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Romance isn't dead, it's riding a Jet Ski.....for 4 1/2 hours....lol...https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-m...
This seems to be making the news this year even though it's been "a thing" for a long time now. Here in Scotland the snowploughs/gritters have all been given names. There's even a map where you can watch what the main ones on the trunk roads are up to - if you're really really bored. Doesn't show all the local council vehicles though, only A road & motorway activity.Here's a list of the current gritter names:
Amber Snowy
Arctic Angel
BFG Big Friendly Gritter
Blizzard Bear
Chilly Connolly
Darth Spreader
David Plowie
For Your Ice Only
Fred
Gangsta Granny Gritter
Grit A Bit
Grit Expectations
Gritallica
Gritney Spears
Gritter Bug
Grittest Hits
Grittie McVittie
Grittle Mix
Gritty Gonzales
Gritty Gritty Bang Bang
Han Snow-lo
I Want To Break Freeze
Ice Breaker
Ice Destroyer
Ice Queen
Jeremy Brine
Lew-Ice Capaldi
Licence To Chill
Luke Snowalker
Meltin' John
Mr Plow
Mrs Gritter
My Name’5 Doddie
Nitty McGritty
Penelope Gritstop
Plougher O’Scotland
Polar Bear Explorer
Polar Patroller
Ready Spready Go
Rumble
Salty
Sandy The Solway Salter
Scotland’s Bravest Gritter
Sir Andy Flurry
Sir Grits A Lot
Sir Salter Scott
Slippy McGritty
Snow Bother
Snow Destroyer
Snow Dozer
Snow Trooper
Snowball
Snowbegone Kenobi
Snowkemon Go
Sophie Salt
Spready Mercury
Sprinkebell
Sprinkles
The Golden Great Gritter
The Grittest Snowman
The Incredible Ice Bear
The Snow Buster
The Snow Solution
The Winter Explorer
True Gritter
Yes Sir Ice Can Boogie
Tracker map - https://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/...
Ohhh, I love those Names, Helen ... what a wonderful idea! ;o>
I take it Gary Gritter was excluded on grounds of taste (or offending public decency).Nobody's Salt But Mine?
Grit Happens?
Brexgrit?Gritting Bricks?
Gritting Through The Eye Of A Needle?
Grit Hits The Fan?
Grit The Bed?
Grit Sandwich?
Holy Grit?
Grits & Ass?
Gritta Bread?
Grit Me Baby, One More Time?
Cheese Gritter?
A Little Grit Of Love?
Grits & Pieces?
Kids are good at this. Here are the winners of South Lanarkshire's schools competition:Following hot - or should that be cold - in the footsteps of Gritter Thunberg and Lewis Caploughdi we are happy to announce the winners of this year's gritter naming competition.
Look out in the coming weeks for pictures of the winners and of the gritters sporting their new names.
Hamilton
Snovid-19 - Evan and Tasha from Our Lady and St Anne's Primary School
Polar Patroller - Andrew from Udston Primary
Rutherglen/Cambuslang
Elvis Spreadly - Niamh from Burgh Primary
Winter Sprinter - Kara from Burgh Primary
East Kilbride
She’s a Melter - Daisy from St Louise Primary
The Greatest Snowman - Euan from Blacklaw Primary School
Clydesdale
Spready Flintoff - Alexander from Black Mount Primary
JK Snowling - Sophie from Coulter Primary
Well done to all the entrants - you made us lol with your creativity.
I think a lot of them are named by school kids. My own efforts are rather poor (& music related) -Manic Street Gritters
Gritsters of Mercy
Grit-o & The Ploughymen
The Icicle Workers
Gritters of Distinction
Yellow Lorry Yellow Lorry
The House of Grit
Ok, I'll stop now, it's too painful, I'm really not v good at this sort of thing. :-(
(Get a) Grit (On Yourself) - StranglersFeelgood Grit Of The Summer - QOTSA
Tight Grit
In The Grit Of A Tyrefitter's Hand - Budgie
Gritskrieg Bop - Ramones
Ballroom Gritz - Sweet
Uncle Salty (nope, that's a real 'un) - Aerosmith
Gritting On Top Of The WorldChief Gritting Bull
Bullgritter
Griti Patel(she'll send the snow back to Jamaica, where it came from)
Snowcoach
Ice work if you can get it
Let's Call it Grits
Snowstopper
Grit Excavations
gritter sweep symphonygrit me, baby, one more time
spread kennedys
And You Will Plow Us by the Trail of Spread
99% is grit
motorspread
how soon is plow?
snowy ramone
Only 369 more sleeps till Christmas...
Anybody wants some lettuce, i've a couple of icebergs put aside. Fair offers, first born or gold accepted. Also have some sprouts. Will sell individually or in 3's.#gulaguk
Sera69 wrote: "Anybody wants some lettuce, i've a couple of icebergs put aside. Fair offers, first born or gold accepted. Also have some sprouts. Will sell individually or in 3's.#gulaguk"
Are the sprouts for next Christmas? Because surely the average household has had their Christmas sprouts boiling for a month or two already?
I have sprout overload in the garden, as the kids won't touch em, we're never going to eat em all. Must have 10 plants, each laden with sprouts :0
When we moved into our previous house, which had a huge garden, I fenced off an area to have as a vegetable patch. It turned out to be the only part of the garden that wasn't adequately drained, but before I made that discovery I had planted several varieties of vegetable and rather over-enthusiastically fertilised with chicken manure. Result: massive Brussels sprouts plants with loads of leaves but not a single, solitary sprout. I'm wondering whether to buy one of these: https://www.fancydressball.co.uk/funn...
Serial wrote: "I have sprout overload in the garden, as the kids won't touch em, we're never going to eat em all. Must have 10 plants, each laden with sprouts :0"
Just give them away to your Neighbours or leave them on a Wall or outside of a Local Shop (with their permission, of course) in a 'Help Yourself' Box in your nearby Village. That's what we do with all of our surplus Tomatoes and Pears if the Food Bank don't need them ;o>
Gordon wrote: "When we moved into our previous house, which had a huge garden, I fenced off an area to have as a vegetable patch. It turned out to be the only part of the garden that wasn't adequately drained, bu..."https://www.ofthedirt.com/blog/roaste...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Serial wrote: "I have sprout overload in the garden, as the kids won't touch em, we're never going to eat em all. Must have 10 plants, each laden with sprouts :0"
Just give them away to your Nei..."
Great idea, Suzy. My Dad used to do the same outside his house. Box of surplus veg, most weeks through the summer.
Gordon wrote: "When we moved into our previous house, which had a huge garden, I fenced off an area to have as a vegetable patch. It turned out to be the only part of the garden that wasn't adequately drained, bu..."A friend of mine grew the most impressive sweet pea plants I've seen this year. They're still huge towering teepees of plants, and maybe 4 flowers he got.....all summer!! He gave em high nitrogen feed and they just grew huge leaves and height....but barely a bloom :0
I think too, especially at this busy and often expensive time of year, it could also help to lift spirits and to make someone's day to come across a chance to pick up some free Sprouts for their Dinner ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I think too, especially at this busy and often expensive time of year, it could also help to lift spirits and to make someone's day to come across a chance to pick up some free Sprouts for their Di..."You could staple a £50 note to each one and I'd still pass!
brussels sprouts or a novochok bath?..........i'm thinking, i'm thinking............
Ha.The strength of feelings sparked by mini cabbages
:0
Serial wrote: "Ha.The strength of feelings sparked by mini cabbages
:0"
... pale into insignificance when compared to my feelings about b*****s.
Horrible yellow pointy things all squeezed together in bunches, difficult to separate. Nasty smell, horrible taste, and don't get me started on the woolly texture that turns all slimy when chewed. Then there's the skin to dispose of, subject of so many unfunny cartoons and sketches.
Brussel sprouts are wonderful by comparison! ;o)
Tech XXIII wrote: "brussels sprouts or a novochok bath?..........i'm thinking, i'm thinking............"
NovOchok sounds like a new bar from Cadbury's Russian subsidiary. NovIchok on the other hand ......... will set your pants on fire.
Isabella wrote: "Serial wrote: "Ha.The strength of feelings sparked by mini cabbages
:0"
... pale into insignificance when compared to my feelings about b*****s.
Horrible yellow pointy things all squeezed to..."
I eat one everyday without fail. Great source of potassium, low fat, some fibre and keep you 'regular'. Apparently green bananas are good for diabetes insulin control but they have no taste, don't like them mushy either so careful selection when buying is necessary to ensure some are ready now, some later in the week.
https://www.verywellfit.com/are-banan...
I only like Bananas that are still slightly green or only just yellow as I don't like them when they are really ripe and soft and taste far too sweet and banana-ry. I know of someone who only likes them when they have turned completely brown?! - and just the smell of them alone when that over-ripe used to be enough to make my Stomach feel like it was about to flip and heave.
I don't like raw fruit apart from grapes and really loathe bananas and kiwi fruit.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I only like Bananas that are still slightly green or only just yellow as I don't like them when they are really ripe and soft and taste far too sweet and banana-ry. I know of someone who only likes..."The article I put the link for says once your nanas have reached the ripeness you desire you can then put them in the fridge for up to a week - the skin will turn brown but the edible part will not ripen much further. Must try that out sometime.
I'm currently experimenting with separating them all and just covering the ends where they originally joined up with a tiny piece of Kitchen Foil - as my Mum either read or saw something on TV recently about this supposedly helping to stop them from ripening so fast?Dad won't eat them - in fact I'm not entirely sure if he is allowed to do so with all of his Heart issues and all of the Medications that he is on? ... Hmmm? - I really must look that one up later ...
This means I have to buy big bunches of them online, even though they are only for Mum and me, in the often vain hope that they will get to last as long as is possible between having Home Deliveries (around every 10 to 12 days) - and I would SO love for them to last in the condition that I'd most prefer to eat them in for far longer than just a mere couple of days at the most.
Lez wrote: "I don't like raw fruit ..."Is that why you moved to Scotland?
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Dad won't eat them - in fact I'm not entirely sure if he is allowed to do so with all of his Heart issues and all of the Medications that he is on? ... Hmmm? - I really must look that one up later ... "I don't think bananas interact with any medications, Suzy. This web site is useful for checking drug-food as well as drug-drug interactions: https://www.drugs.com/food-interactio...
Grapefruit and cranberries are the fruits that are most likely to interact with medications. Grapefruit because constituent furanocoumarins inhibit the drug-metabolising cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP3A (therefore will interact with atorvastatin and possibly amlodipine, for example); cranberries because something in them inhibits CYP2D9 (therefore might interact with warfarin). Quite a bit of research over the past 10-15 years has suggested that many of these interactions don't actually occur in the real world, but information on product leaflets and in the BNF generally errs on the side of caution.
I haven't eaten grapefruit or drunk grapefruit juice since having to start taking amlodipine in the spring of 2019. Even though I can't find any published evidence that they actually interact, I follow the instructions in the leaflet. I like grapefruit but I'm not sure I'd want to take any kind of risk to eat it. I used to like prawns but after being sick on four consecutive occasions of eating them I decided I could live without them.
I know that Dad isn't supposed to eat Pineapple or to have any Cinnamon on his Porridge anymore because he now liberally sprinkles Ground Ginger all over it instead - and I've got a feeling that he might have had Bananas listed as something to be either restricted or avoided on a Diet Sheet that he was given when they were trying to treat his Blood Pressure and AF while he was on Warfarin? ... but I don't know if anything has changed since he went over onto Apixaban as the Warfarin was causing him so many problems that it was becoming an ongoing nightmare to have to deal with it.
I discovered in my later years that I actually really like Grapefruit nowadays (only tinned though as fresh is still far too sharp for me) but I only rarely have a very small amount because I decided to restart taking Statins again as I have inherited Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.We found out our family has this condition when my Dad had his first Heart Attack when he was 50 - and I started on them then but then stopped taking them for about a decade because of all of the awful 'muscle pain' that being on them was continually causing me.
Statin Medications have greatly improved since then though - and of course I now know that most, if not all, of that terrible pain I was experiencing was actually the beginning of the final Severe End Stages of OsteoArthritis taking it's heavy and permanent toll on me.
I've been back on Atorvastatin for just under a year now and at my last check my Cholesterol levels had dropped straight back down from being at 8.5 to now being 3.2 ;o>
Pineapple's a curious one. I think the issue is that it contains a proteolytic enzyme (bromelain), which is why the jelly won't set if you put pineapple (or papaya, which contains a similar enzyme called papain) in a trifle. If you put bromelain directly onto a blood clot it will dissolve the fibrin, but you don't get significant amounts of bromelain floating around free in your blood if you eat pineapple, so it's moot whether there is an interaction with anticoagulants. If bromelain did get into blood it would probably compete with plasmin for binding sites on α2-antiplasmin, so it might have an anti-clotting action. The studies I can find, though, show minuscule blood concentations of bromelain after consumption of purified bromelain supplements; the levels would be lower still after eating pineapple. The main problems with pineapple would be dissolving the gelatine in capsules or detaching protein-bound drugs from protein in the intestine if they're taken at the same time as eating the pineapple.Please understand that I am NOT telling you it's okay for your dad to eat pineapple. I'm not qualified to do that.
So many things interact with warfarin that it's impossible to list them all. That's one of the reasons apixaban has become so popular, along with avoiding the need for regular blood tests.
Cinnamon might lower blood glucose, so it's one of a million things you have to be careful about mixing with diabetes medications.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I've been back on Atorvastatin for just under a year now and at my last check my Cholesterol levels had dropped straight back down from being at 8.5 to now being 3.2..."It's the non-HDL you have to look out for. Statins selectively lower LDL, which is why they're protective against cardiovascular disease. But muscle damage is the big negative: very rare but potentially very serious (and deadly if some idiot of a GP prescribes you clarithromycin without telling you to stop taking the statin).
"Is that why you moved to Scotland?"hiy! i saw a fruit once, green it was!
I'd been making up tinned Pineapple and tinned Mandarins in Orange Jellies for several decades before I suddenly found out that it could be an issue - and then I had a very interesting debate/argument with someone on the Amazon Cooking Forums who insisted that it simply couldn't be done and that I was actually being a Troll for even daring to suggest that it could on a Cooking Forum! ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>It was one of the funniest and the daftest Posts I've ever read and I still fall about laughing at the memory of it ... which comes back to me every time I still eat tinned Dole Pineapple and tinned Asda Mandarins set in an Orange Hartley's Jelly using the Juices to make it up! - LOL!!!
I use slightly less Liquid, and the Juice rather than Water, and can honestly say ... Hand on Heart ... that I've only ever had three Jellies refuse to set on me out of at least a hundred that I've made now over the last 30 to 40 years.
Am I an incredibly lucky person? Or is the risk of a Jelly not setting through using tinned Pineapple far less than when using fresh Pineapple? ... I dunno? ... but it's my favourite Fruit and Jelly combination and so I'm still going to be keeping on making them from time to time ;o>
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Is that why you moved to Scotland?"hiy! i saw a fruit once, green it was!"
Which was a pity since it was a strawberry.
I'm really annoyed about grapefruit, as I like it but 3 docs and the leaflet say I shouldn't have it with amlodipine. I suppose the 3 docs might be just reading the leaflet.
Grapefruit is my favourite fruit, closely followed by pomelo and raspberries
Lez wrote: "I'm really annoyed about grapefruit, as I like it but 3 docs and the leaflet say I shouldn't have it with amlodipine. I suppose the 3 docs might be just reading the leaflet."Ask them if you're allowed pomelos Lez, less sour than grapefruit but similar in texture and don't leave a weird sensation in your mouth, plus the health benefits are really good. With Suzy on bananas, got to be just ripe.
We have three citrus trees in the back yard - lemon, lime and grapefruit. The first two haven't given much fruit in recent years but the grapefruit just keeps on giving. I have to put the fruit out the front of our house for people to take because there's so many more than we could ever use. I put up a notice : These are the sweetest, juiciest grapefruit ever, but they also have the most pips, so best used for juicing. They are so sweet, my four year old grandson loves the juice - neat.
Is it too late for me to say this......?I love fresh sprouts! :)
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