Deny thy burger and refuse thy bacon, and if thou wilt not, be but corn my lovage and I will no longer be a cabbage head - 10/10 thread. All welcome!

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I like Bloc party.

I have had vegatable moussaka. It was disappointingly heavy on the ppoatato but then I didn't cook it so I won't moan too much.

don't get down overrated i have been on mn all day

and done nothing

except a brief interlude of spending money

and i have only been doing stuff since i split with dp ..i spent the previous 8 years doing practically nothing

im just making up for it

and i will be broke again soon

Ooo, moussaka. Perhaps that's what I'll make with the aubergine that is lurking in the fridge.

I tend to like being busy but don't have the energy to do much. And all my friends are married with young kids so on evenings and weekends they are busy doing family things which leaves me on my own. And I don't mind it most of the time but with having no money, I feel like I waste days. Anyway, will do something about it soon. Just not sure what. Am just going through a bad patch and will sort myself out soon

you can email me you know

Thanks Zippi. I was just thinking about CATing you but I think I might just dump everything on you and I know you have your own stuff to deal with.

rubbish...mutual support

and you can dump on me

i can't help but i can listen

you just have to put up with getting my witterings back

it's nice to know there are other people out there

god the spinach and parsnip concoction sounds fab FK
that is what I should be eating instead of all this cheese I have obviously got some heavy calcium needs right now, coupled with laziness as far as cooking goes, is a bad combination. No wonder TooT is never here, she has probably been driven away by my awful dairy consumption

OR sorry you are feeling out on a limb atm. I find MN helps me sometimes when feeling isolated and sometimes exacerbates it.
Sweet potatoes certainly count in my book although there was a big schism about them once. The question is: are they yams, or not? Anyway they are very good things so please count them. I don't even know what soy nuts are [boggled]

I am meeting Boco and MrsC for lunch tomorrow. I am feeling rather awkward and geeky about it

Done, zippi Thanks

Quinoa question: can I sprout/ grow it?

Oh go in the sea Zippi - you'll always talk about it. Some friends and I went in the med (no where near as warm as it is in the summer) on new years day 2000. We have a photo of a load of us running into the sea in swimming cossies and DH standing in the background in thick winter coat, fleece hat etc. It was soooooo freezing but quite amusing. The German scuba divers thought we were insane

F&V today - handful of dried wonderberries, apple, butternut squash and sweet potato soup. Thats it so far but about to have tuna nicoise salad so that will include leaves, green beans and black olives. I will accompany this with a glass of pomegranate juice and then have some fruit after.....

Yes, I can never decide if MN is good or bad for me when I am feeling like this.

I think yams are different. Or did I make that up? No, actually they are yams...

Where are you all going for lunch? I shall think of you when I'm stuck at toddler group!

What are wonderberries?

i thought yams were more white

is it a cat you sent me?

Yes a CAT (with a completely pointless message)

Wiki says yams are not sweet potatoes. The yams in the store yesterday were quite white. I think zippi is right.

Oh but in the US, sweet potatoes are sometimes called Yams. But technically they are not the same thing.

Diss is a wonderful place, Franny. Enjoy the Hip Hop.

I roasted a whole bag of parsnips yesterday, which I ate most of. Some I even ate cold. God they were delicious.

Is there something super in parsnips?

"Diss is a wonderful place, Franny"

are you sure?

I ruddy love parsnips.

Parsnips are delicious. I think we'll have some with the sweet potatoes.

If the charity ambushers are there, give them my love

sounds nice..funny how parsnips and sweet potatoes only taste nice when roasted so that all the sugar caramelises

they are rubbish boiled

i have had lots of fruit and cauliflour with prawns in yogurt and curry paste and a yellow pepper and mushrooms

Diss is perfectly nice Franny. Don't diss it till you've tried it. Ha, see what I did?

It is quite nice though, really. The first bit you see, isn't very nice, just a big ugly road, but then the mere and the little streets and shops are lovely. Did you know Diss is the second town in the country to get Cittislow status? - slow food movement - all about being organic and local and banning fast food places, and about slower pace and better living -it's all good.

look, this is where we're meeting tomorrow Franny In the picture something seems to be on fire. I'm sure tomorrow nothing will be on fire.

DO you live in Diss, Boco?

Well, no. But just over the boarder. About 5 miles away.

Oh ok - I thought you must be fairly local. It sounds lovely

Hip hop capital of East Angular OR. That's why it's called Diss. And I live in Eye. Which means 'yes' in hip hop.

Who'd have thought it, hip-hop in East Angular . I only know the North Norfolk area. I did go to Southwold once too.