Sue

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I must disagree about the cat poo- they regularly > poo on grass and it is disgusting to remove > especially if it is a bit sloppy, and it stinks > and kills the grass Oh OK, fair enough, I've never seen cat poo on grass, but then I don't have a lawn at the moment.

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red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You need to sort out those gaps in the floorboards > Sue...:) Life's too short. The ones downstairs are draughtproofed. The ones upstairs don't need to be :)) And I like the effect of black lines between white floorboards. However the floorboards in my front bedroom were pecked to b*****y by my sister's parrot when she and it/he were staying with me, which has produced an interesting but not particularly joyful result, rational or otherwise :)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Sue .. > > You appear to have 2 Red Buttons. Holding the > left one for 3 seconds should start the set up > process. > > Not your model but should give you an idea. > > > > Foxy They are not red buttons. How very dare you :)) They are Pikachu's cheeks!! :)) However, I have just discovered that the lovely Pikachu actually slips over the watch beneath, and on the side of the watch is a normal winding knob. Hooray!

I looked at reviews and have answered my own question, sorry, should have done that first, duh.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- head to the "world foods" aisle > and you'll usually find bugger packets for less > cost. Crikey, that sounds a bit rude :))

Just googled it and found this, which seems right (and I never knew that about freezing spices - I'm constantly throwing spices away because they go past their use by date and are stale): Mamta?s principles of curry-making are: Principle 1: Be generous with your spices. Spices not only bring flavour but texture to dishes. Most supermarkets sell spices in misleadingly small containers. You can buy bigger packets from Asian supermarkets, which will encourage you to spoon in the spices with a freer hand. (You can store them in the freezer to stop them going stale.) Principle 2: Decide how you are going to cook your onion, ginger, and garlic. This triumvirate provides the deep base flavour of most curries, equivalent to onion, carrot and celery in the French tradition. (NB: garlic is not essential. Some Indians eschew it completely on account of its pungency and it is often left out of food served at weddings to avoid offending guests.) Soften them without colouring for a lighter curry (as in the first recipe) or cook them longer and caramelise (as in the second) for something richer and darker. Principle 3: Decide what is going to give your curry sauce its body. This will normally be one, or a combination, of the following: tomatoes; pureed peppers or chillies; yoghurt or cream; coconut milk; spinach, or finely diced or pureed onion. Bear these principles in mind, and curry-making will become simple and pleasurable. You will be free to improvise. You will become the master of your very own curry matrix. So tomatoes are definitely not essential, but it depends on what kind of curry you are wanting to make. ETA: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/31/how-to-make-curry-onion-ginger-garlic-mamta-gupta-back-to-basics-henry-dimbleby

So nobody was actually stabbed then?

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would guess (and this is neither supporting nor > criticising anyone concerned) that doctors have to > be quite proactive in situations which will > involve withdrawing life support: once they've > determined that brain death has occurred, > presumably "we've got to turn it off now" causes > fewer problems than "we'd like to turn it off, > however we can keep the patient breathing and keep > their heart beating artificially and in one in > fifty thousand cases there can be an inexplicable > recovery"; grieving people will often leap at the > smallest chance and you could end up with wards > full of people being kept "alive" when they are in > fact, to all intents and purposes, dead. Maybe it was the way they said it?

Thanks will do, once I've sorted more urgent things! I've made a note of your number though :)

About time a joyful thread was resurrected, so - My Pikachu watch arrived this morning and makes me smile whenever I look at it. Best fiver I've spent for a while, even if it doesn't appear to have any way to change the time, so it will only be right half the year (assuming the battery lasts of course :)) )

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > As far as I understand it (which is not far) the > doctors' contention is that in keeping Charlie on > life support they are keeping him alive in pain I think this is an important part of it. Because of his state, he cannot signal that he is in pain, but as I understand it the doctors think he is. If it was certain that he wasn't in pain, that might somewhat alter the situation.

Does he do cookers, or just things that spin? My expensive (for me) cooker develped a fault just after the guarantee ran out and just after I had decided not to pay an arm and a leg for their effing extended warranty which they kept sending me letters urging me to buy, grammar. It's not stopping it working, just noisy. I know what's probably wrong as it appears to be a common fault, but I don't want to attempt to fix it myself. It just (just! It's only two years old!!) needs a part replacing.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You did stir anti-clockwise wise didn't you? > > I have a spoon from Rajasthan specially for my > cooking, it makes all the difference. :))

jacks09 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am coming from quite an uninformed position > here, and have been lucky enough to recently > become a father to a healthy boy. > > What sits uncomfortably for me is that anyone > apart from the parents can have the final say on > issues relating to the child. It just doesn't sit > right with me that a hospital/judge/state can > determine a course of action that the parents > don't agree with. > > Really interested to hear others thoughts on this. I think that's a huge moral/ethical can of worms. If parents should always have the final say on anything relating to a child, many children would lead horrendous lives of mental and physical pain. As indeed some already do. I'm not pretending to know the answer or where lines should be drawn, however. Suicide used to be illegal in this country. Euthanasia still is. We don't even have a say in whether we can stay alive if we feel our lives are not worth living.

Partriguez Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Don't get me started on other people's cats pooing > in my garden and not their own... Cats poo on bare soil or gravel, so if you cover your bare space with actual plants, they should go elsewhere. Can't help with the dog poo, I share your pain.

God help us? Or words to that effect? :))

teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue can I bring the old banger back now! :))

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Worse would be if the vehilce was nicked when > uninsured. I think that's probably one thing I don't need to worry about, as it's coming up to its nineteenth birthday next month :)) Though having said that, I did once have an old banger stolen from a tiny carpark where I worked. A student (I am assuming) took the keys from my coat pocket where I had stupidly left them. It never turned up, not even burned out somewhere. However I got much more for it than I was expecting, as it was a couple of weeks before Christmas and I think the insurance company took pity on me :))

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I rarely cook with fresh tomatoes, as I've never > found any good enough in the UK, even in markets. > Even the plum tomatoes here are a bit rubbish. So, > I usually use tinned. So do I, but the baby plum tomnatoes in M&S at the moment are the best I've ever tasted from a UK shop. Don't know what they'd be like in a curry though.

I may be wrong but I believe FIrst Direct are giving some kind of cash incentive to new customers?

They still had a shop in Covent Garden at that time, but evidently that has now closed as well and they are only selling their sweets wholesale.

Apparently he now has US citizenship and will go to the States. From what I have read the American doctor who thinks he can help is not a quack but a bona fide physician. I don't have any strong feelings about the case one way or the other but I would hate to be in either the parents' shoes or the shoes of the GOSH doctors and nurses. I think it's a sad situation which has had far too much publicity. I

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Alan Medic Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Sometimes when I get the same flyer in > > triplicate, > > > I'm tempted to phone the establishment and > let > > > them know that whoever is doing their > > distribution > > > is cheating. > > > > > > To be fair, some houses have two bells and one > > letterbox, or two letterboxes but one bell, and > > it's hard to know whether to leave one thing or > > two. > > > > Dulwich Fox, have you ever thought that if you > > widened your horizons a bit you might actually > > enjoy it? > > You said that about my eating habits.. > > For someone that spends most of their social life > at the Ivy House and only likes Curry from > Ganapati > That's pretty rich. > > > I see you have managed to take yet another thread > off target. > Fox Erm, let's see, Fox. I don't think it is me who has "taken yet another thread off target" (a thread I started, btw). I didn't introduce the subject of junk mail. I just asked how it was defined, after other people had mentioned it. You then went into considerable detail about what you define as junk mail, which appears to be everything apart from Indian restaurant takeaway menus. My reference to expanding your horizons was because you said you throw away both SE22 and the Dulwich Festival programme, both of which contain a lot of information about things going on locally. You seem to know laughably little about either my social life or my "curry" eating habits :)) :)) :))