Apart from excessive sorbitol being a really good laxitive… ooer… it is apparantly a carbohydrate (you live and learn!!)! Now I’m asking myself if I’m allowed to eat the damn Apple Spice treats or not? I’m supposed to be on a low-carb diet and chowing down on something that’s 98% carbs seems a little self … More And Sorbitol is… ?

I used to live on Fisherman’s Friends. That hot searing taste of peppermint and menthol really used to clear my sinuses when I had a cold… strangely a lot of people don’t like them… ah well… their loss 🙂 Anyway, they are largely made up of sugar so are a bit of a no-no on … More Fisherman's Friends

Had a knock on the door this morning and outside was Brett Mirow from J. J. Richards & Sons who handle the waste management for the local council. We had a chat about the problem with the garbo breaking the pot… and that he’d not bothered to apologise or something… and that I was a … More More on the garbo's damage.

Yet again I realise I’ve all bar abandoned commenting on the social machinations of the world at large to concentrate on the micro-behaviours of my family and myself. No doubt there’ve been all sorts of issues out there worthy of comment in here… but lately I’ve been posting them in Australian Opinion to make sure … More Opinion? Where?

Today we are hoping we’ll see the final instalment of the saga of the old man’s teeth. He only has a filling today… we think… maybe two (?) but either way it’ll be good to see the end of it. He says he feels really odd when he’s chewing now. With so many teeth gone … More The saga of the teeth.

Kids are off to camp this weekend with the Girl Guides… no idea where Brownsea Island is but we’re told it’s out of range of mobile phones… so we won’t be getting frantic calls for assistance from the daughter 🙂 What we’re going to do with ourselves tomorrow I don’t know… but I bet it’ll … More Kids off to camp!

While I was in the mood yesterday I also knocked up a rhubarb and apple crumble. Or started to. As per usual nothing went right and when I went to sort out the crumble mix after stewing the rhubarb and chopping the apples… I discovered I’d run out of butter!! By the time I’d gone … More And for afters…

I decided I’d make a nice steak and kidney pudding. Not made one in years but thought it might be nice for a change. I’d bought the gear a few days ago so got into making it yesterday morning. All was going well until I opened the sealed packs of kidney… and discovered the use-by … More Steak and yukky.

After two days off I was out again this morning walking round the estate 🙂 Damn hard to get back into it when I’d rather be doing anything but… but I went anyway. The dogs seemed to enjoy themselves… other than both of them now lying flat out gasping for breath.

A few months ago I wrote of having to move our little potted orange tree away from the post box because the postie was having problems negotiating his moped between it and the postbox. I moved it to the bottom of the drive… alongside a tree. A couple of weeks ago the binmen dropped the … More Bloody garbage men