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@Machpants said in Lockdown Check In:
Having a virtual cocktail party at 6 (local) tonight, if you want to join us. Scrabbling around the booze shelf (we are not big spirit drinkers) we're going to have Foghorns (Gin, fresh lime and ginger ale), espresso martinis, and some other mixes (georgia gin maybe)
Fuck it so I started early
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that's a pretty drink
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
that's a pretty drink
Foghorn
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@Machpants good name!
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@Machpants good name!
Gin, Bundie ginger beer, lime juice - easy and nice
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@Machpants said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@Machpants good name!
Gin, Bundie ginger beer, lime juice - easy and nice
so a moscow mule with gin? sounds great. I'll add mint to mine
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I'm just on Macs Interstate APA, with a slice of lime, read on FB it protects from CV...
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Grey Goose while having a virtual catch up with the team.
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@Hooroo I don't think they'll survive the journey 😔
Giving sauerkraut a go today and gonna do some corned beef this weekend so both ready for next weekend.
Thanks @chimoaus and @taniwharugby looks like I'll keep myself busier having a bash at Apple butter and chutney.
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@Bones said in Lockdown Check In:
Apple butter
This I want to know more about.
As for lockdown check in.
It appears its going better for some. After a day from hell- other people's bull and generally stupidity when I'm already working to the max to get an urgent project finished, I've decided to work from home today before I end up with a grievance against me. I'm not in HR or staff management so I really don't want to listen people at the moment,theres someone else for that.
Not even dressed yet. Having to go to work and work with highly anxious people, which I am sympathetic too as I too have been very anxious lately, is just very taxing.Heads up to UK ferners. GPs are essentially hubbing together now, i assume this will be the same all over the UK apparently from Monday eg. Our site is going to be nurse led to keep things like blood tests and child immunisations going so we've definitely got the better deal. Other sites in our hub we deal with route gp queries and admin. The GPs then go on rota to staff the "red centre" at the NEC (they absolutely are not happy about this) , so this is seeing ill patients but not necessarily with covid19, but conveniently can then be transferred to our nightingale site if needed.
So we are set for Monday, I've got 4 nurses from other surgeries coming to do an induction with to our clinical system as they use a different one and by lunchtime they will start and their clinics are full with babies and insulin starts.Today, I really want to eat my French toast, drink tea and read with my daughter. A bit of yoga would be nice. Sit in the garden.
Ill try and do a little of this and work too. Then the weekend is mine. Definitely having a gin tonight.
Hope you are all hanging in there. Not even watching the news anymore.
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@R-L this seemed the simplest method I found.
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@R-L think you missed this - I'm not the one in the know!
@chimoaus said in Lockdown Check In:
@antipodean Wife and I visited an orchard and picked our own apples for $2 a kilo. We had so many she made apple butter. Holy shit that tastes good on toast. I'm finding I can put it on just about anything
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@R-L said in Lockdown Check In:
Hope you are all hanging in there. Not even watching the news anymore.
I quit too, until last night when my wife told me Hancock was better and would be fronting the 5pm presser.
It was good. Clear action plan, and acknowledgement of past issues etc.
Might watch again in a week.
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@R-L Wifes family are from Canada, apparently fairly common over there. Below is the recipe she uses. Goes well on toast, in cereal.
Cut up lots of apples ( she uses Fuji, granny smith) with the skin on, minus cores.
Fill up the crock pot as it will cook down.
2 T cinnamon
1 t allspice (heaping)
1/2 t cloves
1/2 t nutmeg
1/4 cup water
Put on high for about 6 hours, stir occasionally.
Once its cooked down, you need to start adding sugar, use brown (1 cup) or white(1.5 cups) and then add sugar to your own taste.
Add 1/4 cup lemon juice or apple cider vinegar.
1/2 t salt.
Cook uncovered on low until very dark and thick. (Aprox 2 hours, depends on how much water your apples have)
Stick blend until smooth.
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Did a little bit of domestic IT support for one of the non-clued up residents who wanted to access netflix but didn't know how to set up his wireless acces and browse safely. Sorted him out and I got given this:
I think as tomorrow is looking to be a nice warm afternoon I shall enjoy that one on the deck. I think i have found my barter economy billable hour rate
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@Machpants said in Lockdown Check In:
Quadruple too, one bottle is all you need!
It's actually stronger than some of my preferred wine. I'm going to be careful; as it's a 750ml - man was very grateful for the help - looks like people are going to be asking me for help fixing their laptops and PCs - thankfully I'm totally an apple free zone so I don't have to deal with that level of proprietary nightmare
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