Talking of wet in Wales ,  My daughter did a sponsored solo charity bike ride from Cornwall to Cardiff hospital,  while she was there she thought she spend a few days cycling so went to the Elan valley reservoirs,  she said to me âThey were emptyâ. I said I knew as itâs been so dry,  no she said,  theyâve emptied them for maintenance work. these autumn months are the wettest in the west you wouldnât  have thought they done that,  would you?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Why do the majority ( but there are honourable exceptions) of female newsreaders dress either like hookers or a twelve year old going to a sleepover? I think it's disrespectful. What if some really serious news broke? . Maybe I'm just getting old.
Well I'll join you in your last comment but I'm grumpy with it. I'm getting really irritated by news correspondents who are giving us a report and propping themselves up on a nearby wall, even if it's a serious topic. Told you I was grumpy.Â
Morning all KT53, same here,I was taken to Patient Plus, kept coming up with the same 2 messages "hmmm,there seems to be a problem", not recognized by this surgery. Said I could log on via NHS, firstly told me my email address is already in use!!! I was 26th in the queue, 50 minutes later,15th. I have the basic minimum mobile phone package,gave up. Tried several days/times. Popped in, abuse from reception staff, told me she'd never heard of Patient Plus, after a very cursery glance at my phone. She said name of surgery,and that's what I needed to login to. You could see I had typed that in the search bar. It's why I did it on the phone,so I could show her. I have a phone appointment, month after request, with the nurse. I was told back in the summer, when I was diagnosed there is a 25% chance this problem turns malignant,if it reoccurs I must be seen! Our surgery only takes repeat scripts in writing. That doesn't always work either. I put a letter in the box in person last year.... they claimed not to have received it! Glad you got sorted.
Oh no! I've just noticed that one of my neighbours has recently replenished two pots near the front door with tall box cones. They're suspiciously greener than normal and both identical in size and shape............... It may be time to move!
Made some pumpkin soup yesterday using a Jamie Oliver recipe (pumpkin and ginger soup). Recipe said use half a tablespoon of chilli powder, it was written out longhand so I didn't mistake tsp for tbsp. End result is something a curry restaurant would serve up to abusive drunk customers in revenge, vindaloo hot. A quarter of a teaspoon would have been a sensible starting point.
I work on the you can't take it out principle and only add things a bit at a time. I suppose you could reduce it until it's really thick and divide it into small portions and freeze them to spice up soups or casseroles.
Oh dear ⊠thereâs chilli powder and then thereâs CHILLI POWDER!!! It pays to know which you have!!!
Id try adding a tin (or two depending on original quantity of soup) of tomatoes to calm it down ⊠itâll be a different soup but itâs a combination I often use. Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've watched enough Jamie Oliver stuff to know he's a chilli addict and to therefore treat all his recipes with great caution on the amount of it you need. Similarly, Rick Stein and salt and Hugh FW and cream/fats.Â
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
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these autumn months are the wettest in the west you wouldnât  have thought they done that,  would you?
I think it's disrespectful. What if some really serious news broke? . Maybe I'm just getting old.
I'm getting really irritated by news correspondents who are giving us a report and propping themselves up on a nearby wall, even if it's a serious topic.Â
Told you I was grumpy.Â
KT53, same here,I was taken to Patient Plus, kept coming up with the same 2 messages "hmmm,there seems to be a problem", not recognized by this surgery. Said I could log on via NHS, firstly told me my email address is already in use!!! I was 26th in the queue, 50 minutes later,15th. I have the basic minimum mobile phone package,gave up. Tried several days/times. Popped in, abuse from reception staff, told me she'd never heard of Patient Plus, after a very cursery glance at my phone. She said name of surgery,and that's what I needed to login to. You could see I had typed that in the search bar. It's why I did it on the phone,so I could show her. I have a phone appointment, month after request, with the nurse. I was told back in the summer, when I was diagnosed there is a 25% chance this problem turns malignant,if it reoccurs I must be seen! Our surgery only takes repeat scripts in writing. That doesn't always work either. I put a letter in the box in person last year.... they claimed not to have received it! Glad you got sorted.
It pays to know which you have!!!
Id try adding a tin (or two depending on original quantity of soup) of tomatoes to calm it down ⊠itâll be a different soup but itâs a combination I often use. Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-soup-2 Â Delicious!!