Thread 6 - TalkExiles: "Yup, still round."

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Continuation of previous threads (thread 5).

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.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · Today 13:41

Unlike the thrift store 'art', which would look much better after a dozen coats of thick emulsion.

Dousing it in petrol, burning it and throwing bricks at the conflagration would be even better.

Am settling in slower than I would like Sinner but getting there. Had to go back to Ireland for an unwell family member which set me back. Love Rowlands Gill and the surrounding area.

mach2 · Today 13:21

I mitre known you'd do something like that, pike.

Get out, right now, just leave, don't say anything, get your coat and go.

Very nice shelves.

The art? Photoshopped favourite images of dear mother, dear father and dear dear dear cats, combined to produce an image designed to recall fond memories.

But why oh why did it end up in the thrift shop?

Dotellhimpike

Sorry to hear about the family sickness, mate.

We have a cherry plum in the garden, planted in 2015 as a 45cm sapling. The story is that it replaced a cherry plum which had died of old age, but a couple of years before it died, I found one of its descendants near by and potted it up. When the old tree came down, we dug out the rotten base, filled it with new soil and put the sapling in. I've never seen a tree grow as fast as that one has done - it's huge now - and am guessing that it has followed the root-ways created by its ancestor. It's a beautiful tree and last year produced an excellent harvest of intensely flavoured small red fruits.

Sorry to hear about the family sickness, mate.

Like a few here I suspect, once you get to a certain age, around 55 or so, and it's either you or someone else dying. Met up with an old friend when I was over in Ireland and it was just a list of friend after friend who was no longer with us. I was over for my sister who had contracted sepsis. We didn't think she was going to make it, and was in an induced coma. No one said it explicitly but every time I phoned it was made clear she may not have much time left and coming over to see her might be advised. Thankfully she pulled through for now though the sepsis attacked the fat cells in her body and she has lost a lot of skin, so much so that there wouldn't be enough good skin to do grafts for the plastic surgery. She has a long road of recovery ahead but she is still with us, for which we are all grateful. Went straight to the hospital from the airport, expecting her to still be in a coma but she was awake and talking when I arrived, the first thing she said to me was "you've put on weight" and I knew things were going to be OK.

Blimey, pike, your poor sister, that sounds awful.

Sounds good Tric. We are in the market for a couple of fruit trees, we've planted a mulberry (no fruit yet) and a cherry (1 cherry last year) up towards the side of our garden, to replace the very manky apple trees we took out.

I want a very early flowerer, to give our bees some early forage, but if the fruit is tasty, big plus. Assuming we get any!

Bloody hell, your poor sister. What an awful shock for you all.

either you or someone else dying

Being in our early 60s, we've reached that stage though it's currently other people dying. I find myself wondering, as many couples must do, who will go first. The same question crops up regularly between me and my twin.

@MrsBertBibby, my main client put a mulberry in about 20 years ago and it fruits really well, so I hope yours follows suit. They're a sod to pick, you end up covered in juice and looking like you're covered in blood.

I'm a little surprised all of my siblings and myself are still around now we're late 50s and early 60s. Mum died at 36 and dad at 53, I always assumed at least one of us would go early.

Goodness @Dotellhimpike your poor sister! Sepsis is a cruel and rapid villain. Best wishes for her recovery.

Dotellhimpike

Well, that's pretty rough, but I'm glad she's on the mend.

My stepmother broke her hip a few weeks back and developed a fatty embolism on her lung. She's having it scanned today, at the oncology department, which has her worried - they didn't mention cancer before.

My poor dad (80+) has imported us some extra elderly disease worry. We lost mum just over a year ago, and in December he acquired himself a Fiancee from Mexico (also 80+). She arrived here in January, and has now had a hospital spell with pleural effusion, still waiting on a bunch of scans and tests. Thank fuck she never lost her UK citizenship, so gets NHS.

Dad had years of Mum's dementia, which he nursed her through beautifully but so painfully, so it's a bit shit if his chance at some fun and adventure turns into nursing so soon.

Glad your sister is on the mend @Dotellhimpike , sepsis is awful. And those are some excellent shelves. I also rather like the thrift store art; it’s pleasingly terrible.

I also have year round rhinitis @CyanCrystalViolet but nothing like as bad as yours. For me it’s mostly controlled by over the counter antihistamines. It does mean I’ve always been one of those annoying people who carried on working when I had a cold though as by the time I knew it was a cold rather than rhinitis, I was well past the point of passing it on.

And here’s hoping all the other thread elderly relatives stop giving loved ones anything to worry about very soon.

Your poor sister @Dotellhimpike. Sepsis is so frightening and cruel. I hope she continues to improve.

@artant sorry you’re also a sufferer. I think most people assume I have a constant cold so give me a wide berth. Which suits me fine. I often feel like I’ve got a cold coming on and then I realise, no, it’s just the rhinitis peaking again.

I have just made some kimchi. No gochugaru so used gochujang, fish sauce and a little bit of Worcestershire sauce. And slices of apple. Tastes amazing, can’t wait to eat it when it’s properly fermented.

That looks good, Cyan. I've just made kimchi too and can't wait for it to be ready. Smells lovely.

Ooh what gochugang do you use? MrBibbs is all into Korean food recently (veggie only) I thought I'd get him some bits for his birthday so he can cook it.

We use this one: www.souschef.co.uk/products/korean-red-pepper-powder - luckily for us it's available in a shop in town.

If you're in London there are some good shops around Tottenham Court Road that sell Korean ingredients.

Blimey @Dotellhimpike your poor sister! That sounds awful. I'm glad to hear she's recovering though.

I have just got back from a long chatty lunch with an old friend at a pub near here. No booze but I am very full. I had some mackerel, which was a treat because they just don't sell it on the fish counter where I am. It's generally regarded as only good for baiting lobster pots, but I love it.

This one from the local Asian supermarket. It’s quite old now.

just went to out hoping to get some Lee Kum Kee MSG-laden chiu chow chilli oil but they didn’t have any