Here's a tip George.Dont use them to cook Sausages
Some of the air fryers you can but not the Phillips.Do they blow up or something mate.
Or am i missing the point?
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Some of the air fryers you can but not the Phillips.Do they blow up or something mate.
Or am i missing the point?
Ended up doing something really positive today - I was wanting to get a blood test done at the private hospital, but found that I can't book it without a referral from the GP (I actually know I could if I went through a third party private health company which would send me to that hospital ..too much fuss).
I could have got it done through the dermatologist at that hospital, but he was fully booked and then on holiday for two weeks after.
So, seeing I don't like the staff or doctors at our practice these days (it all changed), a conversation I had with the nurse at the hospital today prompted me to check the NHS ratings for GP surgeries available to us ...just missed the catchment area for one really good one, but was just inside it for the next!
Phoned to make sure, went to get registration forms and see what it was like ...very nice, so we filled out the forms, and seeing I'm wanting a blood test fairly quickly, they said they'd get the registration done right away rather than it take up to a week ....said to call back tomorrow and hopefully make an appointment!
So far, so good - and if all the reception staff are like the one we saw today, they'll be the opposite of the gaggle of witches we have at our current/old practice!
I could have got it done through the dermatologist at that hospital, but he was fully booked and then on holiday for two weeks after.
So, seeing I don't like the staff or doctors at our practice these days (it all changed), a conversation I had with the nurse at the hospital today prompted me to check the NHS ratings for GP surgeries available to us ...just missed the catchment area for one really good one, but was just inside it for the next!
Phoned to make sure, went to get registration forms and see what it was like ...very nice, so we filled out the forms, and seeing I'm wanting a blood test fairly quickly, they said they'd get the registration done right away rather than it take up to a week ....said to call back tomorrow and hopefully make an appointment!
So far, so good - and if all the reception staff are like the one we saw today, they'll be the opposite of the gaggle of witches we have at our current/old practice!
Just a quick update, will catch up on everything else later, just got back from King's was on the table from 1pm until 5 pm yesterday - even the surgeon doing the procedure thought it was going to end in a failure again - BUT after all that it was a complete success, I now have 4 stents in the Right Coronary Artery to go with the one they put in the LAD 13 years ago, when they first told me the RCA was totally blocked, they showed me the before and after pictures and what a difference, another tablet to take for the next year as well to stop the platelets sticking to the stents.
and vapemail yesterday - my Wood DNA200 arrived.
Well done Bob! I'm hope that you feel a whole lot better for this!
Got an Actifry that I've had for a couple of years. Does the best sausages ever! Also love my Andrew James halogen oven and induction hobs. Gas oven is now mothballed. I've even got rid of my kettle, now using a Neostar 5-litre hot water dispenser. It is a 680w device (much lower than a kettle) and once it has brought water to the boil it keeps it at the temp you want using just 2w of energy (I keep mine at 85c - great for coffee). No more waiting for the kettle to boil - press the button and it's there (also no heavy kettle to lift, which will matter much more as the years pass).
Here's a tip George.Dont use them to cook Sausages
Wrong! Actifry does superb sausages and you can dishwash everything apart from the main gubbins. This gets to look like a tramp's underpants over time - simply avert your eyes.
The fat and grease that comes out of them is unbelievable.I know that's the point but it's easier and a lot less messier to grill them
Fat isn't your enemy, but carbs are. Stay low on bread and potatoes and eat the cheese you like. The link between high cholesterol and dietary fat was exposed as being a myth years ago. Do you remember the nonsense they used to talk about eggs and cholesterol? All junk, happily.
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You didn't read the instructions did you mate.
Like Pipey said some will do sausages.
Not the Phillips.
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I was wondering about this type of thing recently. Apart from an electric oven,we have a convection oven as part of our microwave, and it can be used independently, but halogen is a bit different.
We pierce them, cover them with a glass plate and microwave them for 4 minutes at med power - any fat comes out and the sausages are then placed in a fairly hot frying pan without any extra oil etc. Perfectly cooked, fat drained off, and then nicely browned in a couple of minutes.
We have two slices of malted grain bread at lunchtime with sandwiches: chicken, bacon, or tomato & cress, etc., or toasted with cheese or scrambled eggs, and once per week, half a slice of tomato flatbread with a tuna Caesar salad once per week.Fat isn't your enemy, but carbs are. Stay low on bread and potatoes and eat the cheese you like. The link between high cholesterol and dietary fat was exposed as being a myth years ago. Do you remember the nonsense they used to talk about eggs and cholesterol? All junk, happily.
I sometimes have something like plain rice krispies or porridge for supper, husband has similar for breakfast (I get up a little late for breakfast).
No pie crust, dumplings, cakes, biscuits (except one or two times with coffee during the week).
Potatoes are eaten in moderation, as is pasta.
Two large Caesar salads each week - one with a tin each of tuna in water, the other with a small piece of steak or a large piece of smoked haddock.
Sugar in large quantities is avoided, as is too much extra salt.
I like to keep the fat, sugar and salt low, lean protein high, plenty of green vegetables, everything else in careful moderation.
Fact remains that since we changed our eating habits 3 years ago, this has resulted in less body fat, and brought down the bad cholesterol level for my husband - thus resulting in the doctor not being able to bully him anymore.
We both dropped two clothes sizes. He to size 32 waist, me to size 8-10 jeans. It happened slowly over 12 months, resulting in us having to buy new clothes twice - we just hadn't expected to lose that much weight!
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Hey Bob congratulations on a successful surgery I'm glad everything went well for you and happy news about the DNA 200 as well not quite as happy as the other news but still fun.
As I'm just about 40 now I've decided that I really need to get healthier. I quit smoking but am totally laid up with some decent back problems for my age. Due to my age they won't just slap a multi level fusion on upper and lower. In the men's time I gain weight waiting for all the trial and error.
I'm 6'5" just over 15 stone. I used to be a very healthy 13 and a bit. Pain meds trigger weight gain so I'm hopeful the hormones level off again when I'm off them.
Anyway the point is. It seems like things start to snowball as you pass the mid thirties. If you don't mind it all. So diet. Get the back fixed. But my biggest win is passing the six week mark of no smoking consecutively. I really feel I've quit now.
That has to be he single best hing any smoker can do for longevity and
Congratulations again on the surgery. And as being back on forums so fast - wow
Ps the fat isn't your enemy statement. Be careful
With that. Atkins died of a heart attack. That speaks volumes.
-*Plese excuz any iPone-tyos
As I'm just about 40 now I've decided that I really need to get healthier. I quit smoking but am totally laid up with some decent back problems for my age. Due to my age they won't just slap a multi level fusion on upper and lower. In the men's time I gain weight waiting for all the trial and error.
I'm 6'5" just over 15 stone. I used to be a very healthy 13 and a bit. Pain meds trigger weight gain so I'm hopeful the hormones level off again when I'm off them.
Anyway the point is. It seems like things start to snowball as you pass the mid thirties. If you don't mind it all. So diet. Get the back fixed. But my biggest win is passing the six week mark of no smoking consecutively. I really feel I've quit now.
That has to be he single best hing any smoker can do for longevity and
Congratulations again on the surgery. And as being back on forums so fast - wow
Ps the fat isn't your enemy statement. Be careful
With that. Atkins died of a heart attack. That speaks volumes.
-*Plese excuz any iPone-tyos
How would you lot sanitize an atomizer from someone e used white vinegar after removing rings previously, and denture tablets to clean machine oil works a treat, but I just wanted to see if you had any ideas for the atomizer arriving today
Edit - I bought an ultrasonic cleaner form Amazon. $40 and it will be handy for the missus jewelry and to save me time cleaning between flavors.
Edit - I bought an ultrasonic cleaner form Amazon. $40 and it will be handy for the missus jewelry and to save me time cleaning between flavors.
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I've found the US cleaners remove any machine oil fom a new atomiser very well.
I usually run two of the longest cycles possible,the first with a mild detergent,washing up liquid.And the second with just fresh water.
I usually run two of the longest cycles possible,the first with a mild detergent,washing up liquid.And the second with just fresh water.
Trish.
Where different types of paint used in these two pictures?
Not knowing anything about painting,i wondered.Very different,but equally as nice.
Where different types of paint used in these two pictures?
Not knowing anything about painting,i wondered.Very different,but equally as nice.
Ps the fat isn't your enemy statement. Be careful
With that. Atkins died of a heart attack. That speaks volumes.
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If it was true it would - but you're misinformed. Atkins died by slipping on ice and hitting his head on the pavement. For more on fat read anything by Gary Taubes.
Edit: RSZ1 beat me to it!
Meds that cause weight gain can make things difficult. If they help though, you need them if there's no alternative.
That's a big plus for anyone
I'm still a bit bemused to see the time ticking up on my banner.I decided not to call it a 'diet' when someone asked - it's a lifestyle or way of eating, not a diet. Makes it all seem more natural
Missed off what I said last night: we eat lots of fresh fruit, especially as a fruit salad for desserts, sometimes with yoghurt for instance.
It was good to be able to hear so fast that all was well.
Ah! Nice of you to be interested. No, both oil paint ...I found a licensing agent within a month of becoming a self employed painter, and my work was in two categories: purely commercial and done for specific purposes such as Easter, valentines, mothers day, Christmas cards etc., and those more geared towards 'wall art' or fine art. Not what the up market galleries would want, but they sold well at regional art exhibitions and won me many awards, whist doubling as being licensed for prints, plates, jigsaws, etc.,
I painted in this fashion for 10 years, but although very lucrative, it wasn't really what I wanted to be doing.
I'd done a few true fine art pieces of work and submitted three to the royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Not only was one accepted, it was actually hung, and sold to a sponsor of the academy from Massachusetts.
Going there on the private view evening and seeing my painting sold was a mind changing experience, and sat in the evening sunshine drinking coffee in the academy courtyard decided that fine art was my way forward and commercial work would have to be left behind. At the end of '99, that's exactly what I did do.
I've never looked back, and have worked with some excellent galleries since.
As such, there are hundreds of pieces of work that were sent to the licensing agent and had transparencies professionally taken of them (large transparent 'photos' taken with something like a Hasselblad camera). Agent kept the transparencies and sent the art work back to me. Even now, there's still a small number of them get licensed every year and they send me my commission.
So, what you see there is one painting from the 90's (left) done for dual purposes of licensing and framing as a painting, and the other one done in recent times from items I actually set up and photographed as potential painting compositions. The apples were from the garden in that case, and so small, that you wouldn't know it, but the bowl is actually a Chinese tea bowl! Painted as full sized items, it was one of my favourites at that size.
Never thought it may be two styles for different reasons.
Interesting.Nice you are doing what you really want to.
I suppose there must be some frustrated artists who have to stick to the "bread and butter" side of things, do you think there is wasted talent because of such?
The bowl in this piece is amazing
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Much better thanks, just went down the doctors, to let them have my discharge letter, and request 17 more of the Clopidogrel to last me until my next prescription is due, and I managed to walk at my old walking pace (light infantry 180/min)
, but on the way back the osteo arthritis started to kick in so had to slow down a bit, but the more I can do that it will help the OA ease up.
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