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Thread 3 - TalkExiles: "The Planet Goes On Being Round"

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Kucingsparkles · 21/12/2022 06:14

Continuation of previous lifeboat threads 1 and 2.

Gather here all ye refugees from the JTT Flat Earth Society, welcome to the reassuringly oblate spheroid of MN! Ye all already know the answers to the questions "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

So really we're all here just to chat randomly.

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SinnerBoy · 28/12/2022 17:58

Tricyrtis2022

Currently wondering what's going to happen here and whether or not the neighbour's family have stayed in the poster's house:

Me too!

CyanCrystalViolet · 28/12/2022 18:02

@angelico53 I have neuropathic pain from endometriosis and it's no joke. When mine flares (sounds like yours is every day??) I have to take high-dose codeine or dihydrocodeine otherwise I'm writhing on the floor waiting to pass out. I very much doubt you're a wuss making a fuss but for what it's worth I feel like that too sometimes and don't always reach for the opioids as quickly as I should. There's no point soldiering on in agony though, it's what the painkillers are there for.

angelico53 · 28/12/2022 18:06

Thank you cyan, and very sorry to hear of that.

Ginmonkeyagain · 28/12/2022 20:10

Oof sorry to hear of pain and illness. I had a mad conversation on Xmas day with with dad convinced he had been mis prescribed Tramadil post heart stent. He is now convinced the NHS is trying to turn him in to an opiod addict.

Mr Monkey has gone to run club so I have the place to myself at last, so I am watching Lucifer and eating a soothing green vegetable risotto with the last of the roast salmon with salsa verde from Christmas day stirred through it.

Tomorrow I am taking a solo trip to Chichester to see an exhibition and then back on the socialising merry go round for New Year.

IReallyLikeCrows · 28/12/2022 20:39

I think most of us who have chronic pain) flare ups/both think we're wusses or making too much of it at times. If I'm hit by shooting pain I make a noise, I can't not because just like the pain it comes from nowhere and then I feel like I'm asking everyone to feel sorry for me.

Of course, I'm not doing that, we're not wusses and we're definitely not making a fuss about nothing. When your pain requires opioids shit's got real.

IReallyLikeCrows · 28/12/2022 20:41

Quite excited that Our Flag Means Death is coming to the BBC. I was desperate to watch it back when it was on, couldn't, and now I can. Huzzah!

CyanCrystalViolet · 28/12/2022 23:03

If I'm hit by shooting pain I make a noise, I can't not because just like the pain it comes from nowhere and then I feel like I'm asking everyone to feel sorry for me.

Same for me, then I feel really awkward. I remember it coming on when I was driving home from a camping trip. I pulled over onto an estate in Henfield and just sort of rolled out the car clutching my ovaries. Ah memories.

I’m still in Christmas baking mode and have made ‘sausage’ rolls with puy lentils, chestnuts and harissa. Got so much to do, have an assignment due very soon and am behind on another module, plus starting an additional module mid January and starting to panic. I had my booster jab this afternoon, hoping it doesn’t wipe me out tomorrow so I can spend the day focusing.

CyanCrystalViolet · 28/12/2022 23:07

I don’t know if this is viewable without instagram but it cheered me right up.

www.instagram.com/reel/CmtuiBLjoKv/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

duc748 · 28/12/2022 23:17

Can't see that, but admire your energy, Cyan. The sausage rolls sound great!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/12/2022 00:11

I’m still in Christmas baking mode and have made ‘sausage’ rolls with puy lentils, chestnuts and harissa.

These sound lovely, do you have a recipe?

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 29/12/2022 00:15

That does sound good, and I have some chestnuts spare.

IReallyLikeCrows · 29/12/2022 03:20

I watched the Amy Sedaris video. Pure mental and hilarious!

Britinme · 29/12/2022 03:31

I love chestnuts. I put them in my stuffing, and I also like them with butternut squash in a risotto.

Kucingsparkles · 29/12/2022 05:33

Flowers Sympathies to everyone with awful aches and pains and poorliness Flowers It sounds horrible!

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CyanCrystalViolet · 29/12/2022 09:17

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/12/2022 00:11

I’m still in Christmas baking mode and have made ‘sausage’ rolls with puy lentils, chestnuts and harissa.

These sound lovely, do you have a recipe?

I didn’t follow a specific recipe but this is what I did…

1 sheet of ready rolled puff pastry

1 tin lentils drained and rinsed (I actually used Bijoux Verts lentils, thought they were puy but I think any firm lentil would work)
8 cooked chestnuts, chopped
Half a large onion
2 cloves garlic
1-2 tbsps breadcrumbs or oats
1 tsp Butter or spread
1 Tbsp-ish harissa paste
Salt
1 egg, beaten (or water or plant milk if you prefer)

Fry onion and garlic on low heat until soft, add lentils, chestnuts and breadcrumbs, cook for 1-2 mins then stir in butter, harissa paste and salt. Cool completely (ideally in the fridge for a bit too).

Preheat oven to 180°C (fan)

Unroll pastry onto parchment and halve into two long strips.

Pile the mixture into a sausage-like shape along each strip, just off centre so you have more pastry on one side.

Brush the beaten egg along the smaller side of the pastry, fold the larger side over the mixture and press so it seals. Repeat for other strip.

Brush both rolls with the beaten egg and cut each roll into however many pieces you’d like. Stab each roll a couple of times to let steam escape while they cook.

Put the parchment on a baking tray and bake for 18 mins or so until golden.

CyanCrystalViolet · 29/12/2022 09:23

IReallyLikeCrows · 29/12/2022 03:20

I watched the Amy Sedaris video. Pure mental and hilarious!

I wish I could find the original to share properly. It was rubbing of the duck’s arse to produce the egg that got me.

angelico53 · 29/12/2022 09:58

a soothing green vegetable risotto with the last of the roast salmon with salsa verde

Oh, my. That sounds delish, as do the soss rolls!

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/12/2022 11:08

Thanks @CyanCrystalViolet, will try these!

Tricyrtis2022 · 29/12/2022 11:11

Cyan, that recipe sounds lovely. I'm a big fan of lentils of all types and will have a go at this one.

duc748 · 29/12/2022 11:24

Does indeed sound lovely!

MavisMcMinty · 29/12/2022 11:32

Neighbour’s parents have just gone home, and the fella supposed to be moving into our annexe next week is desperate to leave his apparently crazy landlady, who trashed her own house because she couldn’t get into his room last week. So he’s moving in just as soon as he can organise a van to move his stuff. The good news is that we are going to seem like brilliant landlords compared with the crazy lady.

SqueakyDinosaur · 29/12/2022 12:33

It could just be that you actually are brilliant landlords, @MavisMcMinty !

I feel I've crossed a Rubicon by starting a thread on here! www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4707701-share-your-appalling-post-christmas-food-choices-here

artant · 29/12/2022 12:35

I love that cat video!

SinnerBoy · 29/12/2022 13:05

Ooh, is there something in the air, regarding chronic pain? My spine has been twingeing since Boxing Day. Last night, watching telly, it suddenly got acute.

Didn't seem too bad when I got up, but feeding the dog, it went again. I managed the walk, torso sort of slumped to the right.

I'm supposed to be going to my disabled mate today, to do a few jobs, which I now think I won't be able to manage.

CyanCrystalViolet · 29/12/2022 13:47

Aww that sounds awful @SinnerBoy. Definitely take it easy today.

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