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The Beer Garden

The Beer Garden

i encourage you all to join me for some casual drinking, social lubrication and light laughter right here in the beer garden.

Oh and before anyone gets up in arms about alcohol and its dangers the main beer on tap is VB or virtual beer

beer is the third most commonly consumed drink in the world behind water and tea

why not share the worlds joy with friends

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Ah @Faith-and-Hope

What leftovers have found their way into the coffee? It that coffee flavoured pizza or a slice of cherry pie after someone has picked all the cherries off?

Ah - yes - I was an economical cook too - I didn't really learn it off my mother - we were buying our first house on my wages and so I went through the PWMU cookbook and crossed out everything that didn't work and everything that did had food stains

I am wondering what WH takes back from the eastern states that he can't get where you live and why. I would have thought that "healthy" food would be the same all over Australia - but I am living and learning

Are other people - eg you - allowed to eat this special food or is it all stored up for an apocalypse - and does he use that food when he cooks up the perfect storm or does he use the food you have bought for the household?

I am reallyl interested in this - I know he has an MI but it is an awful way to have to live - and from the outside it looks really odd. Ah - aha - I know it is really odd

I hope it helps that someone is interested and gives you a chance to vent a bit about it - and stop you from tearing at your hair -

Okay - I want to vent - we missed M*A*S*H last night because they put some sport on - so I didn't watch it - but they advertised it this morning and no M*A*S*H but more sport - now why do they do that without advertising a change. It's painful - I only got up this morning to watch M*A*S*H

Perhaps I am a M*A*S*H junkie but I enjoy it - it helps me get up in the morning -

That's enough of me - I can take a change without cracking up but I get annoyed

All the best @Faith-and-Hope - gee - I really like the privacy of my own kitchen - btw - who does the dishes after these perfect storms

Decadian

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Thanks for the offer of coffee, but I dont drink coffee at all. But I will just help myself to a chai latte, and then settle back into my quiet corner. I brought a novel, so will maybe read for as long as my tired sore eyes will allow me. @Faith-and-Hope, maybe one of those muffins you spoke about would be nice too.

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Hi @Decadian

I picked up that image cos pizza in my coffee appealed to my quirky sense of humour .... lol .... didn't think of it as cherry pie, but that works too ..... 😆

Re. the east to west transfer of food .... the answer gets complicated .....

After each of his jogs, WH has "earned" himself a piece of Spanakopita. I posted the recipe for this on the Munchies thread a while ago. If you can imagine that's 14 pieces of
Spanakopita a week, each piece the size of a quarter of a standard baking tray, that would mean to provide him his regimen-driven Spanakopita allowance would mean baking a tray of Spanakopita every two days ..... too
much for me to keep up with along with cooking his daily lunches and making sure his mountain if exercise gear goes through a nightly wash and dry cycle. So .... it's around five weeks' worth of 2 x daily Spanakopita he's bringing back from the experts on the east coast ..... and no ..... haven't found anything close to the same quality over here. He has had them posted across before ....

Then, because he has a personal rule of not putting himself ahead of the rest of us, and to make it "our" Spanakopita shipment, he brings extra back for us too .....

Spanakopita flood every time he comes back ....

Then there is all his c/s foods ..... foods he used to b**g* on but can't now ..... so we have a hoard of that coming back too ..... specialised chocolate in particular ..... but biscuits of an assorted cultural variety too, that would take me forever an a day to keep
producing as well ..... although most of the non-fridge stuff lands at his mum's house, cos he's there twice a day on his jogs. He had to keep it hidden from us here (!) after I called him out to the doctor, and we had to start pretending none of this is happening to keep the peace under our roof.

The cooking-up-a-storm foods are purchased in the moment. Can you imagine the strain in the fridges (yes x 2) and freezers (x2) in this house ?? Argh ..... and I get to clean it all out when he goes away next ..... unless he gets in my case about it when he's here ...

Clean up after the cooking spree .... okay .... to get my teens to take turns cooking for the family, I established the rule a few years ago that he who cooks is exempt the clean-up duties ..... oh, the value of hind-sight huh .... ?? WH gets to cook with almost every pan and dish in the kitchen and it takes the rest of us the rest of the day to clean up afterwards ....

My life is a circus !

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Well I didnt say much, was awake or semi awake midnight to 4.30am ..how many things do you reckon went through brain ?.. am sorta rested now, and it still can be day had mapped out yest, or aprts of it at least ..starting to realise being stuck to lounge is way worse for me than facing the world and consequences of my actions/inactions ..coffee now now and see how I go, plans out now, so plan B, C, may have to be tried Good Morning @Former-Member @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member

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Hey @TAB ..... 😊

Attaboy ..... up and at 'em .....

Deal-making with self is what gets me moving ....

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Holy crap @Faith-and-Hope, that is insane. Gosh no wonder u go to supermarket in trendy P.J fashion.
I'm guessing this appointment can't get here quick enough for you today, it's time to drop a few bundles.
I more than ever hope this person he gets today sees through him.
Do u have meltdowns with him?
Or does he always have to win, I.e. better to endure than deal the 'mood & brood'?
My heart goes out to you..I was going to take quiet day myself from it all, but your situation needs loads of budding support.
Your man is being Me. Nightmare!!!

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Ahh' Mr'..typing whilst juggling! @Faith-and-Hope

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ok, showered, washing on lol Hope you get a positive outcome re specialist today @Faith-and-Hope

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@Former-Member

When we were trying to deal with this with him he was an emotionally abusive nightmare ..... 2am melt-downs .... daily failt-finding with all of us to get us tied up defending ourselves and each other, and get the "heat" off him ..... running down the kids
self-esteem in a variety of ways ..... wouldn't even have been conscious that that was what he was doing ..... from what I understand a lot of the behaviour patterns were what he had copped from his dad growing up .... unresolved issues in there somewhere and all the food and exercise issues are a form of self-medicating ..... seekinng self-worth through an "achievement" highly valued by his family .....

Throws more understanding on why D3, D1 and S2 have been so wobbly .... and SIL thinking we just needed to stand up to WH ....

Tried that .... was disasterous .....

Good news !! We survived it .... still swimming .... still got all our faith and hope on board .... have learned to ride the waves with him while we can't yet turn him .....

Persevere people ....

Just keep swimming ....

🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🐠

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Thanks @TAB ..... 💕
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