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Messages - Cuilidh
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« on: December 09, 2025, 06:11:01 pm »
Looks lovely over there, Cookie. I take it everything is working as it should now in your motor home
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« on: December 03, 2025, 09:28:02 am »
Those games sound like something I should be doing, Chookie ... but I'm not. Probably reluctant as my mother and many of her siblings had dementia and both my sister and I are apprehensive - unless if, by good fortune, we take after our dad's side. I have my reservations about that.
Got my hair cut today - 10 months since my last cut and it was getting so shaggy and long I finally got fed up with it. Even my hairdresser commented that he had never seen me with such long hair before. No there is nothing left up there to run my fingers through - very strange!
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« on: November 28, 2025, 11:09:13 pm »
Cheese toastie
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« on: November 28, 2025, 11:08:32 pm »
So far a lazy day - it's 10.00 am and I am only just getting started.
Hope I don't run out of any ingredients for cooking today - there is a big truck show in the next village so the roads will full of trucks all over the place and it's a nightmare getting into and out of Castlemaine on these weekends. At least it's only for one weekend a year and it's good for the community.
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« on: November 28, 2025, 11:05:06 pm »
Red lentil dahl, Broccoli and cauliflower bake and shepherds pie with potato and sweet potato topping.
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« on: November 26, 2025, 07:51:56 pm »
Hope is OK with your DH K Atie.
What a lot of hassles, Chookie ... yes the amount of passive energy we all use without even knowing it because everything we use slowly slurps it up, is surprising.
Lat night was our staff Xmas dinner. Good fun and a good evening was had by all. We invited a couple of ex-employees so it was great to catch up with them.
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« on: November 25, 2025, 06:12:36 pm »
Those crackers look really good, Cookie. How long did you bake them to make them softer - 40 minutes? 45 minutes?
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« on: November 24, 2025, 04:52:43 pm »
What a hectic life, Chookie - you never stand still!! I am looking forward to the miso eggplant recipe. Cooked sweet potato and red lentil stew, pasta salad and roast veg frittata at the weekend. I have started making up a jar of dried fruit / nut / seed mix to nibble on during the week. I just use up what is in my cupboard and quite like having a nibble if I get peckish during the day ... I particularly like the miso almonds I found at The Source - I think perhaps I have put a few more of those into the mix than everything else 
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« on: November 21, 2025, 05:48:57 pm »
Yes, Cookie, the forum is becoming unreliable - a great shame, I hope it doesn't give up on us completely.
I had a skin check yesterday - my first one inc. 5 years+! All good, fortunately.
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« on: November 20, 2025, 08:21:11 am »
Back at work after my mini-break - a long, hard day catching up on everything
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« on: November 19, 2025, 05:44:04 am »
While I was up in Noosa / Brisbane this past week I volunteered to make dinner one night - well, that was a BIG MISTAKE. I am now totally traumatised!!!!!
My DS had very few ingredients (no garlic, no onions, no tomatoes, no veges in general, in fact, almost nothing of anything and everything - you get the picture, I don't think she ever cooks!). To make it worse, her knives were so blunt they were almost unusable (I went through 4 or 5 before I found one that was 'useful') - anyway, I managed to come up with a very basic (I am calling it "rustic" style to make me feel better about it) vegetable sauce to go with pasta and both her and her friend who was also staying there at the moment both enjoyed it - makes me think that they survive on bought meals only.
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« on: November 19, 2025, 05:32:42 am »
Just back from Noosa and Brisbane - weather was perfect ... during the day! Two nights of wild storms in Noosa (quite spectacular) but other than one day when it was a little bit wet both places were lovely and warm so that made it a relaxing and welcome break.
Whilst I was up there DS and I went to Eumundi market - it is a huge market and easy to get lost, but we found two excellent natural pain relief creams - both of which I experimented with while I was up there (using the creams my DS bought) on my arthritic knee and they both seem to work really well so I have ordered a tub of each and will see how I get on over the next couple of weeks - for anyone thinking about following up on these creams, do a bit of research and seek medical advice (for instance it is not recommended to use them if you are on warfaren). I think both creams are magnesium based. DH is also very interested in seeing how they go so I hope they are as effective in the long run as they have been so far.
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« on: November 13, 2025, 04:18:54 pm »
Off to Noosa for a few days then another couple of days in Brisbane - I was looking forward to a lovely Queensland break away from our weather down here but, sadly, the weather looks pretty bleak up there just now. Ah well, it will be good to catch up with my sister as well as a friend whom I used to babysit many, many years ago!
Chookie, be tenacious about your 7 problem, I have a funny feeling you may not be the only one suffering glitches with that model.
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« on: November 08, 2025, 08:15:00 pm »
This has been a short weekend for me so only Potato Crust Tart with Creamy Red Pepper Sauce, Adam Liaw's Roast pumpkin with whipped tahini and trying to remember an old recipe for an American themed macaroni salad
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« on: November 05, 2025, 06:12:34 pm »
DH had his regular colonoscopy and I got my breast screen results back - both results negative.
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