Tuesday Tip

I get funny bits of trivia from Arcmax, sent to my computer. Things like "Lord Byron, though considered one of the most dashing and attractive men of his time, was overweight and had a club foot" Treasure what you have! This tip seems somewhat strange.
According to an expert, you can use a drop of vinegar or VODKA on each lens to clean eyeglasses without streaks. Now, I really think there are other ways to clean my specs and Vodka serves me well as a marinade for steak or salmon. Here's a much better Vodka tip.
Take a small jar with a screw top lid, about 125ml capacity. Fill the jar with jelly tots and then fill with Vodka. Put on the lid and place the jar into the dishwasher, on the top rack. Leave it in for a full cycle and when you remove it and cool it down you'll have a delicious liqueuer.
Much better.
P.S. If you don't own a dishwasher you'll just have to have the Vodka on the rocks with a twist of lemon.

Boys!!!!

After a busy day yesterday I was about to shower when Samantha and the kids arrived. I excused myself and had a quick shower, I put on my plum velvety pants and my much loved lilac blouse with blue butterflies on it. I walked out to the patio, Jeremy checked me out and said
"Granny, why are you wearing your pyjamas?"

Happy Days

I rarely buy a magazine that's sealed in plastic. That tells me one of two things.
1. The publishers are not confident that the contents are good enough to sell.
2. The publishers don't want our sticky fingers all over the mag while we queue.
Either way I don't much care, I don't want to buy a pig in a poke. However, when I saw the Jamie Oliver DVD inside the plastic wrap on Taste magazine I had to buy it. What a bargain, I imagined it would be about 20mins of teaser advertising when in fact it's about 50 minutes of a really good gardening/cooking show, Jamie at Home. The Jamie Oliver magazine is out of my price range, with or without plastic wrap but I'm looking forward to the next two DVDs courtesy of Taste. The magazine's good as well.
On Saturday I made Cabbages & King's Leek and Cheese Tart. Wow, it's really good. For authenticity I bought the leeks at Spar. It's a big tart and we enjoyed it more on day two, it seemed to settle. Thanks to the Jamie DVD I was able to wash the leeks correctly.

Saturday -aaah

I rarely use the computer over the weekend, too much during the week. It's been a somewhat hectice week and when I read this yesterday it seemed most appropriate for today.
It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing.
Rumi

Tuesday Tip

We always have a bowl of nuts on the dining room table, along with a nut cracker. The nuts last so much longer when you have to crack them yourself. I hate to throw away anything useful so I asked mom-in-law if anything can be done with nutshells. Here's the tip.
If you throw the shells around your precious herbs or lettuce etc the snails won't crawl over and eat your crop before you do as they can't slither over the shells. You can also crush eggs shells for the same effect.
I sprinkled the shells around yesterday and time will tell whether this tip works.
Now, what can I do with the coffee grounds?

Tuesday Tip

Yesterday I went for my annual check-up. First off for a mammogram, very nicely done I might add, then up to the doctor for the rest.
Sugar, cholesterol, blood count, urine, blood pressure, ECG and the girly bits.
It takes next to no time out of your year but once it's done you'll have peace of mind or perhaps a caution to mend your ways for next years test. Do please do this, you are never too young to take care of your health.
So, my boobies are neatly pressed and I am in good health so, I'll try my best, all things in moderation and hopefully I'll get another A next year.

Gobsmacked!

I was in the post office yesterday evening. As I queued, the young lady already at the counter was nattering away on her cell phone. We waited. The gentleman behind the counter told her that he needed to ask her something about her mail. She nattered. I went to the next teller and as she was weighing my parcels I glanced over at said young lady. She was talking on one cell phone and texting at the same time on another. The gentleman was still waiting.
Eventually,with her oblivious to our stares, still talking and texting, the gentleman leant forward and said
"Excuse me, you're being very rude, I said I needed to talk to you"
"Oh" she said "I didn't know I was being rude"
As they say "Puleeze"
Mr Post Office deserves the Patience of the Day Award.

Tuesday Tip

I don't actually have one but my fan always questions me if I don't post an idea.
Perhaps a good tip is Never Give Up, be like the man who won the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine. For some 60 or so years he cracked the knuckles on one hand only, in order to prove that cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis. He appears to be correct.
Never worry that people will laugh at your ideas. The Public Health Ig Nobel Award went to a trio who invented a bra that converts into two gas masks. It gives new meaning to the term "Bosom Buddy"
Don't be embarrassed that people may call you a Silly Tree Hugger. The Veterinary Medicine prize was given to a couple who proved that cows with names give more milk than unnamed cows. Aaaw.
Stick to your guns. Shelly Berman did a comedy sketch about flying in which he points out that most would rather die than make fools of themselves. Well, be a fool, ask dumb questions and invent cuckoo things. That's how a lot of the really important stuff in life came about.

From my lips to George Clooney's ears

Well, not really. I've been a fan of ER since the first series back in 1994 when Dr Ross melted our hearts and then broke them when he left the series a few years later. Now, I'm watching the 15th and final series of ER. It's had its ups and downs but I've stayed true. ER isn't on my list of favourites because, like George, I've moved on but it will always be on my list of all time favourites. Back in the day the groundbreaking series (which your folks probably watched once you were in bed) was Hill St Blues, not ever to be missed and it was some 13 or so years later that Messrs Spielberg and Crichton gave us ER.
Last nights tear jerker was about organ transplants and dear Dr Ross in a small way contributed to saving Dr John Carter (remember him, we were with him through his drug problems, stabbing etc. etc.)
Well, I shall miss them when they're gone, four more episodes to go. More Emmy nominations than any other series - 124 - well deserved I say and in my dotage I may buy the entire 15 years and sit and remember when.