Be Excellent To Each Other

seriously?

This has made me really happy, just a shame you will never know.

You told me you really enjoyed it, too. Do you feel dirty now?

Is that really the case with oranges? Did a bit of this juice last night You have to peel the orange first then all you have left aside from the flesh, most of which goes into the juice is the skin and the white pith.

Was nice all the same and it was the first thing my son asked me for when he got home from nursery!

Surely there's some compensation in the fact that you wouldn't sit down and eat 5lbs of carrots, but that's how many you'd likely use to make a pint of carrot juice.

I don't know enough about the fibre content of carrots to give you a definitive answer, but certainly when it comes to feeding rabbits and guinea pigs you're not supposed to give more than a few pieces because carrots are surprisingly high in sugar. I imagine that if you're drinking 5lbs of carrots, that amount of sugar can't be a good thing natural or otherwise.

If you're on a no- or low-carb diet then carrots are not allowed - they are hugely carboriffic.

Professor Brian Cox is giving a talk to a conference here today. A religious conference. Odd

Not really.

Well, unless he's going there to do a Dawkins.

Annoyingly, I can't stick around and watch. First interesting thing that's happened here in years

Nom!

Poor unicorn

Poor warbot.

Wooo! My workplace held a Bake Off competition, and I won! A company t-shirt ( yay! ) and the GBBO book! My winning entry was a fairly average layered vanilla sponge, with the middle hollowed out AND FILLED WITH M&Ms. I'm pretty certain it was the M&Ms that won it for me!

Woooooo!

Are Channel 4 interested in running the competition next year?

Yes, but they wanted us to do it naked, replace some of us with celebrities, and convert it into a panel show.

This reminds me that I saw a video on Twitter the other day. Basically it was Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry dubbed over that naked attraction show on channel 4.

I can't post it because it's NSFW but it was very funny.

I could smell autumn in the air today, and had to wrap up in a shawl to go to town.

The watch I bought Russell fir our wedding day only needed a new battery, so was made to work again for £4.

Due to autumn and the need for snuggles in the tummy, I made the biggest pot of Lentil Daal ever. I think about 20 portions. I only had two types of lentil, but before I was pregnant I had seven, then I couldn't stomach them, or chickpeas. Today felt like a day I needed lentils and chickpeas again. I didn't have normal chickpeas but another type of chana, smaller and darker, so they nestle in the dark like little cuddles.

I put in more garlic than you might think existed in these isles at any given time. I will be free of both colds and vampires for the foreseeable.

University Challenge and Only Connect are both on TV tonight.

Mimi, love the 'simple things' in your post. I should do more of that and less moaning.

My simple yay: Oliver has his first school trip this morning and his excitement about it was contagious.

I like the idea of simple yays too...

You both made me smile today

Good ol' KV was right. Noticing when you're happy is important, I reckon.

A couple of years ago I bought 2 small grape vines for £5 at Tesco

Stuck them in large pots in my greenhouse, the first year vines grow and put lots of leaves out but no grapes.

After this first growth you cut everything off and just leave the main plant

This year I got leaves again and little bunches of grapes everywhere, as they were in pots I cut all but 2 bunches off each vine

So finally after letting them ripen for a few more days in the heatwave last week I have these

Really sweet and nice, also got white ones which were nice, but not as many or as good

My son is loving it as we bought some tomato plants which he has helps me water etc. Now he thinks all fruit and veg is his, so he is eating "his grapes" as I type watching TV

Pleased with myself as I've always wanted to grow these.

Wine next, then.

Really well done! What a fab way of encouraging your boy to eat fruit and veg, and understand where his food comes from
And why it's important not to waste it, etc.

Great work

Brilliant work but make sure you cut the grapes up if a young un is eating them.

They're the perfect size to get lodged in the throat.

Doing that to make sure he doesn't choke and also these have seeds in them !

Good work. My nephew had a grape stuck in his throat and luckily, as his dad ran outside to get help, his neighbour managed to slap his back to get it out.

That's some pretty shitty parenting on behalf of the dad. Dealing with choking isn't something you should need to fetch someone else for.

It's a time when you're legally obliged to beat your child. We live for these days.

Inverted back slap is The Move Of Champions.

MrsA got some baby first aid chick around to teach us stuff. She had nice boobs.

I see what you mean, but it was likely panic rather than an actual want to fetch someone else. I thought Darwin was choking once (I think, in hindsight, he was just super-gagging on my awesome cooking) but one second he was choking/gagging, the next perfectly fine, sitting on my lap. Afterwards, I could kind of picture me removing him from his high chair, turning him upside down and slapping his back as he coughed and brought the food out, but I don't know if I remember this or have just pictured it. I was on total autopilot and had sorted it before my concours brain had caught up. I think some people have the same brain paralysis but without the automatic action, and so they run to alert others. I've seen the same happen after accidents: I run towards any injured to help, others run to shout to the air or to find help, others stand motionless.

Then the babies came along and ruined them, right?

40th birthday present to myself in a few years.

Totally agree with you. I did a first aid course at work which told me what to do if a child was choking and I had to use it once on my youngest. I'm not saying that she'd have come a cropper without my training, but it most definitely did the job.

You're Han to her Chewie, now.

Plan for next year is to remove these from the pots and plant them in the greenhouse as it has a soil floor

That way next year the vines will be able to support more grapes and hopefully will put more out as well in the 3rd year.

There are a lot of grape vines in gardens around me but they never really get ripe outside, aside from this one women who has a huge vine outside and its covered in bunches of huge ripe red grapes every year. Might ask her for a cutting. She used to make wine with them, but now just leaves them, so not sure if they are an eating variety.

You are going to look great!

I've just had a "well done" from my boss. It was sincere and heartfelt which means a lot.

To be honest... I thought I was slacking a bit but there you go. Imagine how good I could be if I tried?

I feel like that about every aspect of my life.

(But YAY! well done )

I've planned for that for every aspect of my life. Consistently Mediocre is my lifetime goal.

Fucking right.

I am the Thad to your Alex.

Imagine Grim...land.

All the staff would be Holly Willougby.

Waiting at Manchester Piccadally for a train home after an excellent weekend. I joined OutdoorLads, an outdoors group, in the spring and to get people to attend their AGM they laid on a pub night on Friday and a dinner/celigdh on the Saturday evening. I had a great time and spoke to loads of people. I also proved to myself that I can still dance.

Looking forward to doing a lot more with this group.

2 job interviews next week. One in Liverpool so if it goes well i can lunch with davpaz

Just waiting for Dazpaz to post in the Nay thread....

That's ace! Except I don't work in the city centre, you know.

I can have a later lunch to allow you travel time.