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#21
You can have too much of a good thing Smile
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
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"can" or "can't". ?
I have 48 "cans" now.
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I love tuna, but no one else in the house likes them. I should still buy them considering I work from home just about every day now and need quick, reliable lunches. Lidl tomorrow, I think! Big Grin
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(14-01-2022, 07:54 PM)Veggie Wrote: The Moneyless Chicken broke into the Egg Bank today and withdrew £14.99 to take up a very special LIDL offer on tuna fish. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/xxl/nixe-tuna-case/p49194
48 tins of Tuna for £14.99 or 31.2p a tin - about half price.
Tuna is so versatile - in sandwiches, salad, jacket potatoes,fishcakes, pasta, stirfry etc. Those 48 tins will be one meal a week for nearly a year. Not bad for £14.99. Big Grin
You will probably ingest that much mercury you could be used as a human  thermometer! Big Grin

https://www.edf.org/oceans/mercury-alert...-tuna-safe
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The temperatures rising,
It isn't surprising
I certainly can, can. can.........

Just checked the tins - its Skipjack tuna chunks in brine, drained weight 105gr. That's the lower mercury tuna - if I'm reading the article correctly?

When I was a young un and suffereing with tonsillitus, the Doctor did a house call (remember those days?) and he dropped his thermometer in the bedroom. The mercury rolled out on the floor (probably lino as we had very little carpet). My brother and I spent hours playing with the mercury, rolling it around the floor, making it into bigger balls or streams. We've survived so far. Wink
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(15-01-2022, 08:26 PM)Veggie Wrote: The temperatures rising,
It isn't surprising
I certainly can, can. can.........

Just checked the tins - its Skipjack tuna chunks in brine, drained weight 105gr. That's the lower mercury tuna - if I'm reading the article correctly?

When I was a young un and suffereing with tonsillitus, the Doctor did a house call (remember those days?) and he dropped his thermometer in the bedroom. The mercury rolled out on the floor (probably lino as we had very little carpet). My brother and I spent hours playing with the mercury, rolling it around the floor, making it into bigger balls or streams. We've survived so far. Wink

I've much the same story. I had a plastic maze with a blob of mercury instead of a  marble. Of course I broke the plastic to get the mercury out to play with. Fascinating stuff it broke up into bits only to amalgamate,  I think it disappeared into bits in the carpet.
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
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When i was a kid,a freind of mines Dad was a film projectionist (Remember those things called Cinema's?) Anyway, as a kid he had a big jar of Mercury his Dad gave him. We used to play with it!  In retrospect we also used to play in a local tip (I made many a bike from spare parts thrown away) which I now believe had asbestos dumped there. We used to throw the stuff at each other and get a belt around the lugole for being like a Homepride flower grader when we got in. I guess we were lucky that neither substance killed us! (eek)
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The Nanny State has taken a lot of fun out of our lives!
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As most of you know, The Moneyless Chicken has invested some egg money in a Food Dehydrator in the hope that this will mean less food waste and increased ability to deal with yellow sticker gluts.
So far this year, I've bought NO clothes, shoes, soaps and toiletries, household cleaning products, books, seeds unless from individuals or charities or luxury foods at full price.

On the Freebie site, nobody has given away deodorant, toothpaste, or washing machine powder/liquid. May be forced to buy these when my stocks run out. Otherwise, I'm doing well on scrounging. Big Grin
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Refreshing my memory about what I set out to do this year...........

So far this year, I've bought NO clothes, shoes, soaps and shampoos, household cleaning products, luxury foods, books or seeds (unless from individuals or charities) at full price. Trying not to buy compost or plants too.
I have had to buy deodorant, toothpaste and laundry liquid but I've bought own brand savers versions of all. Also bought 2, second hand books from Awesome Books.
So far, so good. Big Grin
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