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

[Kucinghitam]

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.

[NotDrowningJustCrowing]

@CyanCrystalViolet if nothing else do check in with your GP to find out what the progress is. I did that a while back for my oesophagus to find out that for the millionth time, I'd fallen off the referral list because for fucking fuck's sake. It sounds bloody awful and must also have a bad impact on your mental health. Push it. It's important.

[NotDrowningJustCrowing]

@Dotellhimpike I'm glad your sister is hopefully on the mend. Long may it last. I'm surprised to be around still. My dad died at 43, and my mum at 57. My grandfathers lived longer though and so have most of my aunts and uncles. My brother went at 34 but that was down to drugs and HIV so I don't see that as part of any pattern. I'm grateful to still be around and if I can just make it to my next birthday, I'll be older than my mum when she died. At least I think I will. I get confused as to whether she was born in 1942 or 1943. If it was the former then I'll have to live just over another year to beat her.

Your home looks bloody lovely. I love the colour you've gone for in the living room and the shelving and cupboard are great such good work. I'm a bit jealous.

[MmePoppySeedDefage]

Crumbs Pike your poor sister.

Bert, I'm not sure if you're after ideas for other fruit trees. If you are, I recommend a quince (Cydonia, not the Japanese sort). They don't flower that early but the flowers themselves are beautiful - soft pink and large and floppy. The fruits look beautiful too, and taste good. You have to cook them as they are rock hard and very acidic. But cooked quince is a revelation.

[SinnerBoy]

Quince in honey syrup, sometimes with ginger, is quite popular in Kazakhstan.

Anyway, stepma had an X-Ray, two scans and some poking and prodding and final results notwithstanding, it looks like just an embolism and some bruising on her lung.

Crossed fingers etc.

She has a physio coming to,

a) teach her to walk upstairs
b) approve her fitness to go upstairs

[mach2]

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

Pike, you know the puns are part of the package. 😂

I'm glad your sister escaped the horrid clutches of sepsis with her life. I hope she recovers as quickly as she can.

[Ginmonkeyagain]

My paternal family have genes of iron (or perhaps the Royal family).

Papamonkey and his three brothers are marching on in to their late seventies/early eighties with hardly a health issue between them (apart from the inevitable farmer's replacement hips).

Paternal grandparents similarly lived in to robust health in their nineties.

I am not sure there is any rhyme or reason other than genetic good luck however they are all very active, moderate drinkers, don't smoke and enthusiastic eaters of fruut and veg. Which can't hurt. But then again so was my mum and she died of cancer at 46. 🤷‍♀️

[DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry]

Sepsis is so scary. Best wishes to everyone and to all the elderly relatives.

At 6.30 I heard a car going past at a usual speed and looked out at a world that seemed wet. Stayed in bed drinking tea and listening to a podcast and doing online jigsaws and solitaire. Then got up at 7.30 to repleanish the tea and heard an odd vehicle noise, looked out at WHITE everywhere. Lots and lots of sneachta. Cars are still getting through, but unless it all thaws quickly this may be an indoor day.

[SinnerBoy]

Well, you'd best stoke the boilers!

We had a few short flurries of hail last night, nothing lying, except on grass and car rooves. I've looked at the weather forecast and inland, it looks as though they will have quite a lot of snow, but we will probably miss out.

[Kucinghitam]

We have a light dusting here, and it's still sprinkling down.

The DC were greatly disappointed that school is still open and the school bus was running.

[Britinme]

Weirdly it feels colder here than at home, where temperatures get much colder. I think it's because it's damper here - a dry cold at home.

Quince jelly is lush, and has the virtue of not having to peel and core rock-hard quinces. They're also very high in pectin so you can use them to combine with non-pectin fruits to make jam (after you've cooked the quinces to get the pectin-laden liquid).

[Britinme]

I have already outlived my parents - dad died at 58 of a heart attack and mum at 71 of stomach cancer. My last aunt just died at 96 though, and a lot of my mum's family lived into their nineties, so I have hopes of being around for a decade or even two decades yet. My husband is 80 but his mum was 97 when she died and his dad was 88, and his health is excellent (one of the few people of his age that I know who is not on any medication) so with any luck we'll totter on together for a while.

[Tricyrtis2022]

it feels colder here than at home, where temperatures get much colder.

It's definitely the damp. I've heard Scandinavians complain about how cold UK winters feel compared to, say, Norway.

[Tricyrtis2022]

My mother died at 85 and my dad, now 87, is shocked that he's still alive as his parents died at 69 and 74. He's not in good shape and keeps saying he's lived too long and has had enough. It's hard to hear.

[MmePoppySeedDefage]

Brit I make jam from my quinces without peeling them. I agree coring them is a pain but do-able with a slap sharp knife, and I think you get a stronger flavour if you use the whole fruit. But yes quince jelly is gorgeous.

[Britinme]

@MmePoppySeedDefage - I'm afraid that comes into the "life's too short" category for me!

[Tricyrtis2022]

@MmePoppySeedDefage I agree about the flavour when you leave the peel on.

I did an experiment some years ago, when I made apple cider vinegar, where one batch was made with peeled apple and the other with just the scraps, peel and cores. The vinegar made from scraps had significantly more flavour.

[SinnerBoy]

Kucinghitam · Today 08:11

The DC were greatly disappointed that school is still open and the school bus was running.

Mine was disappointed, because she couldn't have the day off for a nose bleed. To be fair, it was pretty bad and went on for about half an hour. She was further upset when I walked to school with her, so that I could tell her teacher.

And really distraught at a herring gull, with one wing hanging off.

[MavisMcMinty]

I did a BBC quiz “How Long Will You Live?”, a decade or two ago, and even though I was completely honest about all my dreadful habits and addictions, the answers that seemed to be given the greatest weight were the ones about how old your parents and grandparents are/were when they died. One of my grandmothers died in her 30s of TB, the other made it to 98 with all her marbles, so I’m not sure how the quiz decided in my case! Anyway, it reckoned I’ll live to my mid-80s and I don’t believe it.

[MrsBertBibby]

Thanks both for Korean info. It came to me I'm in reach of Wing Yip on the Purley Way, so I shall see what they have and hopefully find your brands.

Persisting it down with rain. Cats are livid. May have to go out just to escape the wrath.

[Kucinghitam]

It's been snowing quite heavily for the past couple of hours, but not seeing an obvious increase in settled stuff. I reckon it's just that tiny bit too warm. I hope it continues being that bit too warm; if we get a proper covering, there will be school-collecting chaos (it's not nearby, they need the schoolbus, we don't have a car, etc etc).

[SinnerBoy]

MavisMcMinty · Today 10:05

I did a BBC quiz “How Long Will You Live?”

Hmm. My mother died aged 37, one of her sisters was 63. Her dad was only in his 50s with "premature senile dementia," gran was a few days short of 87.

Dad's mother was 68, ovarian cancer, grandad was a few days short of 87.... spooky! Lung cancer - he started smoking at 6 or 7 and stopped two years before he died. Dad will be 78 this year, In'sh Allah.....

[MavisMcMinty]

There is no cancer in my Dad’s family. None, anywhere. Hope I got those genes!

Mum had breast cancer, but that’s incredibly common, and she was cured of it while she was slowly dying from Alzheimer’s. Hope I didn’t get that gene, her brother and sister both had it as well.

[SinnerBoy]

A couple of weeks ago, we got a puncture on the A1 and stopped at a services. The sealing compound didn't work and we got a mobile fitter out. Of course, I binned the receipt...

Yesterday, we got a PCN, dated the 27th of Feb. I called the tyre company and they sent a replacement, my wife also remembered taking some photos, at our daughter's request - you can see the car has the wheel off and another, with the guy fitting the tyre in his van.

Emailed about 20 minutes ago, I got an immediate "We have your appeal," email and moments later, a "No bother, charge cancelled," one. They said it could take up to 14 days!


😃

[MavisMcMinty]

Wow, Sinner, that almost never happens!

Years ago, before mobile phones had cameras, a car drifted across the white lines and hit mine, while macman and I were staying with a friend in Brixham, so he had his camera and took photos of the road and our cars’ respective positions on it. The old lady who’d hit us claimed it wasn’t her fault, so the insurers wanted ME to pay half the costs - luckily macman’s photos proved it was her fault, but ordinarily we wouldn’t have had a camera in the car with us.

[SinnerBoy]

The was serendipity in action!