Real, genuine proper Turkish delight with pistachios is delish. Fry's or whoever has bought it up isn't. They get left in the chocolate box until there's nothing left but coconut in white chocolate😝
isn't that the Turkish Delight advert where the bloke chops a woman's head off with a scimitar? Never could see why that would make me want to buy chocolate and I doubt a recreation would do much to help international relations
Oh no - I see - that's an earlier one. That's OK then.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Just been in ASDA this evening and they're clean out of loo roll. The whole shelf is gone, and it's a big store. It's happening again. It's not an evening fluke either, The clerk said that the loo rolls have been flying out since the beginning of the week and they can't keep them in stock. They're running low on bottled water, ready meal kits and some other things.
No issues with the flu shot, quick in and out and no trouble with our boys. Now I just have to decide whether to drug them up before school tomorrow or not. Flush cheeks, swollen glands, and a slight fever are their usual symptoms of a flu shot.. but if they have a fever at school they are automatically sent home to quarantine for 10 days. Fair enough, it's a pandemic.. but I know it's from the flu shot, and don't fancy using 10 vacation days to watch them at home.
Though I do have plenty of gardening to catch up on.. I was sort of planning on schools shutting down by now swamped with Covid cases. We've only had two diagnosed in the entire school district - two siblings that TOOK THE TEST, THEN MUM SENT TO SCHOOL PRIOR TO RECEIVING THE DIAGNOSIS -FOR TWO DAYS.. which came back positive, of course. If you think your kids have Covid enough that you get them tested, best keep them home until you get the results. But nothing in the past two weeks, since then. Touch wood. I missed my students, and I love being back in the classroom.
Blue onion, I don't know where you live, my grandchildren 9 and 10, don't get get a flu jab, it's just a nasal spray. our local pharmacy doesnt take appointments, first come first serve, every year a nightmare. Happened to go to a slightly bigger Tesco next village, got them booked next week for Hubby and myself. Talking to my youngest daughter yesterday, said Boots and Sainsbury in her area were booked for weeks, mentioned, Tesco, online,got an appointment next week. I had the pheumovax a few years ago, I was so ill afterwards, not only did my arm go bright red,blow up like a balloon, and hurt like the devil, I felt so ill. Went to emergency out of hours clinic (step down from the ED) Dr said he had never seen a reaction like it, asked if I would mind folk coming in for a look!
My dad was exactly the same with the pneumonia jab, doctor came in and said he should go to hospital, he wasn’t having that, and with their track record neither was I, I looked after him at home and he eventually got better, I thought they’d stopped the vaccine because quite a few people got ill at the time. I am going back 13 years.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@pansyface - the loo roll panic started in the southern hemisphere when there were reports that some people experienced diarrhoea with covid, but my understanding is that is quite a rare effect in some people. Going back a bit -Lab Technicians, I was one for 42 years though we have mostly been called Biomedical Scientists or Clinical Scientists to distinguish us from other types of technician in food labs & industrial labs etc. Latterly it has become an all graduate profession even though I think there was nothing wrong with the old ONC /HNC system. Anyway it is possible to train people to a specific task, and a lot of these tests are fully or largely automated, BUT you need qualified experienced staff on hand as some tests are quite complex and things can go wrong, it's no good having someone just feeding samples in to a machine, if there is a load of meaningless rubbish coming out the other end. It takes knowledge & experience to spot when things aren't quite right, and take corrective action before things go really wrong, to stop you wasting time, money, precious reagents, and worse still having to tell people their test failed and you need a repeat sample. They used the university staff in that supervisory capacity when they set up these labs, as has been said they have gone back to their "day" jobs now.
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Oh no - I see - that's an earlier one. That's OK then.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It's happening again.
It's not an evening fluke either, The clerk said that the loo rolls have been flying out since the beginning of the week and they can't keep them in stock. They're running low on bottled water, ready meal kits and some other things.
Going back a bit -Lab Technicians, I was one for 42 years though we have mostly been called Biomedical Scientists or Clinical Scientists to distinguish us from other types of technician in food labs & industrial labs etc. Latterly it has become an all graduate profession even though I think there was nothing wrong with the old ONC /HNC system. Anyway it is possible to train people to a specific task, and a lot of these tests are fully or largely automated, BUT you need qualified experienced staff on hand as some tests are quite complex and things can go wrong, it's no good having someone just feeding samples in to a machine, if there is a load of meaningless rubbish coming out the other end. It takes knowledge & experience to spot when things aren't quite right, and take corrective action before things go really wrong, to stop you wasting time, money, precious reagents, and worse still having to tell people their test failed and you need a repeat sample. They used the university staff in that supervisory capacity when they set up these labs, as has been said they have gone back to their "day" jobs now.