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Can I just take this opportunity [in case I dont make it again before the big day - although I do hope that Aunty Sylvia will include my favourite in her breakfast - if she does breakfast on the biggest day of the year????] to wish everyone on here a VERY merry Christmas and the HAPPIEST of New Years!!!

My love and good wishes to all of you!!!! [thank you for keeping me [in]sane!!!]

xxxxxx

'Ello stranger !!!

Have a good Christmas and look forward to BIG changes for you in the New Year !!!

I will have the 'eggy bread' ready for you then !!!

Dea Xxx

Thanks Dea!! xxx <3 <3 <3

Any time Laines <3 <3 <3

Dea Xxx

Wooow !!

It is almost Christmas !!!

End of the day now - have to go to bed!!

Just wishing you all a VERY happy time <3 <3 <3

Almost ready myself - that must be a first :-D

Nite nites all

Dea Xxx

Going soon myself .........


night all.......... :-)

Good morning all!

Can't hear anyone in the kitchen !! :-S

I will have a little stroll around the block an if there are no lovely cooking smells when I get back, I will get the pans on............ :-)

Dea x

Wakey wakey rise and shine...

Breakfast is ready

Tea, coffee,milo, steaming hot chocolate with marshmallows

Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Weet-bix, sultana bran & coco pops

Hot cereal:-
Porridge... (dried apricots and cranberries and golden syrup on the buffet or perhaps a dash or two of kahlua)

In the warmer:-

Streaky bacon, gammon steaks, sauteed spuddies, potato rostis, roasted taties with bacon bits and garlic, grilled lamb chops, kidneys and manuka bacon in mulberry sauce.
Scrambled eggs with chives or bacon bits, grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms,
Leek tart, spinach and gruyere quiche. Poached eggs, Prunes wrapped in bacon. Smoked salmon and cream cheese roulade. Bubble & Squeak.

Gluten-free: cheese and onion toasties,
Croissants: mushroom and brie, ham and camembert, ham, tomato and cheddar, pastrami and feta.

Kebab wraps: Bacon and tomato, beef and chutney, chicken with salsa.
Veggie Samosas with relish.

Pancakes, French toast (gluten-free or sour dough) with maple syrup or sugar and lemon juice

Toast : Sunflower & barley, Tuscan full grain, Dutch whole grain, gluten-free, & Raisin bread.

Scones: Buttermilk (gluten-free) soda scones, sultana and lemon peel scones & potato with oregano and a dash of tabasco scones.

Muffins – Banana muffins, rhubarb & quark muffins, lemon gluten-free muffins,and spinach and ricotta muffins.

Yoghurts: strawberry, plum, lemon merinque, vanilla bean.

Spreads: Merlot jelly, boysenberry jam, clover honey, orange and lemon marmalade, crunchy peanut butter, vegemite, marmite.

Home made Chocolate fudge, coconut ice, Baileys Fudge, and honeycomb.

Gingerbread Santas and Gingerbread Christmas trees, creme de menthe chocolate brownies,
Grand Marnier crepes with whipped cream. Christmas Cake.




As I won't be here tomorrow .. I have put your meal on the other side Dea... so venture there and you will see... xx

Persie :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Oohh it is ready........ Thank you Persie <3 <3

This is all very delicious!!!!!

I 'might' venture over thereto take a look Persie but not until I am properly awake :-D ;-)

See you all later.

Dea x

Mornin all

No2 son is proper 'whooping' now and JB is coughing so Im phoning the doc this morning to ask for some antibiotics.....JB was on deaths door once with asthma and in hospital for a week, I cant risk it with him

No sleep last night again, Im knackered


Thanks for breakfast Pers

Gins... Do you always have prednisone handy... for JB?

Dea and I both know what it is like...

prednisone...never heard of it?

JB has salbutamol and a brown preventer, corticosteroid

OOhh Ginns - Yes, make sure you get something for JB before he gets any worse!!!

Luckily, my 'lovely' Doctor lets me have prednisolone and antibiotics to keep in the house so that I can take them immediately when I need them.

I then go and see her when I have finished the course and she checks me out, then gives me another prescription to keep in for the next time!

Not all Doctors will do this though but she knows that I will only take them when absolutely necessary.

JB will most certainly need something to keep things under control !

Let us know how you get on with the 'Doc' <3

Dea x

I take it when I get an attack and it alleviates and I use a spacer and ventolin puffing in and out. You can only take it for a short while but it is excellent (for me) ... the ambulance guys were impressed that I had presence of mind to take it and with that and me puffing and blowing and then their nebulizer administered at home followed by another couple and I ended up home same day. If I hadn't done that straight away I would have been on the floor and out of it :-(

Otherwise I take flixotide preventer morning and night.. :-S

Like Dea,

I have Prednisone with me all the time... My doctor is the same she knows I won't just have them for the fun of it... besides if you take them for too long your body will react and your pulse will race etc.

Persie <3

It's prednisolone here Gins.

They are steroids.

I take them as a course of tablets to sort things out when I get really bad - usually for about 10 days.

There is a 'newish' inhaler (turbohaler) called Symbicort which is actually brilliant! - Unlike the others, it is strange because you cannot feel or taste it so you think you haven't had any but taken twice a day it makes a real difference.

Depending on how controlled his asthma is normally, it might be worth asking about when this whooping cough problem has been sorted.. I found that I didn't need the 'preventer' inhaler and at hardly any salbutamol unless I had a bad 'flare-up',

Dea x

Thanks both of you....waiting for the doc to open at 8.30am

Docs closed so rang the number left on answer phone

Got to take the both of them to the Northern General hospital at 11am

Oh dear Gins......what a time for them to be ill.......hope they can soon get the meds they need. <3



Thank you for breakfast Persie - I do love sunflower bread toasted.



Must get a shower.

Just popping by to wish you all a Happy Christmas, despite the health worries some are facing.

Gins- when you get to the hospital, do tell the receptionist that they have been in contact with whooping cough and make sure they are put into a side room so there is less chance of infecting other people.

Fingers crossed that it turns out to be a bad cough, and nothing else.