General Chat

Good afternoon all

He he, hope you both have a play with the train...choo choo :-D :-D

So I tel sol again and was told she is busy on another call! I explained i have been waiting 3 days for a return call and this is urgent. Could another sol tel me back.

I'm still waiting, it's really not good enough, but nothing I can do.
Tbh, I'm fed up of excuses like, she's away home sick, urgent meeting, extremely busy etc..

Anyway, usual chores today nothing exciting. It's still rainy and windy but not as bad as last 2 days. Did a basket of ironing so all up straight until.....daughter has just stripped her bed grrrr

Cant decided what to make for tea but feel i need a good hot dinner of some sort, maybe chicken pasta bake .

Back later on

Florence in the hebrides

OK, I will leave it out :-D

Oh be a sport Linda I am sure she would love to have a go with it. :-D

It is a sunny morning here, but bitterly cold, I have been to the supermarket yet again :-(

The next door neighbour is coming round for coffee this afternoon, so I will treat her to the heating. Her partner doesn’t have their heating on during the day, so I always double jumper when I go there. We have a large Thomas the tank engine railway set up in the lounge. I don’t know wether to put it away, or leave it for my friend to play with.

Afternoon all
Well what a wild storm! 70 mph, torrential rain and...hailstones lol. Lost power briefly for about 10 minutes but back on again very quickly.

It had died down but set to go back up later!

However the new 6 drawer chest I ordered finally got delivered this morning. Poor guys who were carrying it nearly got blown over.

So daughter is in her room(bombsite springs to mind) rearranging all her"paperwork lol" and trying to clear space but getting things out of site into the said drawers.

It's like the programme with Stacey who empties someones house and they have to get rid of at least 50 % before putting it all back!! You get the picture :-D

So as she is taking an age(slow coach) I have now left her to it otherwise there will be cross words lol

AnnG, nope sol never tel back. Last time this happened, they told me she had gone off sick!! I shall tel again tomorrow and see where that gets me grrr.

Hope everyone else keeping well.

Linda, glad you got you hearing aids sorted but what a palava!!

Joan, are you ok?

Well gonna fill the kettle incase electric goes off again.

Take care all

Florence in the hebrides

all the time we seem to be fighting against incompetence and/or bad customer service.

But al ill wind Linda as you fixed it yourself so that was good. But, being a private firm you are paying for her incompetence. Why don't they train these people properly?

Florence I hope the solicitor has now phoned you back. another one being paid for inefficient Behaviour

It is annoying when people promise to call you back and don’t Florence, I hope they call today.
I went for a hearing aid appointment on Sunday afternoon, to try and get my phone set up,so I could use the streaming. It was a new audiologist and she hadn’t got a clue. She managed to mess up the connection for my left hearing aid and couldn’t get it back. She needed to call the technical department, but of course they don’t work on Sundays, so she promised to call me back yesterday. I said that I couldn’t hear through my right ear and when she checked, she said it was ninety percent full with wax. The previous girl would have just taken it out, but apparently they don’t do wax removal anymore. I have made an appointment with a different firm, but can’t get it until next Tuesday, so will have to be deaf until then.

Anyway, as the girl had messed the settings up, I uninstalled the app again and reinstalled it and paired the hearing aids again. This time the streaming option appeared and I managed to get it working. I did exactly the same things I had done the previous two times, so why it suddenly decided to work, I have no idea. I rang her up and left a message telling her that I had sorted it out, It was mid afternoon by the time she rang back and she hadn’t done anything by then

I have been for a litterpick walk this morning , it never gets any better.

Good evening all
Its windy again and on Wed another bad storm set to hit the west coast with 75 mph winds! Just never ending at the moment.

I had 2 visitors today who helped me put my mind at rest over a couple of things and i feel so much better now. If I need their help, they have offered assistance in any way they can, such a relief.

Anyway they enjoyed my fruit loaf I made on Sunday afternoon after my neighbour went. We had a good laugh during the visit which is always a good thing. Daughter had put one of these long hot water bottles under her nightshirt before she arrived and was only when i turned to look at her, i thought she had suddenly developed an enormous spare tyre :-D :-D :-D

When i asked her what was under the nightshirt, she showed me and my neighbour burst out laughing as it had caught her eye but was too polite to say anything :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

But we all then had a jolly good laugh as she did look funny!!

Waited all day for a call back from solicitor and she never rang grrr. So annoying when they promise to call back and dont!

So a fairly quiet day in all really.

Hope everyone else is ok

Florence in the hebrides

Oops.

Some of the Dove gluten free (freee) bread recipes use an alternative for eggs, it might be worth looking through their other recipes to see if they do to.

The one I just checked uses 20 grams of chickpea flour and 40 mls of water instead of 2 eggs.

Yes page 72 I made a chicken chow mein on NYE(sat) and was ill Sunday evening!

Names, im severely allergic to eggs and butter so no cant make pan cakes.

It is a bit of a puzzle but I shall stick to my normal diet for now and no takeaways or soy sauce.

I shall have the salmon again at some point as I have been eating that for years.

AG, yes the chow mein i made was using a packet of chow mein sauce plus my own soy sauce and i did get a headache.

I do have a sensitive stomach, always have, so maybe plain and simple is best.

So to test if is the gum you need to make something with the plain flour and no gum.

Pancakes? (I've not tried this recipe from the glutenfree blogger)
300ml semi-skimmed milk
2 large eggs
100g plain gluten free flour
A knob of butter (approx 15g)

Place the crêpe pan (or non-stick frying pan) on a low heat and add the butter. Heat until melted then turn off the heat.
Add the milk, flour and eggs to a mixing bowl or large jug. Pour in the melted butter (don't worry about wiping out the pan as this will help grease it for the pancakes) and use a whisk to beat the mixture together until it forms a smooth batter and there are no lumps.
Heat the pan on a medium heat and once hot, add a ladle-full of the batter. Move the pan around until the whole surface is covered and leave for 1-2 minutes. Once the edges start to loosen, use a spatula to gently lift them until the whole pancake is lose and you can move it around the pan.
Next be brave! Either use your best pancake-tossing skills (or a spatula!) to flip the pancake over. Cook for another minute before serving onto a plate. Top straight away with your favourite toppings!

It's a puzzle!

Looking back at the first time you were sick (page 72) - that was while you had the headache, which came on after you'd had home-made chicken chow mien the previous evening.

Maybe this time your system just bypassed the headache!

Allergies and intolerances can start at any time - even if the culprit hasn't previously caused any problem.

Oh yes names, you are correct. The first scones were made with plain flour. The pizza was with self raising flour and Xanthum gum used both times too so possibly the flour then or the gum?

Which leaves us with the gluten free flour and xanthum gum.
Xanthum gum is usually added to the gf self raising flour so if you have had problems after using both plain AND self raising it is more likely to be one of the grains they use to make the flour.

We don’t buy own brand gf biscuits ( even though they are soooo much cheaper) as OH has had real problems with many of them. They claimed that oats are not involved ( he can’t tolerate them) and we don’t believe them. Sadly most biscuits do now seem to have oats included.

Afternoon folks
AnnG, that museum of the Police sounded very interesting, def the kind of place I would have enjoyed looking around and the court too.

£16 for a bar of soap!! Quite laughable but then again it's from Highgrove so I guess what you would expect to pay from there. Glad you have a lovely day out though.

Now I have looked back at my posts re my sickness etc. The first time i was ill, the day before i had made the gluten free scones. The salmon was after that. But I have been making the salmon for years and it has never made me sick so I dont think actually, the soy sauce was the culprit. I said a take away gave me a bad headache twice and that it could have been the sauce but i was never sick.

This time. I had eaten the gluten free pizza and then the salmon.

So I actually think it was the scones first and then the pizza both gluten free.

So Im giving gluten free a wide birth and stick to my normal. It was just because daughter is g/f just now and wanted to cut down on different breads, cakes etc.

When I lived elsewhere, there were 4 of us in the house and i used to cook 4 different meals most night and was quite happy too. I am a veggie /meat free, milk free, egg free. Ex ate most meats, son chicken only, daughter all meats. As long as I had 4 empty plates it didn't matter as no waste.

Anyway. Im ok today, shame our weather is still wet and horrid.

But I have a bigger problem to deal with and shall post on a separate thread.

Hope everyone else having a good weekend so far

Florence in the hebrides

good morning all. Sorry you were unwell again Florence. that does sound like an intolerance. Two possibilities with what you had eaten the 1/4 tsp xanthan gum in the pizza mix and the soy sauce, check the ingredients in the latter Anyway glad you recovered ok but not nice to suffer with that.

I had a really good day yesterday. Went with friends to Tetbury (Near Highgrove). There were 7 of us. after a good coffee stop when we first got there (about a 45 minute journey), we went to the free Police museum. It sounds boring but it was really well done and very interesting. It is situated in the old Tetbury Victorian police station. It is not very big but they have a huge collection of all sorts of things like uniforms, truncheons, handcuffs through the ages, who knew there had been so many different ones? then there were photos and also upstairs a whole room set out as a magistrates court, with life sized figures and a recorded hearing.

After the museum (we had only paid for 3 hours parking and we do chat such a lot as we go so time is important), we walked through the town. A small group went to see the Highgrove shop but didn't buy anything. Apparently a bar of scented soap was £16, We walked back to near where we had parked the car as we wanted to go into the Parish church of St Mary's the 186 foot church spire is the fourth largest in England.

It’s thought to be one of the oldest places of worship in Gloucestershire, being founded in the 7th century by King Ethelred of Mercia. He ordered for a monastery called ‘Tette’s monastery’ to be built on 15 acres of land. Although none of the original monastery is left today, St Mary's is a medieval church on the same site that was built in the 12th century.
Following that, the huge church spire was added in the 14th century. Over the years, there have been many improvements made but the church spire and tower have remained a constant!

I had been there a couple of times before and am always so impressed by it. It is a beautiful church which has the feel of a small cathedral. we all loved it ans spent quite a bit of time in there.

I was wondering about the soy sauce. Esme loves the stuff and eats lots of it, but we have to be careful about the brand. One of the common supermarket brands brings her out in blotches and makes her mouth sore, yet she is unaffected by other brands

Florence -
it may still be the soy sauce, even though you've changed brand.
Nothing to do with gluten - just the soy itself.
You had had soy sauce the night before you were unwell the last time, too.


"You may have stomach cramps, indigestion, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting if you have soy intolerance, which is different than a soy allergy."
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11320-soy-allergy

Expensive - tell me about it!!!!!!

Looks like you’ll have to stop eating the gluten free. But I do know how annoying it is, I don’t often cook two separate things, mostly. because I am the only one happy to eat pasta. When everyone was at home it was two pies, two cakes etc. We have two toasters and a gluten free cupboard and a small freezer for the bread, which we once had on prescription. Does your daughter cope well when she is away from home?

Make sure any bread recipe you use is suitable for your particular machine. GF bread is really easy as there is no kneading as it is more of a thick batter, so it can be made with a mixer.