Knitting Tea Party, Friday 18th November, 2022

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KateB

Discussion Starter · 6 mo ago

Knitting Tea Party, Friday 18th November, 2022

I seem to be getting earlier and earlier posting the new week, but I’m always afraid as the night goes on that I’ll forget altogether! So here we are early as usual - and to be honest “early” is not usually my “usual”, I’m more inclined the opposite!

Summary of Friday 11th November, 2022 by Darowil
The summary and following lists are a summary of last week's Tea Party and are of more value to the regulars here unable to keep up with all the chatter than to newbies - who are very welcome to join us at any time just by speaking up and making yourself known. All the pages etc refer to last week’s Tea Party Knitting Tea Party, Friday 11th November, 2022

A lot more pages this week than we have had for a while but mainly general chit-chat this week.

Kate has been referred for an endoscopy although the nausea has now gone. 🤞🏻

Flyty1n had a MRI this week to work out what is wrong with her leg - no wonder she has had pain as she has a break and a meniscal tear. Fracture is well aligned and only a small tear so no treatment other than Tylenol/paracetamol and walking only as tolerable without too much pain.

Machristie came back from her weekend away unwell - and remains unwell.

Jazzy has been looking after her grandson this week and so has been around very little. Now back home.

Poledra has finally done the last of her farm work - and tells us she is not going to do it next year!

Grandies are growing up quickly with one reaching double figures, twins reaching two and two young ones becoming mobile - Matthias especially. Some weeks just seem to make the KP grandies growing up show up so clearly.

PHOTOS by Kate
1 - Fan - Amaryllis and geranium plants
3 - Darowil - Wet back yard
4 - Swedenme - April & Annabelle
5 - Maatje - Gus
6 - JoRae - Roxy
12 - Darowil - Bridges and flood debris
16 - Fan - 1940s pattern book / Mini pink rose
20 - Bonnie - Slippers and towels
22 - Fan - Tomten for a neighbour
23 - Fan - Tomten completed
23 - Bonnie - Mukluks
31 - Kate - “Birthday Cupcake” for Mindy
33 - Kate - Luke & Liam
34 - Fan - Female tomten
36 - Fan - Completed tomtens
40 - Sugarsugar - Crochet Christmas penguin (link below)
41 - JoRae - Pot holders / Double knitting hat
44 - Swedenme - Knitted Nutcracker doll / Cowl & mitts
53 - Alibee - Knitted sunflowers

CRAFTS
18 - Tami - How to sew with metallic thread (link)
20 - Bonnie - Vintage knitting books (link)
50 - Sugarsugar - Pew the crochet penguin pattern (link)

RECIPES
20 - Bonnie - Pavlova Christmas tree (link)

OTHERS
14 - MindyT - Watering Christmas Cacti (link)

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martina

· #11 · 6 mo ago

Thank you ladies for our new start. Been a cold day today. Nothing much of interest. All take care.

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· #221 · 6 mo ago

Jazzynitter said:
Actually, it's more like a skinny apple cake, the sugar, eggs and flour make a light cake batter. I've served it to company many times and it's always been well received and the recipe has been shared often. It's almost guilt free 😉

All cake is guilt free . Should be the law.

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martina

· #381 · 6 mo ago

darowil said:
How terrible for your DS to lose his livelihood through theft.

Yes it’s a shame and I hope things turn for the better for him soon.

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martina

· #382 · 6 mo ago

angelam said:
My youngest son is bipolar and thankfully the medication he’s been on for about the past 20 years has prevented him from having a major episode. Unfortunately it’s such a strong dose that it slows him down so much, I sometimes think it must be like swimming through treacle.

I’ve heard of that side effect and it’s why a lot of patients stop taking their meds which then is a downward spiral till they can be persuaded to start again. It’s a terrible condition for the patient and their loved ones.

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· #385 · 6 mo ago

A very cold wind today but it wasn’t too bad in the sun.we went for lunch today and I came back and did tumble drying and putting laundry away. Just had dinner and going to write cards now. Knitting group tomorrow , I’ve to get the meal orders in, that’ll be like herding cats again I suppose. We’ve already had heated words over the amount to give the cafe staff as a bonus, so I said just do our own individual cards this time and choose to put in whatever you want. Next time they want a group outing someone else can do it.

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· #690 · 6 mo ago

Cashmeregma said:
Thanks for all the encouraging words about DH and his starting to settle into his retirement. He had me worried for a while. I think my being sick aged him a lot. Last doctor's appointment they said I can have 2 more years of treatment and then they stop. He said the cancer will activate again. I'm sure they will try other treatments then. Guess after a while the treatment isn't as effective and has to be changed. I need to ask him more about that but of course I didn't ask when I had the chance. Just looked at him with a smile on my face....I need to be more responsive but perhaps go into a little shock. I guess new treatments are coming up all the time so that will be decided in 2 years. I did get the ok from him to go out to stores if I wear a KN95 mask indoors.

I like that your husband is enjoying retirement and that you’ve a positive attitude to new treatments if/ when the cancer returns,

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· #708 · 6 mo ago

MindyT said:
Bonnie, great story about the geese your mom kept.
Geese in Marin seemed to stay all year. Places with ponds and people who would feed them....parks, etc.
Up here, we see and hear them on the Russian River, but they migrate. We do see them where there are ponds too, but they leave as well.
Cooking duck..isn't it very fatty? I recall having duck for Thanksgiving once and it was really a lot of fat to cook off.
OK off to get out of here by 8ish. Will catch you up on the other side of the day.'
TTYL

Duck is fatty but nowhere near as bad as the goose my son in law got one Christmas. Well it was his mother who bought it. There was hardly any meat on it and fortunately he’d cooked other meat and loads of veg. We decided no more goose for us.

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· #758 · 6 mo ago

darowil said:
I don't know though I suspect she had done. But she must have been in her nineties as my friend is a few years older than me. She wasn't in good health and hadn't been for years. Why I said died with Covid- no idea how much impact Covid had on it. I suspect maybe hastened a little the inevitable.
The immunisations have never claimed to stop people getting it or dying from it. Just to decrease the numbers doing so- and I saw recently it seems to also decrease the likelihood of developing long Covid. So lessens the likelihood of developing it, and then decreases the chances of it being serious and/or Developing long Covid. Over here a large number of people getting Covid have been immunised- simply because so many of had at least the first two and as each booster comes out the number receiving seems to decrease. But if you look at the proportion of those immunised getting really sick and compare it to the number of non-immunised getting really sick you then see the difference. A significantly larger proportion of non-immunised are getting seriously ill from Covid.

What you said about the vaccine is right. My son had covid between the first and second doses , then caught it again earlier this year. He was more I’ll with the first time. The second time his only symptom was a sore throat for a couple of days. So he was very glad he’d had his booster too. Seems a bit daft not to keep up with the boosters now. However, everybody has their own opinion. Just please keep your germs to yourself.