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Post by malibou on Jan 26, 2024 2:09:26 GMT
I'm so sorry your family is going thru this scary situation. Wish wishing him a speedy recovery, and if necessary now, the transplant he needs.
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Post by malibou on Jan 25, 2024 4:44:43 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 25, 2024 1:56:37 GMT
Sky Garden in the walkie talkie bldg - tickets are free a week in advance, or you can reserve a bar reservation for a cocktail, or even dinner in one of the 3 restaurants and have access to the Sky Garden. I recommend going while it is still light out and staying thru sunset into darkness. You won't regret the views from up there. Two things nearby are The Monument to the Great Fire, which you can climb the 100+ steps to the top of, and the smallest statue in London - I'll leave you to discover it. Madison - it is on the top (6th, I think) floor of a shopping center right near St Paul's Cathedral. On your way up to the rooftop bar on the elevator, you have a full glass elevator with the most gorgeous view of St Paul's Cathedral. Definitely a dusk into night thing. We did the Queen's Walk along the southbank, it ends at St Paul's Cathedral. Columbia Road Flower Market - if you are there on a Sunday 8am - 2pm. Its truly a delight. A pleasant walk from Old Street station will get you there in about 20 min. There are other stations that are also about a 20 min walk. Bethnal Green is one and maybe Liverpool Street. You can also take the overground to Hoxton and have a 7 min walk. If you are looking for an outstanding fish dinner, I cannot recommend strongly enough Fish Central! I love fish, all fish, I've lived near the ocean for most of my life, BEST FISH DINNER EVER. Closest underground is Old Street. Covent Garden is a fancier market, and has a bunch of high end stores and nice restaurants. Old Spitalfields has all kinds of vendors and a lot of food carts with loads of yummy food choices. Borough Market is a classic, but I strongly recommend you avoid Saturday. It's just crazy packed. If you do go to the market, it's worth standing in line inside for the paella and outside, by the seating bleachers, for the pork sandwiches. Chez Abir Restaurant is a Lebanese restaurant that is outstanding, and we've eaten a lot of Lebanese food in London. It is on the far west side of Kensington/Earl Court area. Can't remember nearest underground, but it is a 10 min walk from it. Somerset House has an incredibly amazing collection of art, in a former estate, that is magnificently set up so that you see each piece with informative descriptions of the art and the house. Nearest underground is Holborn. John Soane's Museum is a treat! The guy was an architect that gives us that very broad arch you will see in the bridges crossing the Thames as well as at the top of the red telephone boxes. His house is full of curiosities, I mean every surface full, but the guy had money, so it's massively cool stuff. If you go, ask the docents you come across for their favourite thing in the house. They are very knowledgeable. If you go out Portobello Road way, stop in at Biscuiteers. They have the cutest biscuits ever! A biscuit for my Peaps! Hope this helps!
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Post by malibou on Jan 24, 2024 6:12:52 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 23:28:50 GMT
DS can rhyme on a dime and we make up songs about people and pets around us to fit the scene. We used to have so much fun at the mall or in traffic doing that. Everyone has a name, backstory, and vibe we like to invent on the fly just to amuse ourselves. Handy time-waster at the airport or in the DMV, etc. That's how I know he's mine. Dh and I can rhyme about anything. And we make up new lyrics to old tv shows for various scenarios. It was fun as ds was growing to see when, where and how he would try to join in. He is very good now.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:58:37 GMT
I so wish I had an answer that would fix everything. I am sorry you are going thru this. I think that what jeremysgirl and pantsonfire said makes a load of sense.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:48:04 GMT
Ds is an incredible blend of dh and I in every way. I know he is mine because of his love of fun facts and peanut butter banana sandwiches, the way he pops awake in the morning, his artist way with swearing, his inability to walk around in socks on hard flooring without trying to slide, and the fact that though he is 23, I still have kids ask me if I'm Mrs HCL's mom - a name I got when ds was in kindergarten - when I'm out shopping, because he looks so much like me.
Since he arrived on the planet, if he is with just me or just dh, people will ask, "Does he even have another parent?" Because he looks so much like both of us, and dh and I look nothing alike.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 18:28:02 GMT
Damn, that is quite a blow. Wish wishing it turns out to be something benign.
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 8:05:04 GMT
Like cats aren't sneaky enough, let's give them pockets!
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Post by malibou on Jan 23, 2024 8:02:37 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 23:05:03 GMT
Homemade blueberry muffins. I have never made them and I don’t even own a muffin pan but I want some. 🤣 OMG, I have a story about this as well. 😂 I was visiting my parents and soothing my soul from a miscarriage. My first morning my mom presented me with a cup of tea, a blanket and a stack of Nancy Drew Mysteries next to the recliner. It was raining, and she had a candle burning, and I could smell that she was making me blueberry muffins. Half way thru my first Nancy Drew, she comes to check on me and I ask when the blueberry muffins were going to be ready. She looked at me like I had 7 heads and asked, "What muffins?" 😖 Turned out the candle burning nearby was blueberry muffin scented. The happy ending: my mom saw how stricken I looked when blueberry muffins turned into a candle, and ran out and bought muffin mix and a muffin tin, because she didn't have one. And that muffin tin acquisition turned me into my dad's favourite because she went onto regularly make muffins for him.
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 22:52:29 GMT
So, what did you have on your sandwich? Or was it just a banana on bread. 🤔 Yes - mashed up banana on bread, not forgetting some Kerrygold first 😉 As soon as I can access good butter, I will try it. But I'm a pretty devoted peanut butter/banana girl. Like if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? The answer for me is always peanut butter/banana.
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 22:47:53 GMT
Pancakes. I’m reading a book right now where the main character keeps going to a local diner and getting pancakes. Then I was watching a show last night and they were eating pancakes. I must have pancakes today. When I was pregnant, I craved pancakes really bad, so we went to a local restaurant and I had me some yummy pancakes! After that, I bought a box of pancake mix and ate pancakes everyday until the whole box was gone.
I've been craving some type of bakery item that is chewy. Maybe a brownie would satisfy the craving.
For some reason having procaine at the dentist makes me crave pancakes like crazy. I almost always have them the night of dental work, and I'm not patient if I have to delay a day, but I will have my pancakes. Dh, naturally thinks this is weird, but knows he has to oblige me. I was shocked when ds, at 4, had procaine the first time, because as it was starting to wear off, he started begging for pancakes. Both he and I wouldn't think to have pancakes otherwise. I like French toast and he likes waffles.
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 22:38:23 GMT
Was it a peanut butter banana sandwich? That is my favorite! No, I haven’t tried that..:not a big eater of PB 🫢 So, what did you have on your sandwich? Or was it just a banana on bread. 🤔
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 22:35:55 GMT
I want a super hearty bean soup with a thick slice of a good chewy sourdough. Me wanting soup and bread is a sure sign its raining.
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 17:26:24 GMT
Today I really wanted a banana. I rarely eat them - I either love them or can’t stomach them depending on the day. Today I had one in a sandwich and loved it 😊 Was it a peanut butter banana sandwich? That is my favorite!
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Post by malibou on Jan 22, 2024 7:06:09 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 22:44:38 GMT
How funny, just prior to picking up my kindle to come visit you guys, my British mil and I were singing the praises of butter from Europe. When dh and I were just in London for a month, I bet we each ate more butter in than time than we have in our whole lives. Why? Because it tastes outstanding!!! I was splurging and buying the premium butter for 3 pound 20 as opposed to cheap M&S butter for 1 pound 60 😁. I've had butter once since we got back and it tasted like crap. Guess I'll try the Kerrygold to see if it tastes better.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 18:19:39 GMT
Ah yes, **GypsyGirl**, I bet you are right. Here I am being enabled again. 😁
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 12:00:46 GMT
My internal clock is pretty good too. Even when I'm far away from home.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 10:38:59 GMT
My dad is savvy, but I worry about the dopey shit my mom will do when my dad passes. I send my mom articles about all the ways scammers will try to take her money, and hope she reads them. This is definitely something my siblings and I need to discuss and work out a plan for before my dad passes.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 10:27:27 GMT
I also have the plate with holes over the drain. I have long hair, but I don't really shed a lot. I have never pulled hair out of the drain cover, I have never taken the drain cover off to look down there. I have never had the shower drain run slowly. I have never put anything plastic and barby, or anything like Drano down the shower drain. And though it is 2:22 in the morning, I did just run in there to peek if I was missing something, and I'm not. 😁 Phew! We bought our house new 28 years ago.
I do have to regularly clean the gunk out of the bathroom sink drain in dh's sink, but not my own sink.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 10:11:10 GMT
Is there any such thing as classy melamine? I want to replace my dishes with unbreakable ones. My new kitchen floor is a hard tile and I’ve dropped one dish and it exploded like a bomb. I’m newly on blood thinners and a little tiny cut on my finger left blood spatter all over the kitchen. But every melamine pattern I’ve found looks like shit…at least to me. I’ve always had lovely china and this feels like a loss for me. Any suggestions? Check out these brands for stylish melamine sets. Le CadeauxDoveCote HomeThomas Paul Home & Textiles - for trendier, edgier designs VietriJuliskaCorelle is not made of Melamine. It is made of Vitrelle which is a tempered glass material, while melamine is made from a plastic resin. This is why Corelle will shatter while melamine won't. Negatives of melamine is that it can't be used in the microwave and should only be put on upper racks in the dishwasher. I had no idea melamine came in such delightful patterns. It's no problem not being able to put them in the microwave for me, as I seldom use it. However, the top rack only of the dishwasher is a big problem. I really don't like hand washing dishes, and detest drying them.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 9:54:47 GMT
Shingles in her ear is my guess. My aunt had this, and it took a ridiculously long time to figure out what the problem was.
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Post by malibou on Jan 21, 2024 9:50:25 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 20, 2024 7:55:07 GMT
Happea Birthday Peaps! Shout out to mom22grlz!
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Post by malibou on Jan 19, 2024 18:33:04 GMT
Fantastic. I bet you are feeling mighty free as you go about with an extra spring in your step.
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Post by malibou on Jan 19, 2024 9:02:29 GMT
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Post by malibou on Jan 18, 2024 18:42:18 GMT
Watching your kid work hard towards a goal and being rewarded for that effort is just the best feeling.
Many congratulations to him!
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Post by malibou on Jan 18, 2024 17:57:16 GMT
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