my meter cupboard.....
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 19, 2024 19:44:19 GMT
A teacher performed 'can't help falling in love' on his cello, playing the backing music. Two electric guitar students and a singing student performed a Black Sabbath item (and the singer and one guitarist have the appropriate longish curly hair to 'throw' their heads around.
Black Sabbath have made nineteen albums, so the number of songs in their repertoire must be around 200. Even so, I'd be willing to have really quite a large wager that the song those guys performed was Paranoid.
Having come to that conclusion, I then wondered whether anyone has ever mixed the two acts you saw together and played Paranoid on a cello. Yes, of course they have!
That is rather wonderful.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 19, 2024 19:45:53 GMT
Black Sabbath have made nineteen albums, so the number of songs in their repertoire must be around 200. Even so, I'd be willing to have really quite a large wager that the song those guys performed was Paranoid. I was about to post the same then I saw your comment. The most obvious and uninspiring Sabbath track to cover.
I never learned how to play it because there is no way on this green Earth that any band I'm in is going to cover it.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 19, 2024 19:47:20 GMT
We sat in a pub and chatted, set the world to rights, and I made friends with her lovely dog. Most pleasant Strange name for a dog.
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