Posts by nzlemming
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to ,
One of the difficultys in being middle classed, is not figuring out why the iPad won’t show the embedded YouTube files on public address system,
iPads don't do Flash, from memory. I don't use one myself, but that's what I remember from the launch.
wild silverbeat
Well, there's your problem right there - tame silverbeet would have fixed that. :-p
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Legal Beagle: 14 Pages of Democracy, in reply to Felix Marwick,
Yeh, I realise I was being a little optimistic ;-) Thanks
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Bugger yez all! I am going to live forever!
Or die in the attempt...
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, Blossoms, in reply to Danielle,
Congratulations! Sorry about the food, though...
Russell, thanks for PA and PAS (not the same thing at all), for the reboot this year which has enabled lots of goodies, and for running the best excuse for not working that I have found.
Have a good whatever-you-celebrate!
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I hope this shows people it's not actually the public servants that make all the crappy decisions.
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Let's remember, with all these terms getting tossed about, that there is more that is unknown than is known. That's why we keep looking.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to JacksonP,
Got a chisel? I'd like to write that down.
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The biggest bugger I've found with going wheat-free is bread. I love bread. To my wife's healthy disgust, I especially love junky, white, processed-to-buggery bread, toast-sliced, with real butter and half a jar of peanut butter slathered on, or fried bacon and the melted butter it was cooked in, with tomato sauce. MMMMMMMMMMMM!
Now all I have is the memories sigh. The benefits of not eating it far out-weigh the hedonistic delight. But finding decent gluten-free bread is a problem. We tried making our own, as we had just got into making our own wheat-based bread, but ended up with little flat bricks. We've been through the gamut of the commercial GF breads - vogels, oka-ay; burgen, better. We've ventured into the organics store for some of the more specialist breads - Dovedale, not worth the money, ditto for Purebread. And we've finally found one that I'm prepared to eat as sandwich bread - Thoroughbread, which is made in Levin. We buy direct from them at the Paraparaumu market on Saturday mornings, but they have a wide distribution network (NI only, sorry), according to their site.
The place that surprised me most was Pak'n'Save which not only has a wider range of GF foods than most supermarkets, but places them with like foods and labels them separately on the shelf, instead of segregating them on a couple of shelves in the "organics and mineral supplement' ghetto.
The other big loss is, of course, beer. But I can still drink wine ;-) and when I want something cold and vaguely fizzy, cider is a reasonable substitute.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
meanwhile in town the Queen's dogs
were protected by a Dalek...You so need to put a plunger on that bin.
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Legal Beagle: 14 Pages of Democracy, in reply to Phil Lyth,
Thanks Phil.