A few days ago, I complained at length about Sainsbury’s gratuitously, it seems, adding water to meat products. Well, this evening, I’ve just tried to fry a couple of smoked haddock fillets – which, as soon as they got hot, filled the pan with water and poached instead. Not just the all too familiar white [...]
Archive for December 23rd, 2011
Sainsbury’s smoked fish with added water. Why?
Posted in Added water too common at Sainsbury's, tagged food, More Sainsbury's added water, Smoked haddock with excess water on December 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A solution to the Twitter Jail problem…
Posted in TweetDeck and Twitter Jail, tagged MetroTwit, TweetDeck, Twitter Jail solution on December 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
My followers on Twitter are all too aware of my bitching about being in Twitter Jail. Which is what happens when Twitter thinks you’ve outstayed your welcome and shuts you out, either saying you’ve reached your hourly limit (infuriating when I’ve been offline for 36 hours!) or saying Sorry! We did something wrong. Please refresh [...]
Heart failure and alcohol problems…
Posted in Do diuretics retain alcohol?, tagged Aortic valve calcification, Diuretics and alcohol. Furosemide, Heart failure and alcohol, Lasix on December 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My entire social life, for a couple of years now, has come down to one afternoon a week in the pub (as a spoonie with ME, among much else, evenings are written off before they even start). Then I was diagnosed with heart failure (and later with aortic valve calcification and stenosis (narrowing), since when [...]







