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7 hours ago, Toots said:
I've just planted an new rosemary shrub as the old one was getting very straggly and woody. Yes mint does the same but it's easy to pull out and replant with fresh stuff. I share a herb garden with 4 neighbours so it's well used and constantly being replanted with fresh plants.
Our mint spreads like a weed. Dies off in winter, always back in spring.
Our rosemary is the worse for wear as I accidentally pulled some up. I have some cuttings, so I may try and propagate it. Rosemary can get out of control too.
Chives have gone to flower. Can you eat the flower?
We have basil, corriander, and parsley and time growing in pots as well.
Four different varieties of tomatoes, parsnips, and lettuce I grow in the conservatory. I don't like the idea of slugs getting on it.
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Does rosemary actually taste of anything? I always add it to lamb, but I don't know if it actually gives it flavour.
Possibly it's been washed of by the thin mint sauce. I'm not sure.
I do like lamb in garlic. But then I like anything in garlic.
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5 hours ago, HappyHeart said:
I’m still a Pom in Oz. Old habits die hard....a little taste of home as they say. At least I didn’t get on the 1st plane back because I couldn’t get my Robinson’s cordial....
Don't they do Robinson's in Australia? I'm sure I remember them advertising it during Wimbledon.
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6 hours ago, Rallyman said:
Always had a soft spot for a Galaxy
I used to love it, and then suddenly a year or so ago I stopped liking it. Don't know if they changed the recipe or something.
But I've always got time for a flake, or that one like a coated flake. Think it's a ripple.
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10 hours ago, Bulya said:
Who exactly said it was ‘proper’?
If you want to stick a few mint leaves in vinegar and call it a sauce, then knock yourself out.
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1 hour ago, Marisawright said:
Impossible to find an impartial judge, though. People who have grown up with artificially-thickened mint sauce are going to like that better than the runny home-made or chef-made stuff.
I was brought up on the thin watery stuff, and it was only when I went to the UK that I saw the thickened stuff. I don't really like either, but I guess the thickened stuff tastes a little better than plain vinegar with mint leaves. Mint jelly is okish, but I guess I'm just not a mint sauce kind of guy.
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16 minutes ago, Parley said:
Times change.
The food i got as a kid was the meat and 2 veg sort of stuff.
The thought of a curry, stir fry or pasta was never heard of.
Lamb chops (with mint jelly), potatoes and peas/beans was a staple, and fish fingers would be a treat or a change for a bit of variety.
There would be hell to pay if you tried not to eat all your peas. One day when i was a kid I kept all the peas in my mouth and spat them out after Dad had left the room.
We used to feed food to the dog if we didn't want it. I think the post war no waste generation insisting that we clear out plates has a lot to do with the obesity crisis. That and the sugar in our diet.
But my mum must have been unusual. We had prawn curry, Italian, stir fried. She must have been one of the first to own a wok. She loved trying new things.
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1 hour ago, Marisawright said:
Well, strictly speaking, you mean "proper shop-bought British mint sauce". The commercially-produced stuff has added thickener to make it gluggy.
If you want to float some chopped up mint leaves on vinegar and call it mint sauce that is ok too.
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10 hours ago, Rallyman said:
I got it off my mum , not sure what you mean it’s not the same as mint sauce, sorry confused.
Proper mint sauce should be thicker.
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3 minutes ago, Drumbeat said:
It was the same in our house, husband worked in the resources industry so always earned much more than me. I could have earned more if I'd moved into a more of a Management role but was never interested.
The development of the SRN Level roles and Nurse Practitioners has opened more opportunities in Nursing, thank heavens.
Can a nurse practitioner outrank a doctor? I know it's a highly skilled role. I have a friend who studied for several years to obtain it.
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5 hours ago, Rallyman said:
Should do your own We have mint growing in garden , great to pop outside pick some ad chop up add some vinegar and sugar, spot on with lamb
My mum used to do that. It's really not quite the same as mint sauce.
Although to be honest I'm a bit of a horseradish man.
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7 hours ago, Tulip1 said:
The nhs ones are a bit chunky although nothing like they used to be. Actually they’ve come on a lot but still nhs I guess. If you want the tiny ones that are barely noticeable then you’ll have to pay for them. I only know that because about 4 years ago my mum got some. She didn’t like the look of the nhs ones and even at almost 80 it bothered her that they could be seen. She paid £1600 for these tiny ones. They ended up gathering dust as she never remembered to put them in and even when reminded to she said they were fiddly. I think she wore them twice.
The NHS ones look identical to the ones my father paid a fortune for with his hbf private medical insurance.
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9 hours ago, Cup Final 1973 said:
Arrived back in the UK on May 1st. Apparently it’s been a really dreadful month weather wise but today was lovely. Fingers crossed it continues.
No rain in April.
Nothing but rain in may.
June is looking nice.
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On 21/05/2021 at 00:14, Parley said:
There is a quirk though.
You are right that to access your super, you need to have reached preservation age and finish at your workplace and declare yourself retired.
However you can subsequently "change your mind" and look for another job. So as long as you have finished up somewhere for whatever reason that can work. Getting your super doesn't mean you can never work again.
It does have to be your intention at the time and you declare retirement, but you can change it later.
In the UK that would affect your ability to contribute to your pension. Is that not the same in Australia?
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6 hours ago, Lavers said:
As long as the beans are heinz then I'm good
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Anyone (in UK) especially who has bought there 1st house within the last 10yrs will have a big shock when interest rates do finally begin to rise. When that is no one knows, if they rise sharply then repossessions go up which the gov won't want.
Regarding only having 5% deposit, unfortunately for 1st time buyers that will be the best they can hope for. The rate in which prices are going up, you would still be better getting a house with a 5% deposit, as the price would go up quicker than you can save.
I would want to read the small print on the mortgage pretty carefully.
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8 hours ago, newjez said:
I'm slightly deaf in my left ear. I've lost a specific part of the hearing range. My wife often accuses me of not listening. I point out I'm slightly deaf and she counters with "no your not, you just don't listen".
She does it with colours too. Now I just say, "shall I explain colour blindness to you again?"
Passes the time I guess.
Actually, I tell a lie! It's my right ear.
I should probably see if I can get hearing aids. They are free on the NHS. I don't normally notice it, but if I'm in a pub or similar environment I can't understand what anyone is saying.
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1 hour ago, Rallyman said:
No chance in uk it would freeze up
We have an invented water cylinder in the garage. I'm not sure how it works but you can have the washing machine on, water the garden and have both showers running without loss of pressure or heat.
Much better than my last house. We had three showers but you could only run one at a time, and if anyone turned on a tap when you were in the shower you got a shot of cold or hot water.
All the pipes in the garage are fully lagged, and I can turn a heater on in there if it gets silly cold.
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9 hours ago, Rallyman said:
Really?
nice not having the inconvenience of a wall ruined with a radiator.Column radiators are pretty common as they take up less space, but I would love underfloor heating. It is a pain planning a room around radiators. And so many people stick them under Windows, which doesn't seem logical to me.
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5 hours ago, Blue Flu said:
I guess it depends on the time of life we are talking about. When younger what I missed after a year back in Australia, was for want of another word the tribalism clearly on display in UK. Well England anyway. It wasn't as I suppose individual and easier to find 'your tribe' be that in music, sport , hobbies and so on. Just an observation on my part anyway from the eyes of an early twenties something.
These days it would be more choice. Easier access. More to do. As for individual items besides some pubs with an atmosphere , especially on a summers day, not too much.
Certainly the chocolate is on another level. I occasionally miss a simple greasy spoon cafe for a Full English with mugs of hot steaming tea and a copy of The Observer . The differing sound of English voices and accents. The walkability of cities like London combined with a great, though expensive public transport system, the ability to live at least in London, without a car. The wonderful opportunities to ramble long distances , rather like the English seaside , the friendliness of the people in places like Newcastle and their ability to chat readily with a stranger. Obviously the train with the ability to be in Paris in a few hours. National Express coaches for operating a wonderful net work across the British Isles/Europe at very reasonable prices.
Obviously The NHS. Still up there and holding its own (just) even with countless government austerity measures. English sense of homour. It just can't be beaten once understood. Obviously there are a few things that don't miss. But that isn't the question posed.
I actually hate walking around London. To cross every road you have to go through multiple sets of pedestrian lights, it takes twice as long to get anywhere. But I would like to take a double decker bus around London. I've been in a double decker, but never in London. I always use the tube.
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4 hours ago, Marisawright said:
Ah, let's not go there! Living in Italy was my first suggestion when we thought of going overseas, because that is his favourite country. However, my husband was very worried about getting stuck in an expat enclave--whether pretentious arty-farty types in somewhere like Florence, or English bogans (chavs?) in Spain. He didn't see any way of escaping an expat lifestyle and living like a local, because he has never been good at languages (I've always suspected he is slightly deaf or has some other kind of hearing impediment, which he wont admit).
I guess it comes down to "finding your tribe" which you allude to in your other post. He didn't think we'd stand much chance of finding our tribe in a European city due to the language barrier.
And I should mention, it would've had to be a city. One thing I learned from our stay in the UK is that we are happiest in a large, bustling metropolis. That's something that is slowly starting to change as we approach 70, though.
I'm slightly deaf in my left ear. I've lost a specific part of the hearing range. My wife often accuses me of not listening. I point out I'm slightly deaf and she counters with "no your not, you just don't listen".
She does it with colours too. Now I just say, "shall I explain colour blindness to you again?"
Passes the time I guess.
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5 hours ago, HappyHeart said:
The build is due to start end of next month and haven’t heard of any delay but expect there to be some.
I would order anything that needs to be imported as early as is practical. Locally sourced goods should be fine.
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23 hours ago, Parley said:
I believe they have now said pfizer is okay in a normal fridge for up to a month.
They keep changing their minds on these things which is annoying.
They now say you can cut the gap between AZ doses and don't worry about the gap between flu and covid injections.
They are making it up as they go.
That's unfair parley. This is an emergency situation, and they are learning as they go. Normally all this little changes would be ironed out in testing. But they err on the side of caution and change when the data supports.
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1 hour ago, VERYSTORMY said:
The AZ vaccine is manufactured at a zero profit basis worldwide under terms agreed between the development team at Oxford and the U.K. government and AZ.
Yes, I wasn't accusing AZ of derailing themselves. That would be insane. I was suggesting that other companies could benefit from derailing AZ. You also need to consider that those companies which are offering the vaccine at cost are only doing it for a limited time. This isn't going away. This is a huge cash cow for big pharma.
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