I itch at the mere idea of a hot bath, especially one with Luxury Stuff in it but sounds like a Sunday thing if you enjoy it
07.09.2025 22:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@stokeysue.bsky.social
Retired scientist, interested in science, medicine, food, drink, and travel. Rapidly losing patience with politics.
I itch at the mere idea of a hot bath, especially one with Luxury Stuff in it but sounds like a Sunday thing if you enjoy it
07.09.2025 22:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also variants such as the clothing firm, who when I looked at a top online sent an email βwe caught you peekingβ¦β - whereβs GDPR when you need it?
07.09.2025 09:26 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Speaking as a retired biomedical scientist with both allergies and issues with other substances - ridiculous to try to cover so much in one article, itβs unfocused and inaccurate.
I am a fan of La Roche Posay Toleriane range, no fragrance, packed to allow minimal use of preservatives.
I was 26 in 1980 and I read Cosmopolitan so well aware of the diet fads
06.09.2025 19:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think 2 slightly different things?
Grapefruit with sugar for breakfast started afaik as a 1930s marketing thing
The diet was the 'Mayo Clinic Diet', grapefruit before any meal to 'speed the metabolism' (lol) and lots of hard boiled eggs. The Mayo disowned it.
They are increasingly often doing that thing of making the 4th part of a row so obscure and tenuously linked to the others it's random even when you have spotted the category
05.09.2025 11:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Didnβt realise you knew βmes cousinesβ
04.09.2025 14:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The thing is the earthing up , used for the fenland stuff, if you can get it,was the standard UK method of growing it until perhaps the 1960s and my grandpa, whose veg won prizes in the 1920s, didnβt trust βself-blanchingβ celery.
28.08.2025 12:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was one of those things my Dad said was better after a frost, and as we grew trench celery we were still burying it in September.
Iβve found that summer celery often has the flower stalk which is tough and bitter so I donβt buy it now.
Celery in August? Is it edible before Halloween?
27.08.2025 20:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I think the only time Iβve had a leamington - made by a Kiwi in London so possibly a variant - she might have replaced both copha and cocoa with something like Scotbloc, one of those chocolate flavoured meltable coatings. I donβt like desecrated coconut though.
27.08.2025 16:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Going clippity-clop on the stair
26.08.2025 22:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How lovely, but sorry for your loss, condolences
19.08.2025 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks - no I never prep a full pesto to store, always at least add cheese when using
14.08.2025 21:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I run a local Facebook group so
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Intrigued. Never come across this before. Does it work with a single herb? I have a small hedge of Thai basil, most of which will go to waste
14.08.2025 20:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well, you can stitch that on a cushion.
But it is reasonable to expect that named movements with a common aim have some consistency in their approach.
Iβm not in favour of the ban either. But I have seen the scary CCTV of 3 men claiming to represent PA wrecking a legitimate local Jewish owned business they allege are landlords of an Israeli arms firm (denied), not expressing free speech, not peaceful; PA is not a homogeneous group at all.
11.08.2025 10:46 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0That took me way too long!
09.08.2025 17:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I stayed in student halls in Glasgow a couple of years ago, not that different from one in London 50 years ago, except the room was much bigger with a double not single bed, there was an en suite shower room, and the kitchen-diners on each corridor were bigger and better equipped, and key cards
09.08.2025 15:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt think thatβs cultural lag at all - the word Stan is alive and kicking, why not look at its history? Which many R4 stans wonβt know of course π
07.08.2025 08:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I also have my fatherβs cousin Emanuel, same, who died before dad was born and so he had no memory of him, and I think WW2 reset memories
05.08.2025 10:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All the cranks insist that in any argument with them you only win it by citing THE single research paper that 'proves' your point, and if you mention there's whole body of evidence you are just sie0stepping, while they continue to cite one 1935 paper that hasn't specifically been rebutted
03.08.2025 14:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How much worse is it going to be than the aging cleric who having been given 5 bullet point pieces of information about the deceased delivers a long and rambling speech that doesn't touch on any of them? I've sat through a few of those
03.08.2025 12:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'm a big fan of Lily & Me - cheaper, more flattering and equals or exceeds Toast's much vaunted quality of make. I've never understood how Toast can charge so much for clothes that look like workhouse uniforms
31.07.2025 19:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0He does know JFK was chronically sick?
31.07.2025 19:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At least that is a real name with history, adn he has the choice of Iggy or Nat as a short name
30.07.2025 14:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hello I am a biochemist in a movie, I discover a miracle cure (or undetectable toxin) singlehandedly without any testing other than slipping a dose to next doorβs cat.
29.07.2025 23:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tell Mog Wakefield is not feline friendly
24.07.2025 12:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 06/6 On the other hand it gets nasty, for example attempts to put people off using any infant formula milk, even the essential prescription ones, because they can all be defined as UPF
23.07.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0