| veronikkamarrz
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Exactly right about Reye's Syndrome, and aspirin! I don't think I ever gave my kids (starting in 1976) aspirin. It was always Tylenol or Advil, even then.:)
Reply #2461. Mar 31 11, 7:50 PM
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Jazmee27 
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Don't think I even know what Aspirin is (apart from a name) as Mom's allergic (and, as I'm so much like her, it's only logical to conclude I am)
Reply #2462. Mar 31 11, 9:26 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, VM. I hadn't had an aspirin, in the house or inside me, for well over twenty years.
J, I don't suppose you feel like experimenting, to see if aspirin affects you badly? No, I think we can live a full and rich life without it.
How is your mother - recovering, I hope? |
Reply #2463. Apr 01 11, 8:51 AM
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Jazmee27
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Let's see... how to answer that
"Recovering"? In what way?
In terms of the hysterectomy, everything's fine there; as far as the neck pain goes...
She has a chiropractor appointment Monday, her family doctor Tuesday, then possibly the chiropractor again Wednesday and Thursday
Reply #2464. Apr 01 11, 10:00 AM
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Lochalsh
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Speaking of recovery: Are you getting over George's leaving? How are Colin and Robert, Jr., today? :)
Reply #2465. Apr 01 11, 10:09 AM
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| lesley153
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Jazmee, I'm not sure how to answer that! I knew your mother was having some repair work done, and I hoped that she was recovering well after repair. If she has any other problems, I hope she manages to get rid of them too!
Lochalsh, George went and I'm afraid I hardly noticed. Colin and Robert are great fun. Alternate weeks. Nice. |
Reply #2466. Apr 01 11, 6:07 PM
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| lesley153
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I put my dinner in the oven, and decided to bake a couple of aubergines at the same time. They went in at eight. I'll check them at nine. There's a sweet vegetabley smell coming from the kitchen... I remembered them at eleven. Surprising how hard aubergines get.
Early night because Jonathan needs to be on a train from Euston at seven o'clock, and I promised him a call at half past five. He said it would be good if I woke up at 5.30, rather than stayed up till 5.30. Night all. :) |
Reply #2467. Apr 03 11, 4:31 PM
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MotherGoose
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"I remembered them at eleven"
Glad I'm not the only one who does things like that!
Reply #2468. Apr 03 11, 5:08 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Yes, me too! Usually when I forget, it's garlic bread or something equally smokey, that sets off the fire alarm!:)
Reply #2469. Apr 03 11, 5:14 PM
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MotherGoose
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I make a Thai chicken salad that is garnished with peanuts. You have to roast the peanuts on a tray in the oven first. They burn the minute you turn your back - One minute they are pale, the next minute burnt black and look like coffee beans. I've burnt them so many times that it's become a family joke. "Are we having coffee beans with the salad, Mum?"
Reply #2470. Apr 04 11, 3:53 AM
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Professer
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Hope you woke up in time Lesley i was awake could have given you a call lol, mind you 3am be a bit early me thinks
Reply #2471. Apr 04 11, 4:56 AM
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| lesley153
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MG, are you ever tempted to replace the peanuts with freshly-roasted coffee beans? Even once?
I think we are all capable of doing it. Leaving the kitchen at 8.30, and "remembering" to go back at nine, rather than setting an alarm, almost guarantees incineration.
Last week, someone who said she couldn't cook taught me a new expression:
"I can burn salad."
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Here's how this morning went.
I went to bed at twelve and amazed myself by falling asleep - four hours too early.
My alarm went off at 5.25. I waited till 5.30 to phone him.
"Morning!"
Ten minutes later, I rang again.
"This is your early morning snooze, to see if you're up yet. Phone me when you've left the flat?"
He rang me at 6.15. He was walking the mile from his flat to Euston station. At 6.27, he was walking into the station. Half an hour till his train, seat reserved. Lots of time for a coffee.
And then, without warning, it was 8.25. He had had a large table for four to himself, and had a good breakfast on the train. He had just over an hour and a half to get from New Street station to his interview. He had a camomile tea in the station, then took a bus to The Place of the Interviews, and arrived at 9.15.
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Meanwhile, I was getting ready for a 10.45 retinal screening at the hospital. Drops in eyes, pupils dilate, quick look at letters on a wall chart, bright lights and a couple of images of each eye.
Thought I'd walk into town afterwards and have a wander round the shops. Got as far as the maternity wing, walked into a sharp wind, and rang for a minicab.
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Jonathan rang again just before midday. I was sitting in a nice warm car and was nearly home. He was waiting for other people from his college, so they could go home together, and his train wasn't till three.
He couldn't talk about it because there were other people waiting for their turn, but he sounded relaxed, and he told me some statistics. There had been 30,000 applicants, whittled down to 800, to interview for 200 jobs.
Last year, there were about 40 applications for each place. This year's work out at 150 to one. Frightening.
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Reply #2472. Apr 04 11, 6:05 AM
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MotherGoose
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"MG, are you ever tempted to replace the peanuts with freshly-roasted coffee beans? Even once?"
No, not once, but now you've planted the seed...!
Reply #2473. Apr 04 11, 7:33 AM
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| lesley153
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| I do seem to have a talent for bringing out the worst in people. Let us know what happens! |
Reply #2474. Apr 04 11, 8:12 AM
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Lochalsh
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My mother once burned a burnt sugar cake.
(Those past participles look strange to me, but it is Monday.)
Huggy-hug, L!
Reply #2475. Apr 04 11, 8:57 AM
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daymare
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I once burnt a pan while trying to warm up apple cider.
The pan did not survive and I've never tried to warm up apple cider again.
Reply #2476. Apr 04 11, 9:31 AM
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Lochalsh
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Question, Lesley: I learned from early on that "burned" is a verbal form (I have burned) and "burnt" is an adjectival form (the cake is burnt). What did they teach you in Jolly Olde?
(I care about these things, I can't help it, I just do. :))
Reply #2477. Apr 04 11, 10:30 AM
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MotherGoose
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It's also influenced by American versus British usage. e.g. burned/burnt, spilled/spilt, dreamed/dreamt, spelled/spelt, etc.
Reply #2478. Apr 04 11, 10:57 AM
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| lesley153
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Daymare, I killed a saucepan years ago by boiling sugar in it, till I realised that you don't have to learn to make fudge and toffee and spun sugar just because cookbooks tell you to: and I've ruined a couple more by boiling bones for stock and forgetting about them. I'll have to try burning apple cider. Is it hard? ;)
Lochalsh, what I learnt in Jolly Olde was "burnt" for everything. I burnt the cake: the cake is burnt: be careful, because you don't want to get your fingers burnt. Even if I tried to say burned, it would still come out burnt.
Same with learnt. If I ever used the word learned, it would be pronounced ler-nid. I learnt something from ler-nid people and books.
I can't say earned, spelled, dreamed, either. Has to be earnt. Spelt. Dreamt. I Dreamed a Dream is as American as *On* the street where you live. It's the German influence on English, isn't it? |
Reply #2479. Apr 04 11, 11:00 AM
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| lesley153
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| Oooooh I forgot about spilled/spilt! Thank you! :) |
Reply #2480. Apr 04 11, 11:00 AM
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