baban 
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*staggers in*
Hello :) Thanks for the congrats :)
I'm a bit busy at the moment, why did I forget how time consuming babies are? I suppose it's like forgetting how painful contractions are...
Unfortunately, after all those contractions I ended up with an emergency CS, little one had tangled her leg in her cord and so couldn't get out the usual way: so it's a longer than typical recovery for me this time (and anyone who asks for a CS without needing one is mad!).
Oh, stats for those interested: girl, 8lb 2.5oz (or 3.7kg) :)
Catch you all later...
*staggers out*
Reply #1801. Mar 26 12, 5:48 AM
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playmate1111
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Congrats Baban! Hope you recover soon.
Reply #1802. Mar 26 12, 6:40 AM
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cubswin2323
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Oh, wow. I hope your recovery goes well, and congrats.
Reply #1803. Mar 26 12, 5:35 PM
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Jazmee27
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Best wishes for yu and the little one
Reply #1804. Mar 27 12, 11:35 AM
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Jakeroo
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Yikes baban, but congrats too : )))
Reply #1805. Mar 27 12, 5:39 PM
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cubswin2323
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I have a question, great RJ in the sky. I promise not to pay attention to that man behind the curtain!
Why is it that the Yankees are so inherently superior to the Red Sox?
Reply #1806. Apr 13 12, 7:45 PM
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Qmel
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It's just a theory, but the Yankees have won several World Series in our lifetimes, unlike the Cubs...hee hee!
Reply #1807. Apr 13 12, 10:14 PM
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cubswin2323
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That's a given! The current Cubs owners are schmucks. One of them ran for Senate, and is a right-wing sociopathic whack job.
Reply #1808. Apr 14 12, 9:07 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Just for you RJ, here are some pics marking 100 days to go until the London Olympics!
Reply #1809. Apr 17 12, 5:42 PM
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_Morpheus_
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Thanks flopsy, I'm getting amped up.
I suppose I'll confine my beer drinking to my Chateau. I understand you Brits like beer lukewarm. Lukewarm beer ain't going to cut it. I'm not drinking any Speckled Hen or eating anything called Spotted Dick either.
Got any ideas where I can get a milkshake and cheeseburger over in your neck of the woods? ;-) |
Reply #1811. Apr 18 12, 5:56 PM
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_Morpheus_
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((I have a question, great RJ in the sky. I promise not to pay attention to that man behind the curtain!
Why is it that the Yankees are so inherently superior to the Red Sox?
Reply #1806. Apr 13 12, 7:45 PM ))
Speak a little louder my laughter is deafening. |
Reply #1812. Apr 18 12, 6:08 PM
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flopsymopsy
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RJ, the Olympic Park is going to have the biggest McDonalds in Europe so I imagine you can have all the shakes and burgers you want.
I'm hoping to get some true British food, like curry, kebabs, and koftas. :)
Reply #1813. Apr 18 12, 6:35 PM
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_Morpheus_
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| Thanks for the tip. Curry is good. |
Reply #1814. Apr 18 12, 6:39 PM
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Jakeroo
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I'd prefer a sirloin tip. But lol @ Flopsy on the "ethnically British" fare ~~~~
Reply #1815. Apr 19 12, 2:47 PM
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_Morpheus_
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| I'm not going over there to eat. But you might think about locking your daughters up ;-) |
Reply #1817. Apr 19 12, 3:31 PM
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Jakeroo
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Oh dear, I can never resist an "I rest my case" statement, as if that should shut everyone up lol
I concede that some people believe that since India was once a "colony" that that makes curry "British" simply by mere association. No doubt they feel the same way about Darjeeling tea LOL. However, considering there is not a single ingredient in curry powder concoctions other than perhaps garlic that is either indigenous to England or was grown to any marketable extent there in the long long ago, then how can it be a "national dish"?
We have lots of national "whatever" weeks here too, but we don't lay claim to ownership of said dishes simply because we eat them on occasion lol
I also concede that it (curry, that is) could certainly be considered to be a "national" item NOW, due to the huge immigrant influx. It's even possible (but unlikely) that Queen Victoria had her favourite kebab "joint" as well, but if so, that would hardly be the norm and there isn't an Arab on the planet who would think kebabs or koftas to be British, either in origin, in name, or popularity. As to the latter, Arabic peoples make up approx 350 million people in the world compared to 50 or so million who live on the small planet of England (of which population is made up by 1.2 million people from India, 80,000 Yemenis, 30,000 Egyptians, 13,000 Sudanese, 150,000 Iraqis with the eligibility to vote...and I could go on, but these figures are all from 2001 and I'm bored already). As for people living IN India right now, it is fully expected that they will exceed China in population by the year 2030. I doubt that ANY of them consider themselves (or their food) to be British.
So I guess my question is, what do you folks consider "British"? The way England is TODAY, or are you still living in the colonial past and trying to defend an already dead "empire"? lol
Britain also had heroin, cocaine and absinthe "dens" many moons ago as well. As popular as they might have been to a specialised portion of the population, that doesn't mean they should be considered a "national dish" (giggles) Neither should a coupla curry joints that happened to survive over time.
Actually Flopsy, I thought you were trying to be funny when you posted the remark about British cuisine (an oxymoron if I've ever heard one lol). Apparently I was wrong on several counts (I'm used to that though lol).
Reply #1818. Apr 19 12, 4:45 PM
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Jakeroo
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(and lol at Morpheus)!
Reply #1819. Apr 19 12, 4:49 PM
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flopsymopsy
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Of course I was trying to be funny in the first instance. But... without living IN our colonial past we now live with the results of it, which include a diverse population and a ever-widening cuisine. The fact that there have been curry houses in England for 200 years and that the British have adopted a form of curry as a national dish, and indeed that another form of curry (the Balti) was actually invented here, is in my view a good thing - and it says a lot for our power to adapt and change. 200 years. That means we have been eating curry in England since shortly after the American Revolution.
I don't draw a line that says before date X = British and anything after that can't be. We have to live with what we have, and that's a multi-cultural country with many different foods. One of the best meals I ever ate was a meal of fish and chips. I don't think you'd argue with the Britishness of that. But the chef had included curry spices in the batter and took it to a whole new level of taste. Food changes, taste changes. There are many great restaurants in the UK now with Michelin stars all over the place. Our most recent Masterchef winner cooks Mauritian food - her parents were from there but she's from Southampton. That makes her British in my book but I wanted to lick my TV screen when I watched the style of her food and as soon as she opens a restaurant I'll be there. One of the great things about this country is that it changes. All sorts of things stay the same but change is constant. Try not to regard us as a small island stuck in a colonial past, but as a country whose history provides a tremendous basis for a diverse future - and lots of good food.
Reply #1820. Apr 19 12, 5:39 PM
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