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Along the lines of what we all did today, having done simply loads of things that I wish I hadn't done today, I thought we might have a laugh and share them.....
Today, I found some chillies that I have dried, and I decided to get a pair of scissors and snip them into a jar...
Later in the day, when Trousers came home from work, we were sat in the conservatory, and Wellie decided to stick her finger in her eye.
Big mistake....

YOU?

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

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Blob Updated Sunday 21st December '08

Ouch!!!!! Hope you had some eye-drops handy!

Left the the beautifully roasted, corn-fed, expensive chicken out on the bench to cool before putting in the fridge...without checking the whereabouts of the cat... Stoopid beast must have tongue blisters now, coz it hadnt cooled very much! OH will be well chuffed to find out we're eating 'something & mince' all weekend now.

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Sarah

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“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Doesn't cat spit wash off then?

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Oh the thought of it !!!

Oooh! My favourite! Lucky you!

KK

When turning 10lb of chicken breast into Jalfrezi for tonights match (10 friennds around), deciding to just throw in those last few chillies.

Very nice.............with a definate nuclear heat wave to follow. Oh well.

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On the chilli note i remember as a young man trying to impress a lady with my culinary skills( lots of freshly prepared chillies, by hand). Got to say the romantic evening and food was great but the bedroom was a disaster. Will leave that one to your imagination !!!!

Cheap disposable latex gloves are really good for preparing chillies. That way you avoid nasty stinging sensations where you don't want them.

Re the chicken
I used to have a flat above the bookshop where I worked and my cats quite enjoyed visiting the bookshop. One lady intent on browsing didn't notice when my fiend Spotty had started in on a pack of chicken joints.
Don't worry, she said with a laugh, it's only for my husband....he'll never know....

Sue

Wasn't just the cat-spit though... He dragged it onto the floor, and my darling German Shepherd is in full moult...! Bleurgh!

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Sarah

http://www.hypermobility.org


“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

All work stopped at the lottie today when I knocked the coffee jar over and it broke on the greenhouse floor!
Thats it says I, time to go home, can't survive without coffee!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

That made my eyes water Minty.

Wellie, I did a similar thing a few weeks ago. I dried some chillies in my new dehydrator and then ground them up in the mortar thingy doo. Later (quite a lot later) I scratched my eye - wow very ouch. Spent 20 mins in the bathroom laughing maniacally with Madmax helping me bathe my eye (both hands covered in chilli dust). Two days later (and numerous hand washes) I was still being very careful - not to mention very glad I don't smoke any more. Will deffo use 'johnny gloves' (Madmax term) next time I am grinding down the chillies!!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

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Its a bummer wearing contact lenses too as you always forget what you've been chopping up for tea and then go and take them out. Ouch ....

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

If I'm doing anything with chillies I always wear the Johnny gloves. You've heard all the horror stories - - I promise you they're true

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Hey! I've got the giggles now and can't stop laughing at Minty? I've got a mental picture of the Golfing KitKat advert with Monty. Oh, Monty Monty Monty.....

Minty, Minty, Minty....!

Ouch!

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With Love,
Wellie

Give it some....

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Blob Updated Sunday 21st December '08

... or roast cat?

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I wish I'd looked at one of my beds of cabbage sooner, ruined by caterpillars, luckily only this one bed so a butterfly must have got to them under the mesh. Picked all the caterpillars off before composting the remains so the hens had some extra supper.
AND when I got up to the allotment today realised I'd forgotten to padlock the shed, everything OK thank goodness.
Sue

Cleared out the sweet peas and first lot of french beans yesterday, bent over to pull out the supports forgetting there was a 'twiggy' lilac in the way, just about eye level ..... another sore eye on the vine! I spent the next few hours winking at everyone and blurred vision all evening - sigh......
Still, comiserations down the local pub where I met a friend with a newly stitched finger - he'd mistaken it for carrots when chopping veg for the Sunday dinner and now his kitchen wall looks like the chainsaw massacre!

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