Very Fashionable On MumsNet, Twellsy, & in every school, preschool & nursery ATM.
Shitty, when things are normal…
Dangerust when one is immunosuppressed… 
Carinthia. xx
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Poor, poor Twellsy. Such horribly bad luck. Gentle, fuzzy hugs from yer bee.
Soo xx
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Does this mean that at least you get peace & privacy? I hope so.
Poor you though, more hugs from me.
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Thank you folks
I would be the one who gets the complications of poo moanier
As I sit here on my bed with a cup of tea and the nearest thing to fruit I can get which is a diet yogurt I remember when yogurt was considered fancy and foreign
Now hospitals seem to run on it for us who are off their food
I cannot imagine why they use diet yoghurts to get something down our throat as energy is needed to fight illness
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TFM
Yes I am in a private room with a telly on the wall which has a remote control of the universal persuasion set up for an other type of device
So I have R4 on my phone and peace so I can cough and sweat without feeling embarrassed
I also have ginsparrer and you lot to talk to
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Get well soon, Twellsy. xx
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I can, because they are full of sugars rather than fat and therefore quite cheap ‘energy’, and the NHS - and likely HSE too - has an outdated bee in its bonnet about fats.
Hope you get more appropriate fodder tomorrow, and that you will soon be home and able to please yourself again.
Most ‘diet’ foods are utterly counterproductive and much official dietary advice is bullshit.
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Gus you have stolen my hymn sheet with that post
Everything in moderation and lay off the refined sugars and mucked about fatty acids are what we should eat
And when it is in season
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But at least it’s got a good calorific content [er, b*shit that is …] 
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It’s obviously tempting to say that this food has that calorific value. It’s simple, straightforward, if you want to lose weight eat fewer calories and exercise more you bad lazy person you.
This does not work and will never work. Human digestive metabolism is hugely variable. If you’re starved it’ll go up near 90% efficiency, if you’re replete it throws out a lot of nutrients it doesn’t need.
Calorie counting is an eating disorder. It’s using pseudoscience to blame the victim rather than look at the real metabolic problem.
yardarm
Meanwhile, every rule has a reason…
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Hmmm
I can make a really highly spiced dish that is not required a frozen toilet paper amount of foresight or I can use a single spice to shrivel your taste buds and digestive tract using a small amount of one fruit of a chilli
How do you define spicy again?
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Masochism.
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Seasoning should be done with care & feeling & not batter /assault the senses. Another reason for stews/casseroles/curries being left overnight to ‘ripen’.
Carinthia. xx
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We have a mutton stew ripening as I type.
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It allows for fat to be skimmed orff too.
Raining again here
Sigh
Carinthia. xx
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Well today has been fun.
Imagine a 94 yo retired officer, fully in control of his mental faculties, independent and proud of it, and an awkward bugger into the bargain.
Ok he’s not at all well but needs no care beyond a nurse turning up to feed him through a gastric tube 3 times a day - and even that is only until the ENT team fix his throat in a couple of months time. He can get around, dress and wash himself, and pays for a handyman and a cleaner which he can easily afford.
Then he gets a call from social services telling him a social worker and an ‘assessor’ (whatever that is) will be coming to visit him at 10.30 on Weds next week to inspect his home and assess his needs, and that he’ll have to provide them with evidence of his savings.
7,000 sub-standard firework cakes have nothing on the explosion that follows.
And guess who had to calm him down and talk to social services to put a stop to it all?
Gin is now being consumed.
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Why they don’t spend their time on doing a bit more for the people who actually do want them I can’t understand.
(When the assessor decided that Diana needed grab-rails all over the place she stopped arguing after a bit and just allowed them to have their way. Then she and John went round after the grab-rails had been installed and removed them all, and had the walls where they had been redecorated.)
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TFM I can picture the AB with the raised blood pressure
Nagasaki type explosion
I have had a confused elderly man march in past my yellow flags twice
And I am not up to defending my virginity at the moment
He opened the window and left it open when the nurse and helpers corralled him
I could throttle him as I had just got warm and was thinking of actually being able to sleep without waking up frozen and needing extra blankets
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What virginity? 
Arsking forra friend…
One of my English cousins is an OT Assessor, & beats her head against the wall trying to get adaptations made for people who desperately need them. Her Mother, with her Noo Dynamic hip is sleeping in her dining room ATM, as she isn’t safe to climb her very steep stairs on her own. Bath Attendants are sent to sort her out before she starts to hum… 
She now has rails installed outside the front & back doors so that she can get outside on her own.
I have stomped up the road to The Co-op & Tiny Tesco.
Bargains were at The Co-op, as minced steak was reduced to £2-10 for 500g.
That will go in the freezer.
I bought meself some flowers too, & they are ‘conditioning’ innan bucket of water.
The Candles are lit, & the Quattro is fired-up.
Proffers Pitchers
Carinthia. xx
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