tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post4327525209567047189..comments2023-11-03T12:31:51.669+00:00Comments on Country Lite: not for meMillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15967731998504496807noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-2174590727481916752009-01-30T00:00:00.000+00:002009-01-30T00:00:00.000+00:00Ps: particularly loved 'oddly slippery' !Ps: particularly loved 'oddly slippery' !Carah Bodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-63819887286626602052009-01-29T23:57:00.000+00:002009-01-29T23:57:00.000+00:00Milla, my darling, I don't call not drinking in Ja...Milla, my darling, I don't call not drinking in January 'NORMAL'! Surely it is the BEST time to drink? I've certainly been hitting the sherry rather heavily lately...it's the only thing that get's me through the grim reality of it all!<BR/><BR/>Don't do lunch boxes. <BR/>Don't do fussy eaters.<BR/>Don't do allergies. Except life-threatening ones. Coeliacs allowed.<BR/><BR/>You had me laughing, as ever. Thank you.Carah Bodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-56906652273335525012009-01-29T03:17:00.000+00:002009-01-29T03:17:00.000+00:00Ah, Milla honey.... fab blog, as for those Grapes ...Ah, Milla honey.... fab blog, as for those Grapes being axed in halved, goodness.!<BR/><BR/>There has been many a meal time when others have a pickety choice, one could almost end up doing meals en- masse with soo many different non likes, when I was a gal it was eat it or go hungry, and I cannot help but think about those starving children in other countrys.CAMILLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741990891794651299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-4534856030859788222009-01-28T15:22:00.000+00:002009-01-28T15:22:00.000+00:00Think your mates would go pretty damn hungry in my...Think your mates would go pretty damn hungry in my house!<BR/><BR/>LittleBird is a veggie with a life threatening nut allergy, she spent the first week of Uni being hospitalised on a blue light after a close encounter with a Chicken Tikka Masala (cashew nuts in the sauce) in the shared student house kitchen where she lives! Now consigned to carry an Epipen with her at all time. All these people with intolerances though?? There was an interesting debate about it on the One Show last night - consensus was, they were hypochondriacs and attention seekers! I would go with that!<BR/><BR/>Loved the Catty story, and so glad he/she didn't have to swim to Japan! Never know what those whalers might mistake for scientific study!Zoƫhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838367166662822058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-106157692937955192009-01-28T10:58:00.000+00:002009-01-28T10:58:00.000+00:00I'm SO sorry - I missed this. Where were you? Wh...I'm SO sorry - I missed this. Where were you? Where was I/ Feeling a bit sh*te actually, must be the January sobriety that Tom and I are also doing. The cold light of day has slapped me round the face. So glad I don't have to worry about dicing grapes anymore, sheesh! Or dinner parties. Or sales - you've summed up my experience of sale rails exactly. Especially the slippery stuff.Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-54250076390384364642009-01-28T04:33:00.000+00:002009-01-28T04:33:00.000+00:00I was wondering why the wine shelves of Tesco were...I was wondering why the wine shelves of Tesco were suddenly groaning with Secret Sauvignon... Oh, invite me round, Milla - I eat everything. And twice as much as usual on Thursdays. The thing I find most difficult about book club (ours is a similar sort of arrangement to yours, I think) is getting there early enough to position myself in closest proximity to the food table. So often do I find my mind straying from the subject of the book towards the more pressing matter of "can I really get away with lunging across the table for the thirty-sixth time to snaffle another cheesy football*.<BR/><BR/>And, Oh, the depressing spectacle of the sale rail. I fear those jade bikini bottoms are doing the rounds. I'm sure I came across something very similar in the Brunel Centre in Swindon.<BR/><BR/>Super-excellent blog, by the way. Don't leave it so long next time.<BR/><BR/>xx <BR/><BR/>And can you really get poop-scoop bags in the library? How very multi-functional.<BR/><BR/>*Not really. It's not THAT kind of book club.LITTLE BROWN DOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09752176955139690523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-71909512836418582972009-01-27T16:12:00.000+00:002009-01-27T16:12:00.000+00:00Oh Milla - come over to the dark side and start dr...Oh Milla - come over to the dark side and start drinking again. My "I'm not drinking in January" thing lasted about 2 weeks.nuttycowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10404690160646306404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-68782758595884188392009-01-27T12:15:00.000+00:002009-01-27T12:15:00.000+00:00It's an odd thing, but I always find that, once al...It's an odd thing, but I always find that, once all of the sale stuff is lumped together on the sale rail, it all looks like tat. <BR/>;0)<BR/><BR/>Food for lunch boxes sounds like a nightmare, these days. My friend's daughter did get a grape stuck in her throat, once, but she was under school age. I don't know what these schools are thinking about. Can't they just get more staff trained in first aid to deal with these situations? ;0)<BR/><BR/>The book group sounds like a dead loss. Are you sure you did join the book group and not Alcoholics Anonymous?<BR/><BR/>Great to be reading something of yours again!Mean Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829239249872290230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-77235126874002939682009-01-26T15:07:00.000+00:002009-01-26T15:07:00.000+00:00l really can't be bothered to do dinner parties, e...l really can't be bothered to do dinner parties, especially after helping a friend organize the catering for her 50th. 'Cool that rice FAST' but the food police .... hell woman you should see what l have to do just to sell a slice of cake, perhaps tubes of astronaut munchies would be better.muddybootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01117980616235810426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-32996713312367672142009-01-26T12:30:00.000+00:002009-01-26T12:30:00.000+00:00And Happy new year to you too, Jaja! Now then, Mil...And Happy new year to you too, Jaja! <BR/>Now then, Milla, that bikini top was my size, so would have been a perfect little gift....<BR/>but just cringe and wimper at your nasty picky snippy book group - I HATE that hand gesture, accompanied, as it usually is, with the little moue of distaste. Whatever happened to eating what you were given with as much good grace as you co uld muster? Can clearly remember heaving over runny egg florentine and scraping my chair leg each time to disguise the retching. Slap the lot of them or tell them about the starving children in Africa and elsewhere... Grrrr, it makes me SO cross.Exmoorjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-40843414498639129642009-01-25T18:49:00.000+00:002009-01-25T18:49:00.000+00:00Happy new year!!!!Happy new year!!!!Jajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353421359476375403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-44077379052911622542009-01-24T23:03:00.000+00:002009-01-24T23:03:00.000+00:00worst I have had - spent a fortune in money and ti...worst I have had - spent a fortune in money and time on a venison dish - only to have the comment 'Oooo couldn't eat that - it might be bambi' - I went up the wall! I am still reminded of it at regular intervals - 'the night mother said F*** Bambi!'snailbeachshepherdesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01397158758052413758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-45001396528293481582009-01-24T20:25:00.000+00:002009-01-24T20:25:00.000+00:00So - what's wrong with kiwi fruit? I thought I was...So - what's wrong with kiwi fruit? <BR/>I thought I was a faddy eater (yuk to seafood and mince and offal and so on...), but my next dinner guests don't eat anything with cow's milk. How do you make a meal without butter and cheese and cream and milk and so on. I could use goat's but it does rather taste the way a goat smells.Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378174162151683519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-57465524703210756042009-01-24T19:31:00.000+00:002009-01-24T19:31:00.000+00:00I don't do dinner parties and rarely entertain but...I don't do dinner parties and rarely entertain but I wouldn't want faddy folk picking at this and that. I admire your patience. Yes, Japan is long way to swim.<BR/><BR/>CJ xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-83419513945211928832009-01-24T10:05:00.000+00:002009-01-24T10:05:00.000+00:00Oh I loathe faddy eaters too Milla, especially as ...Oh I loathe faddy eaters too Milla, especially as I fall in the piggsh eater of everything category. Don't these people know how lucky they are to have any food provided for them? Ha, send it my way next time (I'll even eat it if Royal Mail have flattened it!) xxPipanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04048984447721169350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-34031443968416094162009-01-24T04:44:00.000+00:002009-01-24T04:44:00.000+00:00"Wouldn't eat on Thursdays..."? - almost as strang..."Wouldn't eat on Thursdays..."? - almost as strange as not drinking in Januarys, (although a few of my friends seem to be doing this.)Expat mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798190669591053390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-6971970117352616022009-01-24T01:48:00.000+00:002009-01-24T01:48:00.000+00:00We have them here too. The rules about peanuts an...We have them here too. The rules about peanuts and grapes and sugar. <BR/>At Christmas we had, at the table, a fish allergy, a poultry allergy, an onion allergy (I find this the most difficult) and a lactose intolerance. I wanted to claim a guest intolerance or a hosting allergy, but I had invited them, so had to accomodate.Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-16275942406129404822009-01-23T22:41:00.000+00:002009-01-23T22:41:00.000+00:00Faddy eaters. 'Eat wot's put in front of you' was ...Faddy eaters. 'Eat wot's put in front of you' was my parent's mantra - a mantra reinforced with a clip round the ear (another of life's forbidden pleasures).<BR/><BR/>Put it before them Milla, light the blue touch paper and ....retire?mountainearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15977393968796316843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-68205894686803795662009-01-23T22:40:00.000+00:002009-01-23T22:40:00.000+00:00Its great to have you back but I don't know how yo...Its great to have you back but I don't know how you get away with it.<BR/>My children - both girls - were twigging from the age of four when I was fibbing. But then I have a mischevious glint that comes into the eyes that is a dead give away. Still with YD about to pop I reckon I shall be able to get a new lease of life in the weird tales department. But SWIMMING TO JAPAN? No wonder you are surrounded by faddy eaters. You could of course try the surrealist approach: invite everyone and give them harmonicas and chopped clarinet to eat, explaining that the Japanese are so healthy (but also rather small). Besides swimming to Japan isn't a problem - the currents are with you - but its an awfully long walk home via Siberia.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-15868134254912011982009-01-23T18:31:00.000+00:002009-01-23T18:31:00.000+00:00Japan? Swimming? Milla what lies, oops, sorry, sto...Japan? Swimming? Milla what lies, oops, sorry, stories you tell! Poor little son, he may be traumatised forever! <BR/>Catty sounds a sensible sort of thing, he's got the right idea, stay in bed.<BR/>As to people who tell you before they come, accepting your kind invitation, that they 'dont like' this or that...words fail me. But then I'm a war baby, when food was scarce and everyone was grateful.<BR/><BR/>You always make me laugh!Elizabethdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405703727112759947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-74531156433120128292009-01-23T18:23:00.000+00:002009-01-23T18:23:00.000+00:00I agree, SoftInTheHead, nice to have you back. Wh...I agree, SoftInTheHead, nice to have you back. Where HAVE you been, you bad girl? Swimming to Japan? Fine blog, though, as per; I came in just as despised nibbles were served and got at least some of them - very nice too. I needed something cheerful after a night listening to the most inept motivational speaker in the Western hemisphere (Note to self: there could be a blog in that)Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06548801150312804111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-31593648224670334402009-01-23T17:34:00.000+00:002009-01-23T17:34:00.000+00:00I think my mum would have said "there are children...I think my mum would have said "there are children dying of hunger in ....well you name it....get it down you!". And I have to agree with her, this of course is from someone who is not known to turn her nose up at much..er anything :) BTW nice to have you back!softintheheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365562754859033869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-36165913792163708282009-01-23T16:05:00.000+00:002009-01-23T16:05:00.000+00:00Cutting grapes in half? I thought you were joking ...Cutting grapes in half? I thought you were joking to start with then realised you weren't (incidentally, I got your axe reference and Pink Floyd without your footnote!). What is happening over there in my beloved country?<BR/><BR/>There are many things that irritate me about France but food and their attitude to it isn't one of them.<BR/><BR/>I mean, food should be savoured and enjoyed. I understand people who are veggies and people with real allergies but others' <BR/>picky, picky, picky ways drive me mad.Dumdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00070838905120958459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561630962952236138.post-63125317854537603902009-01-23T16:01:00.000+00:002009-01-23T16:01:00.000+00:00Having recently managed a dinner party for The Man...Having recently managed a dinner party for The Man Who Can't Eat Anything - I feel your pain. At least he wasn't a veggie.<BR/><BR/>Tell them all its a Safari Supper (very 70s) and they each have to bring a dish - hopefully they'll turn up with one that they, wiht weird and wonderful affectations, can eat.<BR/><BR/>Either that or you'll just end up with a surfeit of quinoa.<BR/><BR/>Maybe it is best to give up the non drinking and get stuck in....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com