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I've never uses a microwave before.
I've never uses a microwave before.
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My much older sister is 91 too, blackbarn. Just gone into a rest home. She was telling me it doesn't seem two minutes since she was on stage with Ernie Wise (then Wiseman) in the Nig Nog reviews.
Hi Coach, I didn't realise Quorn was a complete protein. Perhaps I'll give up the beans and rice which when combined also provide the amino acids the body doesn't produce. |
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Kenny - "Don't have problems with dead birds here"
RSPB - "The most recent figures of how many creatures are killed by cats are from the Mammal Society. They estimate that cats in the UK catch up to 275 million prey items a year, of which 55 million are birds. This is the number of prey items which were known to have been caught. We don't know how many more the cats caught, but didn't bring home, or how many escaped but subsequently died. |
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Blame Mother Nature, not the cats.
How many worms and snails do birds kill? |
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Coach - re soggy, many supermarket ready meals, although not of great quality, are specifically designed for reheating in a microwave and are certainly not soggy and perfectly edible. You (or in my case a 91yo dad) need to be a bit selective as some are much better than others.
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Good evening KM.
How are you, Susie and Leo? |
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Quinoa is also good for the animo acids Kenny
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Kenny - nice try!!.
worms and snails are generally not threatened species, whereas for various reasons many bird species are. cats are not selective as to species killed - they'd be less likely to know the difference between a Blue Tit and Willow Tit than you. birds do not rise in population in line with the human population (with the possible exception of budgies etc!) there is a clear relationship between growth in the human population and that of pets (including of course cats) |
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blackbarn - i think it was at the local greasy spoon one year
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.... just seen my wee resident hedgehog eating away at a banana i chucked down easlier ...didn't realise they liked fruit
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Coach'.
What can hedgehogs NOT eat: Milk Avocado Bread Raw meat Citrus fruit Raisins Onion Grapes Nuts & seeds Chocolate Junk food Raw egg yolk Spicy food |
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Hi, EK, Leo must be 15 I reckon. Sadly Susie is in Rainbow Bridge. See my RIP Susie thread from a couple of years back.
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3 years. Good grief.
http://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30543597/rip-susie?post_id=545413557#545413557 |
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Assuming Kenny's hedgehog non-diet list is correct, it's a bit of a surprise that badgers eat them for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
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good list canny - will remember that one ....although i knew about the bread and milk from a while back . He likes his cheddar more than anything ...and he likes the stronger cheddar too
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Sorry KM - I knew Pebbles had passed away but not Susie. I shall read that now.
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EK, good to see you again btw, and I'm honoured you remember names.
Pebbles is alive and well, about 5 yeras old/ The fist one to pass away was Leo about 7 years ago. Current stock is Leo, Pebbles and Simon, just Pebbles being female. |
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Sorry, first to pass away was Cleo, not Leo. Hit me unbelievably hard did that. She used to belong to Joe Johnson's son's girlfeind'd mum. Leo is a lookalike of Cleo, hence the name.
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Sorry KM - I've got them all mixed up! When I think of your cats, I always think of Clive Brittain.
Sadly Tootsie passed away. She reached 20 and loved her scratch pad, performing her little shows for us. She loved watching the sun go down on the garage roof, or warming her bum on top of the bolier house. She used to go psychadelic after gnawing away at the catnip so we took it away as we were worried it would hurt her. As she aged she would prefer sitting under the hose cylinder during the summer months. |
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Coach, re the cheese, and top marks for looking after the little one, aren't hedgehogs lactose intollerant?
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She was a beautiful light grey with white blaze, neck and socks.
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you painted a lovely picture there EK, made me all misty eyed, seriously.
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It's very sad when they leave us, KM.
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u gotindian chick cominf round for the tikka masalla gig
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Hu gotindian chick cominf round for the tikka masalla gig
How can you be this confused before midnight? |
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where you get h from ?
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u gotindian chick cominf round for the tikka masalla gig
And for those of us whose first language is English? |
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2 mins
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He's really lost it this time.
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Mr P'Ting
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Goodnight.
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I remember my first TV dinner. I dropped curry sauce all over my dress.
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Microwaves are great for vegetables, in fact from what I've read they are healthier.
If you boil vegetables "goodness" leeches out into the water then goes down the sink, if you microwave them no nutrients leave them. (of course if you overcook you may destroy some but that's same any way you do it). |
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I like cats and grew up with them but they certainly can slaughter the wildlife.
There's a place in new zealand looking at banning all cats. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45347136 |
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kenny mann "I didn't realise Quorn was a complete protein."
I'm no expert so could be wrong here but pretty sure I'm right. I've been veggie for about 20 yrs, use to buy Quorn products quite a lot but hardly ever buy it now. From what I was reading, I don’t believe this is a healthy food, no matter what it says on the package. It’s a highly-processed, artificial product, that is far from natural. Basically it's genetically modified, and whenever I see GM, to me that is artificial food ! They call it mycoprotein food, but whatever you call it, it's artificial food ! |
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Quorn is fine and certainly is a complete protein. It's nothing wierd, it's just a fungi related to mushrooms grown and processed.
Why some people find that wierd but think eating a cows ringhole minced up with its knee cartilage is fantastic I don't know! |
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If you want impressive pyrotechnics, try putting in a candle....
Re cooking vegetables, I think not. but the thing to be aware of is that whatever you are heating must have a reasonable water content otherwise it will not cook and your microwave will be a microwave no more! If you must experiment, with stuff like this, you mist put in a receptacle of water! |
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Lots of bad press re Quorn which is why at one point the price was slashed!
My daughter gave up on eating beef, but she and I could make a most acceptable Quorn Spag Bol.... Some time later she began suffering very bad stomach cramps and, by being mindful, she realised it was always after eating Quorn! Apparently it's quite common to not be affected at first, but later you can suffer the same. |
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"Quorn is fine and certainly is a complete protein. It's nothing wierd"
Just looked this up online....... sounds a bit weird to me !  "Mycoprotein is the predominant ingredient in all Quorn products. It’s made by feeding a fungus, called Fusarium Venenatum, with oxygenated water and glucose while it is fermented. After being heat-treated, the product is then combined with other ingredients to create the Quorn products." After an American court case Quorn had to change the way that they label their products in the US. Because an 11 year old from California died after eating a ‘Turk’y Burger’. Despite the fact that his mother was aware of his mould allergy, she was not aware that Quorn’s main ingredient was a fungus. |
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Surely the BEST microwave trick (though not good for microwave so maybe put a little cup of water in) is to microwave a CD :)
It's a shame as people now probably only have music CDs of value but in the days of free AOL CDs on magazines, hours of fun..  Actually no need to waste a CD at all someone will have it on youtoob. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKd92oU9ivs |